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Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, CBS, Lars Bo Kaspersen, CBS, Norman Gabriel, Plymouth University, Christiane Mossin, CBS.

Lars Bo Kaspersen, (b. 1961), BA (Copenhagen), MA (Copenhagen), MA (Sussex), PhD (Aarhus), Professor, Formerly Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen and Head of the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. Has published widely on social theory and political sociology. Author of among other publications ‘Denmark in the world’. Kaspersen’s research areas are state formation processes in Europe, the transformation of the welfare state, sociology of war, civil society (including the idea of associative democracy), social theory, in particular relational theory. Together with Norman Gabriel he is working on a book about Norbert Elias’s political sociology. He recently received a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to study ‘the civil society in the shadow of the state'. His publications have appeared in journals such as Sociology, Sociological Review, European Journal of Sociology and Socio-Economic Review. Kaspersen teaches history, politics, and sociology.

Norman Gabriel, University of Plymouth, D.Phil - University of Sussex, 1998, Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing - Glasgow Caledonian University, 1986, BA Social Sciences Honours 2:1 - University of the West of Scotland, 1983. His research interests are in the sociology of early childhood and the relation between sociology and developmental psychology. Norman has an international reputation in applying the sociological work of Norbert Elias, co-editing a multi-disciplinary, social science Monograph for Sociological Review with Professor Stephen Mennell, Norbert Elias and Figurational Research: Processual Thinking in Sociology (2011). He has recently edited with Professor Lars Bo Kaspersen a special issue for The History of the Human Sciences, Norbert Elias and Process Sociology - Across Disciplines (2014).

Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, CBS is an assistant professor at the Department of Business and Politics partly funded by a grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research. The project ‘Tied up? Exploring elite cohesion in the intersection of networks and careers’ explores the careers and network of the core of the Danish Elite Network. With a background in sociology his research aims at mapping Danish elites through a variety of methods and data sources. His work on Danish elites with Anton Grau Larsen has received wide public interest and he has given numerous public talks to a wide array of audiences – ranging from political parties, social movements, organisations, corporations or just public events – about the Danish power elite, as he chose to describe the 423 people in the core of the Danish network.

Christiane Mossin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. She has a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Copenhagen and a PhD from Copenhagen Business School. Her work which is highly interdisciplinary owns to continental political-philosophical, legal, sociological and conceptual historical traditions and is empirically oriented towards contemporary social and political developments. Her present research concerns the relationship between democracy and civil society and focuses, in particular, on forms and visions of collectivity — integrating formal-institutional and political-theological (utopian or semi-religious) aspects. Her publications as well as her teaching reflects her dedication to methodological openness; she has a broad teaching experience across disciplines and institutions (universities, public fora, art schools).