Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] The 38th IIS World Congress in Budapest on June
26-30, 2008
Inizio messaggio inoltrato:
> Da: IIS <info@???>
> Data: 12 luglio 2007 11:17:31 GMT+02:00
> A: iis2008@???
> Oggetto: The 38th IIS World Congress in Budapest on June 26-30, 2008
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> To all members of the IIS and all interested scholars
>
>
> The 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology
> will take place, as announced, at Central European University in
> Budapest, Thursday evening, June 26 - Monday noon, June 30, 2008.
>
>
> The theme of the Congress is:
> “Sociology Looks at the Twenty-first Century:
> ‘From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism’“
>
> The four previous World Congresses of the IIS have highlighted
> dilemmas of human existence and societal institutions in the
> contemporary world. They have examined problems of social existence
> amidst processes of globalization, cooperation and violent
> conflict. They have been conducted in the spirit which guided the
> formation of the IIS, namely that of an engagement and encounter
> between a variety of theoretical positions among members of a truly
> international community of scholars.
>
> The 38th World Congress will reaffirm that spirit. It will address
> some of the most fundamental issues of sociological inquiry in the
> light of global processes and the development of a range of other
> fields of knowledge: What does it mean to be human? What is the
> nature of social as opposed to natural processes? How do different
> efforts to map the social and political world interact with that
> world and with traditional sociological practices? What can we now
> say about relationships between scientific, political and religious
> beliefs? These are just some of the questions that will be raised
> at a congress that has the ambition to set the stage for a
> sustained look at what sociology may or may not have to say about
> the twenty-first century.
>
> The structure of the Congress is straightforward. Each morning
> there will be two plenary sessions. Each afternoon will be devoted
> to sessions proposed and organized by participants themselves.
> Enclosed is a call for proposals for regular sessions to be
> submitted no later than September 30. The sessions selected will be
> announced by mid-October. Participants who want to present a paper
> in any of these sessions can then propose such a paper from mid-
> October 2007 until mid-January 2008.
>
> The Congress is hosted by Central European University (CEU). It is
> jointly sponsored by CEU and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced
> Study (SCAS) and organized by Yehuda Elkana, President and Rector
> of CEU, and Björn Wittrock, Principal of SCAS and President of the
> IIS, together with Prem Kumar Rajaran (CEU), Shalini Randeria
> (Zürich and Berlin), Don Kalb (CEU), and Ivan Szelenyi (Yale
> University and CEU). Katalin Lassu (lassuk@???), Senior
> Administrative Officer of CEU, is Executive Assistant for the
> Congress and responsible for its administration.
>
> Among the speakers in the plenary sessions are
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> Arjun Appadurai, Rajeev Barghava, Rogers Brubaker, Ayse Caglar,
> Craig Calhoun, Tom Carothers, Thomas Cooley, Raghavendra Gadagkar,
> Peter Gärdenfors, Peter Hedström, Hans Joas, Sudipta Kaviraj, Ivan
> Krastev, Steven Lukes, Helga Nowotny, Sheldon Pollock, Shalini
> Randeria, Alan Ryan, Gesine Schwan, Seteney Shami, Ivan Szelenyi,
> Piotr Sztompka, Pal Tamas, Yogendra Yadar
>
>
> All scholars are kindly invited to submit proposals for sessions at
> the Congress. Please send proposals no later than September 30 to
> iis2008@???
>
> The programme of the Congress and all other information concerning
> the event will be continuously updated on the congress homepage
> www.iisoc.org/iis2008 >
>
> We greatly look forward to seeing you at a Congress that promises
> to set landmarks for the further development of sociology and the
> social sciences at large.
>
>
> You are warmly welcome to Budapest in 2008,
>
> Yehuda Elkana
> Björn Wittrock
>
>
> Please, see the enclosed documents for more information about the
> congress 
