International Conferences
The first international conference that involved the Centre was held in July 1993 in conjunction with the centennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held at St Catherine's College. The title of the Centre's contribution was `Durkheim's Division of Labour: A Centennial Assessment'.
A larger conference was that of July 1995 held at the Maison Française with the title `Reassessing Durkheim's Elementary Forms'. About 60 people registered for it and 28 papers were given, with lecturers coming from Japan, Canada, the United States, Italy, Germany, Hungary, as well as from France and Britain.
In July 1996 a conference was organised by Geoffrey Walford (Department of Educational Studies, Oxford) and Bill Pickering on Durkheim and Education at which 14 papers were given. In September of that year Wendy James and Nick Allen, both of ISCA, organised a conference on Marcel Mauss at which 38 papers were presented.
To commemorate the centenary of the publication of Durkheim's Le Suicide Geoffrey Walford and Bill Pickering decided to arrange an international conference at the end of 1997. About 30 people attended. Representatives came from France, Canada and Japan.
Except for the first conference on the Division of Labour, all the conferences have taken place at the Maison Française.
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