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Presidential Sessions
Venue
Svenska Mässan (Convention Centre)
| Presidential Address |
Michel Wieviorka, ISA President 2006-2010
Sunday, July 11, 16:30-18:30
| First Presidential Session:
Sociology on the move |
Monday, July 12, 08:45-13:00
Part I: Academic Session
08:45-09:30
Key note speaker:
Yuan-Tseh Lee, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Taiwan
09:30-12:00
Sociology on the move
Coordinator: Michel Wieviorka, ISA President 2006-2010
- Possible futures
Craig Calhoun, New York University, USA - Netwars in the network society
Manuel Castells, Universitat Oberta Catalunya, Spain
- Sustainable development seen from China
Peilin Li, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, P.R. China,
- Historical changes and challenges to sociology
Elisa Reis, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- The re-assembling of territory, authority, and rights
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, USA
Part II: Prize Giving Session
12:00-13:00
- Lecture by Jeffrey Alexander, the winner of the M. Dogan Foundation Prize
Chair: Arturo Rodriguez Morato, ISA Vice-President for Research
- Presentation of the winners of the Fifth Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists.
Chair: Louis Chauvel, ISA Executive Committee member
| Second Presidential Session: Sociology, politics and the crisis |
Saturday, July 17, 09:00-12:00
Panel: Sociology, politics and the crisis
09:00-11:30
Coordinator: Michel Wieviorka, ISA President 2006-2010
Chair and conclusive remarks: Alain Touraine, France
Panelists are past-presidents of the ISA:
- Margaret Archer, United Kingdom, ISA President 1986-1990
- Fernando H. Cardoso, Brazil, ISA President 1982-1986
- Alberto Martinelli, Italy, ISA President 1998-2002
- Piotr Sztompka, Poland, ISA President 2002-2006
11:30-12:00
- the installation of New President
- presentation of Yokohama, Japan, as a venue of the next ISA World Congress of Sociology in 2014.
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International Sociological Association, March 2010 |