Conference: Globalisation & Civilisation in International Relations - Towards New Models of Human Interdependence
In particular, an affinity has become evident between the ‘English School’ in International Relations and the theory of civilising and decivilising processes stemming from the thinking of Norbert Elias in Sociology. The affinity is especially manifest in the recent writings of Andrew Linklater, leading up to his three-volume study of The Problem of Harm in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and in Stephen Mennell’s The American Civilizing Process (Polity, 2007).
This conference brings together an international group of scholars in International Relations, Sociology and cognate disciplines to explore central issues concerning the possible emergence of a single global society.
Please note that while attendance is free the space is limited. Please register your place by sending your contact details to the conference email address: globalisationandcivilisation@gmail.com
Thursday 8 April
18:00 Newman House, 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
18:00 Newman House, 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
Three Faces of Civilisation: ‘In the beginning all the world was Ireland’
- Robert van Krieken - Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Sociology, UCD
- Robert van Krieken - Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Sociology, UCD
Friday 9 April
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
| 09:15 – 09:45 | Registration | |
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| Including reservation and payment for the optional conference dinner at the Clarence Hotel at 19.30. For those who wish to attend, there will be a charge of €40.00 – payable in cash or by cheque drawn in euro on an Irish bank account. (Unfortunately, we shall not have the equipment to accept payment by credit card.) | ||
| 09.45 - 11:15 | Opening of Conference | |
| The global conundrum: Norbert Elias and the human condition - Godfried van Benthem van den Bergh (International Relations, Erasmus University Rotterdam) | ||
| Harm and world politics: international relations and process sociology - Andrew Linklater (International Politics, Aberystwyth University) | ||
| Chair: Stephen Mennell | ||
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Tea / Coffee | |
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| 11.30 – 13.00 | Exploring the dynamics of world formation - Dennis Smith (Sociology,University of Loughborough) | |
| Expectations, epochs, and everyday politics: explaining generational change through civilisational analysis - Len Seabrooke (International Political Economy, University of Warwick) | ||
| Chair: Johan Goudsblom | ||
| 13.00 – 14.15 | Lunch | |
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| Participants to make their own arrangements; there are many cafés and snack bars near the Academy. | ||
| 14.15 – 15.45 | International terrorism and the soiled habitus - Stephen Vertigans (Sociology, Robert Gordon University) | |
| ‘Terrorism’ in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain as part of inter-and intra-state processes - Michael Dunning (Sociology, Brunel University) | ||
| Exploring social practices in war: British and American experiences in the global war on terror - Alastair Finlan (International Politics, Aberystwyth University) | ||
| Historical sociology of the nuclear revolution - Campbell Craig (International Politics, Aberystwyth University) | ||
| Chair: Katie Liston | ||
| 17:15 – 18:15 | Wine Reception | |
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| Members’ Room, Royal Irish Academy | ||
| Presentation of the Norbert Elias Prize 2009 for the best first book by an author in sociology or a cognate discipline. The 2009 Prize is awarded to Dr Elizabeth Bernstein for her book Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (University of Chicago Press, 2007). The presentation will be made by Dr Wilbert van Vree, chairman of the jury. | ||
| 19:30 – 22:00 | Conference Dinner | |
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| Clarence Hotel, 6 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 | ||
| Reservations and payment of €40.00 to be made at Registration (9.15 to 9.45 – see above) | ||
Saturday 10 April
Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD Belfield, Dublin 4
| 09:15 | Opening | |
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| 09.30 – 10.15 | In the name of civilisation - Brett Bowden (Politics, University of New South Wales) | |
| 10.15 – 11.00 | Not politics but culture: how civilising processes in international relations may work? And why do we need a ‘sociology’ of international relations to analyse it? - Dieter Reicher (Sociology, University of Graz) | |
| Culture and civilisation: Hofstede and Elias on social habitus - Jonathan Fletcher (Amsterdam) | ||
| Chair: Richard Kilminster | ||
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee/Tea | |
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| 11.15 – 12.45 | Emotions & habitus of officers as reflected in great literature: the case of the Habsburg Army 1848–1918 - Helmut Kuzmics (Sociology,Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) | |
| About post-national Integration: towards a socio-historical approach - Florence Delmotte (Politics & Sociology, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Bruxelles) | ||
| The civilising mission in Asia: Asian paternalism today - Shogo Suzuki (Politics, University of Manchester) | ||
| Migrants in a small Japanese town: The established– outsider dynamic in action - Julian Manning (Nihon University, Japan) | ||
| Chair: Andrew Linklater | ||
| 12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
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| Sandwiches, tea & coffee will be provided in the HII | ||
| 14.00 – 15.30 | The nation state from a transnational point of view: some Eliasian considerations - Bernard Lacroix & Arnault Skornicki (Université de Paris X –Nanterre) | |
| Chair: Helmut Kuzmics | ||
| 14.45 – 15.45 | Lust for life! Motorcycles taming veteran warriors - René Moelker (Royal Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda) | |
| The emergence of a global society: a consequence of Elias’s theoretical perspective - Lars Bo Kasperson (Copenhagen Business School) & Norman Gabriel (University of Plymouth) | ||
| Seeing Wendtian cultures of anarchy as figurations: making stories more sociological, more historical and more human - Aurélie Lacassagne (Sociology, Laurentian University) | ||
| Chair: Eric Dunning | ||
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea | |
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| 16.00 –17.00 | Religion, Secularisation and International Politics: A Weberian Framework - Antonio Cerella (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence) | |
| Globalisation and cultural lag in Ireland: we- and they- feelings through figurational changes - Paddy Dolan (Sociology, Dublin Institute of Technology) | ||
| The myth of the warrior – the central archetype of Western culture - Sandy Dunlop (Folklore, UCD) | ||
| Chair: Wilbert van Vree | ||
| 17.00 – 17.45 | Abschiedsvorlesung: Realism and Reality Congruence – International Relations and Sociology - Stephen Mennell (Sociology, UCD) | |
| Chair: Robert van Krieken | ||