Anne Sophie Krossa, European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University

Anne Sophie Krossa worked in European Languages and Cultures until March 2012.
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Degree: Sociology/Diplom, Political Sciences/M.A. (both University of Trier/Germany), Dr. phil. (University of Osnabrueck/Germany)

Current Teaching

I AM CURRENTLY ON SECONDMENT, AS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GIESSEN/GERMANY

Research Interests

I am interested in a range of topics related to Europe and Globalisation both from a sociological and an interdisciplinary perspective. Currently, I am mainly researching the concept 'society', related to the analysis of constructive forms of conflict. Also, I am interested in classical and current sociological theory in general, for instance on inclusion/integration, (beyond) identity, communication, religion, everyday life culture, (cyber)sociality, transnationalisation and cosmopolitanism.

1. My main current project is a book titled 'Conceptualising Society in the Context of Globalisation'. In this book, on the one hand I outline fundamental aspects of the relation and co-functioning of homogeneity and heterogeneity in relation to the notion of society, and on the other hand I develop this notion further, based on the multifaceted concept of conflict. I expect this to be published it in the first half of 2012.

2. Based on the initialising work of the first book project, I am preparing a second one thatexplores aspects of a meso-level within this framework of a current concept of society, e.g.communication, networks and pratices. This is also step towards the development of a more application-orientated perspective on the subject that I hope to follow on with afterwards. I expect this second book to be published in summer 2013.

3. With Helmut Dubiel, I am discussing the conceptual potential of conflict for processes of social inclusion and 'coherence' from the perspective of political theory. As this is a more liberal form of intellectual exchange (to some extent, it could be called a 'hobby'), we don't plan a publication date yet.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

I am happy to supervise students who have interests in topics related to Europe and/or Globalisation, ideally linked to a conceptual/theoretical question. This could be for instance on inclusion/integration, (beyond) identity, conflict, communication, religion, everyday life culture,European Union and consequences of enlargements, and particularly on the concept of society/sociality.

Please feel free to approach me with ideas beyond this range of topics, too, as long as you see them as broadly related.

Major and most recent publications

(2012, forthcoming) Conceptualising Society in the Context of Globalisation. The Problem of Europe.

(2005) Kollektive Identitäten in Ostmitteleuropa: Polen, Ungarn und Tschechien und die Integration der Europäischen Union (Collective Identities in East Central Europe: Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic and the Integration of the European Union). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, Berlin.

(2011b) European Cosmopolitanism in Question. Palgrave. Co-edited with Roland Robertson (in print)

(2011a) ‚Why European Cosmopolitanism?', in: Robertson, Roland/ Anne Sophie Krossa (eds): European Cosmopolitanism in Question. Palgrave (in print)

(2011b) ‚Introduction', in: Anne Sophie Krossa (ed): European Studies in the Context of Globalisation. Palgrave Macmillan (in print)

(2011c) ‚Society', in: Anne Sophie Krossa (ed): European Studies in the Context of Globalisation. Palgrave Macmillan (in print)

(2009a) 'Conceptualizing European Society on Non-Normative Grounds: Logics of Sociation, Glocalization and Conflict', in: European Journal of Social Theory 2009 12: 249-264.

(2009b) 'Glokalisierung als Strukturprinzip der Bildung einer „europäischen Gesellschaft"?' (Glocalisation as structural feature of the formation of a 'European society'?, in: Balla, Balint/ Sterbling, Anton (eds.): Globalisierung, Europäisierung, Regionalisierung. Tagungsband der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Sektion Ostmitteleuropasoziologie. Hamburg: Kraemer, 159-176.

(2009c) 'Form vor Inhalt, oder: „Nicht was, sondern wie wird diskutiert". Diskurse zu Geschichte und Erinnerung in Ostmitteleuropa am Beispiel Polens' (Not what but how is it discussed. Discourses on history and memory in East Central Europe: The Polish example), in: Majerus, Benoit et al. (eds.): Nationale Erinnerungsorte hinterfragt (Examining national lieux de mémoire). Brussels: Peter Lang.

(2007) 'Integration of Unequal Units: Comparing the German and the European Unification Process', in: Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER), Vol. 3, Issue 1, 1-17. http://www.jcer.net/

(2006) ‚"Ostmitteleuropa" ODER „Europa"?' (‚East Central Europe' OR ‚Europe'?), in: Osteuropaforschung - 15 Jahre ‚danach'. Forschungsstelle Osteuropa Bremen, Arbeitspapiere und Materialien No. 77, 30-33.

(2005a) ‚Europäisierung ostmitteleuropäischer Identitäten?' (Europeanisation of East-Central European Identities?), in: Salimi-Asl, Cyrus; Wrasse, Eric; Schuch, Gereon (eds.): Die Transformation nationaler Politik. Europäisierungsprozesse in Mitteleuropa (The transformation of national politics. Processes of Europeanization in Central Europe). Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, 245-263.

(2004) ‚Die Zentrums-Peripherie-Struktur kollektiver Identitäten in West und Ost. Ein Vergleich zwischen dem europäischen und dem deutsch-deutschen Einigungsprozess' (The centre-periphery-structure of collective identities in West and East. A comparison of the European process of unification with the German one), in: Fuhrmann, Nora; Glombowski, Jörg; Pieper, Karin; Rabenschlag, Kai (eds.): Erweiterung und Integration der EU. Opladen, 101-123.

(2003a) ‚Das Konzept „Verfassungspatriotismus" im Kontext der Erweiterung der Europäischen Union. Eine kritische Betrachtung am Beispiel Polens' (The concept 'Verfassungspatriotismus' in the context of the European Union's enlargement. A critical study of the Polish example), in: Dittmer, S.; Jörs, I., Ruge, U. (eds.): EU-Beitritt: Verheißung oder Bedrohung? Die Wirkung der geplanten EU-Osterweiterung in den mittel- und osteuropäischen Kandidatenländern. Jahrbuch für Europa- und Nordamerika-Studien, Universität Göttingen, Band 6. Opladen.

(2003b) ‚Formen kollektiver Identität in Zentrums-Peripherie-Strukturen. Ostmitteleuropa und die Europäische Union' (Types of collective identity in structures of centre and periphery. East Central Europe and the European Union), in: Mayer, Sebastian; Pänke, Julian; Wielgohs, Jan (Hg): Kulturen und Identitäten - Interessen und Strategien. Europäische Nationen und die Europäische Union vor der Osterweiterung. Frankfurter Institut für Transformationsstudien, Frankfurt an der Oder, 35-43.

(2003c) ‚Ungarn, Polen und Tschechien: Kollektive Identitäten im Kontext der Beitritte zur Europäischen Union' (Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic in the context of the accessions to the European Union), in: Europa, Ungarn - heute und morgen. Begegnungen. Schriftenreihe des Europa-Instituts, Band 19. Budapest, 287-298.

(2012a) 'Society', in: George Ritzer (2012): Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd Edition, Riley Blackwell (accepted/forthcoming)

(2012b) 'European Society', in: George Ritzer (2012): Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd Edition, Riley Blackwell (accepted/forthcoming)

(2012c) 'Eurocentrism', in: George Ritzer (2012): Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd Edition, Riley Blackwell (accepted/forthcoming)

(2010): Jürgen Habermas: 'Europe, the faltering project', in: Perspectives on European Politics and Society 11/1, p 119-130.

(2008) 'Central European History and the European Union: The Meaning of Europe', in: Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), 46/4,p 921-922.

(2008) David M. Green (2007): 'The Europeans'. Political Identity in an Emerging Policy, in: Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER).

(2007): Joseph S. Joseph (Hg) (2006): 'Turkey and the European Union. Internal Dynamics and External Challenges', in: Journalof Common Market Studies (JCMS), June 2007.

Research Cooperations

The main research context I am working in at the moment is the Lancaster Research Group on Europe and Globalisation; all of my current research projects are to different degrees linked to this framework (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/europeandglobalisation/). It brings together more than 30 Lancaster-based researchers from a wide range of subjects and departments, cooperatingon a variety of projects related both to research and teaching(http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/europeandglobalisation/people.htm). You are warmly invited to join us!

In cooperation with the University of Siegen, we hold yearly international research workshops, always including a master class for PhD students who are invited to present and discuss research questions in this interdisciplinary context. Most currently, the following project has come to fruition - and illustrates the close link we have established between research and teaching:

The textbook for advanced students 'Europe in a Global Context' (Palgrave 2011), to which18 colleagues from our Research Group at Lancaster University have contributed chapters. All of us start out from a concept of our individual research expertise and discuss it along the structure Concept-Europe-Globalisation.

Postgraduate Studies

areas covered by our staff expertise. Students may pursue a topic based entirely within one or several of the five languages - French, German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan - but we are also interested in projects which are comparative or transcultural in scope European Studies. It is also possible to receive joint supervision by European Languages and Cultures and another department in the university such as History, Lingistics, Philosophy, etc. Please see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/pg/phd/index.htm

Also, I organise the yearly Postgraduate Master Class on Global and European Studies

As part of cooperation between the Lancaster Research Group on Europe and Globalisation with Siegen University, we offer Postgraduate Courses on Global and European Studies to provide MA and PhD students of the social sciences with an extraordinary opportunity to learn from and discuss with prominent scholars about the conditions, processes, structures and consequences of globalization and European integration. These courses are organized by Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen at the University of Siegen (Germany) and me for the University of Lancaster (UK).

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Staff Menu Staff A-Z By Role By Keywords Keywords Search SEARCH using keywords/tags or full text search.	Dr Anne Sophie Krossa Anne Sophie Krossa worked in European Languages and Cultures until March 2012. This page is displayed as a record, please note that the information may be out of date. Lecturer in European Studies Degree: Sociology/Diplom, Political Sciences/M.A. (both University of Trier/Germany), Dr. phil. (University of Osnabrueck/Germany) Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, Research Group on Europe and Globalisation Personal website Current Teaching PLEASE NOTE: I AM CURRENTLY ON SECONDMENT, AS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GIESSEN/GERMANY Research Interests I am interested in a range of topics related to Europe and Globalisation both from a sociological and an interdisciplinary perspective. Currently, I am mainly researching the concept 'society', related to the analysis of constructive forms of conflict. Also, I am interested in classical and current sociological theory in general, for instance on inclusion/integration, (beyond) identity, communication, religion, everyday life culture, (cyber)sociality, transnationalisation and cosmopolitanism. Current research projects 1. My main current project is a book titled 'Conceptualising Society in the Context of Globalisation'. In this book, on the one hand I outline fundamental aspects of the relation and co-functioning of homogeneity and heterogeneity in relation to the notion of society, and on the other hand I develop this notion further, based on the multifaceted concept of conflict. I expect this to be published it in the first half of 2012. 2. Based on the initialising work of the first book project, I am preparing a second one thatexplores aspects of a meso-level within this framework of a current concept of society, e.g.communication, networks and pratices. This is also step towards the development of a more application-orientated perspective on the subject that I hope to follow on with afterwards. I expect this second book to be published in summer 2013. 3. With Helmut Dubiel, I am discussing the conceptual potential of conflict for processes of social inclusion and 'coherence' from the perspective of political theory. As this is a more liberal form of intellectual exchange (to some extent, it could be called a 'hobby'), we don't plan a publication date yet. Potential Doctoral Proposals I am happy to supervise students who have interests in topics related to Europe and/or Globalisation, ideally linked to a conceptual/theoretical question. This could be for instance on inclusion/integration, (beyond) identity, conflict, communication, religion, everyday life culture,European Union and consequences of enlargements, and particularly on the concept of society/sociality. Please feel free to approach me with ideas beyond this range of topics, too, as long as you see them as broadly related. Major and most recent publications a) Monographs (2012, forthcoming) Conceptualising Society in the Context of Globalisation. The Problem of Europe. (2005) Kollektive Identitäten in Ostmitteleuropa: Polen, Ungarn und Tschechien und die Integration der Europäischen Union (Collective Identities in East Central Europe: Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic and the Integration of the European Union). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, Berlin. b) Edited Books (2011a) Europe in a Global Context. Palgrave (in print) (2011b) European Cosmopolitanism in Question. Palgrave. Co-edited with Roland Robertson (in print) c) Articles (2011a) ‚Why European Cosmopolitanism?', in: Robertson, Roland/ Anne Sophie Krossa (eds): European Cosmopolitanism in Question. Palgrave (in print) (2011b) ‚Introduction', in: Anne Sophie Krossa (ed): European Studies in the Context of Globalisation. Palgrave Macmillan (in print) (2011c) ‚Society', in: Anne Sophie Krossa (ed): European Studies in the Context of Globalisation. Palgrave Macmillan (in print) (2009a) 'Conceptualizing European Society on Non-Normative Grounds: Logics of Sociation, Glocalization and Conflict', in: European Journal of Social Theory 2009 12: 249-264. (2009b) 'Glokalisierung als Strukturprinzip der Bildung einer „europäischen Gesellschaft"?' (Glocalisation as structural feature of the formation of a 'European society'?, in: Balla, Balint/ Sterbling, Anton (eds.): Globalisierung, Europäisierung, Regionalisierung. Tagungsband der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Sektion Ostmitteleuropasoziologie. Hamburg: Kraemer, 159-176. (2009c) 'Form vor Inhalt, oder: „Nicht was, sondern wie wird diskutiert". Diskurse zu Geschichte und Erinnerung in Ostmitteleuropa am Beispiel Polens' (Not what but how is it discussed. Discourses on history and memory in East Central Europe: The Polish example), in: Majerus, Benoit et al. (eds.): Nationale Erinnerungsorte hinterfragt (Examining national lieux de mémoire). Brussels: Peter Lang. (2007) 'Integration of Unequal Units: Comparing the German and the European Unification Process', in: Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER), Vol. 3, Issue 1, 1-17. http://www.jcer.net/ (2006) ‚"Ostmitteleuropa" ODER „Europa"?' (‚East Central Europe' OR ‚Europe'?), in: Osteuropaforschung - 15 Jahre ‚danach'. Forschungsstelle Osteuropa Bremen, Arbeitspapiere und Materialien No. 77, 30-33. (2005a) ‚Europäisierung ostmitteleuropäischer Identitäten?' (Europeanisation of East-Central European Identities?), in: Salimi-Asl, Cyrus; Wrasse, Eric; Schuch, Gereon (eds.): Die Transformation nationaler Politik. Europäisierungsprozesse in Mitteleuropa (The transformation of national politics. Processes of Europeanization in Central Europe). Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, 245-263. (2005b) ‚Historische und aktuelle Wahrnehmungen: Deutschlands Rolle als Problem bei der tschechischen EU-Integration'. www.cap.lmu.de/identitaet/downloads/krossa.pdf (2004) ‚Die Zentrums-Peripherie-Struktur kollektiver Identitäten in West und Ost. Ein Vergleich zwischen dem europäischen und dem deutsch-deutschen Einigungsprozess' (The centre-periphery-structure of collective identities in West and East. A comparison of the European process of unification with the German one), in: Fuhrmann, Nora; Glombowski, Jörg; Pieper, Karin; Rabenschlag, Kai (eds.): Erweiterung und Integration der EU. Opladen, 101-123. (2003a) ‚Das Konzept „Verfassungspatriotismus" im Kontext der Erweiterung der Europäischen Union. Eine kritische Betrachtung am Beispiel Polens' (The concept 'Verfassungspatriotismus' in the context of the European Union's enlargement. A critical study of the Polish example), in: Dittmer, S.; Jörs, I., Ruge, U. (eds.): EU-Beitritt: Verheißung oder Bedrohung? Die Wirkung der geplanten EU-Osterweiterung in den mittel- und osteuropäischen Kandidatenländern. Jahrbuch für Europa- und Nordamerika-Studien, Universität Göttingen, Band 6. Opladen. (2003b) ‚Formen kollektiver Identität in Zentrums-Peripherie-Strukturen. Ostmitteleuropa und die Europäische Union' (Types of collective identity in structures of centre and periphery. East Central Europe and the European Union), in: Mayer, Sebastian; Pänke, Julian; Wielgohs, Jan (Hg): Kulturen und Identitäten - Interessen und Strategien. Europäische Nationen und die Europäische Union vor der Osterweiterung. Frankfurter Institut für Transformationsstudien, Frankfurt an der Oder, 35-43. (2003c) ‚Ungarn, Polen und Tschechien: Kollektive Identitäten im Kontext der Beitritte zur Europäischen Union' (Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic in the context of the accessions to the European Union), in: Europa, Ungarn - heute und morgen. Begegnungen. Schriftenreihe des Europa-Instituts, Band 19. Budapest, 287-298. d) Encyclopedia Entries (2012a) 'Society', in: George Ritzer (2012): Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd Edition, Riley Blackwell (accepted/forthcoming) (2012b) 'European Society', in: George Ritzer (2012): Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd Edition, Riley Blackwell (accepted/forthcoming) (2012c) 'Eurocentrism', in: George Ritzer (2012): Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd Edition, Riley Blackwell (accepted/forthcoming) e) Book Reviews (2010): Jürgen Habermas: 'Europe, the faltering project', in: Perspectives on European Politics and Society 11/1, p 119-130. (2008) 'Central European History and the European Union: The Meaning of Europe', in: Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), 46/4,p 921-922. (2008) David M. Green (2007): 'The Europeans'. Political Identity in an Emerging Policy, in: Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER). (2007): Joseph S. Joseph (Hg) (2006): 'Turkey and the European Union. Internal Dynamics and External Challenges', in: Journalof Common Market Studies (JCMS), June 2007. Research Cooperations The main research context I am working in at the moment is the Lancaster Research Group on Europe and Globalisation; all of my current research projects are to different degrees linked to this framework (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/europeandglobalisation/). It brings together more than 30 Lancaster-based researchers from a wide range of subjects and departments, cooperatingon a variety of projects related both to research and teaching(http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/europeandglobalisation/people.htm). You are warmly invited to join us! In cooperation with the University of Siegen, we hold yearly international research workshops, always including a master class for PhD students who are invited to present and discuss research questions in this interdisciplinary context. Most currently, the following project has come to fruition - and illustrates the close link we have established between research and teaching: The textbook for advanced students 'Europe in a Global Context' (Palgrave 2011), to which18 colleagues from our Research Group at Lancaster University have contributed chapters. All of us start out from a concept of our individual research expertise and discuss it along the structure Concept-Europe-Globalisation. I am also involved in the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research (http://www.transculturalwriting.com/). Postgraduate Studies areas covered by our staff expertise. Students may pursue a topic based entirely within one or several of the five languages - French, German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan - but we are also interested in projects which are comparative or transcultural in scope European Studies. It is also possible to receive joint supervision by European Languages and Cultures and another department in the university such as History, Lingistics, Philosophy, etc. Please see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/pg/phd/index.htm Also, I organise the yearly Postgraduate Master Class on Global and European Studies As part of cooperation between the Lancaster Research Group on Europe and Globalisation with Siegen University, we offer Postgraduate Courses on Global and European Studies to provide MA and PhD students of the social sciences with an extraordinary opportunity to learn from and discuss with prominent scholars about the conditions, processes, structures and consequences of globalization and European integration. These courses are organized by Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen at the University of Siegen (Germany) and me for the University of Lancaster (UK). After a successful start in Siegen in 2008 (http://www.fb1.uni-siegen.de/soziologie/gaes/) we continued this initiative and developed it further with a Research Workshop at Lancaster University (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/europeandglobalisation/activities.htm) and in Siegen in 2010 again. 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