Graduate Conference: Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Entity, Construction, Relation: Critical Approaches to Time/Space, the State and Knowledge Production in Sociology and Social Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Central European University
June 12-13 2010, Budapest
Substantivist, constructivist, and relational perspectives on the social world have coexisted more or less harmoniously within social sciences since the beginning of their institutionalisation. However, epistemological positioning means making strong assumptions about the nature of social reality and about our possibility to know anything about it. Our conference aims to be an open forum for discussing the advantages and the limits of these perspectives, and their implications when adopted in the study of three selected core topics in social sciences: time/space, the state and knowledge production.
Entity, Construction, Relation: Critical Approaches to Time/Space, the State and Knowledge Production in Sociology and Social Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Central European University
June 11-13 2010, Budapest
Saturday, June 12
Monument Building, room 201
Morning session:
Space for Time/Time for Space
09.00 – 09.30: Neoliberalizing Resistance: Working Time and Overtime Pressure, Alina Petrovici, Babes-Bolyai University
9.30 -10.00: Archeology of a Tension: Diverging narrations about the American Embassy of Skopje, Fabio Mattioli, EHESS Paris and University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje
9.31- 10.30: Producing Spatial Pluralism: town-planning, house-building and everyday practices in a South African township, Lisa Wiesenthal, University of Vienna
10.30 – 11.00: Constructing the 'Field' Across Time and Space: Dealing with Multiple Contexts and Multiple Temporalities, Tereza Kuldova, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo
11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30: Lecture: "On Efficiency in Scholarship: do keywords matter?"
Professor Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago
12.30 – 15.00: Lunch break (Hummus Bar)
Afternoon session:
The State, Citizenship, and Transnational Flows
15.00 – 15.30: Citizenship and Subjecthood Dilemmas of the Indian Population in South Africa, 1860-1920, Bijita Majumdar, PhD, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, USA
15.30 – 16.00: Governing Exiles: Legal Pluralism and Refugee Statecraft on the Thai-Burma Border, Kirsten McConnachie, PhD, Queen’s University Belfast
16.00 – 16.30: Rescaling the security State off The Horn of Africa: Maritime Piracy, Capital, and Securitization of the Somali Basin, Zoltan Gluck, MA, Central European University, Budapest
16.30 – 17.00: Home in the language: identity-building and cultural practices of Russian-speaking Israelis, Daiva Repeckaite, Research Student, Tel Aviv University
17.00 – 17.30: Edgár Dobos, PhD, Corvinus University, Budapest
17.30 – 18.00: Coffee break
18.00 – 19.00: Lecture: Professor Jonathan Friedman, Lund University and École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
19.30: Dinner (Lugas)
After dinner program to be announced later.
Sunday, June 13
Monument Building, room 103 (Gellner)
Morning session: "Measure for Measure": Knowledge, Culture, and the Third Wave Marketization
09.30 – 10.00: Within and Beyond the Commodity Form: Culture, Knowledge, and Sustainable Development in the European Countryside, Elisa da Via, Cornell University
10.00 – 10.30: The role of popular culture in creating common identity: Soap opera, folk music and youth in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Biljiana Zikic
10.30 – 11.00: A new peasant culture: from rurality to rusticity in a Romanian village, Corina Cimpoieru, SNSPA Bucharest
11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30: Lecture: Professor Jean-Louis Fabiani, Central European University and École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Conference closing