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Sommersemester 2012

Semesterplan

Sofern nichts anderes angegeben ist, finden die Veranstaltungen jeden Dienstag um 18:15 Uhr in der Reichardtstraße 6 im Seminarraum statt.

Datum/Zeit/TypTitelZu behandelnde Texte
April 10
Study Group
Global players...Goffman (1961), chapter 1
April 17
12-2 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American ThoughtMignolo (2011)
April 17
Semester Opening
Prof. Dr. Gretel Schwörer-Kohl:
"Emotion and Spirituality in a Nat Pwe Performance of Myanmar"
April 24
12-2 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American ThoughtMascareño (2012)
April 24
WiP Group
Stefan Knauß: "Problems of the Humanitarian Intervention Debate"
May 8
12-2 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American ThoughtMascareño (2012)
May 8
Study Group
Global players...Douglas (1986)
May 15
12-2 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American ThoughtMascareño (2012)
May 15
WiP Group
Adadow Yidana: "Institutional regulatory mechanism for the practice of Pentecostal/ Charismatic churches in Ghana"
May 21
4-6 p.m.
Public Lecture
Prof. Dr. Cynthia E. Milton: “Before, During, and After the War:” NGO-supported artistic narratives in Peru
May 22
12-2 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American ThoughtMaldonado-Torres (2008)
May 22
Study Group
Global players...DiMaggio/Powell (1983)
May 29
12-2 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American ThoughtMaldonado-Torres (2008)
May 29
WiP Group
Hami Inan Gümüş: "How Many Monkeys are There? Intertextual- ity through Greek Mythology and the Bible in Twelve Monkeys"
June 5
12-2 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American Thought
June 5
Public Lecture
Prof. Dr. Ping’an Liang: “Four Jewish Diasporas to China”
June 12
2-4 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American Thought
June 12
Study Group
Global players...
ATTENTION: location Sem. f. Ethnologie, Reichardstr. 11, seminar room
Castoriadis (1998)
June 19
2-4 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American Thought
June 19
Public Lecture
Prof. Hillel Steiner: “A Famous Conflict”
June 26
2-4 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American Thought
June 26
WiP Group
Sophie Pfaff
July 3
2-4 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American Thought
July 3
Study Group
Global players...
ATTENTION: location Sem. f. Ethnologie, Reichardstr. 11, seminar room
Wendt (1998)
July 10
12-2 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American Thought
July 10
WiP Group
Claudia Ulbrich: "'As If the Land Spoke with a New Tongue:' Indigenous-German Relations in Central Pennsylvania"
July 17
2-4 p.m.
Reading Group
Latin American Thought
July 17
Study Group
Global players...Boltanski (2010), chapter 3

SCM Study Group Summer Term 2012: “Global players, local concepts of social intergration between global homogenization and alienation of social forms”

Convenors: Daniele Cantini, Ralph Buchenhorst, and James Thompson

While penetrating in to virtually every aspect of our daily activities and thus largely comprising the seemingly immutable landscape of our social lives, institutions are nevertheless socio-cultural products subject to the constraints of time and place. In other words, they are conceived as mechanisms of change, stability, innovation, and even limitation, established and developed in order to deal with problems and concerns emerging out of particular socio-cultural historical contexts.

While this description seems to fly in the face of our usual perception of institutions as static and slow in nature, institutions are quite often responsible for or are themselves the vehicles driving change involving social equality and justice. In the texts to be discussed this semester, we will be focusing on such questions as how institutions deal with social change? In which way are institutions related to the global digitalization? What role do institutions play in the global circulation of ideas? How does the theory of the institution react to social changes? To what extent should institutions be considered actors in both achieving and limiting social aims?

Bibliographie (Study Group)

Berger, Peter L.; Luckmann, Thomas (1966): The Social Construction of Reality. A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.

Boltanski, Luc (2010): Sociology and Social Critique, Frankfurt a. M., chapter 3: "The power of institutions".

Castoriadis, Cornelius (1998): The Imaginary Institution of Society (transl.:Kathleen Blamey), Cambridge: MIT Press.

DiMaggio, Paul J.;Powell, Walter W. (1983): "The Iron Cage Revisited", in: American Sociological Review 48, 147-160.

Douglas, Mary (1986): How Institutions Think, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press.

Goffman, Erving (1961): Asylums. Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, chapter 1: "On the Characteristics of Total Institutions: The World of the Inmates".

Wendt, Claus (1998): "M. Rainer Lepsius' Theory of Institutions", in: Journal of Area Studies. Revolution(s) 13, 14-55.

Lesekreis "Lateinamerikanisches Denken"

Tuesdays 12-2 p.m., first meeting: April 17, 2012

The aim of this reading group is to treat texts by Latin-American thinkers dealing with the particular situation of societies in the Ibero-American linguistic and cultural realm. The main issues are the colonial past, questions of the specific cultural identity and alternative representations of social and epistemic orders in South-America. While many of the texts are in Spanish we will also consider English and German translations.

The reading group is open to anyone interested.

Bibliographie (Lesekreis)

Maldonado-Torres, Nelson: Against War. Views from the Underside of Modernity. Durham, NC 2008, Part III: Conclusion, 237-254.

Mascareño, Aldo (2012): Die Moderne Lateinamerikas. Weltgesellschaft, Region und funktionale Differenzierung, Bielefeld, Kap. 5, 115-159.

Mignolo, Walter (2011): "La revolución teórico/descolonial del Zapatismo. Consecuencias historicas, eticas y politicas", in: El vuelco de la razón. Diferencia colonial y pensamiento frontizero, Buenos Aires, 113-153.

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