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.
KRITIKKENS U-VENDING
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
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.
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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.
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
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
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
EXPLORING BLIND SPOTS, 27TH NSA CONFERENCE, DEADLINE EXTENSION
Exploring Blind Spots – 27th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association
Lund University, August 14-16, 2014
Extended deadline for abstract submission: April 28
The program promises thought provoking keynote addresses from
* Michael Burawoy, Berkeley
* Eva Illouz, Hebrew University
* Guy Standing, SOAS
And no less than four engaging plenary sessions where academics and intellectuals discuss
* The Future of Social Solidarity – Europe at a cross-road
Peter Abrahamson, Mary Daly, Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Göran Therborn
* The Precariat
Kirsti Lempiäinen, Guy Standing, Thomas Steinfeld
* High-speed Society
John Urry, Karin Widerberg, Per Svensson
* Asian Encounters – Exposing or creating blind spots?
Hilda Roemer Christensen, Ravinder Kaur, Feng Wang
And of course, a number of
* Regular sessions with topical presentations, discussions, and debates, from sociologists in the Nordic countries and beyond.
Plus, for PhD students:
* PhD pre-conference, What does it mean to be a sociologist tomorrow?, August 13
* PhD workshop on cultural sociology, August 12
Welcome to Lund!!
Important URLs
Conference website1: nsa2014.se
Conference website2: www.malmokongressbyra.se/NSA2014
Abstract submission (April 28): www.malmokongressbyra.se/NSA2014/abstract_information
Conference registration: www.malmokongressbyra.se/NSA2014/registration
PhD pre-conference: nsa2014.se/phd-pre-conference/
PhD workshop on cultural sociology: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39577023/PhD%20Pre_workshop_Lund_2014.pdf
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Due to a malfunctioning server earlier this week, the web page was innaccessible for several days.
As an effect, we have decided to extend the abstract submission deadline until April 28.
Notifications will be sent no later than May 12, and the early registration fee will be in effect until May 21.
LØSLADT OG GÆLDSAT
Dansk Sociologforening præsenterer foredrag ved Annette Olesen, Syddansk Universitet.
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.
Tid: Onsdag d. 2. april 2014, 17.00-19.00.
Sted: Center for Sundhed og Samfund, Øster Farimagsgade 5,1014 København K, lokale 2.0.63
På dette link ses adressen og lokalet, som er i bygning 2.
csc.ku.dk/bygninger_og_adresser/css/
Gå ind på kortet (3. linie under billedet), bygning 2 er ved indgang “D”. Gå til højre i porten og ind til lokale 63, som ligger i stuen.
Foredraget er gratis og alle er velkomne!
Nyhedsbrev fra Dansk Sociologforening, marts 2014.
Call for papers til Nordisk Demografisk Symposium 2014, som Dansk Demografisk Forening er værter for. Symposiet har temaet Regional Development og finder sted i dagene mellem den 18. og den 20. september 2014 på Nordkraft og i Utzon Center på havnefronten i Aalborg. Se alle oplysninger her:
Løsladt og gældsat
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
Tid: Onsdag d. 2. april 2014, 17.00-19.00.
Sted: Center for Sundhed og Samfund, Øster Farimagsgade 5,1014 København K, lokale 2.0.63
På dette link ses adressen og lokalet, som er i bygning 2.
Gå ind på kortet (3. linie under billedet), bygning 2 er ved indgang “D”. Gå til højre i porten og ind til lokale 63, som ligger i stuen.
Foredraget er gratis og alle er velkomne!
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Tidsskriftet Dansk Sociologi indkalder hermed artikler til kommende åbne numre med beregnet udgivelse i efteråret 2014 samt foråret 2015.
Tidsskriftet er et videnskabeligt funderet sociologisk tidsskrift. Det henvender sig til alle med interesse for aktuelle samfundsmæssige spørgsmål.
Tidsskriftet er især relevant for forskere, undervisere og fagfolk, som i deres arbejde er beskæftiget med sociologiske problemstillinger. Tidsskriftet henvender sig imidlertid også til læsere, som blot er nysgerrige efter at vide, hvad sociologien som fag beskæftiger sig med. Dansk Sociologi udkommer fire gange om året.
Vi i redaktionen håber meget, du vil finde interesse i at formidle din forskning i tidsskriftet. Alle artikler, som redaktionen vurderer egnede, gennemgår peer review. Skrivevejledning og andre informationer finder du på www.dansksociologi.dk
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Foredrag af Nikolas Kompridis
The Department of sociology, University of Copenhagen, has in cooperation with the Research group “Knowledge, uncertainty and trust” and the Danish Sociological Association invited:
Professor Nikolas Kompridis, Research professor and director of the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University Sydney.
Professor Kompridis gives two talks. He is the third guest in the department’s lecture series about the fourth generation of critical theory
•Struggling for Recognition or Building Receptivity? Rethinking Politics and Critique in the Age of the Anthropocene.
May 20 (Tuesday): 13-15. CSS 16.2.55. In cooperation with the research group “Knowledge, uncertainty and trust”
Abstract: “In this talk, I argue for a shift of ethico-political paradigm from recognition to receptivity. The proposed shift of paradigm from recognition to receptivity allows us to rethink our obligations to, and the challenges of, diverse others, human and non-human, in ways that overcome the limitations of Hegel’s recognition model and its contemporary iterations. And it refigures 21st century politics as a politics of building receptivity rather than of struggling for recognition.”
•Rethinking Democracy’s Relation to Crisis: Is the Concept of Crisis itself in Crisis?
May 21 (Wednesday) 17-19. CSS 1.1.18. In cooperation with the Danish sociological association
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.”
Both talks are public. The first one is more seminar-like. You are welcome to contact Mikael Carleheden (mc@soc.ku.dk) to get material for the seminar.
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.
His latest book is: The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought. London; New York: Continuum. See also; Critique and disclosure: critical theory between past and future. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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ESA RN 34 MIDTERM CONFERENCE
We’re pleased to announce that the registration for the second bi-annual conference of the ESA Sociology of Religion Research Network in Belfast (3-5. September 2014) is now open.
See below for more information, including a reminder of key dates and deadlines, including 18 April for the submission of abstracts and 30 June for the end of reduced, early-bird registration fees.
Conference website: http://belfast2014.esareligion.org/
Dates & Deadlines in 2014
March 14 Submission of abstracts and online registration starts (Please email your abstracts, both in the text of the email and as a Word attachment, to belfast2014@esareligion.org. Abstracts can be submitted both for papers and the postgraduate posters and should not exceed 250 words.)
April 18 Submission of abstracts ends
May 9 Acceptance of abstracts
June 30 Early-bird registration ends
September 3 – 5 Conference
Contact:belfast2014@esareligion.org
Details on fees and registration at:http://belfast2014.esareligion.org/fees/
Should you have any questions, please email me at: ma.kolodziejska@gmail.com
With kind regards,
Marta Kołodziejska
ESA RN 34 Communications Officer
MASTERCLASS IN GERMANY
The Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg (Germany) is organizing an international Masterclass on “Gifts of Cooperation” this september. Doctoral and postdoctoral students of sociology and related disciplines are invited to apply.
You can find more information and a call for application in pdf format on our website:
http://www.gcr21.org/single-news/info/gifts-of-cooperation-masterclass-2014/