The Lucerne Master Class takes place from September 23rd to 27th 2019 with Prof. Dr. Eva Illouz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). It is the fifth Lucerne Master Class running on the general topic "The Culture of Markets".
The Scholar
EVA ILLOUZ was born in Morocco, educated in France, and received her higher degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Rose Isaac Chair of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Center for the Study of Rationality, and holds a Chair of Excellence at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. Her groundbreaking oeuvre on capitalism and emotions includes her monograph Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (2012), a book she edited titled Emotions as Commodities: Capitalism, Consumption and Authenticity (2018) and her forthcoming monograph Unloving: A Sociology of Negative Relations (first published in German un- der the title Warum Liebe endet – Eine Soziologie negativer Beziehungen [2018]).
The Topic:
For economists capitalism is the organization of economic exchange in a marketplace regulated by supply and demand in which actors plan their moves rationally. For traditional sociologists it is a social organization which disentangles the economy from normative systems and creates a vast process of rationalization of the economy and of ordinary action. But capitalism has proved to be – and curiously so – a fantastic machine to produce, control, and commodify emotions. The process of commodification of emotions is pervasive and endemic to the history and sociology of capitalism. This Lucerne Master Class will examine the ways in which emotions were made into intrinsic dimen- sions of the workplace and of the consumer sphere. It examines this process by studying paradoxes produced by this historical juncture of emotions and capitalism. For a list of the five main paradoxes identified that will be discussed, please consult the longer version of the topic’s abstract on www.unilu.ch/masterclass.
The Class
The class will begin on September 23rd, 2019 at 1 p.m. and end on September 27th, 2019 at 1 p.m. The daily schedule will be from 9.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. and on one evening (lecture & dinner) from 6 – 9 p.m. One of the afternoons will be devoted to a joint excursion in the Lucerne area. Participants will discuss Eva Illouz’s recent work but also present and discuss their own projects.
Participants
The Master Class addresses doctoral students from sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, psychol- ogy, and economics as well as other fields from within the humanities and social sciences. Applica- tions from international and EU doctoral students and doctoral students from Switzerland are wel- come.
Applications
Send your application by May 1st to the following email-address: christina.cavedon@unilu.ch
Please provide a short statement of motivation (no more than one page), a CV and a short description (no more than one page) of your current dissertation project. Postdocs may be admitted on the basis of individual decision.
