PhD students are invited to participate in the PhD Workshop that runs alongside the Social Pathologies: Developmental and Processual Perspectives on Contemporary Malaises conference.
PhD students can avail of a ‘concession ticket’, which entitles attendance at the PhD Workshop and the Conference.
Dedicated sessions will take place on the morning and early afternoon of Wednesday 2nd and prior to the conference start, and on the morning of Saturday 5th December, for a post-conference review and presentation session.
The workshop will be directed to a small, select group of PhD students who will work with leading Eliasian scholars to refresh their engagement with the contributions that an Eliasian approach to historical sociology can make to the analysis of a variety of theoretical and empirical problems at a relatively advanced level. The workshop will aim to connect with students’ own fields of interest, as well as enhancing the originality and distinctiveness of participants’ PhD or Masters research.
The workshop builds on the experience of previous very successful workshops held in Prague (2024), Warsaw (2022), online (2021), Brussels (2018), Amsterdam (2017) and Vienna (2011), with a distinctive focus on those parts of Elias’s writings that are not as well-known as On the Civilizing Process and relate to the conference theme of ‘Social Pathologies’. These works include his account of German antisemitism and the Holocaust, his analysis of shifts in power-balances, and his reflections on relations between ‘established’ and ‘outsider’ social groups.
These themes covered will be tailored to contribute to the topics of participants’ research projects, and will include a session dedicated to the methodological issues surrounding the study of long-term historical processes, most frequently through archival sources.
Interested participants should send an Expression of Interest though this form, containing:
(1) Name, (2) Institutional Affiliation, (3) Supervisor, (3) email address, (4) title of thesis, (5) an abstract indicating the project’s theoretical and empirical concerns, and (6) a short comment on your current familiarity with Elias’s approach to sociology and historical sociology more broadly.