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RN 25 - Mid-term Conference: Transnational Democracy, Mobilization, Organisation and Communication |
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS ESA Research Network 25 - Social Movements
in cooperation with ECPR Standing Group ‘Forms of Participation’ announce the ESA RN 25 Mid-Term Conference
“Transnational Democracy: mobilization, organisation and communication” European University Institute
Florence/Italy
20- 21 January 2011 The second mid-term conference of the RN Social Movements will take place in Florence (It) at the European University Institute in January 2011. The workshop “Transnational Democracy: mobilization, organisation and communication” is jointly organised with the ECPR Standing Group on “Forms of Participation”, and aims at bringing together scholars with different disciplinary perspectives who are interested in the theme of democracy and organizational innovation in movements in transnational publics and pluralist societies. The workshop addresses the transnational condition of participation in globalized societies and Europe’s multilevel polity to explore the cultural and political context for democracy and organization in social movements. Theories of global democracy and political communication have addressed the potential of social movements to re-invent cultures of democracy and organization by creating transnational participatory publics and cross-border networks. New work on political sociology and protest showsthe relevance of transnational citizen assemblies, public spaces and online forums as a promising field to explore democratic and organizational innovation created through collective action in pluralist polities and globalized societies. Contrasting low participation in electoral politics and political parties, comparative analysts of European integration note an increase in forms of transnational participation, reaching from interest groups over populist resistance and protests on issues such as social justice, climate change or privatization in the EU or at the global level. What is the democratic potential, and the access points to emerging transnational public spaces created in social movements, given structural and linguistic hurdles? How do social and political organizers build cultural strategies of translation, and which constraints do they face trying to communicate over ICT and/or organize joint collective action? The workshop will bring together social movement scholars interested in democracy and cultures of participation with media scholars and political analysts of protest and comparative politics. When activists from different countries decide on joint protest on EU politics or frame their local events as part of global protest, they need very specific skills, resources and cultural practices to network with others or to reach a broader public. Transnational discourse settings also present challenging opportunities for institutional organizers of citizen assemblies or European policy-making to interact with protesters, NGOs and lobbyists. Workshop participants may explore how transnational protest activities and practices of communication transform traditional cultures of organizing, participating and decision-making in social movement groups or civil society institutions. Paper givers may want to explore how the transnational context of action, or new media technologies and ICT environments transform traditional cultures of organizing, decision-making and protest in social movement groups and institutions. We welcome papers with a focus on: challenges for democracy in globalized social movements (e.g. translation, communication) innovations in the organizing of (transnational) protest local networking, and (transnational) alternative media cultures citizen assemblies and online forums for public deliberation
Abstract Submission Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) by email to ESA RN25 Social Movements Coordinators Emanuela Bozzini and Nicole Doerr, using
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Key Dates: Deadline for abstract submission: 30 September 2010 Acceptance: 20 October Registration (by email) 30 October Deadline for papers: 15 December 2010 Conference: 20 – 21 January 2011 Costs: Participants are required to pay a registration fee of 20 Euros, which will include documentation, coffee breaks and lunch. Travel and accommodation costs have to be covered by each participant. Venue: The workshop will take place at the European University Institute (www.eui.eu) in Fiesole (Florence). More info will follow later Contacts For any additional information on the workshop, please make contact with Emanuela Bozzini and/or Nicole Doerr:
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RN 32 - Mid-term Conference: Citizenship and Democracy |
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS RN 32 - Political Sociology Mid-term Conference Citizenship and Democracy: Membership, forms of participation, within and across European territories. !!! REMINDER !!! ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE : 15 June 2010 Please submit abstracts to:
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This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it The European Sociological Association’s Research Network on Political Sociology announces its first mid-term conference, to be held at the University of Lille 2 in France, 4-5 November 2010. The Research Network is intended as a site for enduring debate and exchange to measure the scale and scope of the ongoing transformation of political order and authority in Europe and beyond. The dynamics of political ordering and re-ordering are a classical research field for comparative sociology. Over the last decades, Europe has increasingly turned into an experimental field for the re-structuring of political order. In particular European integration and the consolidation of supranational authority have made it necessary to re-address these classical themes of sociology. The establishment of a political sociology section is therefore meant as an integrating effort for evaluating the challenges to the Westphalian order of nationstates but also for testing out the opportunities for the consolidation of a new type of political order and its legitimacy. This entails an explicit focus on the advancement of institutional and organizational theory as well as on democratic theory that are detached from their implicit or explicit nation-state functions. Members include scholars working inter alia on citizenship and governance structures, political institutions, states and communities, political attitudes and forms of political participation and political communication. The aim of this mid-term conference will be to establish the evolutions of the links between members of political communities, the territories of authority, the evolving forms of democracy, and the ways in which the political is embedded in social, economic, and cultural contexts. In particular, we encourage submission of abstracts on the following themes: 1) Territories and practiced citizenship from the local level to the transnational Euro-context:
local democracy, urban segregation and citizenship; citizenship and the nation-state; supranational and transnational forms of citizenship, etc. 2) New forms of participative democracy and transformations of representative democracy:
associations, interest groups, political networks, participation in the digital public sphere; political parties and the transformation of political cleavages in a European/global context, protest parties, electoral volatility and voting behavior, etc. 3) Migrants and citizenship in Europe:
urban segregation and different spheres of citizenship for migrants; representation of migrants in national party systems; (dissociation of) citizenship and nationality, citizenship and the crisis of national integration models; transnational mobilization and citizenship. 4) Populism in Europe: populism, nationalism, euroscepticism, radical right parties in the new cleavage structure of national party systems, the electorate of radical right parties, etc. Abstracts of up to 250 words should be submitted to the organizers by 15 June 2010. Please include information on the theoretical and methodological approach as well as the key argument and/or findings of the proposed paper. Abstracts with more than one author should indicate one contact for communication. Presenters will be sent an email informing them whether their abstract has been accepted by 15 July 2010. Presenters whose papers have been accepted must confirm their attendance at the conference by 1 September 2010. Conference venue and organization:
The conference will be hosted by the CERAPS, Lille Center for Politics. The research center is located within the faculty of Law of the Universityof Lille 2, a convenient ten minute subway ride from the main train station. Lille is easily accessible by train (Eurostar and TGV). There is an airport but also direct high speed trains from the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport that only take 45 minutes. Participants are asked to make their own travel arrangements and book accommodation. We will suggest a range of hotels (prices range from €50 to €110 a night). Information on how to get to the Law School building of the University of Lille 2 by rail, bus, air and road can be found at: http://ceraps.univ-lille2.fr/fr/plan-d-acces.html. There will be a conference diner on Thursday evening and lunch provided on Friday on the premises. To encourage participation by a broad range of early career researchers and experienced academics, there is no registration fee. To register, please write to
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RN 20 - Mid-term Conference: Innovating Qualitative Research, Challenges and Opportunities |
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS !!! Deadline for abstract submission extended to June 1, 2010 !!! RN20 - Qualitative Methods Mid-term Conference 2010 INNOVATING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES New Directions in Religion, Technology, Migration and Beyond University Bayreuth September 20-22, 2010 http://www.soz.uni-bayreuth.de/en/conferences/ESAmidterm2010/index.html Over the past decades, qualitative research has repositioned itself within the discipline of sociology. Qualitative methods have succeeded in overcoming their marginalization, and it can even be claimed that qualitative research has attained a privileged position. Today, a large variety of qualitative methods are used in a broad range of research areas. The growth and success of qualitative research deliver new challenges as well as new opportunities. Consequently, the mid-term conference of the ESA Research Network 20 focuses on vital questions related to the future of qualitative methods in European sociology as well as neighboring disciplines. The discussion includes questions concerning methodological innovations and the contributions of qualitative methods to both substantive areas of research and sociological theory. The goal is to further establish and promote qualitative methods within an emerging European research realm while fostering exchange with researchers and scholarly networks in other world regions. Symposium: Renowned international scholars will discuss the following questions in a symposium: How can qualitative methods respond to the challenges of an emerging European research realm? Is there a uniquely European qualitative methodology? How can we strengthen the connections between methodological and substantive inquiry? Thematic Sessions: We invite all interested researchers to participate in a series of thematic sessions which serve to identify innovations and challenges in qualitative research within specific research areas, including religion, technology and migration. The overall goal of the conference is to gather European scholars and students from different fields and perspectives to examine and promote qualitative research in the social sciences. Dates and Deadlines: March 22 Submission of abstracts and online registration starts May 1 Submission of abstracts ends May 15 Acceptance of abstracts May 26 Early-bird registration ends September 20-22 Conference |
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RN 29 - Mid-term Conference: Controversies in Contexts |
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS Interim Conference
Social Theory Research Network (RN29)
European Sociological Association Controversies in Contexts Villa Lanna
Prague, Czech Republic
September 09-11, 2010 Controversies in contexts accentuates two types of background assumptions of social thought: the development of theory is contingent on controversial argumentation; and the construction of any knowledge inevitably evolves in contexts. The conference theme is intended to provoke exchange related to a set of core social theoretical concerns: (a) Is knowledge determined by context? While theoretical paradigms shape our understanding of society, does society also shape controversies regarding the relevance of specific theories? (b) Considering the institutional dimension of sociology, the theme invites transnational comparisons, without ignoring sociology’s heterogeneous traditions. Which are the ongoing or pathbreaking debates in national scientific communities, asynchronized as they are? Participants are encouraged to go beyond the well-established and homogenizing debates – e.g. on objectivity in the social sciences, the structure/agency debate in Britain, individualism/class in France, culture/structure in the U.S., or the qualitative vs. quantitative debate in Czech sociology, and the positivism dispute as well as the conflict between systems and action approaches in Germany. Indeed, discussing controversies on knowledge in their concrete intellectual or institutional or social contexts will enable participants to rethink and compare their own traditions of thought. Thematic sessions will be arranged on the basis of papers submitted and themes proposed, but participants are invited to suggest proposals at an early stage, thus enabling the organizers to announce a number of discursive forums in advance. In the past, popular themes at the RN’s social theory conferences have included debates in contemporary, classical and critical theory and in the philosophy of social science. Abstract submission: Please submit your proposal (max. 250 words) by email to: Frank Welz (ESA RN29 coordinator),
Innsbruck University,
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This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it deadline: May 16th, 2010 Conference website: For more information on the conference, accommodation, travel and the social programme please visit www.social-theory.eu. Conference registration: June 30, 2010. Conference venue:
Villa Lanna (guesthouse of the Academy),
V Sadech 1,
160 00 Prague 6 - Bubenec,
Czech Republic. Scientific Committee (RN29): Jan Balon (Prague), Svetlana Kirdina (Moscow), Gesa Lindemann (Oldenbourg), Csaba Szalo (Brno), Kevin McSorley ( Portsmouth), Gilles Verpraet (Paris), Frank Welz (Innsbruck). Further information: Jan Balon (
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RN 31 - Mid-term Conference: Confrontations, Racism, Antisemitism and Sectarianism |
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Thursday, 01 April 2010 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS ESA RN31 Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism Mid-term Conference confrontations - racism, antisemitism and sectarianism Queen’s University Belfast 2-3 September 2010 This event is the mid-term conference of the Research Network ‘Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism’ (RN31) of the European Sociological Association. It aims to connect academics working in the fields of ethnic relations, racism and antisemitism, in order to sociologically explore these crucial issues in contemporary societies. The theme of the Research Network’s 2010 mid-term conference in Belfast especially aims to encourage sociological reflection upon the links between racism, antisemitism and sectarianism. It will provide opportunities to strengthen communications among sociologists researching these issues, including for the purpose of collective research and publication projects. We welcome papers which address any of the core issues of the Research Network, from analyses of antisemitism, racism and sectarianism to comparison between these. We also welcome studies of the ethnicisation of social relations in Europe and elsewhere. Registration for this conference is free. In order to register, please email one of the members of the local committee, Véronique Altglas (
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), with your name and institutional affiliation. Please note that there is a limitation on numbers, so registration will be on a first come, first served basis. If you would like to present a paper, please send a title and abstract (max. 150 words) to one of the members of the local committee by 16 May 2010. Presentations will last 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for questions. Please note that only a limited number (to be decided) of papers will be accepted (as in previous events of the Research Network, there will be no parallel sessions). You will be notified if your paper has been accepted by 1 June 2010. Practical information will follow. Research Network co-ordinators: Claudine Attias-Donfut, Robert Fine, David Hirsh. Local committee: Véronique Altglas (Research Network General Secretary) and Matthew Wood, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast. |
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