[Commlist] Theory, Culture & Society Summer School, call for participants

This is a reminder and updatefor the inaugural *Theory, Culture & 
Society Summer School 2023, *which will take place from *11-16 September 
2023 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. *

Full updated programme details and application information are available 
online: _https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/tcs-summer-school 
<https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/tcs-summer-school>___

Places are limited. Please apply now.

The course fee is 400 Euro if you apply by 30^th June 2023, after which 
the fee is 500 Euro. The fee covers all seminars, workshops, and the 
cultural programme, as well as the opening reception, lunches, 
refreshments in breaks, over the full 5 days.

The Summer School seeks to provide a dynamic and inclusive forum for 
research, aimed at established and early career researchers, and also 
providing opportunities for postgraduate students.

A key theme for this year's gathering is "Digital Publics: Images, 
Discourse & Screens", building on the recent /Theory, Culture & Society/ 
special _Issue ‘A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?’ 
<https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/special-issue-public-sphere>_(edited 
by Martin Seeliger Sebastian Sevignani; with _a new reflection by Jürgen 
Habermas 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02632764221112341>_).

The 5-day intensive course (5 ECTS credits are awarded) addresses the 
following areas:

  * *Critical Debates. *The summer school seeks to explore a wide range
    of issues that relate to the public sphere, including: digital
    publics; cosmopolitan publics; aesthetic cosmopolitanism; social
    media; Images and screens in public space; Intimacy in public;
    civility in the age of anger; alternative publics; secrecy and
    counterpublics; decolonialising public space; public life and the
    posthuman.
  * *Scholarly Apparatus. *Workshops will explore the current /contexts
    of research/, addressing the changing ‘/scholarly apparatus,/’
    mapping new ways of working and post-media literacies. Issues to be
    addressed include digitalization of academic life; editing and
    publishing; artificial Intelligence; post-university tendencies;
    media and new media literacies; postmedia practices.
  * *Work-in-Progress: *Opportunities to present on aspects of their own
    work.  Round table and poster sessions. Time for writing, quiet
    study, within a shared environment.

·*Global Public Life:*A cultural strand of film screenings, engagement 
with artists, media practices and guest speakers. The programme is 
supplemented with a day trip into the mountains.

*Confirmed Speakers:*

*Timon Beyes*is Professor of Sociology of Organization and Culture at 
Leuphana University Lüneburg. Books include /Proof of Stake: 
Technological Claims,/ 2023.
*Silke van Dyk* is Professor of Political Sociology at the 
Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena and Co-Speaker Structural Change 
of Property Collaborative Research Centre. Her latest book 
is/Community-Kapitalismus/, 2021.
*Kornelia Hahn* is Professor for General Sociology and Sociological 
Theory and Head of the Department Sociology and Social Geography, 
University of Salzburg. Books include /Social Digitalisation. Persistent 
Transformations Beyond Digital Technology,/ 2021.
*Robert van Krieken* is Professor of Sociology at the University of 
Sydney. His books include /Norbert Elias,/1998 and /Celebrity Society: 
The Struggle for Attention, / 2019.
*Shin Mizukoshi* is Professor of Media Studies at Kansai University, 
Osaka. He works on critical and practical media studies and is editor of 
a bilingual independent magazine, /5: Designing Media Ecology./

*Yoshitaka Mōri*is Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at Tokyo 
University of the Arts. His publications include, /Banksy/ (2019), 
/Sutorīt no Shisō/ (Philosophy in the Streets) (2009).

*Motti Regev*is Professor of Sociology at the Open University of Israel. 
His books include /Popular Music and National Culture in Israel,/ 2004, 
/Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism/ /in Late Modernity, /2013 
and /Sociology of Culture, /2013.*
Martin Seeliger*is the Co-Director of the Institute for Labour and 
Economy at the University of Bremen. His recent publication is 
/Sozialpartnerschaft im digitalisierten Kapitalismus/, 2022.
*Sebastian Sevagani *is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of 
Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Co-principal 
investigator of the DFG funded research project on /Intellectual 
Property: social embeddedness and functional equivalents/.
*Natan Sznaider* is Professor of Sociology at the Academic College of 
Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel. His books include /The Compassionate 
Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern Society/, 2000; /Holocaust and 
Memory in the Global Age/, 2006; /Jewish Memory and Cosmopolitan Order, 
/2011. /Fluchtpunkte der Erinnerung/, 2022.
*Bryan S. Turner* is Professor of Sociology at the Australian Catholic 
University, Sydney. His recent publications include /Understanding 
Islam; Positions of Knowledge /(2023) and /A Theory of Catastrophe /(2023).
*Shunya Yoshimi *is Professor of Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Media 
Studies at Kokugakuin University, Tokyo. His major works include 
/Pro-America/Anti-America/; /Post-Postwar Society/; /Geopolitics of 
Visual City;/ /Scales of History;/ /Living in Trump's America;/ /After 
Cultural Studies/; /Olympics and Postwar Japan;/ /Aerial Bombing./

*FULL SUMMER SCHOOL APPLICATION DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE **_HERE 
<https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/tcs-summer-school>_*.**

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