EVENTS


2010

FEBRUARY
22 John Clarke,
Open University

JUNE

June 07
George Steinmetz
University of Michigan

June 10

2 year MA defenses

June 12-13
Entity, Construction, Relation: Critical Approaches to Time/Space, the State and Knowledge Production in Sociology and Social Anthropology Graduate Conference

June 14-16
MA defenses

June 15
Kacper Poblocki's PhD defense

June 17

Graduation

June 29
Job talks
2010 Monument Building,
Gellner room 10:00-13:00


JULY

1-3
Emerging Social Structures and New Anthropologies Closing conference of Marie Curie Doctoral Training School - schedule


2009

June

9-10 Peter Berger
Adventures with Sociology - An "Ego-History"

May
20 Alan Macfarlane, (University of Cambridge)
“What I told Lily. Are there Laws or Patterns in History and Anthropology?”

11 David Berliner, (Bruxelles)
“UNESCO and the Politics of Nostalgia in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR)”

March
23 Tony Robben, (Utrecht University)
Ethnographic Imagination at...

2 John Clarke, (Open University)
After neo-liberalism? Markets, states and the reinvention of public welfare

Feb.
16 Frederick Cooper, (NYU)
From Imperial Inclusion to Republican Exclusion? Nationality and Citizenship in France and French Africa, 1945-1960

17 Jane Burbank, (NYU)
Under the Umbrella of the Law:
Litigation, Supervision, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial Russia


2008


Dec.

1 Mon. Ulf Hannertz (Stockholm University): Images of the World, Now and Next: Global Scenarios as Texts and Transnational Cultural Phenomena

Nov.
3 Mon. Harvey Molotch (New York University): The Urban Toilet as Intersection of Race, Class and Gender
17 Mon. Zsuzsa Gille (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Materialities of state socialism and postsocialism

Oct.
1 Wed. Tania Li (University of Toronto): Indigeneity, Capitalism, and Counter-movements
27 Mon. Philip Smith (University of Yale):"Rethinking the Panopticon".

Sept.
25-27:
"Rethinking Ethnicity and Ethnic Strife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives" conference organized jointly by CEU Sociology and Social Anthropology Department, Cornell University and Michigan University.

Jun.
26-30:
2008 IIS conference

13-14:
Framing Struggles: Critical Approaches to Anthropology and Sociology Graduate Conference

March
17
Mon. 17:30 Monument Building 201: Departmental Seminar Series: James Sidaway: “Zivilmacht Europa: a critical geopolitics of the European Union as a global power”

27 Thu. 17.30 Monument Building 201: Departmental Seminar Series: Ronnie Moore: “A General Practice, a Country Practice: the Cure, the Charm and Informal healing in Northern Ireland”

Jan.
28 Mon. 17:30 Popper Room: Departmental Seminar Series: Margit Feischmidt: „The Hungarian Transylvania: symbolic reconstruction of lost territories”


2007

Sept:
10 Mon. 17:00 The Public Defense of the PhD Dissertation in Sociology and Social Anthropology Jan Drahokoupil on The Rise of the Competition State in Central and Eastern Europe: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment.

24 Mon. 17:30 Gellner room: Departmental Seminar Series: John Mollenkopf: "A Fragile Giant? The Future of New York in an Age of Uncertainity"

Oct:
8 Mon. Departmental Seminar Series: Frans Stokman, University of Groningen: "Main Processes of Collective Decision Making—The Case of the European Union"

Nov.
26 Mon. Departmental Seminar Series: Birgit Meyer, Free University, Amsterdam: "Christianity, Audio-Visual Media and the Question of Community in Ghana"