Wednesday, June 4
Historischer Saal, Ravensberger Spinnerei
15:30 Registration
16:00 Welcome & Introduction
Prof. Dr. Thomas Welskopp, Bielefeld
BGHS Director
16:15 Keynote Speech: Lifting the Veil of Crisis: Structure and Transformation in Urban Marginality
Prof. Loïc Wacquant, PhD, Berkeley/Paris
17:00 Discussion
18:00 Different From What You Expected Once Again – Experience From an Exhibition Project with Immigrated People. [www.migrationsausstellung.de]
Hermine Oberück und Gertraud Strohm-Katzer, Bielefeld
19:00 Conference Get-together
Thursday, June 5
Murnau Saal, Ravensberger Spinnerei
08:00 Registration
09:00 Introduction Day 2
Chair: Karolina Barglowski & Christian Ulbricht
09:15 Keynote Speech: On the Transnational Social Question in Europe
Prof. Thomas Faist, PhD, Bielefeld
10:00 How Values and Inequality Impact Protest Behavior in Ukraine and Post-Socialist Societies, Svitlana Khutka, Kiev
Rooted Cosmopolitanism? Re-evaluating Gezi Resistance,
Selin Bengi Gümrükçü, Ünsal Doğan Başkır, Izmir
Managing Crisis, Avoiding Revolutions,
Thomas Serres, Saint Étienne
Discussion
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Bringing Interaction Back In: Transnational Social Movements as Global Microstructures, Rainald Manthe, Bielefeld
A “New Social Exclusion” or “Social Inequalities as Usual”?
The Political Debate on Social Exclusion in France 1960 – 1990,
Sarah Haßdenteufel, Frankfurt am Main
Discussion
13:00 Lunch in the Cafeteria, Ravensberger Spinnerei
14:15 Keynote Speech: Human Rights, Social Inequalities and Cosmopolitan Solidarities
Prof. Dr. Angelika Poferl, Fulda
15:00 Tourists and Vagabonds in 21st Century Societies. Discussing Conceptual Questions of Social Inequality and Transmigration, Anna-Lisa Müller, Bremen
Muslim Imaginaries on Economic Inequality in New York City,
Aletta Diefenbach, Frankfurt am Main
The Post-Communist Transition and the “Europeanization” of Social Inequality: The Neo-Liberal Peripherialization of Roma in CEE Countries, Sorin Gog, Helsinki
Discussion
16:30 Coffee Break
17:30 Tanzanian Neoliberal Hegemony and Gendered Coping Strategies to a Fast Changing Neoliberal Context: A Case Study of Rural Tanzania
Rasel Mpuya Madaha, Mwanza
Revising Common Knowledge: Social Justice as an Issue of Informational Basis of Judgment, Vando Borghi, Bologna
The Margins and Centers of Social Inequality within Transnational Higher Education in Africa, Buyana Kareem, Stanford
Discussion
19:00 Keynote Speech: Gender and the Crisis: Is this "Gendered Austerity as Usual" or "a Turning Point in the Trajectory of the Gender Regime"?
Prof. Sylvia Walby, Lancaster
20:30 Conference Dinner
Friday, June 6
Murnau Saal, Ravensberger Spinnerei
09:00 Introduction Day 3
Chair: Henrik Dosdall, Paul-Matthias Tyrell & Dorothee Wilm
09:15 Keynote Speech: The Society of Social Policy: The Politics of Social Inequality in Historical Comparison
Prof. Dr. Elmar Rieger, Bamberg
10:00 Structural Transformations and New Challenges. The Reaction of Western German Labor Unions to the Multifaceted Crisis of the 1970s, Sebastian Voigt, Munich
“Bloody Brixton”: Immigration, Race, and the Economy in Post-Imperial Britain
Almuth Ebke, Mannheim
Heterogeneities and Social Inequalities at the University in Historical Perspective, Patricia Pielage, Bielefeld
Discussion
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Class and Recognition, Ákos Huszár, Budapest
Does Class Still Matter? Changes in the Analysis of Social Inequalities in the Sociology of Work, Carina Altreiter, Vienna
Discussion
13:00 Lunch in the Cafeteria, Ravensberger Spinnerei
14:15 Social Inequalities in the Discursive Trap of "Poverty" and "Distance"
Blagovesta Nikolova, Sofia
Symbolic Domination and Social Sciences. (Re)production of (Semi)Peripheral Inequalities through Sociological Discourse, Tomasz Warczok, Warsaw
Caste Inequality as Political Rhetoric: A Case of BSP in Uttar Pradesh India
Manish Tiwari, New-Delhi
Discussion
15:45 Coffee Break
16:15 New Answers to Old Questions? Conservative Activism and the Economic Crisis in the United States, Ben Merriman, Chicago
Real Estate Markets and Financial Crises,
Luigi Droste, Münster
A Crisis within a Crisis: A Sociological Perspective on the 2007 Financial Crisis and the Greek Case, Panagiotis Manolakos, Athens
Discussion
18:00 Keynote Speech: Social Inequality in Europe between the 1950s and 1970s
Prof. Dr. em. Hartmut Kaelble, Berlin
18:45 Round-up & Farewell