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http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2008/
callforproposals_reg.html
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’“
http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2008/index.html
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 October 9. 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
Arjun Appadurai, Rajeev Barghava, Robert Bellah, Eliezer Ben-
Rafael,Neil Brenner, Rogers Brubaker, Ayse Caglar, Craig Calhoun,
Thomas Carothers, Tony Cowling, S.N. Eisenstadt, Raghavendra
Gadagkar, Peter Gärdenfors, John Hall, Peter Hedström, Danièle
Hervieu-Léger, Hans Joas, Sudipta Kaviraj ,Ivan Krastev, Steven
Lukes,Walter D. Mignolo, Helga Nowotny, Sheldon Pollock, Shalini
Randeria, Alan Ryan, Gesine Schwan, Seteney Shami , Göran Therborn,
Hent de Vries, 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 October 9 to
iis2008@???. Proposals should contain an abstract describing
the theme of the session. It should not list contributors. Papers for
presentation will be selected by session conveners no later than
January 31. If at all possible, we intend to accommodate excellent
proposals for sessions submitted also after the deadline of October
9, but there can be no guarantee of available space.
The programme of the Congress and all other information concerning
the event will be continuously updated on this homepage.
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 and Björn Wittrock
