All sessions at University Bremen start at 4:00pm,

All sessions at Jacobs University start at 4:15pm.

Location, unless indicated otherwise:

University of Bremen Campus: BIGSSS Building, FVG West, Room W0060

Jacobs University Campus: Research V, Seminar Room

All sessions start at 4:00 pm

Location:
University of Bremen Campus, BIGSSS Building, FVG West, Room W 0060
Jacobs University Campus, Research V, Seminar Room

unless indicated otherwise

Ron Lesthaeghe
Free University of Brussels
The Second Demographic Transition: Origins, Evidence, Prospects
October 27, 2010, Jacobs University


Charlie Jeffery
University of Edinburgh
Rethinking Social Citizenship: Public Attitudes, Welfare and Regional Democracy
November 10, 2010, University of Bremen


Ulrich Sedelmeier
London School of Economics, DAAD Guest Professor at BIGSSS
After conditionality: why is post-accession compliance with EU law in the post-communist new member states so good?
November 17, 2010, University of Bremen


Richard Breen
Yale University
Income Inequality and Educational Assortative Mating
BIGSSS / EMPAS Lecture
November 24, 2010, University of Bremen

Julian Le Grand
London School of Economics
Government paternalism: nanny state or helpful friend?
December 8, 2010, University of Bremen


Heike Solga
WZB
The success of firm internships and vocational guidance for low-achieving pupils - What does it tell us about the barriers in their school-to-work transitions
January 19, 2011

Please note that this lecture will take place at the University of Bremen instead of at Jacobs University as announced originally.

Nina Baur
TU Berlin
Theoretical Objectives of Data Analysis.
Qualitative and Quantitative Research Compared
January 26, 2011, Jacobs University


Chris Reus-Smit
European University Institute
Individual Rights in the Making of the International System
February 9, 2011, University of Bremen

Simona Botti
London Business School
To Choose or Not To Choose: From Unpleasant to Tragic Choices
March 30, 2011, Jacobs University
Please note that this lecture will start at 04.30 pm.
http://www.bigsss-bremen.de/fileadmin/gsss/files/Events/Botti_300311.pdf

Klaus Hurrelmann
Hertie School of Governance
The Growing Gender Gap in Health and Education
April 21, 2010, Jacobs University, Conference Room of the Information Ressources Center (IRC)

Kathrin Leuze
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin
Conducting the German National Education Panel Study (NEPS): Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning
May 5, 2010, University of Bremen

Friedrich Kratochwil
European University Institute Florence
Communication, Niklas Luhmann and the Fragmentation Debate in International Law
June 2, 2010, University of Bremen

Peter Hall
Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg
Health Inequalities and Public Policy-Making as Social Resource Creation
June 9, 2010, University of Bremen

Frank Schimmelfennig
ETH Zurich
The international promotion of democracy: lessons from EU conditionality
June 16, 2010, University of Bremen

Dorit Roer-Strier
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Action Research at the Service of Political Science: The Case of House Demolition in Israel and Palestine
June 21, 2010, University of Bremen

Location:
University of Bremen Campus, BIGSSS Building, FVG West, Room W 0060
Jacobs University Campus, Res. V, Seminar Room

Ludger Pries
Ruhr Universität Bochum
Transnational Social Spaces - the example of Migrant Organizations
October 28, 2009, University of Bremen

Ulrich Wagner
Universität Marburg
Prejudice in Germany
November 25, 2009, Jacobs University

Bénédicte Zimmermann
Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris
Historical Sociology or Socio-History? When Categories and their Constitution matter: A Plea for Histoire Croisée
December 2, 2009, Jacobs University

Beate Kohler Koch
Universität Mannheim
Is there an EU model for participatory governance and does it hold its promises?
Tuesday, January 12, 2010, University of Bremen

Adrienne Héritier
European University Institute, Florence
Theory and empirics of continuous institutional change:
codecision in European legislation
January 28, 2010, University of Bremen

For a pdf of the program, please click here.

22.04. Max Kaase (Jacobs University/BIGSSS): Participation and Democratic Accountability

06.05. Andreas Nölke (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Comparative Capitalism Meets International Political Economy: A Transnational Perspective

12.05. Fredda Blanchard-Fields (Georgia Institute of Technology): (to be announced)

10.06. Renate Mayntz (Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln): Legitimacy and Compliance in National and Transnational Governance

17.06. Jürgen Gerhards (Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Soziologie): First Names as an Indicator of Social Processes: Assimilation of Immigrants and the Giving of First Names

24.06. Christian Joppke (The American University of Paris): Citizenship and Immigration: A View from the Comfort Zone

22.10. Jens Beckert (Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln): Markets in Sociological Perspective

30.10. Fritz W. Scharpf (Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln / BIGSSS): Legitimacy in the Multilevel European Polity

26.11. Helga de Valk ( Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute / BIGSSS): The Second Generation: Trajectories to Adulthood in a Comparative Perspective

17.12. Frank Bernerf (Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen, Berlin): The Disenchantment of a Fiction of Order: The Blurring of Public and Private in Social Policy

07.01. Alison Woodward (Free University Brussels):Transnational Gender Movements and European Equalities

14.01. Jutta Allmendinger (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin): Education in Europe and the Lisbon Benchmarks

21.01. Jens Förster (University of Amsterdam): Stereotype Threat: When Self Stereotypes Influence Performance

04.02. Adrian Favell (UCLA / University of Aarhus): Eurostars and Eurocities

16.04. Hans Joas (Universität Erfurt): Violence and Human Dignity. The Experience of Violence and the Genesis of Value

14.05. Anna Leander (Copenhagen Business Schoo): Military Markets in Context

28.05. Mark Kramer (Harvard University): The International System in the Post-Cold War Era:  Assessing Threats and Challenges in Historical Perspective

25.06. Johannes Siegrist (Universität Düsseldorf): Work Stress and Health in the Era of Economic Globalization

07.07. Tobias Debiel (Universität Duisburg): Governance in Fragile States

08.07. Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan): Global Cultural Change

09.07. Claus Offe (Hertie School of Governance): Governance by Persuasion: Word, Signals, and Moral Campaigns as Tools of Public Policy

18.04. Hauke Brunkhorst (University Flensburg): Reluctant Democratic Egalitarianism Hannah Arendt's Theory of Power and the Idea of a Revolutionary Constitution
07.11. Jürgen Enders (University of Twente): Different Forms of Training - Different Careers?
21.11 Thomas Risse (Freie Universität Berlin): Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood
05.12. Dietlind Stolle (Mc Gill University Montreal / WZB): Mobilizing Responsibility for Global Justice Advocacy: Political Consumerism in Comparative Perspective
09.01. Stefano Guzzini (Uppsala University, GSSS/HWK): Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) Unipolarity and the Decline of Multilateralism? A Power-Theoretical Critique
23.01. Gary Marks (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): The Structure of Government Within and Among States
06.02 Frank van Tubergen (University of Utrecht): Immigrant Integration in Western Societies: A Dynamic Perspective

18.04. Hauke Brunkhorst (University Flensburg): Reluctant Democratic Egalitarianism Hannah Arendt's Theory of Power and the Idea of a Revolutionary Constitution
02.05. Susanne K. Schmidt (University Bremen): Mutual Recognition as a New Mode of Governance
16.05. Anja Weiß (LMU Munich): The Social Position of Migrants. Overcoming Methodological Nationalism in the Study of Social Inequality
23.05. Jeylan Mortimer (GSSS and EMPAS) (University of Minnesota):  Pathways of Transition from School to Work: New Research Findings and Social Policy
30.05. Stephan Lessenich (Friedrich Schiller University Jena): Perpetua Mobilia: Social Policies for an Active Society
13.06. Ulrich Brand (Hochschule Bremen): The Internationalization of the state as reconstitution of hegemony
27.06. Jörg Rössel (University Erfurt): The visibility of class differences
11.07. Hartmut Esser (University Mannheim): Language and ethnic stratification
18.07. Isabelle Ferreras (Université de Louvain/Harvard University): Why is the Service-based Economy Transforming Society? Service Work Experience and the Capitalism-Democracy Articulation

22.11. Gerhard Lehmbruch (Universität Konstanz): On Historical Institutionalism
13.12. Jan Delhey (International University Bremen): Why Nations Trust Each Other: The Example of Europe
10.01. Herbert Obinger (Universität Bremen): Social Expenditure and the Politics of Redistribution
17.01. Guiseppe Sciortino (Universita di Trieste): How Different Can We Be? Talcott Parsons, the Societal Community and the Multicultural Debate
24.01. Jutta Joachim (Universität Mannheim): Civil Society and IOs: Comparing the Role of NGOs in the UN and the EU
07.02. Stephan Lessenich (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena): Perpetua Mobilia: Policies for an "Active Society"

22.05. Prof. Dr. Tanja Brühl (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M.): “Privatisation of World Politics“
09.06. Prof. Vern L. Bengtson (University of Southern California): Change, Continuity, and Family: Transmission Across Generations
14.06. Prof. Dr. Ursula Dallinger (Universität Hamburg): Logic of action in generational relations – theoretical and empirical research strategies
28.06. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Neyer (Europa-Universität Viadrina): Half Way Justice. The European Dualism and Its Effects on Policy-Making.

24.10 Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt (TU Darmstadt): European Governance in an Expanded Multi-Level System
09.11 Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Hessische Stiftung für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK): The Remains of the Day": Islands of persuasion within the powerplay of global governance
23.11 Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Universität Mannheim): From Institutional Affinities to Complementarities: Mapping and Linking Protection, Production and Partnership Regimes
07.12 Dr. Rainer Baumann (GSSS, Universität Bremen): The Discursive Reconstruction of Social Structures and the Change of German Multilateralism
11.01 Prof. Dr. Lutz Leisering (Universität Bielefeld): Is there a World Welfare State?

14.04. Dr. Udo Kelle (Universität Vechta): Theorieauswahl und Theoriekonstruktion in der Soziologie
27.04. Prof. Dr. Marcus Gangl (Universität Mannheim): Scar Effects of Unemployment: A Cross-National Comparison
25.05. Prof. Dr. Margrit Schreier (International University Bremen): Flexible Content Analysis
29.06. Prof. Dr. René Levy (Universität Lausanne): Destandardisierte Lebensverläufe? Männer und Frauen zwischen Familie und Beruf
13.07. Prof. Dr. Sabine Broeck (Universität Bremen): American Studies and Its Approach to „Culture“

21.09. Prof. Aaron Cicourel (University of California, San Diego): Levels of Analysis: Cognitive, Social Interaction, and Social Structure
27.10. Prof. Chris Welzel (IUB): Decay of Virtues? Causes and Consequences of Cultural Change
28.10. Prof. Dr. Hubert Knoblauch (TU Berlin): Wissenssoziologie und Diskursanalyse
24.11. Dr. Roland Verwiebe (Universität Hamburg): Transnational Mobility and Social Inequality
01.12. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Glatzer (Universität Frankfurt a.M.): The Shaping of Social Inequality – Challenges for German Society

12.05. Heather Hofmeister, PhD (Universität Bamberg): Women's Employment Careers in an Era of Globalization: The U.S. Case
02.06. Prof. Katherine Thelen (Northwestern University): How Institutions Evolve
02.06. Prof. Dr. Sonja DrobniÄ? (Universität Hamburg): Group Affiliation, Social Networks, and Social Cohesion
16.06. Prof. Dr. Ursula M. Staudinger (International University Bremen): Human Strengths and Life-Long Learning
07.07. Prof. Dr. Jochen Clasen (University of Stirling): Politics of Welfare Reform in Comparison – The Case of Unemployment Provision in Britain and Germany

19. 11. Dr. Sabina Avdagic (MPI für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln): "Understanding Labor Politics in East Central Europe: the Usefulness of Existing Frameworks"
03.12. Prof. Dr. Steffen Mau (GSSS): Democratic Demand for a Social Europe? Preferences of the European Citizenry
09.12. Prof. Ian Gough (University of Bath): The needs of people versus the needs of capital
07.01. Prof. Dr. Karin Gottschall (ZeS, Universität Bremen): Formation of Human Capital as Social Investment? The Case of Education and Training in Germany
21.01. Prof. Dr. Patrizia Nanz (GSSS): Global Governance, Participation and the Public Sphere

14.07: Roundtable: After Iraq: A New World Order?

Teilnehmer/innen:

• Lars-Erik Cederman (ETH Zürich)
• Patrizia Nanz (GSSS, Universität Bremen)
• Dieter Senghaas (InIIS, Universität Bremen)
• Silke Weinlich (InIIS, Universität Bremen)
• Antje Wiener (Queens College Belfast, HWK Delmenhorst)

05.11. Dr. Cathleen Kantner (HU Berlin): "Waiting for a European 'Progressive Era'. The European Public and Its Problems"
04.06. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kittel (GSSS): Interest Associations in Social Policy Making
18.06: Dr. Benjamin Veghte (GSSS): The Logics of Social Provision in the US Welfare Regime
16.07 Prof. Dr. Johannes Huinink (EMPAS): Lessons from the Demographic Change in Western Welfare States