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> 1st ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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> 5th Conference of the European Sociological Association
> VISIONS AND DIVISIONS
> - CHALLENGES TO EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGY
> August 28 - September 1, 2001, Helsinki, Finland
> www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/
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> Abstract deadline: January 31, 2001.
> Notification of acceptance before April 1, 2001.
> Early bird registration fee until May 15, 2001.
>
> PROGRAMME
> The programme is divided into three kinds of sessions:
> plenaries, research network sessions, and streams (ad hoc
> theme sessions). In addition, there will also be the popular Meet
> the Author sessions.
> The following themes will be explored:
> 1. Divisions in Europe and Global Challenges
> - Borders and boundaries within and beyond Europe
> - Multilayered citizenship, democracy and human rights
> - National and supranational elites
> - Divided cities
> 2. Theoretical Di/Visions
> - Theoretical integration versus pluralism?
> - Nation - State - Society
> - Trust, uncertainty and risks
> - Networks and the embodied subject
> 3. New and Old Social Divisions
> - Ethnicity and nationalism
> - Genders
> - Class and life-style groups
> - Migration
> - Age and generation
> 4. New Technologies and New Visions of Society
> - Information technology, work and social relations
> - Biotechnologies and human reproduction
> - New media and virtual societies
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> PERMANENT RESEARCH NETWORKS of the ESA:
> - Ageing in Europe
> - Biographical Perspectives on European Societies
> - Disaster and Social Crisis
> - Economic Sociology
> - Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State
> - Globalization
> - Industrial Relations, Labour Market Institutions & Employment
> - Regional Network on Southern European Societies
> - RENCORE: Methods of Comparative Research on Europe
> - Science and Technology
> - Social Movements
> - Social Theory
> - Society and Environment
> - Sociology of the Arts
> - Sociology of Families
> - Sociology of Professions
> - Sociology of Social Policy
> - Sociology of Consumption
> - Sociology of Communications and Media Research
> - Youth and Generation in Europe
> - Provisional Research Network on Sociology of Education
> - Society and Sports (in the making)
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> The programme will be presented in more detail in the Second
> announcement and call for papers in October, 2000.
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> REGISTRATION
> The registration and abstract forms are on our web page
> or you can request them via e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> or by regular mail: ESA Conference, CongCreator, P.O.Box
> 762, FIN 00101, Helsinki. Finland. Tel +358-9-4542 190, fax
> +358-9-4542 1930.
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> HIGH PATRON
> The President of the Republic Ms. Tarja Halonen is the High
> Patron of the conference.
>
> EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
> President
> Jiri Musil, Czech Republic, [log in to unmask] (Hana
> Borcevska)
> Secretary General
> Claudine Attias-Donfut, France [log in to unmask]
> Vice President for Research Networks
> Yasemin Soysal, United Kingdom, [log in to unmask]
> Programme committee:
> Vice President for Program: J.P.Roos, Finland
> [log in to unmask]
> Margareta Bertilsson, Denmark, margareta.bertilsson
> @sociology.ku.dk
> Ulla Björnberg, Sweden, [log in to unmask]
> David Lane, United Kingdom, [log in to unmask]
> Mojca Novak, Slovenia, [log in to unmask]
> Elena Zdravomyslova, Russia, [log in to unmask]
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> Looking forward to seeing you in Helsinki!
> On behalf of the local conference organizers:
> Anne Kovalainen
> [log in to unmask]; The Westermarck Society
> Elina Haavio-Mannila
> [log in to unmask]; Dept of Sociology,
> University of Helsinki
> Anna Rotkirch
> [log in to unmask], Dept of Social Policy,
> University of Helsinki
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> For more information, please visit the ESA web page:
> http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/
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Robert Miller
Director, Centre for Social Research
School of Sociology & Social Policy, Queen's University
Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, U.K.
tel: +44 (0)2890 335975 Fax: +44 (0)2890 320668
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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