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First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008
Special Sessions
Special Session
Liquid or tribal youth? Dialogue with Bauman & Maffesoli
Open session
Friday, September 5, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, hall
Session organized by the Research Committee on Sociology of Youth, RC34
Chair:
Carme Capdevila, Consellera del Departament d'Acció Social i Ciutadania, Generalitat de Catalunya
Other authorities:
Ngan-Pun Ngai, President of the ISA Research Committe on Sociology of Youth
Eugeni Villalbí i Godes, Secretari de Joventut, Generalitat de Catalunya
Speakers:
- Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds, UK
- Michel Maffesoli, Université de la Sorbonne, France
Special Session
Dialogue around Alain Touraine’s penser autrement
Open session
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, hall
Session organized by the Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements, RC47
Chair: Michel Wieviorka, CADIS, EHESS, France
Speaker: Alain Touraine, CADIS, EHESS, France
Discussants:
- Manuel Castells, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
- Craig Calhoun, Social Science Research Council, USA
Special Session
Public sociology, global unionism, civil society,
and social transformation
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Historic Building of the University of Barcelona, aula magna
Session organized by the Research Committee on Labor Movements, RC44
Chair: Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Panelists:
- Dan Gallin, Global Labor Institute, Geneva
- Ron Oswald. General Secretary of the IUF
- John Maitland, ex President of the International Chemical, Energy and
Mining federation, ICEM
- Marco Belinguer, WSF, Italy
Respondent:
- Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, USA
Special Session
Sociology and society in the 21st Century
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 18:00-19:45
Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, auditorium
Lecture by Manuel Castells
Special Session
Foreseeable future of sociology
Monday, September 8, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, hall
Scheme to be announced
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