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Disability: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?

First session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Filip Herza (FHS UK & CEFRES).

Texts:

1) Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. 2002. “Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory”. Nwsa Journal 14 (3): 1-32.
2) Scott, Joan W. 1986. “Gender: A Useful Category Of Historical Analysis”. The American Historical Review 91 (5): 1053-1075.

The Territory of the Modern State: Infrastructural Ties and Dispositions of Power

Fifth session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Katalin Pataki (CEFRES & Central European University, Budapest)

Texts:

  • MANN, MICHAEL (1986), “The autonomous power of the state: its origins, mechanisms, and results”, in HALL, JOHN A. (ed.), States in History. Oxford: Blackwell. p109-136
  • FOUCAULT, MICHEL (2001), “Governmentality”, in Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984). p199-222

The Concept of Minority

Fourth session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Timofey Agarin (Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, School of Politics, Queen’s University Belfast).

Texts:

  • Timofey Agarin, “Conclusion: Is It Time to Cut the Umbilical Cord?”, in Timofey Agarin et Ireneusz Paweł Karolewsk, Extraterritorial Citizenship in Postcommunist Europe, London & New York, Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 197-213.
  • Timofey Agarin, “Civil society versus nationalizing state? Advocacy of minority rights in the post-socialist Baltic state”, Nationalities Papers, 2011, 39: 2, pp. 181-203 .

Where: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, building C, 3rd floor, conference room
Language: English

How to Make Sense of Class, Status, and Power: The Example of the Bürgertum

Mátyás Erdélyi (CEFRES / CEU) will host CEFRES/IMS FSV Seminar on Thursday November 10th (15:30) at CEFRES Library.

How to Make Sense of Class, Status, and Power: The Example of the Bürgertum

Texts to be read are:

  • Jürgen Kocka, « The middle classes in Europe », The Journal of Modern History, vol. 67, n° 4, 1995, p. 783-806.
  • Max Weber, « The distribution of power within the community : Classes, Stände, Parties », Journal of Classical Sociology, vol. 10, n° 2, 2010, p. 137-152.

Texts:

Disciplinary Approaches to Concepts. Different Ways of Using the Concept of Morals

Second session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by István Pál Ádám (CEFRES).

Texts:

  • E. P. Thompson, « The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century », Past & Present, No. 50, Oxford University Press, 1976, p 76-94

  •  Ernesto Verdeja, “Moral Bystanders and Mass Violence,” in New Directions in Genocide Research, Routledge, 2011