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Her er en interessant udfordring med udsigt til en præmie på kr. 100.000.

Det drejer sig om en priskonkurrence udskrevet af den norske sociolog, komiker mv. Harald Eia i samarbejde med Morgenbladet og Jon Elster. Man skal blot forklare, 1) hvad der forstås ved “ubevidste strategier” og, 2) hvordan handlinger kan forklares af deres utilsigtede virkninger. Følg dette link:

morgenbladet.no/samfunn/2013/elsters_utfordring

Som man kan se, bliver indsendte besvarelser bedømt af et absolut kvalificeret bedømmelsesudvalg.

Ud over de 100.000 vil man få en kort version publiceret i Morgenbladet.

Det vil jo være godt, hvis danske sociologer viser flaget her. Det er absolut centrale spørgsmål for samfundsvidenskaberne, som ikke kun udfordrer Bourdieu, men også fx Foucault og flere andre. Jeg vil ikke selv påtage mig at svare på spørgsmålene, men for Bourdieu-specialister skulle det være en let sag.

Det må jo i øvrigt siges at være en temmelig opsigtsvækkende og usædvanlig form for medieeksponering af sociologien. At en enkeltperson sætter 100.000 ind, og at et dagblad går med i en priskonkurrence om et så snævert og højpandet emne, ville være utænkeligt i Dk og de fleste lande, som jeg kender til. Det siger også noget om sociologiens position i Norge.

Med håbet om at dette tilbud om tidsfordriv også vil gøre det lettere at komme gennem de ørkesløse feriedage, der ligger forude, ønsker jeg jer god ferie.

Bedste hilsner

Heine

First Call for Papers and Participation

The Social Sciences Research Division (SSRD) of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) is organizing its first Annual International Conference on Social Sciences which will be held in Athens, Greece on 4-7 August 2014. In the past, the five research units of SSRD have organized 45 annual international conferences on economics, sociology psychology, politics & International Affairs, as well as the mass media & Communication. Papers from all branches of social sciences are welcome: Anthropology, Media and Communication Studies, Economics, Education, Human Geography, Political science, Public Administration, Psychology and Sociology. Papers on Social Research and Social Theory are also welcome.

The registration fee is €300 (euro), covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, the official dinner (Greek Night of entertainment), coffee breaks and conference material. In addition, a number of cultural and educational activities are being organized such as an urban walk around Athens (which will include the Acropolis), an additional dinner, a special one-day cruise to the Greek islands and a visit to Delphi. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate.

Please submit a 300-word abstract before 6 January 2014 via email, atiner@atiner.gr to: Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER and Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece. Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Current Position, Institutional Affiliation, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission. Please use the abstract submitting form available at http://www.atiner.gr/2014/FORM-SOS.doc.

If your submission is accepted, you will receive information on registration deadlines and paper submission requirements. Should you wish to participate in the Conference without presenting a paper, for example, to chair a session, to evaluate papers which are to be included in the conference proceedings or books, to contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos (gtp@atiner.gr), President, ATINER. The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association and its mission is to act as a forum, where academics and researchers – from all over the world – can meet in Athens in order to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines.

Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 200 international conferences, symposiums and events. It has also published approximately 150 books. Academically, the Institute consists of five Research Divisions and twenty-three Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research projects. Academics and researchers are more than welcome to become members and contribute to ATINER’s objectives. The members of the Institute can undertake a number of academic activities. If you want to become a member, please download the form (membership form). For more information or suggestions, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr

Er du færdiguddannet sociolog og medlem af sociologforeningen, har du nu mulighed for at komme til temaeftermiddag og blive opdateret på nye teorier og metoder inden for sociologien. Sociologforeningen har sammensat et program, hvor du vil få både teoretisk og metodisk inspiration med fra dagen.

First Call for Papers and Participation

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) organizes its 8th Annual International Conference on Sociology, 5-8 May 2014, Athens, Greece. The conference website is: http://www.atiner.gr/sociology.htm

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students from all areas of Sociology, Social Work and other related fields. Theoretical and empirical research papers will be considered.

The registration fee is €300 (euro), covering access to all sessions, two lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with a local luxury hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of social events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment with dinner, a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands, an archaeological tour of Athens and a one-day visit to Delphi. Details of the social program are available at http://www.atiner.gr/2014/SOC-SOC.htm

Please submit an abstract (email only) to: atiner@atiner.gr, using the abstract submission form available at http://www.atiner.gr/2014/FORM-SOC.doc by the 7 October 2013 to: Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Academic Member of ATINER and Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece. Abstracts should include the following: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address, and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions are reached within 4 weeks.

If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. organize a panel (session, mini conference), chair a session, review papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER (gtp@atiner.gr)

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association with the mission to become a forum, where academics and researchers – from all over the world – could meet in Athens to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 250 international conferences, symposiums and events. It has also published approximately 150 books. Academically, the Institute consists of five Research Divisions and twenty-three Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research projects. Academics and researchers are more than welcome to become members and contribute to ATINER’s objectives. The members of the Institute can undertake a number of academic activities. If you want to become a member, please download the form (membership form). For more information or suggestions, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr

Kære medlem af Dansk Sociologforening.

Vi gør opmærksom på en konference på Aalborg Universitet/Cph om “Participation and power in participatory and action research”, d. 05-07.06.13.

Tilmelding senest 13.05.13. www.participation-power.aau.dk

De bedste hilsner

Marianne Kristiansen & Jørgen Bloch-Poulsen, lektorer, ph.d., AAU/Cph.

The deadline for the submission of papers to the Sixth ISA Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists is May 1, 2013, which is coming soon. The winners of the competition will be invited to a five-day seminar and the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama in June, 2014. They will be given many opportunities to meet their peers and senior sociologists from around the world. As the chair of the committee of the competition, I was wondering if you would encourage junior sociologists on your research committee to submit papers to me at ysato@sal.tohoku.ac.jp by the deadline. The details of the competition are posted on the ISA website at http://www.isa-sociology.org/wcys/index.htm.

Thank you for your attention and cooperation.

-Yoshimichi Sato

De 2 annoncerede med Professor Nikolas Kompridis udsættes til efteråret. Der kommer information, når de nye datoer er fastlagte

Freie Universität Berlin med titlen ” Economic growth and capitalist accumulation – in the perspective of a sustainable transformation”

Tid: Onsdag d. 6. marts kl. 14.00 Roskilde Universitet, hus 30, auditorium 3

I stigende grad har Elmar Altvater beskæftiget sig med sammenhængen mellem kapitalisme og økologisk krise, aktualiseret af den nuværende verdenskrise og med mulige svar på den: en anden form for – bæredygtig – økonomi, utopiers betydning.

Han er tilknyttet attac og har tætte forbindelser til bl.a. alternative initiativer i Latinamerika. – Forelæsningen er på engelsk.

Yderligere information om forelæsningen kan findes her