Study Days

In more recent times, the Centre has focused its attention on Study Days, usually held on a Saturday. The Maison Française hosts the Study days, sometimes arranging for a speaker from France to give a paper. Study Days take place about 2-3 times a year. To date just over 40 Study Days have taken place.

A selection of the titles are as follows:

Durkheim and his philosophical background (Fouillée and Guyau)

Durkheim and Renouvier

Rousseau and Durkheim

Durkheim and collective effervescence

Mauss and categories

Durkheim, hope, and the sacred

Time considered anthropologically

Durkheim, society and the body

Durkheim and William James

Law in the Durkheimian tradition

Interpreting Durkheim

Durkheim, suffering and evil

The work of Marcel Mauss

Durkheim and the study of law

Durkheim and the French reception of pragmatism

Separation of Church and State, 1905: Durkheim and beyond

Halbwachs, Bastide and collective memory

American and European approaches to Durkheim

Dumézil and Dumont as third generation Durkheimians

Concepts of the individual and the social in Durkheim