Call for Papers [in pdf]

The 6th meeting of the Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts of ESA (European
Sociological Association) will be held November 3-5, 2004, at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The Department for the Study of the Arts and Culture will host the conference on the occasion of its 15th anniversary.

The conference programme features keynote lectures, plenary discussions, paper sessions, and
workshops. The theme of the conference, “The Art of Comparison”, is an invitation to assess
critically how the social study of the arts might be advanced through various forms of comparative research (over-time, cross-national, between different art forms, across cultural domains) and how sociologists of the arts might take advantage of approaches and insights developed outside of their own discipline, for example, within the fields of cultural economics, art history, or media and communication research. [Continue]