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Hilde Bollen //Programme Coordinator LAICS Master

Aarhus University (Emdrup Campus - Copenhagen)

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LAICS Master in Leadership and Innovation -  www.laics.net
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Dear Colleague,

 

I am writing to kindly ask if you could help disseminate through your listserv a CfP for the European Sociological Association's cultural sociology conference on "Emergent Culture" in Exeter, UK  16-18 November 2016.

 

We have just extended our deadline for abstract submission to 15 July 2016. Please find attached the CfP in PDF as well as a url for the conference (also pasted below).

 

As you will see, Prof. Antonio Strati, Prof. Anna Lisa Tota and Prof. Paul Atkinson will be the keynotes, which I think would be very interesting for members of AACORN.

 

http://esa-2016-rn7.weebly.com/

 

Thank you in advance and kind regards,

Trever Hagen

 

Chair, RN7 ESA Sociology of Culture

 

 

6th midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association’s

Research Network Sociology of Culture (RN7)

16-18 November 2016, Exeter, United Kingdom

 

CALL FOR PAPERS:

“Emergent Culture”

The ESA Research Network Sociology of Culture announces its 6th midterm conference, which will take place from 16-18 November 2016 at the University of Exeter, UK.

The European Sociological Association’s Research Network on the Sociology of Culture provides a global network for scholars working within Cultural Sociology. Through collaboration in the Network, RN7 aims to develop the sociological understanding of how human meanings, symbols, cultural structures and practices play a defining role in building social lives.

 

Conference Theme

The theme of the 6^th midterm conference, ‘Emergent Culture’, focuses on the diverse pathways of how emergence, as a theoretical framework and empirical phenomenon, enters into the sociological study of culture. Emergence is a key lens that captures core cultural sociological processes of action, meaning and transformation. As such, emergence is understood in relation to events and materiality; access, skills and technology; clusters and bundles; history, memories and associated social practices. It is in this sense that the Conference casts a wide intellectual net to catch the numerous ways emergence enters and shapes social relations between people, spaces, symbols and objects. The 6^th midterm conference is seeking papers on the following sub-themes, yet is open to others beyond the core theme of ‘Emergent Culture’.

 

1.     Post-humanist and socio-technical emergence

2.     Spaces and places

3.     Memory

4.     Aesthetics, symbols and performance

5.     Cosmopolitanism and transnationalism

6.     Health, wellbeing and everyday life

7.     Creativity and cultural capital

8.     Social movements and culture wars

9.     Experiential, non-representational and sensory methods

10.  Migrant cultures

11.  Cultural sociology, open format

Conference features

 

The conference will feature keynote plenaries and parallel sessions (each session will have 4 papers with total duration of 90 minutes). The language of the conference is English. Confirmed Keynote Speakers (more plenaries to be announced):

Professor Anna Lisa Tota, University of Roma Tre, Italy

Professor Paul Atkinson, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom

Professor Antonio Strati, University of Trento, Italy

Special PhD Session: Tia DeNora and Robert Witkin, University of Exeter, “From Thesis to Book”

ESA features: exploratory business meeting for ESA Memory Studies Research Stream

Gala Dinner, Thursday 17 November