Uncertain Times. Challenges of Societal Transformations
34th Congress of the German Society of Sociology in Jena,
October 6th to 10th

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Colin Crouch (Warwick, GB)
The 21st Century - the age of uncertainty
Tuesday, October 7th 2008, HS 1, at 6 pm

Christoph Deutschmann (Tübingen, Germany)
Money and Capitalist Dynamics
Thursday, October 9th 2008, HS 1, at 9 am

Michael Edinger (Jena, Germany) / Gagriella Ilonszki (Budapest, Hungary)
Political Elites in the ‘Great Transformation’ Multiple Patterns of Development or Large-Scale Convergence?
Wednesday, October 8th 2008, HS 2, at 9 am

Neil Fligstein (Berkeley , USA)
The Reorganization of European Markets
Thursday, October 9th 2008, HS 1, at 9 am

Nancy Fraser (New York, USA) / Axel Honneth (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Conceptions of Critical Theory in Times of Uncertainty
Thursday, October 9th 2008, HS 1, at 6 pm

Ian Gough (Bath, GB)
The Global Future of the Welfare State
Wednesday, October 8th 2008, HS 2, at 1 pm

Dirk Konietzka (Rostock, Germany)
Changing Patterns of Entering Working Life in Central and Eastern Europe
Wednesday, October 8th 2008, HS 2, at 9 am

János Mátyás Kovács (Wien, Austria)
Varietas delectat?. On the Typology of Nascent Capitalisms in Eastern Europe
Wednesday, October 8th 2008, HS 2, at 9 am

Patrick Le Galès (Paris, France)
New Bureaucracy, New Instruments to Make Actors’ Behaviour More Predictable?
The British Experience
Thursday, October 9th 2008, HS 1, at 9 am

Wolfgang Streeck (Cologne, Germany)
From Social Rights to Social Networks: Stability and Flexibility in Contemporary Labor Markets
Thursday, October 9th 2008, HS 1, at 9 am

Julia Szálai (Budapest, Hungary)
After the Systemic Change. Perspectives on Societies of Transition
Tuesday, October 7th 2008, HS 1, at 1 pm

Piotr Sztompka (Krakau, Poland)
The Ambivalence of Post-Communist Societies
Wednesday, October 8th 2008, HS 2, at 9 am

Eli Zaretsky (New York, USA)
Barack Obama and the idea of a Left
Thursday, October 9th 2008, at 5 pm