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The two keynote speakers at the ICA conference are Manuel Castells and Jürgen Habermas. During Castells’ speech this afternoon Habermas quietly sneeked into the conference hall and seated himself on the corner of the audience.
It’s nice to be in the same room with two such great contemporary theorists, although it doesn’t quite beat the story my former professor Heckmann told us (ignorant) students in my first semester: During a World Sociology Conference in the early Nineties he shared the sauna with Norbert Elias… 
The clash of the supertheorists
thanks, please do more report on the ICA 06.
Beim Lesen dieses Beitrags habe ich gerade meine Kollegen durch lautes Gackern und Luftschnappen iritiert. Wirklich zu geil der Kommentar.
cool, grüß’ den Jürgen Habermas!
[…] See Academic Blogger Jan Schmidt’s latest report on the ICA conference with key speakers Manuel Castells and Jürgen W. Habermas. […]
Man wenn ich das gewusst hätte, hät ich dir ne Liste mit Fragen zur deliberativen Wirkung von Weblogs für den guten Habermas mitgegeben
Sauna x Elias = Welche Figurationen?
Worlds biggest conference on communication science…
The International Communication Association host its 56th Annual Conference in Dresden these days. Too bad, I can’t be there, alone the idea of being in the same room with so many great theorists like Habermas and Castells would have been a great…