International Conference held at the University of Manchester, 2-3 November, 2008
Hosted by the Jewish Studies Centre, Manchester University, with
support from the Leo Baeck Institute, London, and the British
Sociological Association Theory Study Group
Including a public lecture by Moishe Postone, Chicago, 'History, the
Holocaust and the Left', on Sunday, November 2, 5pm
Speakers from Canada, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Poland,
Switzerland, UK and USA include: Robert Fine, Richard H. King, Roland
Robertson, Michal Bodemann, and Jonathan Judaken.
Subjects include:
Marx and the critique of antisemitism;
Anti-antisemitism, Ambivalent Liberalism, and the Sociological Imagination;
Jews and Modernity in Classical Sociological Theory;
Can all Evil be Explained (Away) by 'Sociological' Means?;
Antisemitism and the (modern) critique of capitalism;
Antisemitism, the social question, and the formation of sociological theory;
Social Questions, Christian Ethics and Antisemitic Imagery;
Sociology and Antisemitism in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America.
Authors discussed include:
Sombart, Marx, Germani, Boas, Simmel,
Ruppin, Durkheim, Parsons, Horkheimer, Löwenthal, Fleck, Lazarus,
Weininger, Bouglé, Ratzinger, Gumplowicz, Morawski, Znaniecki, Bauman,
Weber.
For details and registration form see:
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/religionstheology/anti/
Contact: marcel.stoetzler@manchester.ac.uk
