Athanasios Karafillidis, Dr. phil.
Sociologist, RWTH Aachen University
“... our studies could be inspired by a more ancient, but today less honored, motive: a curiosity about the world of which we are part. The rewards of such work are not power but beauty.” Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind [2000: 269]
Currents
Paper Presentation “Organisieren ist Re-formieren. Die Medialisierung der Organisation” [Organizing is Re-Forming. The Medialization of Organization] at the Conference “Organisationen im Chaos?” of the DGS Section “Organizational Sociology”, University of Potsdam, Germany, 14-15 October 2011.
Presentation “Management: Situations, Breakdowns, Micromoments” during the Summer School “Next Society” at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany, 30 June until 3 July 2011.
Invited discussant at the international conference “Mathematics of Form” at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany, 30 May until 1 June 2011.
Paper Presentation “Epistemology of Network” at the jointly organized spring-time session of the two DGS sections “Sociological Network Research” and “Sociological Theory” in Aachen, 20-21 May 2011.
Presentation of a Paper entitled “Social Divisions and Identities out of Boundary Events: Gaming, Organizing, and Conflicting” at the BSA Annual Conference 2011 in London, 6-9 April.
Just published in the current issue (Heft 7/2010) of the Revue für postheroisches Management: Risiken, ihre Organisation und die Technik ihrer Vermeidung [Risks, their Organization, and the Technology of their Avoidance]. The paper observes “Stuttgart 21” from a risk perspective. Click here for a pdf-Version.
The book “Soziale Formen. Fortführung eines soziologischen Programms” [Social Forms. Continuing a Sociological Program] has just been published at transcript Verlag.
Keynote Speaker at the 6th HSSS National & International Conference “Systemic Approaches in Social Structures”, 23-26 June, 2010 in Mitilini, Lesvos Island, Greece. Subject: “The Autopoiesis of Society: Some Theoretical Considerations and Methodological Implications for the Study of Organizations”.
Article “Grenzen und Relationen” [Boundaries and Relations] has been published in the volume “Relationale Soziologie: Zur kulturellen Wende der Netzwerkforschung&rdquo [Relational Sociology: The Cultural Turn in Network Research] edited by Jan Fuhse and Sophie Mützel. Also have a look at www.relational-sociology.de