Special Events

You are cordially invited to a guest lecture by Professor Andreas Glaeser on Friday April 28, 2006, at noon. The venue is the Graduate Education Building, 37th and Walnut Streets, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; room 203. His presentation is entitled “Social Theory by Way of Ethnography--One Way out of the Social Sciences' Current Crisis" The presentation is organized by the Sociology Ethnography Workshop cluster. For any questions please send an e-mail to Cathy van de Ruit (catheri4@sas.upenn.edu) or Keith Brown (brownkei@sas.upenn.edu).

This talk will be followed by a student's ethnography workshop, all are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served. The venue is the Graduate Education Building; room 203 from 2:30 to 4 pm.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Professor Glaeser is a sociologist of culture with a particular interest in the construction of identities and knowledges. His work interlaces substantive interests with efforts to build social theory. In this vein, his first book develops a theory of identity formation processes in the context of an ethnographic study of Germany's post-unification woes. He is currently finishing a book aiming at the development of a political epistemology which asks how people come to understand the world of politics from within their particular biographical trajectories and social milieus. The substantive focus of this book is the late socialist German state's effort to understand its citizens and to control the opposition as well as the opposition members' efforts to form their independent understanding of state socialism. He has begun work on a new project which studies the emergence of dominant understandings about Muslim immigrants in the interaction between contingent historical events, the cycles of electoral politics, everyday experiences and mass-mediated discourses in Germany, France and Britain. For more information please visit http://sociology.uchicago.edu/faculty/glaeser.html

Last Modified: 24-Apr-2006
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