Conference – Social Figurations: Long-Term Processes, Present Concerns and Future Directions

On 28th September 2024 by Mark Walters

Wednesday 4 – Saturday 7 December 2024, Prague, Czech Republic

 

Is historical sociology relevant for understanding and addressing contemporary social problems?

Papers are invited for a major international conference in Prague on the theme of ‘Social figurations: long-term processes, present concerns and future directions’. This in-person conference is a joint venture between the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University, the Norbert Elias Foundation and ISA RC56: Historical Sociology.

Taking inspiration from Elias, the conference will centrally explore the extent to which an understanding of long-term processes can be useful for understanding and addressing pressing contemporary social problems and issues. These include those that relate to developments in gender relations, military conflicts, colonial processes, and the expansion of global capitalism, plus inter-related processes relating to environmental degradation, emerging technologies and artificial forms of ‘intelligence’, shifting challenges to law and juridical practices, the re-ascendancy of ethno-nationalism and the sociology of knowledge and religion.

 

Find more information and book your place here: https://www.socialfigurations2024.cz/

This event will be taking place at Conference Centre City (Konferenční centrum City), Na Strži 2097/63, 140 00 Prague, Czech Republic.