Conference directors
:
Jolanta Bieliauskaitė , Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Lithuania
Lars Clausen , UCL University College, Odense, Denmark
Steffen Roth , Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France
Tilia Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes , University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication, Vienna, Austria
Krešimir Žažar , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Conference
description:
The concept of “guiding distinctions” refers to distinctions – such as economy/society, bourgeoisie/proletariat, nature/culture, system/environment, structure/agency, theory of society/social technology, or, most recently, analogue/digital – that have instructed theory-building, framed research, sparked controversies, or dominated discourses in the social sciences and humanities.
Whereas the classics in these fields primarily seemed to offer singular and dichotomic categorizations, subsequent generations of scholars have started to recognise the interrelated nature of these categories, along with their usefulness as generative tools rather than passive descriptors.
Contributions to the Luhmann Conference 2024 might discuss what have been the most influential guiding distinctions in the history of theorising in the social sciences and humanities. Contributions might also identify distinctions that appear particularly influential today, or venture into explorations of emerging or yet-unknown guiding distinctions that might influence the future of our fields. We would also be keen to read submissions devoted to the historical context, the evolution, or trends of one or several guiding distinctions. A focus on interplays or interactions of guiding distinction would also be intriguing, as would be one on the opportunities and challenges of their integration into universalist theory architectures based on binary distinctions. Yet other contributions might discuss the performance or functionality of selected guiding distinction(s) for specific other systems or for society as a whole. Most welcome are furthermore papers that discuss whether extant guiding distinctions are still useful in a digital transformation context, as are contributions that defend selected (sets of) guiding distinctions regardless of their compatibility with digital theorising in the social sciences and humanities.
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lecturers:
Erik Aal , Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Kim Frederic Albrecht , Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg, Germany
Dirk Baecker , Zeppelin University, Germany
Phillip Belcredi , Belcredi Consulting, Austria
Erik Brezovec , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Albrecht Fritzsche , IEDC - Bled School of Management, Slovenia
Martin Galla , Munich School of Philosophy, Germany
Anahit Hakobyan , University of Bremen, Germany
Emer Hunt , University College Dublin, Ireland
Josip Ježovita , Catholic University of Croatia, Croatia
Jan I. Jönhill , N/A, N/A
Michal Kaczmarczyk , University of Gdansk, Poland
Maximilian Kaenders , University of Freiburg, Germany
Dong-hyu Kim , University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Vibeke Klitgaard , Lund University, Sweden
Constantijn-Alexander Kusters , Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Diane Laflamme , University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
Vincent Lien , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Günter Lierschof , University of Innsbruck, Austria
Gustavo Silvio Markier , Buenos Aires University, Argentina
Marlene Müller-Brandeck , Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
Margit Neisig , Roskilde University, Denmark
Mogens Grosen Nielsen , Nielsen Statistics Consulting, Denmark
Gustavo Rocha Reyes , Autonomous Metropolitan University Iztapalapa Unit, Mexico
Steffen Roth , Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France
Albert Scherr , University of Education, Freiburg, Germany
Eva Šera , Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
Konstantin Skoblik , University of Helsinki, Finland
Tilia Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes , University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication, Vienna, Austria
Angela Valeo , Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Krešimir Žažar , University of Zagreb, Croatia
