Mid-day specials will include selectve thematc sessions, Author Meets Critcs sessions and Workshop sessions of importance to the discipline or of interest beyond it. They will each last one hour.
With regard to two thematc Mid-day sessions (see below), on the EU Zone Crisis (2 sessions) and on Critque and Crisis, it is the first time at ESA Conferences that presenters will be selected with the help of abstract submission and peer-review evaluaton in order to contribute to special sessions. Sociologists from Europe and beyond are invited to submit abstracts.
- MD01 ESA lecture (i): On the Future of Social Science
chair: Ellen Kuhlmann <e.kuhlmann@em.uni-frankfurt.de>, University Siegen
- MD02 EU Zone: Which Crisis? Views and Experiences from Different European Regions (1)
chair: Georg Vobruba <vobruba@sozio.uni-leipzig.de> University of Leipzig
Will Europe work? Does the crisis of the Eurozone threaten the politcal existence of the European Union? Will it further adapt the state to fnancial markets and push aside the social agenda of the EU?
It is tme for sociology again. Despite this, the current language of the crisis is the language of economics. The Eurozone crisis is currently being discussed in terms of a debt crisis of the state that requires a politcs of austerity. Before this, it was portrayed as a fnancial crisis of the banking system that required the bail-out of banks. Before that, it was represented as a subprime mortgage crisis in the US. Millions lost ground. But this fact does not ft with the theory of market equilibrium. What does sociology say?
The conference will devote two Mid-day Special Sessions (four speakers) to the “big picture”, possibly picking up the thread of classical sociology. How do sociologists from the North-West, the South and the East of Europe analyse the ongoing crisis of the EU zone?
We invite papers that share experiences from different European regions and offer provocative sociological views on their subject matter.
- MD03 Author Meets Critics (1): R. Miller & G. Day
Chair: Maggie O’Neill <maggie.o’neill@durham.ac.uk>, Durham University
Discussant: Wolfram Fischer <firos@uni-kassel.de>, University of Kassel; Kaja Kaźmierska <kajakaz@uni.lodz.pl>, University of Lodz
- MD04 Author Meets Critics (2): C. Heath
chair: Bernt Schnettler <schnettler@uni-bayreuth.de>, Bayreuth University
Discussants:
Hubert Knoblauch <Hubert.Knoblauch@tu-berlin.de>, Technische Universität Berlin
Alain Quemin <aquemin@univ-paris8.fr>, Université Paris-Est
- MD05 Specials & workshops (1): Rethinking Gramsci
chair: Sergio Scamuzzi <sergio.scamuzzi@unito.it>, Universitá degli Studi di Torino
- MD06 Specials & workshops (2): Network of Social Science Laboratories
Chairs: Ricca Edmondson <ricca.edmondson@nuigalway.ie>, National University Of Ireland (Galway); Anne Ryen <anne.ryen@uia.no>, University of Agder
- MD07 ESA lecture (ii): On the University – University in Crisis?
Chair: Suvi Ronkainen <suvi.ronkainen@ulapland.fi>, University of Lapland
- MD08 Critique and Crisis
chair: Frank Welz <frank.welz@uibk.ac.at> Innsbruck University
What is the meaning of critique today? On the one hand, critique has often been understood as normatve criticism by intellectuals. On the other hand, in times of crisis many movements across the world, such as the Occupy protests, the social uprisings in the Arab Spring, the unrest in Greece, and discontent in other European countries, have been analysed as living forms of critque. Are they indicative of reconfiguratons of the link between crisis and critique? Does crisis need critique? Or does critique put the institutional order of things into a state of crisis?
When Koselleck described modern consciousness as one of crisis (Critque and Crisis, 1959), he had in mind the origins of critique in the Enlightenment and its role in the ‘pathogenesis of modern society’. However, this ESA Mid-day Special invites papers that take up arguments such as that by Koselleck, in which a link is made between critique and crisis as historical categories; such links could be discussed against the background of the current crisis.
- MD09 Author Meets Critics (3): D. Chernilo
Chair: Marta Soler Gallart <marta.soler@ub.edu>, Universitat de Barcelona
Discussants: Mark Gould <mgould@haverford.edu>, Haverford College; Csaba Szaló <szalo@fss.muni.cz>, Mazaryk University
- MD10 Author Meets Critics (4): F. Zajczyk & A. Sarlo
Chair: Maria Carmela Agodi <agodi@unina.it>, Universitá di Napoli Federico II
Discussants: Ursula Apitzsch <apitzsch@soz.uni-frankfurt.de>, Goethe-University Frankfurt; Marila Guadagnini <guadagnini@alma.it>, Universitá degli Studi di Torino
- MD11 Specials & workshops (3): Internationalisation of Qualitative Research – Perspectives and Challenges
Chair: Gerben Moerman <gmoerman@uva.nl>, University of Amsterdam
- MD12 Launch of our 2nd ESA Journal: ‘European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology’
Chair: Pertti Alasuutari <pertti.alasuutari@uta.fi>, University of Tampere
- MD13 ESA lecture (iii): On the Status of the Discipline
Chair: Tally Katz-Gerro <tkatz@soc.haifa.ac.il>, University of Haifa
Discussants: Elena Danilova <endanilova@gmail.com>, National Research University (Moscow)
Frank Welz <frank.welz@uibk.ac.at>, Innsbruck University
- MD14 EU Zone: Which Crisis? Views and Experiences from Different European Regions (2)
chair: Luigi Pellizzoni <PellizzoniL@sp.units.it>, Università di Trieste
- MD15 Author Meets Critics (5): M. Caselli
Chair: Vincenzo Cicchelli <vcicchelli@msh-paris.fr>, University Paris 4;
Discussant: Paolo Parra Saiani <paolo.parra.saiani@unige.it>, Universitá degli Studi di Genova
- MD16 Specials & workshops (4): Open Access – Dilemmas and Challenges
Chair: Ellen Annandale <ellen.annandale@york.ac.uk> University of York
- MD17 Specials & workshops (5): Teaching Quantitative Methods
Chair: Henning Best <Henning.Best@em.uni-frankfurt.de>, University of Frankfurt
- MD18 Specials & workshops (6): Funding for Social Scientists
Chair: Roberto Cipriani <roberto.cipriani@tlc.uniroma3.it>, Universitá degli Studi Roma 3
