CALL FOR PAPERS. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE. CRISIS AND SOCIAL CHANGE, SEPTEMBER 26-27 2014

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Crisis and Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons. Postgraduate Conference.

Call for Papers. Deadline Monday July 21st.

Organized by the Department of Sociology, Cambridge University

Date: Sep 26-27, 2014

Venue: Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Sciences, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RQ

This conference moves beyond crisis as a category of diagnosis and critique to explore alternative horizons, raising fundamental questions about the nature and extent of ruptures and continuity in the contemporary social world.

We are motivated by the generational need to draw upon the legacies of critique, while shifting toward the production of alternative futures.

From diagnosis to treatment. From deconstruction to reconstruction. From negation to vision. From crisis to progress. Such is the responsibility of our Age, from which positive social change might rise.

We welcome contributions from researchers, activists, artists, and professionals from across the world on the following topics, though this list is by no means exhaustive, and we are keen to receive contributions on other topics aligned with the conference theme:

•CRITICAL AND EMPANCIPATORY THOUGHT AND ACTION •SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND CITIES •ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC PRACTICES •WORK AND LIFE •MEDIA •EDUCATION •REVOLUTIONS AND SOCIAL PROTEST

•(POST) DEMOCRACY

•ENVIRONMENT

We have also introduced a soapbox session within the Conference programme and encourage speakers to participate. For the natural orators out there, the soapbox session provides you with the opportunity to stand up for 2 minutes and air your fiery, risky, extravagant and controversial views on the following question: WHAT IS RADICALISM?

The conference is organized by PhD students from the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. To give attendees time to explore the city’s history and socialise, the conference will be held over two days.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

We are pleased to announce our three distinguished keynote speakers

– Professor Greg Philo (School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow),

– Professor Emeritus Goran Therborn (Faculty of Human, Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge)

– Professor Ted Benton (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Essex)

PLENARY PANELS:

The conference will also host two plenary panels on the following

themes:

Plenary panel 1: The Great Recession and Varieties of Social and Political Responses

Chair: Professor Andrew Gamble

Dr. Rowan Williams (tbc)(Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge), Professor Larry King (Dept. of Sociology, Cambridge), Professor John Kelly (Dept. of Management, Birkbeck), and Dr. Jeff Miley (Dept. of Sociology, Cambridge)

Plenary panel 2: Mobilisation, Social Change and Revolution

Chair: Barrister Dexter Dias QC

Professor P.G Klandermans (Dept. of Applied Psychology, University of Amsterdam), Emeritus Reader in Sociology Dr. David Lane (Dept. of Sociology, Cambridge), Professor Jane Wills (Dept. of Geography, Queen Mary University of London) and Dr. Manali Desai (Dept. of Sociology,

Cambridge)

HOW TO SUBMIT:

Paper presentation: abstract (300 word max.) and biography (100 word max.)

Poster presentation: abstract (300 word max.) and biography (100 word max.)

Soap box presentation: abstract (100 word max.) and biography (100 word max.)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Monday, July 21st 2014.

There is no registration fee.

All abstracts must be submitted by visiting the Ex Ordo abstract submission system (you will be required to setup an account first):

csc2014.exordo.com

Successful applicants will be informed by July 31st, 2014.

The selected applicants are expected to submit an outline of their presentation (or the power point slides) by September 1st, 2014

PUBLICATION AND AWARDS:

Awards will be given for Best Paper, Best Poster and Best Soap Box Presentations at the end of the Conference in recognition of originality and excellence. The Organising Committee also plans to publish selected papers of the highest quality in a special issue of a UK journal or as an edited volume.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

For further details on our distinguished keynote speakers and plenary panelists please visit www.towardsalternativehorizons.wordpress.com,

email the organising committee at towardsalternativehorizons@gmail.com

or visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/events/850509748311055

KRITIKKENS U-VENDING

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Foredrag ved Rasmus Willig, RUC, 20. maj 2014.
Flere nulevende sociologer og filosoffer mener at ”dampen er gået af samfundskritikken”, eller den er blevet ”tandløs” eller ligefrem er ”reduceret til nostalgi”. ”Det ikke længere samfundets skyld, men min egen skyld”. Sådan er der flere som tænker og det betyder at den traditionelle samfundskritik er blevet til selvkritik. Nu er det ikke længere de herskende klasser som anklages for samfundets uretfærdigheder, men de enkelte individer, som ikke er selvansvarlige og som ikke kan forvalte deres talenter, færdigheder eller evner. Foredraget sætter ord på, hvordan der er sket en u-vending af kritikken og hvilke konsekvenser det får for både samfund og individ.
Rasmus Willig, Ph.d. er tidl. formand for Dansk Sociologforening og lektor ved Institut for Samfund og Globalisering, Roskilde Universitet. Han har blandt andet skrevet bøgerne (2007) Til forsvar for kritikken, (2009) Umyndiggørelse. Et essays om kritikkens infrastruktur og (2013) Kritikkens U-vending. Har desuden tidligere redigeret og skrevet introduktion til blandt andet Axel Honneth (2003) Behovet for anerkendelse, (2006) Kamp om anerkendelse og (2005) Sociale Patologier (med Marie Østergaard). Alle på Hans Reitzels Forlag. København. Han har skrevet for dagbladet Information og var en af arkitekterne bag Politikens kritiker- og debattørskole.

LØSLADT OG GÆLDSAT

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Foredrag ved Annette Olesen, Syddansk Universitet, 2. april 2014.
I Danmark hæfter domfældte i straffesager for de nødvendige omkostninger, der er medgået til behandlingen af deres sag. Disse udgifter består bl.a. af forsvarssalær, udgifter til tekniske undersøgelser, DNA-analyser og lægeerklæringer. Idømmes domfældte en fængselsstraf, løslades pågældende til en offentlig gæld, der ofte virker som en uoverskuelig og ubetalelig ekstra straf. Gældssituationen påvirker de løsladte forskelligt. De løsladte, der forsøger at leve kriminalitetsfrit, oplever i højere grad de negative følger af gælden, hvorimod de løsladte der genoptager en kriminel løbebane gerne udvikler alternative handlingsstrategier, der kompenserer for de negative følger af gælden.
Annette Olesen (1982), cand. scient. soc. og ph.d. (jura), adjunkt på Juridisk Institut, Syddansk Universitet. Hendes ph.d.-afhandling “Løsladt og gældsat” danner baggrunden for oplægget.

CALL SLOVENE SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

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Call for papers for Meeting of Slovene Sociological Association »Economy and Society« which will be held between 24th and 26th of October 2014 in Bohinj, Slovenia.

The organisers invite you to submit paper proposals for the international panel of the meeting. Paper proposals could be linked to one of the meeting streams or related to different aspects of the meeting theme and the intersecting problems and topics. You will find the list of streams below and at the website:http://www.sociolosko-drustvo.si/english/.

Abstracts should be about 300 words and provide the information on paper title, contact details (author(s) affiliation, postal address, phone number and e-mail address), main issue to be raised, analysed or discussed in the paper, including a brief background, approach (theoretical / conceptual or empirical) and type of methodology (qualitative / case study or quantitative),   main thesis or findings and a conclusion expected from the analysis.

Send your abstract (as word or pdf attachment) to panel coordinators: aleksandra.kanjuo-mrcela@fdv.uni-lj.si  and nbandelj@uci.edu.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1st July 2014

Panel coordinators will rank all abstracts and inform successful applicants by 25th July 2014.

After the conference the organisers will submit a selection of conference papers to a review procedure for a thematic special issue of the scientific journal Theory and Practice (http://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/en/journals/science-journals/teorija-in-praksa).

Authors who are interested in possible publication are invited to submit full papers. 

The deadline for paper submission is 26th September 2014

 

Kindest regards,

Prof. Milica Antić Gaber

President of Slovene Sociological Association

http://www.sociolosko-drustvo.si/english/

REGISTRATION FOR THE THE 19TH NORDIC DEMOGRAPHIC SYMPOSIUM IS NOW OPEN!

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Dear all

It is now possible to register for participation in The 19th Nordic Demographic Symposium.

As announced, the symposium takes place in Aalborg, Denmark from the 18th to the 20th September and the theme of the symposium is Regional development with a focus on rural areas.

Please visit the symposium website for more information on the registration process. The webpage is also updated with information on the program and the key note speakers as well as on accommodation.

Further, it is still possible to submit an abstract to the symposium. We hope that a few more people will consider giving a presentation at the symposium. You will find the link to the abstract manager at the bottom of the symposium website.

Web: http://demografi.dk/the-19th-nordic-demographic-symposium.html

We hope you will distribute the information in your network.

Best,

– On behalf of the planning committee and Danish Demographic Society

Lene Tølbøll Blenstrup

Rethinking Democracy’s Relation to Crisis: Is the Concept of Crisis itself in Crisis?

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Foredrag af Nikolas Kompridis, Research professor and director of the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University Sydney, 21 maj 2014.
Abstract: ”In this talk I will make two seemingly dissonant but interrelated claims: 1) that “crisis” in a strictly defined sense is internal to democracy, both inescapable and necessary, from which circumstance distinctive normative, conceptual and institutional implications follow, and 2) that the concept of “crisis” is itself in crisis, making it an increasingly suspect if not meaningless category of diagnosis and critique.”
Kompridis research areas are Critical theory; democratic theory; theories of agency and action; theories of rationality; theories of identity, recognition, and culture; secularism and modernity; the role of social criticism in social change; the renewal of romanticism; and issues in philosophy of art, literature, music and film. Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Adorno, Arendt, Habermas, Foucault, Taylor, Cavell.

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Dansk Sociologforening præsenterer foredrag ved Rasmus Willig, RUC.

Flere nulevende sociologer og filosoffer mener at ”dampen er gået af samfundskritikken”, eller den er blevet ”tandløs” eller ligefrem er ”reduceret til nostalgi”. ”Det ikke længere samfundets skyld, men min egen skyld”. Sådan er der flere som tænker og det betyder at den traditionelle samfundskritik er blevet til selvkritik. Nu er det ikke længere de herskende klasser som anklages for samfundets uretfærdigheder, men de enkelte individer, som ikke er selvansvarlige og som ikke kan forvalte deres talenter, færdigheder eller evner. Foredraget sætter ord på, hvordan der er sket en u-vending af kritikken og hvilke konsekvenser det får for både samfund og individ.

Om Rasmus Willig

Rasmus Willig, Ph.d. er tidl. formand for Dansk Sociologforening og lektor ved Institut for Samfund og Globalisering, Roskilde Universitet. Han har blandt andet skrevet bøgerne (2007) Til forsvar for kritikken, (2009) Umyndiggørelse. Et essays om kritikkens infrastruktur og (2013) Kritikkens U-vending. Har desuden tidligere redigeret og skrevet introduktion til blandt andet Axel Honneth (2003) Behovet for anerkendelse, (2006) Kamp om anerkendelse og (2005) Sociale Patologier (med Marie Østergaard). Alle på Hans Reitzels Forlag. København. Han har skrevet for dagbladet Information og var en af arkitekterne bag Politikens kritiker- og debattørskole.

Der vil være mulighed for at købe bogen: “Kritikkens U-vending” i pausen for reduceret pris 150 kr. stk.

Tid: Tirsdag d. 20. maj 2014, 17-18.30.

Sted: Center for Sundhed og Samfund, Øster Farimagsgade 5 a, lokale 1.1.18.

På dette link ses adressen og lokalet, som er i bygning 1.
csc.ku.dk/bygninger_og_adresser/css/
Gå ind på kortet (3. linie under billedet), bygning 1 er ved indgang “A”. Gå til venstre i porten og op til 1. sal til lokale 18.

Gratis og åbent for alle interesserede.

Nyhedsbrev fra Dansk Sociologforening, maj 2014

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I næste uge kan Dansk Sociologforening byde på hele tre foredrag. Udover foredrag med Rasmus Willig og australske Nikolas Kompridis, er det lykkedes Sociologforeningen at få selveste Laurent Thévenot – en af grundlæggerne af fransk pragmatisk sociologi, kendt for bl.a. værket “On Justification. The Economies of Worth” skrevet sammen med Luc Boltanski – til at kigge forbi CSS torsdag den 22. maj.

Se tider, steder og emner for foredragene herunder.

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Tirsdag den 20. maj kl. 17-18:30: Rasmus Willig, RUC: Kritikkens U-vending

Lokale: CSS 1.1.18

Rasmus Willig, Ph.d. er tidl. formand for Dansk Sociologforening og lektor ved Institut for Samfund og Globalisering, Roskilde Universitet. Han har blandt andet skrevet bøgerne (2007) Til forsvar for kritikken, (2009) Umyndiggørelse. Et essays om kritikkens infrastruktur og (2013) Kritikkens U-vending. Har desuden tidligere redigeret og skrevet introduktion til blandt andet Axel Honneth (2003) Behovet for anerkendelse, (2006) Kamp om anerkendelse og (2005) Sociale Patologier (med Marie Østergaard). Alle på Hans Reitzels Forlag. København. Han har skrevet for dagbladet Information og var en af arkitekterne bag Politikens kritiker- og debattørskole.

Abstract: Flere nulevende sociologer og filosoffer mener at ”dampen er gået af samfundskritikken”, eller den er blevet ”tandløs” eller ligefrem er ”reduceret til nostalgi”. ”Det ikke længere samfundets skyld, men min egen skyld”. Sådan er der flere som tænker og det betyder at den traditionelle samfundskritik er blevet til selvkritik. Nu er det ikke længere de herskende klasser som anklages for samfundets uretfærdigheder, men de enkelte individer, som ikke er selvansvarlige og som ikke kan forvalte deres talenter, færdigheder eller evner. Foredraget sætter ord på, hvordan der er sket en u-vending af kritikken og hvilke konsekvenser det får for både samfund og individ.

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Onsdag den 21. maj kl. 17-19: Nikolas Kompridis: Rethinking Democracy’s Relation to Crisis: Is the Concept of Crisis itself in Crisis?

Location: CSS 1.1.18.

Professor Nikolas Kompridis,  Research professor and director of the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University Sydney.

Abstract: ”In this talk I will make two seemingly dissonant but interrelated claims: 1) that “crisis” in a strictly defined sense is internal to democracy, both inescapable and necessary, from which circumstance distinctive normative, conceptual and institutional implications follow, and 2) that the concept of “crisis” is itself in crisis, making it an increasingly suspect if not meaningless category of diagnosis and critique.”

The talk is public.

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Torsdag den 22. maj kl. 15:30-18:30: LAURENT THEVENOT: THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES: the new power vested in individuals on the grounds of a certified world

Location: CSS 1.1.18.

Professor Laurent Thévenot is Directeur d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Senior researcher at the Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi.

As a leading figure in the foundation of the pragmatic sociology of engagement and the “Convention Theory”, Thévenot has been very influential in the new French social sciences. He co-authored, with Luc Boltanski, the book “On Justification. The Economies of Worth” (2006) which is considered one of the most important works in pragmatic sociology. He also co-edited two books concerning new approaches of action, the practical engagement of objects and social cognition: Les objets dans l’action, and Cognition et information en société.

Abstract: Along the historical metamorphoses of authorities and powers claiming legitimacy, the most recent step led to a significant move. It shifted from a kind of government concentrated in sovereigns, rulers and representatives, to a different kind of “empire” of individuals. This power distributed on the “investiture” of individuals is actually based on a new kind of global – and largely non-state – mode of governing through certification standards.

FOREDRAG MED PROFESSOR LAURENT THÉVENOT 22. MAJ

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THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES:

the new power vested in individuals on the grounds of a certified world

Open lecture and discussion with Professor Laurent Thévenot

About Laurent Thévenot

Professor Laurent Thévenot is Directeur d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Senior researcher at the Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi.
As a leading figure in the foundation of the pragmatic sociology of engagement and the “Convention Theory”, Thévenot has been very influential in the new French social sciences. He co-authored, with Luc Boltanski, the book “On Justification. The Economies of Worth” (2006) which is considered one of the most important works in pragmatic sociology. He also co-edited two books concerning new approaches of action, the practical engagement of objects and social cognition:Les objets dans l’action, and Cognition et information en société

Abstract

Along the historical metamorphoses of authorities and powers claiming legitimacy, the most recent step led to a significant move. It shifted from a kind of government concentrated in sovereigns, rulers and representatives, to a different kind of “empire” of individuals. This power distributed on the “investiture” of individuals is actually based on a new kind of global – and largely non-state – mode of governing through certification standards.

Questions

What kind of sociology is needed to grasp this change which affects both political communities and personalities? Which new oppressions result from this government? How can an embarrassed critique find new expressions?

Directions: On this link you see a map of CSS: csc.ku.dk/bygninger_og_adresser/css/CSSOversigtskort2.pdf Building 1 is by Entrance A. Go to the left in the gate and to the second floor to room 1.1.18.

When: Thursday, May 22, 2014, 15.30 to 17.30

Place: ”Center for Sundhed og Samfund”, Øster Farimagsgade 5 a, room 1.1.18.

The lecture is free and everyone is welcome www.sociologi.dk

NORDIC DEMOGRAPHIC SYMPOSIUM – EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS

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We have decided to extend the deadline for submission of abstracts for the 19th Nordic Demographic Symposium. New deadline is April 30th. The attached call for papers is updated.

Please distribute the information in your network.

Further, the symposium webpage will be updated with more information regarding the symposium during the next couple of weeks so be sure to visit http://demografi.dk/the-19th-nordic-demographic-symposium.html

We’re looking forward to seeing you in Aalborg.

On behalf of the board of Danish Demographic Society,

Lene Tølbøll Blenstrup