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Perspectives in Historical Sociology

Monday 26 June 2023, 11.00AM to 27 June, 4pm

Free registration: contact Baptiste Brossard baptiste.brossard@york.ac.uk by 15 June 2023. Limited places in person, online option available.

For any questions, contact Lucy Brown, Lucy.Brown@fhs.cuni.cz

This symposium will gather European researchers involved in historical, processual, and/or figurational sociology and history. It aims at encouraging reflections and intellectual exchanges within the field of Historical Sociology, as well as ways to raise the role of Historical Sociology within wider academic research and envision the future of Historical Sociology. Stephen Mennel will open the symposium with the topic: ‘A Manifesto: All Sociology should be Historical Sociology'. Other areas to be covered will be: time and temporality in sociological research, religion and spirituality, architecture and urban history, higher education, the body, medicalisation and the civilising process.

Day 1 schedule

11am to 12 noon

  • “A Manifesto: All sociology should be historical sociology” Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin

12 noon to 1pm

  • Lunch

1pm to 2.30pm

Session one: "Elias and social domination"

  • “Civilising the witch: Gender figurations and violence within early modern witchcraft prosecutions” Lucy Brown, Charles University
  • “No touching! A more ‘civilised’ power over the other’s body?” Dominique Memmi, French National Centre for Scientific Research

3pm to 4.30pm

Session two: "History, architecture, and the city"

  • “The lives and after-lives of the inner city: An historical sociological investigation of urban change in London, Paris and Philadelphia” Gareth Millington, University of York
  • “The architecture of risk: Tracing the past in the design of future clinical space”
    Daryl Martin, University of York

Day 2 schedule

9am to 10am

  • “Time and the conception of the civilising process” Jiri Subrt, Charles University

10.30 to 12 noon

Session three: "Social change and higher education"

  • “Professions and Processes” Eric Lybeck, University of Manchester
  • “Bringing historical context to social mobility: A temporal understanding of people’s sense of opportunity” Kaidong Yu, University of Manchester

12 noon to 1pm

  • Lunch

1pm to 2.30pm

Session four: "Historical sociology and the body"

  • “From tobacco pasts to vaping futures: the role of shifting social ‘canons’ in the development of substance use” Jason Hughes, University of Leicester
  • “Eloquent blood: A historical microsociology of blushing” Baptiste Brossard, University of York

3pm to 4pm

  • “Prospecting futures past:  How failed futures form our present” Amanda Rees, University of York

Location: LMB/002

Admission: In-person (limited) and online