On April 8th, Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller will give a lecture at the Faculty of Humanities of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).

Time: starting 7 p.m.

Place: Building 32 Auditorium (first floor) PUCRS

Am 8. April 2024 hält Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller einen Vortrag an der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften der Päpstlichen Katholischen Universität von Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).

Zeit: 19 Uhr

Ort: Gebäude 32 Auditorium - PUCRS

On April 16th, Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller will give a lecture on "The current state of the interpretive paradigm in sociology" at the University of São Paulo (USP).

Coordination: Prof. Dr. Fraya Frehse (Institute of Sociology + Center for Studies and Research in the Sociology of Space and Time [NEPSESTE] - USP)

Time: 6 p.m.
Place: Auditorium 118 - Philosophy and Social Sciences Building - University of São Paulo

The next English-language Summer School 'The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse' (SKAD) at the University of Augsburg takes place on July 29-31, 2024.

The SKAD Summer School builds on the broad international interest in SKAD and introduces core questions of concrete action and practice in SKAD-based discourse research. It is aimed at colleagues from the social sciences and humanities who are interested in getting to know SKAD and its profile within discourse research and in conducting SKAD research or applying SKAD methods in their own discourse-oriented research.

Organisation: Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller.

Further information can be found on the following page:

The next German-language Summer School 'Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse' (WDA) at the University of Augsburg takes place on July 22-24, 2024 at the University of Augsburg.

It is aimed at researchers from various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities who work or want to work with discourse-theoretical and discourse-analytical perspectives of WDA in qualification projects or research projects and offers various introductions and opportunities.

Organisation: Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller.

Further information can be found on the following page:

During the lecture-free period of the winter semester 23/24, Prof. Dr. Keller's office hours will take place online from 2 to 3 pm on the following dates:

• 14^th February
• 29^th February
• 11^st March
• 26^th March

Michel Foucault. 2., aktualisierte Auflage. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2023

Der einleitende Band von Reiner Keller stellt das Foucault’sche Werk in seinem biografischen und zeitgenössischen Kontext vor und geht dabei sowohl auf Foucaults Arbeitsweise wie auf die Inhalte und Wirkungen seiner Studien ein.

Die Tagung Ten Years After - Aktuelle Entwickungen des Kommunikativen Konstruktivismus findet vom 26. - 27- Juli 2023 an der TU Berlin (Institut für Soziologie, TU Berlin, Fraunhoferstr. 33-36) statt. Organisation: Prof. Dr. Hubert Knoblauch

Weitere Informationen zum Programm und zur Anmeldung finden sie hier: 

The term positioning power takes up the Foucaultian analysis of power. It denotes a governmental form of power that unfolds in the current phenomena of valuing and assessing, in castings, rankings, ratings, etc.. These current forms of the social construction of the valuable form new complexes of the formation and government of market actors, whose mode of operation points beyond the familiar Foucauldian diagnoses of power. The volume develops central aspects and dimensions of positioning power and illustrates its mode of operation by means of two case studies.

Further information at: https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/soziologie/produkte/details/50646-positionierungsmacht.html