Conference: Behaviour Guides and Law Event

Conference: Behaviour Guides and Law

Behaviour guides and law each define specific settlements for social life. In bourgeois modernity the juridification of the social sphere long has been understood as a triumph of rationality over partial interests, and of rising civilizing of physical violence. Today media and politics often criticize a lack of legal sanctions; in the meantime popular companions as a genre and Soap operas which pretend to give orientation for decent behaviour are booming. In the context of this debate researcher of international law, cultural studies, and other disciplines will inspect and discuss new interpretations of the relation between behaviour guides and law.

Conception:
Karin Harrasser (Kunst- und Medienwissenschaften, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln); Elisabeth Timm (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Universität Wien/IFK_Research Fellow)

BEHAVIOUR GUIDES AND LAW.
The Particular and the Universal of the (In)formal
3-4 December 2009
3 December, 9:00-17:30
4 December, 9:30-13:30

Conference at IFK, 1010 Wien, Reichsratsstraße 17/DG (free entry)

PUBLIC EVENING LECTURE
Jack Goody: Behaviour and Literacy
3 December, 18:30
Kleiner Festsaal der Universität Wien, 1010 Wien, Dr. Karl Lueger-Ring 1 (free entry)

Conference language is English.

With friendly support of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna.

Program

Thursday, 3 December 2009
Venue: IFK

9.30
Address of Welcome
Helmut Lethen

Introduction
Karin Harrasser, Elisabeth Timm
Chair: Karin Harrasser

BEHAVIOUR GUIDES OF THE (IN)FORMAL

10.00
Jim McGuigan
Cool Capitalism, Creativity and Individualisation

10.45
Coffee Break

11.15
Anton Blok
Behaviour Codes in Sicily:
Bypassing the Law

12.00
Discussion

13.00
Lunch Break
Chair: Elisabeth Timm

15.00
Sven Reichardt
Warmth as a mode of social behaviour?
A cultural history of the West German counter-culture
between 1965 and 1985

15.45
Coffee Break

16.15
Summary: Karin Harrasser, Elisabeth Timm
Discussion

Ca. 17.15
End

18.30
Jack Goody
Behaviour and Literacy

Public evening lecture
Venue: Kleiner Festsaal der Universität Wien
Chair: Helmut Lethen