Editors: Marc Grimm, Ullrich Bauer and Baris Ertugrul

Abstract Submissions: 01.10.2017

The concept of crises is currently in vogue. There is a broad discussion about the impact of crisis that is often associated with effects of social disintegration but the concept of crisis is even broader. Various social areas such as ecology, economics, and migration are considered as being crisis-ridden. There is also a gender crisis. And the EU, which suffers from a lack of political trust, finds itself in a state of crisis like never before. As such, crisis obviously describes strongly divergent phenomena, from the collapse of the gross domestic product to the loss of political trust.

Crisis has become something like a diagnosis of an era, in which development differences and empirical differences are overlooked – despite or precisely because the crisis diagnosis has become an instrument for political purposes. A close examination of the different approaches to crisis research draws the conclusion that a differentiated perspective is rarely taken; most research treats crisis as a given fact without further theoretical explanation. Read more … (Web)

Workshops und Posterpräsentation bei der Fachtagung zu Kommunikation (Deutungs-)Macht des Öffentlichen; Netzwerk under.docs: Diotima Bertel, Julia Himmelsbach, Barbara Metzler und Melanie Schwarz (Web)

Ort: Universität Wien
Zeit: 19.-21.10.2017
Einreichfrist: 20.09.2017

Die halbtägigen Workshops richten sich Student*innen und Jungforscher*innen, die (eventuell) aktuelle Projekte bzw. wissenschaftliche Arbeiten durch die angesprochenen Themen vertiefen und durch neue Perspektiven erweitern möchten, sich bereits mit den jeweiligen Aspekten beschäftigt haben und/oder an diesen interessiert sind.

Der Beitrag der Professor*innen, die zusammen mit Postdoktorand*innen, den jeweiligen Workshop leiten werden, wird dabei in erster Linie darin liegen, konstruktive, ideenreiche sowie produktiv-entgegenkommende Anregungen zu liefern. Die Teilnehmer*innen selbst werden in Kleingruppen zusammenarbeiten, um so den Austausch untereinander zu intensivieren, wodurch auch eine hohe fachliche Qualität gewährleistet wird. Daruüber hinaus besteht für Workshopteilnehmer*innen die Möglichkeit einer Posterpräsentation.  Weiterlesen … (Web)

Kiel University, Germany; Johannes Müller, Wiebke Kirleis and Katharina Fuchs (Web)

Venue: Kiel
Time: 08.-10.03.2018
Abstract Submission: 30.09.2017

The long-term perspective from late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to early state societies allows the project team to confront transformational processes in a wide array of societal formations and environmental settings. Here, transformations will be defined primarily as processes leading to a substantial and enduring re-organisation of socio-environmental interaction patterns. Inside the network of components determining the social behaviour, gender adopts a dominant role in many societies. Therefore, a strong interaction between gender identities, social diversity and transformation processes can also be expected for prehistoric and archaic societies.

With the workshop we want to provide a platform to stimulate discussions on a) gender transformations in the past and b) the effects of gender inequality on scientific discourses in our research community. Read more and source … (Web)