Sociology

Dear all

the annual Anthropological Association of Ireland conference takes place this week at University College Cork. The two day conference starts at 11 AM sharp on Friday 21st, registration will open at 10:30. Certificates of attendance available.

Contemporary Social Science

Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, Volume 13, 2018, Issues 3-4:

Identity, Agency and Fieldwork Methodologies in Risky Environments: Guest edited by Monique Marks and Julten Abdehalim

https://tandfonline.com/toc/rsoc21/13/3-4?nav=tocList

Call for Papers:

Special Volume on “Somaesthetics and Sport”

The 1st International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar in Doha on Nov. 16-19, 2018 is accepting poster presentations and registration to attend until October 8, 2018. Visit the link for full information.

Culture and Dialogue is an international peer reviewed print and electronic journal of cross-cultural philosophy and humanities. The Journal provides a forum for researchers from philosophy as well as other disciplines who study cultural formations dialogically, through comparative analysis, or within the tradition of hermeneutics. For each issue, Culture and Dialogue seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator.

In the nearly post-human, hyper-connected twenty-first century, what does it mean to “have” a body? How does the personal body interact with, reproduce, subvert, resist, and/or reify the national body, if either of these can be said to exist?

Fast Capitalism 15.1

The "global turn" can be defined as the globalization of social science, i.e. of the various disciplinary and inter-disciplinary appropriations of the concept of the global. These appropriations have transformed the scope, the lexicon, the methods of disciplines. Broader transnational processes impact on the social scientists’ craft. As this transformation is hardly ever taken into consideration per se, this new Series wants to make this issue its main foundation.