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First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008
Research
Committee on
Futures Research RC07
Main theme
Debating futures: Global trends, alternative visions, public discourse and the new tasks of social research
Programme Coordinator
Markus S. Schulz, New York University, USA, isarc07@gmail.com
Venues of RC07 sessions:
Faculty of Philosophy, Geography and History
University of Barcelona
Montalegre, 6
08001 Barcelona, Spain, map
Session 1: New trends in globalization. Part I
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of Illinois, USA, jnp@uiuc.edu
Session 2: New trends in globalization. Part II
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of Illinois, USA, jnp@uiuc.ed
Session 3: Public sociology, policy making, and power
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chairs: Raquel Sosa, UNAM, Mexico, rsosa@servidor.unam.mx and Markus S. Schulz, New York University, USA, isarc07@gmail.com
Bussines Meeting
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 13:30 -14:3
Session 4: The role of “future” in sociological theorizing
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Joint Session of RC07, Futures Research with RC16, Sociological Theory
Chairs: Elisa P. Reis, UFRJ, Brazil , epreis@alternex.com.br and Markus S. Schulz, New York University, USA, isarc07@gmail.com
Session 5: Comparative research on religious values and symbolism
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Reimon Bachika, Bukkyo University, Kyoto, Japan, bachika@bukkyo-u.ac.jp
Session 6: New media, social movements, and democracy
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Joint Session of RC07 Futures Research with RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action, and Social Change
Chair: Markus S. Schulz, New York University, USA, isarc07@gmail.com and Benjamín Tejerina Montaña, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain, cjptemob@lg.ehu.es
Session 7: Social movements: vision, persuasion and power
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Joint Session of RC07, Futures Research with RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action, and Social Change
Chairs: Mark Herkenrath, U Zurich, Switzerland herky@access.unizh.ch and Raquel Sosa, UNAM, Mexico, rsosa@servidor.unam.mx
Session 8: Architecture, design, robots, and the making of the future
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Joerg Gleiter, Free University Bolzano, Italy, jhg31@columbia.edu
Session 9: Newage y tercera vía: paradojas e incomodidades de la modernidad
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Ricardo F. Macip, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México, keropedo@yahoo.com
Session 10: New approaches in interdisplinary perspective
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair Hermilio Santos, NTOS-PUCRS, Brazil, hermilio@pucrs.br
Session 11: The Internet: From utopia to nightmare?
Friday, September 5, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Faculty of Communication Blanquerna, University of Ramon LLull
Joint Session of RC07, Futures Research with RC14 Communication, Knowledge and Culture and RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
Chairs: RC23 (Science & Technology): Binay Kumar Pattnaik, Indian Institute Technology Kanpur, India, csaloma@ateneo.edu and RC07 (Futures) Ann Denis, Ottawa University, Canada, ann.denis@uottawa.ca, RC14 (Communication): Hermilio Santos, PUCRS, Brazil, hermilio@pucrs.br
Session 12: Intellectual copyright, digital inequality, and global hegemony
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Faculty of Communication Blanquerna, University of Ramon LLull
Joint Session RC07 with RC14 Communication, Knowledge and Culture and RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
Chairs: Jaime Jiménez, UNAM, Mexico, jjimen@servidor.unam.mx, Hermilio Santos, PUCRS, Brazil hermilio@pucrs.br and Markus S. Schulz, New York University, USA, isarc07@gmail.com
Session 13: Las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación en el mundo latino: Perspectivas sociológicas desde Europa y América Latina I
The new information and communication technologies in the Latin world: Sociological perspectives from Europe and Latin American I
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Faculty of Communication Blanquerna, University of Ramon LLull
Joint Spanish Language Session of RC07 Futures Research with RC14 Communication, Knowledge and Culture and RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
Chairs: Hermilio Santos, PUCRS, Brazil hermilio@pucrs.br, Markus S. Schulz, New York University, USA, isarc07@gmail.com and Cristobal Torres, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, cristobal.torres@uam.es
Session 14: Las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación en el mundo latino: Perspectivas sociológicas desde Europa y América Latina II
The new information and communication technologies in the Latin world: Sociological perspectives from Europe and Latin America II
Monday, September 8, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Faculty of Communication Blanquerna, University of Ramon LLull
Joint Spanish Language Session of RC07 Futures Research with RC14 Communication, Knowledge and Culture and RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
Chairs: Hermilio Santos, PUCRS, Brazil hermilio@pucrs.br, Markus S. Schulz, New York University, USA, isarc07@gmail.com and Cristobal Torres, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, cristobal.torres@uam.es
Session 15: Gender, science, technology, innovation, and the future
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Faculty of Communication Blanquerna, University of Ramon LLull
Joint Session of RC07 Futures Research with RC04 Sociology of Education, RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology, and RC32 Women in Society
Organizers: RC32: Solange Simoes, Eastern Michigan University, USA, ssimoes@umich.edu and RC23: Radhamany Sooryamoorthy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, sooryamoorthyr@ukzn.ac.za
Session 16: The role of university research in the future
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Faculty of Communication Blanquerna, University of Ramon LLull
Joint Session of RC07 Futures Research with RC04 Sociology of Education and RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
Chairs: Tamás Kozma kozmat@ella.hu, Jaime Jiménez, UNAM, Mexico, jjimen@servidor.unam.mx, and Radhamany Sooryamoorthy, U Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa sooryamoorthyr@ukzn.ac.za
Session 17: Leisure in the age of technological transformation
Monday, September 8, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Joint Session of RC07 Futures Research, RC13 Sociology of Leisure and RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
Chairs: Jaime Jiménez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, jjimen@servidor.unam.mx, Teus J. Kamphorst, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, teus.kamphorst@wur.nl, Scott North, Osaka University, Japan, north@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp
Session 18:
Leisure: dream or reality?
Monday, September 8, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Joint Session of RC07 Futures Research with RC13 Sociology of Leisure and RC 23 Sociology of Science and Technology)
Chairs: RC07 (Futures): Scott North, Osaka University, Japan, north@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp, RC23 (Science & Technology): Jochen Gläser, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, Jochen.Glaser@Fu-Berlin.de, and RC13 (Leisure): Dirk Steinbach, University of Applied Sciences of Salzburg, Austria, dirk.steinbach@fh-salzburg.ac.at
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