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Dear all,
just a quick note to remind you that the CfP for the Tarde/Durkheim
event closes on the 30th of october. The original call is below.
Matt Candea
Dr. Matei Candea
Sigrid Rausing lecturer in Collaborative Anthropology
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Department of Social Anthropology
Free School Lane
Cambridge
CB2 3RF
UK
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office: 01223 334 593
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Call for Papers
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The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
(CRASSH) presents
an interdisciplinary conference
Tarde/Durkheim: Trajectories of the social
Cambridge, 14th-15th of March 2008
www.tarde-durkheim.net
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TARDE - Once dismissed as a naïve precursor to Durkheimian sociology,
Gabriel Tarde is now increasingly brought forward as the
misrecognised forerunner of a post-Durkheimian era. Reclaimed from a
century of near-oblivion, Tarde’s sociology has been linked to
Foucaultian microphysics of power, to Deleuze’s philosophy of
difference, and to Actor Network Theory.
DURKHEIM - The venerable ancestor of sociology has known better days.
Long before the neo-Tardian challenge, anthropologists and others had
attacked Emile Durkheim’s work as totalizing, reductionist,
positivist and conservative. As a result of these attacks, Durkheim
has been thinned over the years to the point of becoming a straw man.
Who will give this scarecrow his brain back?
TARDE/DURKHEIM: TRAJECTORIES OF THE SOCIAL aims to bring together
major actors in the recent rediscovery of Tarde with participants
from a range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, STS
and philosophy who acknowledge a continuing or productively re-
imagined debt to Durkheim. Participants will investigate the way
these rival 19th century projects for the social sciences were formed
and what remains of the ways each thinker proposed to define ‘the
social’ and partition it across one or many ‘disciplines’. They will
ask what light this century-old debate between the two sociologists
might shed on the very different (and yet sometimes uncannily
parallel) concerns facing the arts, humanities and social sciences,
at the beginning of the 21st century, such as inter-disciplinarity,
the “ontological turn”, empiricism, affect and scale.
The conference will explore the following questions among others:
· How much of Tarde’s sociology can be reclaimed for present
use, and in what form?
· What remains of the Durkheimian legacy, and what elements
of his thought have not been deployed?
· What light can Tarde and Durkheim’s divergent definitions
of “sociology” throw on
- the promises and dangers of (inter)disciplinarity?
- the use of ‘domains’ and the treatment of scale in
social science?
· What can Tarde and Durkheim respectively tell us about the
place of affect in the social?
· How should sociology and anthropology interface with
philosophy and with metaphysics?
· What would a Tardean ethnography look like?
· How might we rethink empiricism, explanation and method,
beyond self-running social theories?
The conference will open with a re-enactment of a 1903 debate between
Gabriel Tarde
and Emile Durkheim, with Bruno Latour and Bruno Karsenti in the title
roles.
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participants include:
Andrew Barry – Georgina Born – Tim Jenkins – Bruno Karsenti – James
Laidlaw – Bruno Latour – Robert Layton – James Leach – Yael Navaro-
Yashin – Joel Robbins – Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov – Marilyn Strathern –
Karen Sykes – Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
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Please email your proposed title and a 300-500 word abstract to Matei
Candea [[log in to unmask]], by the 30th of October 2007
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