Name: Bourdieu Lectures 2027: From the Left Hand to the Right Hand of the State – Polarizations and Authoritarian Transformations
Start: 2027-02-25T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2027-02-26T23:59:59+01:00
Location: Universität Bielefeld

Month

October 2026
October 15 @ 16h00 – 17h00

Wealthy Families and the Transmission of Advantage: Understanding the top 1%

At the start of the 2026/2027 winter semester, the renowned sociologist of family and inequality, Prof. Annette Lareau, will be a visiting scholar at Bielefeld University. For decades, her books and findings have been studied worldwide across various disciplines to help understand the social mechanisms behind the production and reproduction of inequality. As part of […]
November 2026
November 26 – November 28

Paradoxical Submission – Symbolic Violence. Literary and Cultural-Sociological Perspectives on Bourdieu’s “Masculine Domination”

Universität Wien, Schreyvogelsaal, Batthyanystiege, Hofburg Batthyanystiege, Wien, Austria

Workshop, 26–28 November 2026, University of Vienna, Schreyvogelsaal (Hofburg) Convenors: Louise-Marie Jandl, Lydia Rammerstorfer, Norbert Christian Wolf (all University of Vienna) Keynote: Gisèle Sapiro (Paris) In Masculine Domination (1998), Pierre Bourdieu analyzes the gender order as a paradigmatic model of social dominance. Its effectiveness, he argues, rests on hidden mechanisms of symbolic violence – a […]
February 2027
February 25, 2027 – February 26, 2027

Bourdieu Lectures 2027: From the Left Hand to the Right Hand of the State – Polarizations and Authoritarian Transformations

Universität Bielefeld Universitätsstraße 25, Bielefeld, Germany

The Bourdieu Lectures are an annual symposium series at Bielefeld University, organized and hosted in close collaboration with Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen), the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Education Freiburg, and the Fondation Pierre Bourdieu. The series is aimed in particular at early-career researchers and scholars who are at the beginning of their […]