Adam Mickiewicz University and the City of Poznań invite you to a seminar and an open lecture by prof. Hubert Knoblauch of Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin). Prof. Knoblauch specialises in the areas of sociology of knowledge, religion and qualitative research, with particular consideration of videography and visual techniques.
The seminar "Videography. Interpreting and Analysing Social Interaction" will be held on 25 November 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the Institute of Sociology AMU, in ul. Szamarzewskiego 89, building C, room 112.
Prof. Hubert Knoblauch will also give an open lecture "Popular Religion and Spirituality. On the contemporary transformation of religion". The lecture will be held on 26 November 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in Zamek Culture Centre, in ul. Święty Marcin 80/82, Balcony Hall.
Prof. Hubert Knoblauch (1959) - is a professor of sociology at the Technical University of Berlin. Knoblauch specialises in the areas of sociology of knowledge, religion and qualitative research, with particular consideration of videography and visual techniques. In 1989 he defended his PhD thesis, whose promoter was the prominent after-war sociology theorist, Thomas Luckmann. In 1994 he habilitated at the University of Konstanz. He worked e.g. at the University of Nottingham, London School of Economics, University in Vienna. Since 2002 he has been working as a professor of theory of contemporary communities at the Technical University of Berlin. He was a chairman of the DGS's (German Society for Sociology) section of Sociology of Language. He has been actively participating in works of many sections of the European Sociological Association, e.g. he is a Chair of the RN Sociology of Culture. He works as a reviewer or member of editorial boards of magazines and publishing houses, such as e.g. British Journal of Sociology, Human Studies, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Qualitative Sociological Review, Cambridge University Press.