To mark the 40th anniversary of the 'On the Beginning of Social Inquiry' by Peter McHugh, Stanley Raffel, Daniel Foss and Alan Blum.
Photos from the conference.
Photos from the conference.
Revisiting 'On the Beginning of Social Inquiry'
10th and 11th June, 2014, Edinburgh University
Organizers: Stanley Raffel and Eric Laurier
Speakers:
Steven Bailey, University of Edinburgh
Mareike Barmeyer, Freie University, Berlin
Alan Blum, York University, Toronto
Kieran Bonner, University of Waterloo
Keith Henessey Brown, University of Edinburgh
Allison Carter, Rowan University
Patrick Colfer
Chamathaka Devasiri, University of Columbo
Richard Feesey
Celia Huang, University of Waterloo
Bogdana Humă, University of Bucharest
Mareike Barmeyer, Freie University, Berlin
Alan Blum, York University, Toronto
Kieran Bonner, University of Waterloo
Keith Henessey Brown, University of Edinburgh
Allison Carter, Rowan University
Patrick Colfer
Chamathaka Devasiri, University of Columbo
Richard Feesey
Celia Huang, University of Waterloo
Bogdana Humă, University of Bucharest
Saeed Hydaralli, York University, Toronto
Steve Kemp, University of Edinburgh
Eric Laurier, University of Edinburgh
David Lynes, St Francis Xavier University
Andriani Papadopoyloy, National School of Public Administration and Local Government, Athens
Stanley Raffel, University of Edinburgh
Cosima Rughiniș, University of Bucharest
Barry Sandywell, York University, UK
Gregor Schnuer, University of Luxembourg
Steve Kemp, University of Edinburgh
Eric Laurier, University of Edinburgh
David Lynes, St Francis Xavier University
Andriani Papadopoyloy, National School of Public Administration and Local Government, Athens
Stanley Raffel, University of Edinburgh
Cosima Rughiniș, University of Bucharest
Barry Sandywell, York University, UK
Gregor Schnuer, University of Luxembourg
Talks from the conference
Keith Henessey Brown: Some reflections on art and analysis, with specific reference to Pasolini's film theory
Allison Carter - Revisiting Personhood in On the Beginning
Stanley Raffel - Rethinking the Travel Paper
Greg Schnuer - “Honestly Speaking” – Some Implications of Analysis
Titles and abstracts can be downloaded here and the conference programme can be downloaded here.
From the 1974 introduction:
“To analyse is ... to address the possibility of any finding, puzzle, sense, resolution, answer, interest, location, phenomenon, etcetera, etcetera. Analysis is the concern not with anything said or written but with the grounds of whatever is said - the foundations that make what is said possible, sensible, conceivable. For any speech, including, of course, speech about speech, our interest is reflexive. For the analyst any speech, including his own, is of interest not in terms of what it says but in terms of how what it says is possible, sensible, rational in the first place. Our interest in what we call the grounds or auspices of phenomena rather than in the phenomena themselves is exemplified in every chapter in this volume.” pp1-2