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That’s quite a lineup they have planned for this symposium.
In June 2008, the second and revised edition of Harrison White’s opus magnum Identity and Control was published (Princeton University Press). On this occasion, we plan to hold an international symposium for a discussion of the Relational Sociology around White in Berlin on the 25th and [...]

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I’m only freelancing this conference as paid help, but the Society for Disability Studies is hosting their annual conference at Baruch College next week. The program looks interesting, and I just had lunch with a former president of the society who called my attention to how the field is proliferating across national contexts. So that’s [...]

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The bends

Just managed last Friday to put to rest a week-long conference that was held at my school, for which I was the assistant coordinator. It’s something that I’d been working on for a full year, going full-time more or less since September, with crazily intense hours since January.
I could say a lot about the experience [...]

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Upcoming Talks

For the local folks, a couple of good talks / events coming up at the Heyman Center that are worth checking out:
Language, Culture, and Power
Saturday, February 23, 2008, 4:15pm
1512 International Affairs Building
Dipesh Chakrabarthy, Arjun Appadurai, and Sheldon Pollock, will engage in a round table discussion on “Philology, Theory, History,” as part of the [...]

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I thought I’d pass along the following Call for Papers, for the 52nd Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). It will be held from March 17 - 21, 2008 at the Teachers College campus in New York City and the conference theme is “Gaining Educational Equity Around the World.”
OK, at the [...]

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