Program and Events

As the conference will be online, participants will have access to all events through our online conference tool.

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Christopher A. Bail, Duke University, USA
Delia Baldassarri, New York University, USA
Markus Gangl, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, DE
Sandy Marquart-Pyatt, Michigan State University, USA
Fabian T. Pfeffer, University of Michigan, USA
Richard G. Wilkinson, University of Nottingham, UK
Michael Zürn, WZB Berlin & FU Berlin, DE

Conference Schedule

The conference will host selected invited speakers. Moreover, we will have two panels in cooperation with the German ‘Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt’ and the Research Cluster ‘Politics of Inequality’ (University of Konstanz) on recent developments of societal cohesion.

Note: All sessions are Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Day 1, Wednesday, September 29

Time Session Type Session Name
13:00-
13:30
Plenum Welcome address
13:30 -
15:00
Plenum Keynote Lecture
Markus Gangl
Goethe University of Frankfurt

Keynote Lecture
Fabian T. Pfeffer
University of Michigan
15:00 -
15:30
Coffee Break  
15:30 -
17:30
Parallel Sessions - Covid-19 Pandemic and Social Cohesion
- Educational Inequalities
- Labor Market and Social Integration
17:30 -
18:00
Coffee Break  
18:00 -
19:30
Plenum AS Dissertation Prize Ceremony
19:30 -
20:15
Plenum Keynote Lecture
Michael Zürn
WZB Berlin Social Science Center & Freie Universität Berlin 
20:15 End of Day 1  

Day 2, Thursday, September 30

Time Session Type Session Name
9:00 -
11:00
Parallel Sessions - Climate Change and Living Conditions
- Methodology of Cohesion Research
- Immigration, Ethnicity, and Discrimination 
11:00 -
11:30
Coffee Break  
11:30­­­ -
13:00
Parallel Sessions - European Integration, Identity, and Populism
- Gender, Career, and the Family
- Media, Bots, and Opinion Formation
13:00 -
14:00
Lunch Break  
14:00 -
15:00
Different Rooms Poster session
15:00 -
16:30
Plenum Special Event
‘Research Institute Social Cohesion’
16:30 -
17:00
Coffee Break  
17:00 -
17:45
Plenum

Keynote Lecture
Christopher A. Bail
Duke University

Keynote Lecture
Sandy Marquart-Pyatt (cancelled!)
Michigan State University

18:30 -
20:30
Social Virtual Wine Meeting
(see booking information ‘Evening Wine Package
at the registration) 
20:30 End of Day 2  

Day 3, Friday, October 1

Time Session Type Session Name
9:00 -
11:00
Parallel Sessions - Social Networks, Neighborhood, and Civil Society
- Immigration, Identification, and Social Integration
Open Session: Markets, Risk, And Cycling 
11:00 -
11:30
Coffee Break  
11:30 -
13:00
Parallel Sessions - Cultural Divide, Democracy, and Partisanship
- Covid-19 Pandemic, Protest, and Populism
- Social Inequality and Societal Integration
13:00 -
14:00
Lunch Break  
14:00 -
15:30
Plenum Special Event
EXC 2035 Cluster of Excellence ‘The Politics of Inequality’
15:30 -
16:00
Coffee Break  
16:00 -
17:30
Plenum Keynote Lecture
Delia Baldassarri
New York University

Keynote Lecture
Richard G. Wilkinson
University of Nottingham
17:30 -
18:00
Plenum Closing Remarks
18:00 End of Conference