ISA-RCHS Interim Conference
"Changing Universities: Changing Sociology"
27-30 June 2012
Clinton Auditorium, University College Dublin
At the university level we are experiencing radical changes at all levels and in all countries and cultures. It is time to think about the impact these changes had and continue to have on the discipline. Is there a general, maybe even universal trend to these changes? Can any particular or unique developments be detected? What role do cultures, states and national peculiarities play in this development? And how do they impact on the many sociological traditions? In order to comprehensively understand what is going on at present and what is likely to happen in the future we will also have to look at how changes in higher education have impacted on sociology in the past.
Invited speakers: Professor Andrew Abbott (Sociology, University of Chicago), and Professor Daniel Gordon (History, University of Massachusetts).
Organiser: Dr Andreas Hess (a.hess@ucd.ie)