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Is Civil Society the Good Society?
This is a fascinating exchange, recorded in Dublin a few months ago, between Jeffrey Alexander and Maeve Cooke on the relationship between, and their their perspectives and positions on, the ‘civil...
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Values Beyond Value? Is Anything Beyond the Logic of Capital? Beverley Skeggs
Reblogged from synthetic_zero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIeYNVUAEk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Skeggs 'Many theories adopt the metaphors of capital to explore power (e.g. Bourdieu),...
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Latour on War and Peace in an Age of Ecological Conflict
Reblogged from ANTHEM:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPxbuluOrgE&w=584&h=359] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPxbuluOrgE Interesting restatement of Latour's position and call for...
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Special Issue: Emotions & Power
Just a quick note to announce that a special issue of the Journal of Political Power, edited by myself and Prof. Helena Flam, is now available online. The theme of the special issue is emotions and...
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Economy and Society Summer School, 12-16th of May 2014, Blackwater Castle, Cork
** applications opening Janurary 2014 ** Tom Boland of WIT has asked me to post this call for applications for the Economy & Society Summer School, which will be held in the beautiful Blackwater...
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Randall Collins – Violence as emotional dominance: Micro-sociological causes
One of the great contemporary sociologists/social theorists working in the United States, Prof. Randall Collins, gave a talk earlier this year as part of the Cardiff University Distinguished Lecture...
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The Emotive Philosophies of A. N. Whitehead: Lecture by Dr Michael Halewood
Interesting, if a little scattered, presentation of Whitehead’s core ideas by Michael Halewood (University of Essex) from last September. The lecture took place as part of the Autumn Series of talks...
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William Reddy – Do Emotions Have a History? The Example of Romantic Love.
In this fascinating talk William M. Reddy, the William T. Laprade Professor of History and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, expounds on the theme of romantic love. This is the...
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Call for Papers: PSAI Annual Conference 2014
Originally posted on PSAI 2014: CALL FOR PAPERS PSAI Annual Conference Continuity and Change: Celebrating thirty years of the PSAI View original
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Prof. Philip Pettit at NUI Galway: public lecture and reading group
Prof.Philip Pettit of Princeton University will give a public lecture on the theme of justice and democracy in NUI Galway at 4pm on 17 June. The venue is the SAC Room in the Cairnes Building. The talk...
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41st SAI Annual Conference May 10th 2014: Call for Papers
***NOTE: ABSTRACT DEADLINE MARCH 14th 2014*** The 41st Annual Conference of the SAI will be held at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier Street on May 10th 2014. This will be an open conference...
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Diana Coole talk on May 20th, NUI Galway – on the ‘Population Question’
We are delighted to announce the second guest speaker of the Power, Conflict & Ideologies Cluster (School of Political Science & Sociology) this year is Prof Diana Coole of Birkbeck University...
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Call for Papers – ESA Emotions Network Midterm Conference 2014 (deadline...
Antony Gormley: FEELING MATERIAL XIV, 2004 4 mm square section mild steel bar 225 x 218 x 170 cm Photograph by Stephen White, London ** DEADLINE MARCH 31st 2014** The ESA Emotions Network (RN11) will...
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The Pervert’s Guide To Ideology
Following Slavoj Žižek’s relatively reasonable reflections on world power and Ukraine in The Guardian this week, I was told that someone has uploaded his new-ish documentary The Pervert’s Guide to...
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A Brief History of Liberty – and its Lessons: A Public ‘Ethics Initiative’...
Distinguished Irish philosopher Prof. Philip Pettit of Princeton University will give a public lecture on ‘A Brief History of Liberty — and its Lessons’ in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway at 4pm on...
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Kari Norgaard — Living in Denial
In this excellent talk, recorded in 2013, Kari Norgaard offers a wonderful and concise overview of her well known book on the sociology of climate change Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions,...
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Just In Print: Power and Emotion (Routledge)
I am delighted to announce that a collection of papers edited by myself and Prof. Helena Flam on the theme of emotions and power is just out today. This collection originally appeared as a special...
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President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative Public Lecture, NUI Galway: Social...
Via Dr Richard Hull (NUI Galway) The discipline of Philosophy (NUI Galway) is delighted to welcome Professor Jonathan Wolff to NUI, Galway, as part of the President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative. He...
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PSAI 2014 Conference Programme
Originally posted on PSAI 2014: PSAI Annual Conference 2014: Programme Last updated 8 October 2014 (Download here) Day 1: Friday 17 October 13:00: Registration Desk opens 14-15.30 Session 1 1.A Irish...
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