The Centre for Advanced Study presents:

Sociology and Interdisciplinary Knowledge

Part of the Mellon Disciplinary Workshops, held in Sofia, Bucharest, and Budapest, and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Programme

Friday, December 9th, 2005

8:30 a.m.Registration
9:00 a.m. Welcoming Address
Pepka Boyadjieva, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences/Centre for Advanced Study
Opening Speech: The Predicament and Inevitability of Interdisciplinarity
Diana Mishkova, Director, Centre for Advanced Study

First Session:
Identity and Openness of Sociology: “Sociological Imperialism” or Dissolving of Sociology
Chair: Pepka Boyadjieva
9:30 a.m. Sociology as an Open and Expansionist Discipline
Tomasz Zarycki, Institute for Social Studies, Warsaw University
9:50 a.m. Sociology, Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization of Scientific Knowledge – Rethinking Boundaries
Svetla Koleva, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
10:10 a.m. Who Reads Sociology Today?
Attila Molnar, Department of the History of Ideas, Eotvos University
10:30 a.m. Discussion
11:00 a.m. Coffee break

Second Session:
Identity and Openness of Sociology: “Sociological Imperialism” or Dissolving of Sociology (continued)
Chair: Catalin Avramescu
11:20 a.m. Wars of Dependence, or Sociological Imperialism and Cultural Studies Resistance
Todor Hristov, Literary Theory Department, University of Sofia
11:40 a.m. How Can We Escape Eclecticism?
Zsuzsa Simonffy, Department of Francophone Studies, University of Pecs
12:00 a.m. Sociology as a Figure of Speech or Love (some lessons to be learnt from the history of American sociology)
Georgi Dimitrov, European Studies Department, University of Sofia
12:20 a.m. Discussion
12:50 a.m. Lunch break

Third Session:
Disciplinary Knowledge and Disciplinary Boundaries
Chair: Tanya Kotzeva
2:30 p.m. Humanities and Sociology: A Complicated Relationship
Hristo Todorov, Department of Philosophy and Sociology, New Bulgarian University
2:50 p.m. Inter-Disciplinary Knowledge and Professional Boundaries in Israeli Sociology
Victor Azarya, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
3:10 p.m. From the Idea of Crisis of Disciplinary Knowledge to a Diagnosis of the Crisis in “Disciplinarism”
Elka Todorova, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
3:30 p.m. Discussion
4:00 p.m. Coffee break

Fourth Session:
Disciplinary Knowledge and Disciplinary Boundaries (continued)
Chair: Tomasz Zarycki
4:20 p.m. Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity or Divergence of Traditions and Models
Alexander Kiossev, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Sofia/Centre for Advanced Study Sofia
4:40 p.m. Theoretical Aspects of Social History of Literature
Blagovest Zlatanov, Faculty of Slavic Studies, University of Sofia
5 :00 p.m. Divided ‘Archaeologies’: Identity, Time and Professional Ethics
Tsoni Tsonev, Institute of Archaeology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
5:20 p.m.Discussion

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

Fifth Session:
Professional Socialisation and Teaching Practices in Sociology in the Context of Interdisciplinary
Chair: Ilona Tomova
9:30 a.m. Publishing Process, Publishing Institutions and Censorship in Czech Social Sciences, 1968-89: Issues of Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary in Qualitative Research.
Libora Oates-Indruchova, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno
9:50 a.m. Teaching Practices in Sociology and Anthropology
Vassil Garnizov, Department of Anthropology, New Bulgarian University
10:10 a.m. Centring Program Diversity in Croatian Sociology: Current Status of Connecting Sociology with Other Disciplines
Denisa Krbec, Faculty of Economics and Tourism in Pula, University of Rijeka
10:30 a.m. Discussion
11:00 a.m. Coffee break

Sixth Session:
Dialogue between Disciplines and Border Disciplines
Chair: Attila Molnar
11:20 a.m. Sociology and Demography between Multidisciplinary Polyphony and Interdisciplinary Recognition
Tanya Kotzeva, Elitsa Dimitrova, Centre for Population Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
11:40 a.m. Sociology of the Family as a Cross Field of the Social Sciences
Alexey Pamporov, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
12:00 a.m. Sociology of Deviance and Urban Sociology – Two Different Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Youth Violence
Antony Galabov, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
12:20 a.m. Discussion
12:50 a.m. Lunch break

Seventh Session:
Dialogue between Disciplines and Border Disciplines (continued)
Chair: Petya Kabakchieva
2:30 p.m. A Poll for Sale (Political Sociology and Institutionalization of Politics in Post- Communist Romania)
Catalin Avramescu, Department of Political Studies, University of Bucharest
2:50 p.m. Sociology of Law – The Privileged Viewpoint for the “Dissection” of Modern Society
Ivo Hristov, Department of Sociology, University of Sofia
3 :10 p.m. Is Sociology of the Unique Possible?
Pepka Boyadjieva, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences/Centre for Advanced Study Sofia
3:30 p.m. Qualitative and/or Quantitative
Begumsen Ergenekon, Department of Modern Languages, Middle East Technical University
3:50 p.m. Discussion
4:20 p.m. Coffee break

Eighth Session:
Changing Sociology(ies) in Changing Society(ies): Approaches to “Hot Social Issues”
Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova
4:40 p.m. Role of Interdisciplinarity for Integrated Natural Disaster Risk Assessment Approaches
Sebnem Duzgun, Department of Geodetic and Geographic Information Technologies, Middle East Technical University
5:00 p.m. Studying the Minorities: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Ilona Tomova, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
5 :20 p.m. The Challenge of Interdisciplinary Research in Security Studies: Social and Economic Aspects of Security
Tetyana Malyarenko, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Donetsk State Man agement University
5:40 p.m.Sociological and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Consumption Patterns
Maya Keliyan, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
6:00 p.m. Discussion
6:30 p.m. Closing remarks

December 9 – 10 (Saturday-Sunday), 9.00 a.m.–5.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Pesha Nikolova hall
Invitations only

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