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45 Newsletter of the Norbert Elias Foundation FIGURATIONS NEWSLETTER HAS CONTENTS GONE DIGITAL Figurations Newsletter has gone digital 1 As most of you will have already noticed, our newsletter is now distributed electronically People 2 only. The Board of the Norbert Elias Foundation was reluctant to abandon printing, From the Norbert Elias Foundation 2 but in the end financial considerations won out: the cost will be reduced by four-fifths. Robert van Krieken’s YouTube lecture channel Starting with the current issue, subscribers will In the media 2 receive their copy by email, in the form of a PDF file. If you took the trouble to print it out Cooking for Elias 3 two-sided on buff paper, the newsletter will for the moment not look very different from the Figurational Journals online 3 printed version as it appeared from 1994 until now, although we can now use colour photos. Recent books and articles 5 Figurations 45 would normally have been sent Upcoming book publications 12 to you in July, but we have been in the throes of compiling a consolidated email circulation International Sociological Association news 12 list. As well as those on the postal address list, all subscribers to the Norbert Elias Foundation Forthcoming conferences 14 blog will receive this issue of Figurations automatically. If you wish to change your email address to which the newsletter is delivered, or wish to unsubscribe, please contact our Managing Editor, Barbara Górnicka, at [email protected]. It should be noted that all previous issues of Figurations have long been available as downloadable PDFs, at http://www.norberteliasfoundation.nl/ figurations.php. Dr Barbara Górnicka Managing Editor Issue No.45 August 2016 Figurations PEOPLE FROM THE NORBERT New Norbert Elias ELIAS FOUNDATION Foundation website • His Bloody Project by Graeme Burnet, who is the copy-editor Arjan Post appointed Readers may be happy to hear that the for our online journal Human Secretary to the Foundation has put Adrian Jitschin Figurations, is one of 13 novels on Foundation in charge of creating a long-overdue the ‘long list’ for the Man Booker new NEF website, which should be Prize 2016. The Man Booker is completed in the coming months. the premier literary prize in the English-speaking world. Graeme’s novel has been described as a ROBERT VAN KRIEKEN’S ‘masterful psychological thriller’. YOUTUBE LECTURE Film rights and translations are CHANNEL already in the offing, so Graeme says he will celebrate before the Robert van Krieken has established a final prize-winner is announced. YouTube channel for the Introduction His Bloody Project was published to Sociology video lectures he has been by Saraband (Glasgow) in producing: November 2015. https://www.youtube.com/c/ • François Dépelteau has been IntroductiontoSociologyChannel appointed as the new editor of the Canadian Review of Sociology, Robert writes that ‘it is still really a the journal of the Canadian Arjan Post has been appointed prototype, the content is still being Sociological Association (CSA). Secretary to the Foundation in produced, and the links to external Transatlantic and figurational succession to Esther Beijk. material is an experiment. But it contributions are welcome. Arjan (born in 1972) studied conveys the basic idea, which can be cultural sociology at the University developed in any number of ways. My • Ryan Powell is moving from of Amsterdam and works as an ‘vision’ is for a channel that provides Sheffield Hallam University to independent editor for literary genuinely useful pedagogic content that the University of Sheffield, where publishing houses. As a journalist any sociology teacher around the world he has been appointed Reader in he has written many articles and could direct their students towards Urban Studies in the Department interviews on multicultural society and – a kind of a hybrid of a MOOC and for Urban Studies and Planning. its discontents. His thesis, supervised face-to-face teaching practices.’ by Nico Wilterdink, was a follow up • José Esteban Castro, currently to the study Brinkgreve and Korzec Robert has included a playlist of Bart Professor of Sociology at the (1978) carried out on a Dutch advice van Heerikhuizen’s videos from his University of Newcastle upon column (‘Margriet Weet Raad’); it MOOC on Sociological Theory, which Tyne, is moving back to Argentina resulted in articles in the Amsterdams includes a few on Elias. It would be to take a new position at the Sociologisch Tijdschrift (27 (4) 2000) possible to set up something similar National Council for Scientific and – see the summary in Figurations 15 – but focused specifically on Elias and Technical Research (CONICET), a and the Irish Journal of Sociology (13 figurational sociology. The format sort of Argentinian CNRS. He will (2) 2004). Recently he published a would be important: the videos have to be returning to his home country transcription of the lecture Norbert be tight, short, focused and relatively after 26 years abroad, 23 of them Elias gave in Amsterdam on the high energy, to nudge people towards in the UK, but he will retain a occasion of a broad conference in 1984 Elias’s book, events, workshops, and relationship with Newcastle. against racism and discrimination (see so on. If anyone would like to make Human Figurations 5 (1) 2016, also a video lecture of their own on an for an introduction to that lecture). important topic in sociology or on a He is currently working on a study of theme in figurational sociology, please integration conflicts from an Eliasian contact Robert van Krieken (robert.van. perspective, with the working title The [email protected]) to discuss how Integration of Mankind. Civilisation to do that. and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century. His contact details in the Foundation’s office remain the same: [email protected]. 2 Figurations Issue No.45 August 2016 IN THE MEDIA COOKING FOR ELIAS FIGURATIONAL JOURNALS ONLINE Annette Treibel in Münster The Frankfurt society lady Monika lecture series Reichert has published a book entitled Human Figurations: Long- Auch Joyce saß mit am Tisch [‘Joyce term Perspectives on the In the series of lectures in Münster also sat at the table’], about her Human Condition marking the fiftieth anniversary of experience of cooking for VIPs and the Special issue: Social Norbert Elias’s arrival there as Visiting dinners given in the Reichert house. Character, Historical Professor, Annette Treibel’s lecture on Among others, she cooked for Norbert Processes, vol.5. no.2, July 26 January ‘Neue Machtverhältnisse im Elias. 2016: Einwanderungland Deutschland?’ [New http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/1 power relationships in immigration Elias was a visiting professor in 1217607.0005.2*?rgn=full+text destination Germany] was reported at Frankfurt in 1977 and he helped some length in the regional newspaper Monika’s husband Klaus with his Steven Loyal, Barbara Górnicka and Westfälische Nachrichten, 26 January. doctoral thesis on Shakespeare. As a Katie Liston, Editor’s introduction: Using the established–outsiders model, mark of gratitude the Reicherts invited ‘Stephen Mennell – The sociable her lecture demonstrated once more him and friends to a dinner that July, character’ how relevant a good theory is to a celebrating Elias’s 80th birthday. The practical and very topical problem. main dish was a country terrine with Johan Goudsblom, ‘Guides on my nuts and chicken liver paté, served with way to Elias’ Interview with Esteban Cumberland sauce. The desserts were Castro on Zika virus Orange mousse and shortbread. Abstract: This paper was originally presented as a speech in honour of Esteban Castro also illustrated the Just in case anyone wants to cook what Stephen Mennell. It consists of an relevance of a broad sociological Elias ate in 1977, here’s the receipt for attempt to reconstruct how, in the understanding to grasping a current shortbread: 1950s, the author as a student of topical problem, in a long interview Ingredients: 50gr. raisins, two social psychology at the University of entitled ‘Poverty and lack of essential tablespoons of Grappa, 400gr. flour, Amsterdam, was made aware of, and water and sanitation systems are 200gr. butter, 150gr sugar, 2 eggs, became enthusiastic about, the work paramount in the outbreak of the Zika baking powder, grated rind of an of Norbert Elias. Who were the people virus’. It can be found on the European orange. who served as links between himself Commission’s Research and Innovation and Elias? This ‘intellectual genealogy’ website. See https://ec.europa.eu/ Soak the raisins in grappa. Blend the is followed by a brief discussion of research/social-sciences/index. flour, baking powder, butter, sugar and how Stephen Mennell has become cfm?pg=newspage&item=160225 eggs, add the raisins, cover with foil, Elias’s most prominent advocate in the and wait for half an hour. Then form English-speaking world. ‘(De)civilising processes, the dough into rolls 1–1.5cm thick, wait music and violence’ another half an hour, then cut the rolls Florence Delmotte, ‘When European in pieces, put them on baking paper on Studies meets The American Civilizing Dillion Tatum advances some novel a tin. Bake for 15 min at 180° C. Process: A short tribute to Stephen J. ideas about the influence of pop Mennell’ music, drawing on Elias and Pinker, For more recipes and a picture of in the online journal E-International the evening see: Monika Reichert: Abstract: This paper proposes a Relations. See: Auch Joyce saß mit am Tisch, oder comparative reading of Stephen http://www.e-ir.info/2016/05/30/ das Lämpchen im Eisschrank: Aus Mennell’s book The American decivilizing-processes-music-and- den Erinnerungen einer Gastgeberin. Civilizing Process (2007) and of experiencing-violence/ (Wiesbaden: Kramer, Waldemar Verlag, some major texts from Norbert 2014).