BULLETIN OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST ASSOCIATION NUMBER 9 SUMMER 1999

Final Announcement4th European Sociological

Conference Will Europe Work?August 18-21, 1999

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Symposium II 'Working on Europe ­Constructing Identities'Liam O'Dowd, Northern Ireland,State Borders, Border Regions and theConstruction of European IdentityMarco Martiniello, Belgium,Post-ethnicity in Europe

12.30-14.00 lunch14.00-15.30 Four Parallel Serni-plenaries

Symposium I 'Working in Europe'Maria Petmesidou, Greece,Employment and Labour Market Policies inSouthern Europe: Developments andtrends in thecontext of European integrationJoakim Pal me, Sweden,Making Social Europe Work

Symposium III 'Working on Europe ­Constructing Institutions'Franz Traxler, Austria,Labour Market Regulation between the Demandfor Social· Dialogue and Economic Performance.Towards anEuropean model?Walter Korpi, Sweden,Gender, Class and Patterns of (nequality inDifferent Types of Welfare States

Symposium IV'Europe's Working in theWorld'Anne Haila, Finland,European Cities in theGlobal WorldRisto Heiskala, Finland,Our Time: Europe in theAgeof Global NetworksandFlowing Identities15.30-16.00 teabreak16.00-17.30 Paper Sessions, part 118.00-19.00 Plenary on Europe19.30 Reception in the Town Hall,

hosted by theCityof Amsterdam

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Friday 20 AugustMeetThe Authorsessions, part IISession on 'Ten Years After TheFall of theWall'coffee breakPaper Sessions, part 5lunchPlenary on'Dutch Society'tea breakPaper Sessions, part 6Presidential Address by Prof.Martin Kohli, ESA presidentPublisher's Reception

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CONTENTS

Nominations for Election toNext ESA Executive

Committee

Publications Report

New Editor for NewsletterNeeded

Announcements

Research Networks

during lunch Posterviewing inthe main lobby14.00-15.30 Middle Plenary Session'European Perspective'Wolfgang Streeck, Germany,National Solidarity, International Competition,Supranational Policy: The emerging socialconstitution of EuropeGesta Esping-Andersen, Denmark/Italy,Micro Foundations of Post-industrial Society15.30-16.00 tea break16.00-17.30 Paper Sessions, part 318.00-19.00 General Assembly of the

European Sociological Association19.30-21.00 Paper Sessions, part 4

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Thursday 19 AugustMeet The Author sessions part IPanel on Europecoffee breakPaper Sessions, part2lunch

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Martin Kohli, ESA President

Tuesday 17 August 1999Pre-conference business meetings and themeeting of the Executive Committee will be heldin the SISWO building. Early registration at theVrije Universiteit Amsterdam: 15.00-17.00

Program

Wednesday 18 August 19999.00 Registration and coffee10.00 Opening address11.00 Plenary Opening Session 'East - West'Abram deSwaan, The Netherlands,Vicious Circles andVirtuous Squares: The poMicalsociology of theEuropean language constellationVadim Volkov, Russia,On Practical Knowledge, Personal Power, andOutsiders to European Integration

Ii he European Sociological Associationinvites you to its 4th Conference thissummer in Amsterdam. The theme, 'Will

Europe Work?' isan ambitious question inboth ofits meanings: the emergence of a Europeansociety with its institutional frameworks and itsidentities, and the future of the European 'worksocieties' and its alternatives. It is a truism thatthe European unification process suffers from adeficit in democratic participation. There is also adeficit on the scientific level: a lack of analysesbeyond the purely economic and social terms.Sociology has been slow to address thecomparative issues among European societies,and even more the issues of the emergingEuropean society. The Conference will be amoment of reflection. It will take stock of whatour discipline has already contributed, andchallenge it to do more.

The Conference is built around a number ofthematic symposia defined to directly addresstheseissues, andaround thework ofthe ResearchNetworks. It will also present plenary speakersand discussions, and specific intellectual eventsrelated to, e.q., the host country and to Europeanunification.

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20.00-21.30 Paper Sessions, part7

Key Note Speakers at the 4thEuropean Conference of Sociology

For information about theprogram:Bernard KruithofSISWO, Plantage Muidergracht 4, 1018 TVAmsterdam, The Netherlandstel.: + 31 205270646, Fax: + 31 206229430e-mail: kruithof@siswo.uva.nl

protection, industrial structures, labour marketsand employment, social inequality, socialexclusion and poverty.

Joakim Palme (Sweden) will also addressthe audience of Symposium I (Sweden) throughhisunderstanding of Making Social Europe Work.Presently, he is senior researcher at the SwedishInstitute for Social Research, Stockholm University.His research focuses on the development ofwelfare state institutions, and the causes andconsequences ofthis development He has writtenon pension rights, the public/private mix ofwelfare provisions, and on health and socialinsurance. Last year he published a joint articlewith Walter Korpi entitled 'The Paradox ofRedistribution and Strategies of Equality' in theAmerican Sociological Review. He has recentlydirected a study of theWelfare State in Crisis fortheCouncil of Europe and ispresently chairman ofa government committee on the development ofwelfare in Sweden in the 1990s.

Liam O'Dowd (Northem Ireland) vvll addressthe semi-plenary Symposium II Working on Europe *

Construaing Identities with his speech on StateBorders, Border Regions andthe Construction ofEuropean Identity. Presently he is Professor ofSociology at Queen's University, Belfast. He wasChairman of the National Committee forEconomics and Social Sciences of Royal IrishAcademy (1992-1996): His current researchinterests include: state borders and borderregions; the sociology of European integration;British and Irish nationalism. His most recentlypublished articles are on the sociology of borderchange, the Northern Ireland conflict and Britishnationalism, Other publications include: Whitherthe Irish Border?: Sovereignty, Democracy andEconomic Integration (1994), On Intelleauals andIntelleaual Life in Ireland (1996 - editor); co-editorof Borders, Nations and States: Frontiers ofNational Sovereignty in the New Europe (1996);and Irish Society: Sociological Perspectives (1995).He is currently joint editor (with James Anderson)of a special issue of Regional Studies on 'StateBorders and Border Regions' to be published inOctober 1999.

Marco Martiniello (Belgium) will alsoaddress the semi-plenary audience of SymposiumII, focusing on Post-ethnicity in Europe. Presentlyhe is the senior research fellow at the NationalFund forScientific Research and lecturer in Politicsat the University of liege. His current publicationsconcem Ou la la Belgique? (1998) and MulticulturalPolicies and the State (1998) while ethnicity,migration, racism, and citizenship are his pivotalfields of interest.

Franz Traxler (Austria) will address theaudience of Symposium III Working on Europe ­Constructing Institutions by his viewing ofLabourMarket Regulation between the Demand forSocial Dialogue and Economic Performance:Towards an European model? Presently, he isprofessor of sociology at University of Vienna.Among his numerous publications, two whichshould be mentioned are the co-authored:Industrial Relations between Command andMarket (1997) andOrganised Industrial Relationsin Europe (1995). His specific fields of interestconcern industrial relations, industrial sociology and

There will befour parallel semi-Plenary sessions atthe conference organised around the four mainSymposium streams.

Maria Petmesidou (Greece) will addressthe semi-plenary audience of Symposium IWorking in Europe; viewing Employment andLabour Market Policies in Southern Europe:Developments and trends in the context ofEuropean integration. Presently, she isProfessor ofSocial Policy in the Department of SocialAdministration at Democritus University ofThrace.Her extensive list of publications concerns thefields of social change and development social

Esping-Andersen will address Micro Foundationsof Post-industrial Society. He has taught atHarvard University and at the European Universityat Firenze. He isnowprofessor at theUniversity ofTrento and Universidad Pompeu Fabra(Barcelona), and also member of the ScientificCouncillnstituto Juan March. He has worked withthe United Nations and the DECO. He haspublished on comparative social democracies(Politics against Markets), on welfare states (TheThree Worlds of Capitalism; Welfare States inTransition), and on social stratification (ChangingClasses). His most recent book The SocialFoundations of Post-industrial Economies is anattempt to give a sociological analysis of theemerging new economic order.

industrial relations, and European integration.

The Closing Plenary session will be taken byDominique Schnapper (France) and ChiaraSaraceno (Italy).

In her speech, Schnapper (France) willaddress The National Tradition in Sociology: Isthere anything like an European sociology? Shehas made her whole sociological career at !'Ecoledes Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales where isshe has been a Director since 1981. Since 1995,she also has been the President of the FrenchSociological Association. Her latest mostsignificant publications concern Le relation al'eutre (1988) Contre la fin du travail (1997) andLe communaute des citoyens (1994) forwhich shewas rewarded thePrix del'Assemblee Nationale.

Saraceno will address theplenary audiencewith her speech on Constructing EuropeanCitizenship: Trends andchallenges. Presently, sheis Professor of Family Sociology at the Universityof Turin, Italy. During the period 1991-1998 shewas Head ofthe Department of Social Sciences atthe same university, since 1998she has been theDirector of the University's interdepartmentalCenter for Gender Studies. During the period1990-1994, she was the Italian expert at the ECObservatory on Policies for Combating SocialExclusion. Her major professional interests are onfamily changes and family policies, on poverty andsocial policies, and on gender and women's issues.Her major recent publications concern Mutamentidella famiglia e Politiche societi in Italia (1998),(with M. Barbagli) Separarsi in Italia (1998) andFamily Change, Family Policies and theRestructuring of Welfare (in Family, Market andCommunity. Equity andEfficiency in Social Policy,DECO Social Policy Series, 1997)

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Saturday 21 AugustPaper Sessions, part 8The Issue of Language inEuropean Sociology

10.30-11.00 coffee break11.00-12.30 Plenary Closing SessionDominique Schnapper, France,The National Tradition in Sociology: Is thereanything like an European sociology?Chiara Saraceno, 11aly,Constructing European Citizenship: Trends andchallenges12.30

The Middle Plenary session will be addressed byWolfgang Streeck (Germany) and Espinq­Andersen (Denmark/Italy).

Streeck will consider National Solidarity,International Competition, Supranational Policy:The emerging social constitution ofEurope. Whileteaching world-wide, Streeck isthe Director oftheMax Planck Institute for the Study of Societies inCologne since 1995. His latest co-authoredpublications address The Political Economy ofModern Capitalism; Mapping Convergence andDiversity (1997) and Governance in theEuropeanUnion (1996). Streeck's major fields of interest arecomparative political economy, comparative

Abram de Swaan (the Netherlands) and VadimVolkov (Russia) will address the Opening Plenary.

de Swaan will present his views on thelinguistic aspect ofEuropean unification under thetitle Vicious Circles and Virtuous Squares: Thepolitical sociology of the European languageconstellation. Presently, de Swaan is the chair ofthe Amsterdam School for Social ScienceResearch, and was its co-founder and dean aswell. He has been Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of Amsterdam since 1973. His mostprestigious publications are In the Care of theState; Health Care, Education and Welfare inEurope and theUSA intheModern Era (1988) andThe Management of Normality; Critical Essays inHealth and Welfare (1990). De Swaan's presentresearch interests are in trans-national society, asit concerns social policy, social identifications, andlanguage problems.

Volkov is MacArthur Foundation post­doctoral fellow in the project on peace andinternational security in the changing world. Histopic will be On Praaical Knowledge, PersonalPower, and Outsiders to European Integration.volkov's current publications deal mostly withentrepreneurship in post-communist Russia andpropaganda while his field of interest concernsthe state, violence, and politics.

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Organisation of the 4th ESAconference

Local Organisation CommitteeErik deGier (SISWa, Amsterdam, chair)Kees Knipscheer (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam,treasurer)Harry Ganzeboom (Utrecht University)Jantine van Gogh (ESA)MartJan delong (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)Bernard Kruithof (SISWa, Amsterdam)Maryke Borghardt (SISWO, Amsterdam)Bartvan Steenbergen (Utrecht University)Kea Tijdens (University ofAmsterdam)Nico Wilterdink (University of Amsterdam)

SponsorsThis conference has been made possible throughthe financial support of:• The Royal Academy of Sciences (Koninklijke

Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschap­pen);

• Onderzoekschool AWSB (Utrecht­Rotterdam), de Amsterdamse School voorSociale Wetenschap (Amsterdam School forResearch in the Social Science),OnderzoekschoollCS (Utrecht-Groningen);

• NWO (Dutch Society for Scientific Research);• NSV (Netherlands Sociological Organisation);• Nederlandse Vereniging voor Maatschappij­

en Cultuurwetenschappen NVMC;• Randstad Holding;• The Netherlands Convention Bureau­

Holland Destination;• SISWOllnstitute .for the Social Sciences

(Amsterdam).

ESA Program CommitteeDaniel Bertaux - Francefranca Bimbi - ItalyThomas Boje - SwedenHarry Ganzeboom - The NetherlandsMaxHaller - AustriaMartin Kohli - GermanyRobert Miller- Northern IrelandMojca Novak (chair) - SloveniaJ.P. Roos - finlandBartvan Steenbergen - The NetherlandsAlison Woodward 8elgium

The ESA gratefully acknowledges theircontribution to the 4th European Conference ofSociology.

distributed onthe first day of the conference andat the Conference Desk. You arekindly requestedto have a look at that programme, make yourchoice and fill in your reply slip.

Address of the Chair of the ProgrammeCommittee:Mojca NovakSocial Protection InstituteRimska 8SL-l000 LjubljanaSloveniatel: +38661 2000252fax: +386 61 2000260e-mail: mojca.novak@guest.arnes.si

Bart van Steenbergen (coordinator)

Theme toursIn order to make these ideas on Dutch societymore visual on Saturday afternoon August 21after closing the Conference we give you theopportunity to walk through special districts ofAmsterdam with a guide with scientific expertiseon a number of 'theme tours' will take place onSaturday afternoon. All these tours will start at14.00pm from the main hall of the AmsterdamCentral Railway Station (Meeting Point).

The members of thepanel will be:• Prof. Paul Schnabel, Director of the Social

and Cultural Planning Bureau• (chair);• Prof. Joop Goudsblom (author ofDutch Society):• Prof. Jelle Visser (co-author of A Dutch

Miracle), and• Prof. Christien Brinkgreve.

Date and place: Friday afternoon, August 20,14.00-15.30pm, Aula of the Free University

A selection will be made among the followingthemes:• Jewish Amsterdam;• 'Coffeeshops' Amsterdam;• Social welfare Amsterdam;• Gay Amsterdam;• Red Light District Amsterdam;• Modern Amsterdam;• Historical capital Amsterdam (Wallerstein).

You will find a more definitive programme ofthese theme tours in your programme book,

Presentation of 'Dutch Society'One of the pecularities of most internationalconferences is that the participants get to knowlittle to noting of the host country. From thebeginning the ESA has triedto break through thispattern by introducing at its conferences apanlediscussion where sociological 'angehauchte'intellectuals give their vision on their society andits people. Many of you still may remember thesuccesful Hungarian panel at the Budapestconference (Summer 1995). At the comingAmsterdam conference this tradition will becontinued in the form of a panel discussion onDutch Society.

The general theme of this panel will be'Dutch exceptionalism', i.e, inwhat way areDutchsociety and theDutch different from others? Onecan think in that respect of phenomena like: theDutch welfare state; the permissive society; the'poldermodel'; Dutch policy with regard to drugs,abortion, prostitution, homosexuals, refugees etc.

organisational sociology in comparative perspective. The Round Table will consist of the followingWalter Korpi (Sweden) will present his participants:

speech onGender, Class andPatterns of Inequality. Bob Deacon ( Sheffield UK), author of Thein Different Types of Welfare States. Presently, heis New Eastern Europe, chairaprofessor atthe Swedish Institute forSocial Research • Julia Szalai (Budapest, Hungary)at Stockholm University. His recent publication was • Anna Krasteva (Sofia, Bulgaria) andco-authored with loakinPalme (1998), concerning • Marju Lauristin (Tartu. Estonia).The Paradoxes of Redistribution andStrategies ofEquality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality and Date and TIme: Friday morning, August 20, 9.15­Poverty in the Western Countries. Currently he is 10.45amworking on the book Contested Citizenship: ACentury of Social Rights in the Western World. Hisresearch interest covers political sociology, socialpolicy and distributive conflict.

Anne Halla (Finland) will address theaudience ofSymposium IVEurope's Working in theWorld by her viewing of European Cities in theGlobal World. Presently, she is professor inDepartment of Social Policy at the University ofHelsinki. Her extensive list of publications andfields of interest concern urban economics,economics of real estate, real estate evaluationand land use planning.

In the same Symposium, Risto Heiskala(Finland) will focus on Our Time: Europe in the Ageof Global Networks and Flowing Identities.Presently, he is the senior research fellow at theUniversity of Helsinki. His recent publicationconcerns Society as Semiosis: NeostructuralistTheory of Culture and Society (1997). Genderedpower resources, qlobalisation, economy andsociety are a few from a long list of hisprofessional interests.

Round Table on'Ten years aftertheTransition.Looking backward, looking forward'

It is almost ten years ago that in the fall of 1989the most revolutionary event of this century tookplace: the fall of communism in Central/EasternEurope.

Since its foundation in 1994, the ESA hasshown great interest inthese developments and tosome extent it even was one ofthe 'raisons d'etre'of this new organization. The choice of the placefor the first ESA-conference, was a clear expressionof that interest. An extra session will take place inAmsterdam toevaluate these events. Four scholarsfrom different parts of Europe will address theissue ofwhat has happened over the last ten yearsin that region, especially in the social field and towhat extent this can be seen as progress.Moreover the expectations and prospects for thefuture will be explored.

Paper SessionsThere will be more than 190 paper sessionsdevoted to the presentation of papers in theSymposia and Research Networks. There are eighttime slots reserved during the conference. Theorganisation ofthe sessions is up tothe convenors.As a rule, more than four papers per session shouldbe avoided. Asession lasts 90 minutes.

A difference should be made betweenaccepted papers (presented orally), contributedpaper (author hands paper to other participants,but there will be no oral presentation) and poster.Posters will bedisplayed in the main lobby, posterviewing during lunch-time on Thursday.

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A deposit of NLG 350,00 per room is required and has to bepaid in advance. The hotel reservationwill be confirmed after this amount has been received. Then a hotel deposit voucher will be sent.NLG 27,50 will be charged for reservation and bank charges, The value of the voucher will bededucted fromyour final hotel bill.

Privatefacilities

Subsidies for participants from Eastern EuropeThe Local Organizing Committee has made effortsto obtain subsidies for participants from EasternEurope. Please notify the ESA Secretariat if youwantto apply. Requests will behandled bydateofsubmission. '.

• Upon arrival, payments for registration for theconference can be made at the registrationdesk either in cash or with a creditcard, Hotelbookings, however, cannot be made at theregistration desk at the conference. See theentry below on 'Lowbudget travelling'.

CancellationsIn case of cancellation the total fee minushandling charges (NLG 75,00) will be refunded,provided a written request is received by theVUConference Service before 15July1999.

Low BudgetTravellersThe hotels that can be booked on the 'hotelreservation form' are all of internationalstandards (categories A, B and C) and the pricesare accordingly. People who want to reservecheaper accommodation can book an apartmentor a student room in the University Guesthouse(categories D and E) or find their Ownaccommodation. There are a number of hotelswith rates from NLG 80,00 to 120,00 for a singleroom and a few hostels with even lowerprices.There are also several campsites in Amsterdam.You can make your own reservations through theVVV (Tourist Information), They have lots ofoffices in The Netherlands, e.g. one just outsideCentral Station inAmsterdam andone at SchipholAirport(tel. + 31 9004004040 or + 31 6340340

Letters of invitationOn request, the Local Organisation Committeewill behappy to send you a personal invitation forparticipation in the conference. Such an invitationis only to help visitors of the conference to raisetravel funds or to obtain visa and is not acommitment on the part of the organisers toprovide financial support.

City centre NLG 270,00 NLG300,OO yesnot farfrom University (1 km) NLG250,50 NLG280,50 yesbetween centre & University NLG180,OO NLG250,00 yes

City centre NLG180,OO NLG21 0,00 yesnear museums NLG155,OO NLG180,00 yes

near Amstel Station (not centre) NLG135,OO NlG180,OO yesAnstelveen (2km from University) NLG125,00 NLG160,OO yesAmstelveen (2km from University) NLG80,OO no

Hotel AccommodationThe officialhousing bureau, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, has reserved hotelrooms at special conferencerates in five different categories. Most hotels are conveniently located in the city centre or thesouthern partof Amsterdam. Bookings can bemade by completing the 'hotelreservation form'. Thisformshould bereturned to Carlson Wagonlit Travel before 15 July 1999,

Optional reservations have been made In tli~ 'f6i1owing hotels:location Single Double

room roomHotel(& category)

CancellationsIn case of cancellation the total fee minushandling charges (NLG 50,00) will be refunded,provided a written request is received by CarlsonWagonlit Travel before 1 August 1999,Carlson Wagonlit TravelDam 191012 IS AmsterdamThe Netherlandstel: + 31 206241361Fax: + 31 20623 5107e-mail: agm@keytours.nl

Travel InsurancePlease arrange your own travel insurance. Theorganisers cannot be liable for accidents, theftand property damage, nor for delays and/ormodification in theprogramme due to unforeseencircumstances.

Visa and travelParticipants should check with their local travelagency whether they will require a visa for travelto The Netherlands, If so, theyare advised to applyto the nearest Embassy or Consulate of TheNetherlands well in advance of their travel.

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University guesthouse

Barbizon Palace*****

University guesthouse

Casa 400***Holland*"

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Modes of payment:• certified cheque payable to 'European

Sociological Association' (personal chequescannot be accepted, the amount for aeurocheque should not exceed NLG 300,00)do VU Conference Service, DeBoelelaan 1105,1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

• bank transfer to ING Bank, Herengracht,Amsterdam (SWIFT code INGBNL2A) accountnumber 65.92.77.921 in favour of EuropeanSociological Association, do VU ConferenceService, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HVAmsterdam, The Netherlands;

• credit card (American Express, Diners Club,EuroCard/Mastercard, Visa);

All payments must be made in Dutch currency(NLG) only, Please indicate your name andaddressclearly on all money transfers.

The conference is organised for the ESA bySISWO/lnstitute for the Social Sciences,Amsterdam. The conference secretariat is in thehands of Moritz Bilagher, Karina Boom andlidwien van Dartel.Address of the Conference Secretariat:ESA Conferencedo SISWO/lnstitute for the Social SciencesPlantage Muidergracht 41018 TV AmsterdamThe Netherlandstel.:+ 31 205270600Fax: + 31 20622 9430e-mail: esa@siswo.uva.nlWebsites;http://www.qub.ac.uklesa/conf99.htmlhttp://www.siswo.uva.nliagenda/esa.html

RegistrationVU Conference ServiceThe Conference Service of the Vrije Universiteitwill handle registration of participants.Participants should register by completing andreturning the registration form. Upon receipt ofthis form the VU Conference Service will confirmthe booking details and send an invoice.Registrations will only be final after payment oftheappropriate registration fee. Address:VU Conference ServiceDe Boelelaan 11051081 HV AmsterdamThe Netherlandstel.:+ 31 204445790Fax: + 31 20 4445825e-mail: vu_conference@dienst.vu.nl

Registration feesThe conference feeincludes access to thescientificprogramme, coffee/tea during breaks and a copyof the programme book, which will behanded tothe participants upon registration. Please beadvised that lunch is not included in theconference fee. Lunches can be bought in one ofthe restaurants on the campus of the VrijeUn iversiteit.

PRIVATE Attendee type feeMembership of ESA & conference fee * NLG 900,00ESA member NLG 580,00Non-members of ESA NLG 1250,00Student membership of ESA

NLG 240,00& conference fee*Student members of ESA NLG \30,00Student non-members of ESA NLG 400,00

People from Eastern Europe and Turkey mayregister for special fees:

PRIVATE Attendee type feeMembership of ESA & conference fee * NLG 350,00ESA member NLG 230,00Non-members of ESA NLG 625,00Student membership of ESA NLG 160,00& conference fee*Student members of ESA NLG 70,00Student non-members of ESA NLG 300,00

"This fee includes a two-year membership of ESA and asubscription to European Societies, the official journal ofthe ESA.

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66). It is also possible to contact The NetherlandsReservation Centre (tel.: + 31 20520 7000, Fax: +31206238169, Internel: http://www.arnsterdarn­ts.nl/index.html, e-mail sales@amsterdam-ts.nl).

Some simple but comfortable hotels:City Hotel, Utrechtsestraat 2, 1017 VNAmsterdam (centre), (tramline 4 and 9 from theCentral Station), tel: + 31 20627 2323;Corner House, Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 119­121, 1012 RH Amsterdam (centre), (near theCentral Station), tel.:+ 31 206241326International Student Centre, Keizersgracht 15­17, 1015 CC Amsterdam (centre), (near theCentral Station), tel.: + 31 206251364,6247012In de Gerstekorrel, Damstraat 24, 1012 JMAmsterdam (centre), (near theCentral Station andDam), tel.:+31 206249771Hemony, Hemonystraat 7, 1074 BK Amsterdam(south), (situated in the centre near the AlbertCuyp market tram 4 from the Central Station),tel.: +31 20671 4241Adolesce, Nieuwe Keizersgracht 26, 1018 OSAmsterdam (centre), (near Central Station), tel.: +31 206263959Van Dstade Bicycle Hotel, anOstadestraat 123,1072 SV Amsterdam (south), (A friendly budgetplace. Bike rental for guests and informationabout biking and city; near the Albert Cuypmarket. tramlines: 24, 25, 4), tel.: + 31 20 6793452

Camping sites:Het Amsterdamse Bos, Kleine Noorddijk 1, 1432CC Aalsmeer (bus 171 from the Central Station)Vliegenbos Kampeerterrein, Meeuwenlaan 132,1022 AM Amsterdam (in the northern part of thecity, notfarfrom Central Station), tel.:+ 31 206368855

VenueAmsterdam, popular throughout the world, isfamous for its canals, gabled houses, museumsandatmosphere. The old city ofAmsterdam isverycompact. Museums, monuments, markets,shopping streets, and other attractions are allwithin easy reach by public transport from theConference location. Amsterdam also offers awide variety of theatres, music halls etc. in whichyou canenjoy all kinds ofcultural activities.

The program of the Conference will offervarious opportunities to meet socially with yourcolleagues and friends in an informal setting atthe conference.

The city itself can best be discovered eitheron foot or with a rented bike - there are lots ofshops where you canhire them. Over 50museumsare almost within walking distance ofeach other;moreover, many of them can be reached with theMuseum Boat.

In price-level, Amsterdam is one of thecheapest capitals of Europe when it comes toshopping. At the daily market at the AlbertCuypstraat you can getclothing and food from allover the world. A floating flower market issituated at the Singel nearMuntplein.

Over 700 restaurants serve all kinds of food.Around Leidseple!n. especially in the Korte

leidsedwarsstraat and the Leidsekruisstraat arealots of small and attractive restaurants areavailable. Worth trying is the cosy Jordaan area,where lots of 'eet-cafes' with nice pub food offertheir services. Around Leidseplein andRembrandtplein nightlife isabundant, but you canalsotrycafes intheJordaan orelsewhere intown­centre.

TransportTheairportSchiphol, the international airportof Amsterdam,is about 18 kilometres from the city centre. Thereare frequently trains to the city (Central Station,Amsterdam ZuidlWTC, which is near to theconference venue). A train ticket to AmsterdamCentraal Station is easy (thestation is in the air­port) and cheap, NLG. 6,50. When you are at thestation, beware of pickpockets and buy a publictransport ticket.

Public transportAmsterdam has a good public transport system.Bus, tram, metro andexpress tram takeyou rapid­Iy and conveniently to your destination. Whenusing public transport it isadvisable to buy a one­dayor multiple day pass. You onlyhave to stampthis once for it to be valid for a day, or severaldays. Another option is the strip ticket('strippenkaart'i, which you stamp every timeyouuse the public transport. Please note that thesystem requires two 'strippen' for one zone, andthree 'strippen' for two zones (e.q, from CentralStation to the Conference venue),'Strippenkaarten' can bebought in tobacco shops,at the station and at the Public Transport Officeoutside the Central Station, You can also buytickets from the Amsterdam Tourist Office and atthe Holland Tourist Information Schiphol Airport.

ParkingYou can park free onthe outskirts ofthe city fromwhere you can proceed by public transport to thecity centre. In the city centre, parking is onlypermitted on official parking spaces by parkingautomats and in parking garages. Parking in thecity centre is expensive. You also can park free inthe neighbourhood of the Conference location,but it is noteasy to find a parking place there.

Reaching the Conference Venue - the VrijeUniversiteiThe Conference Venue is the main building of theVrije llniversiteit (generally known byits acronym,'VU'), De Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam.

To reach the Conference location:From Schiphol Airport:take the train to Central Station, or take the trainto station Amsterdam ZuidlWTC. From CentralStation to the VU: take the express metrotramlines51 (from Central Station, Waterloo Place, AmstelStation, World Trade Centre and the next stop isthe Vrije Universiteit) or tramline 5 (from CentralStation, Leidseplein, World Trade Centre and thenext stop is the Vrije Universiteit), Both rides takeabouttwenty minutes.

From Station ZuidfWTC to the VU:taketheexitonthesouth side of thestation, walkfor ten minutes to the right, then follow the mainroad till yousee theconcrete building of theVrijeUniversiteit aheadofyou, You can also take metro51 or tram 5 direction Amstelveen and get off atVrijeUniversiteit (one stop).Bycar:The A-l0 Amsterdam ring road can be reachedfrom all directions. Follow the A-10 to theZuid/Amstelveen exit5108.Turn left at theendofthe sliproad onto Amstelveenseweg; after aboutthree hundred metres (at the VU Hospitalbuilding) turn left again onto De Boelelaan. TheVU can bereached viacityroutes 5 108 and 5 109.See also the website of theVU:http://www.vu.nlleng1fAlgemeen/route.htmI

Practical information aboutthe Conference

The Conference Registration Desk will open forearly registration from 3 till 5 pm on TuesdayAugust 17. The Regislration Desk will be openthroughout the whole of the Conference duringConfe,~enc.~, hours. .-

When you register 'at the Conference youwill getyourbagwith theabstract book, thelatestprogram details, your badge and all kind ofpractical information...;<Be sure to wear yourConference badge all the time, as it ensures yourentrance to the Conference activities.

LunchesYou can have lunch and dinner In the mensa andthe restaurant of the Vrije Universiteit closingtime is 19.30. In the area around the conferencevenue there is a small restaurant opposite theneighbouring VU-hospital, but not much else.

BooksDuring the conference, academic publishers willdisplay and sell books in the lobby.

PapershopA papershop will be in operation during theconference so that you can buy the papers thatare presented at the conference. Those who aredelivering a paper should please bring as manycopies of your paper with you as you thinknecessary and deliver these to the papershop.Papers will besold during conference hours at therate of NLG, 2,00 perpaper, to cover the costs forthe organisation, Photocopying facilities areavailable in the conference building.

E-mail facilities and InternetThere will be a special corner in the Conferencebuilding with Internet-facilities.

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Secretariat ESABernard Kruithof·slswaPlantago Muidergracht4NL-l 018TV AmsterdamThe Netherlandstel: +31 20527 0646Fax: +31 206229430e-mail: esa@siswo.uva.nl

European Sociologist, the newsletter of the EsA,accepts all types of material of relevance tosociologists working on orin Europe- 'think pieces',comments orletters totheEditor, announcements ofresearch initiatives, conferences, seminars, newly­published books etc. The newsletter is pleased totake advertisements from publishers, softwarecompanies etc. (rates available upon request).Material for thenewsletter should besentdirectly to:

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Research NetworksCommunication with ESA Research Networksshould be directly with their Convenors (contactaddresses listed in this newsletter under ResearchNetworks). Queries about starting a new ResearchNetwork orgeneral items about Networks shouldgo tothe ESA Secretariat.

Communicatingwith the ESA

SecretariatThe EsA maiMains its Secretariat at slsWa, theDutch social science support organisation.General enquiries, Membership Applications etc.all should go to the seqetariat at the followingaddress:

Virtual ESAThe ESA maintains a discussion list/bulletin boardsupported by the MAILBAsE system at NewcastleUniversity, United Kingdom. To join thediscussionlist, send the following commands to:

mai Ibase@mailbase.ac.ukjoin european-sociologistyourfirstname yourlastnamesend user-guide

The ESA also maintains pages on theWoridWideWeb. Their entry-level address is:http://web.qub.ac. uk!esa!

In order to facilitate communicationbetween the Executive of the EsA and itsmembers, an e-mail list for the ExecutiveCommittee has been created. ESA members orothers who wish tobring items to the attention ofthe Executive Committee are invited to 'post'directly to this list at:

esa-exec@mailbase.ac.uk

WOMEN:AUias-Donfut, Claudine, Caisse Nationaled'Assurance Viellesse, Paris, France - Aging,generations;

BertHsson, Margareta, Department ofSociology, 1-----------------,1Copenhagen University, Denmark - Social theory,sociology of knowledge, and sociology of theprofessions;

Bjornberq, Una, Department of Sociology,University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Family, socialpolicy, comparative research at European level;

Brinkgreve, Christien, University of Utrecht.Netherlands - Sociology of family, children,women's studies;

Diaz-Martinez, Capitol ina, Departamento deSociologla, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain ­Sociology ofeducation and sociology of gender;

Halas, Elzbieta, Catholic University of Lublin,Poland - Interpretive sociology and history ofsociology;Kutzar, Dagmar, Department of Sociology,University of Tartu, Estonia - Family sociology,societal transitions, living conditions;Lyon, Stina, South Bank University, Faculty ofHumanities and Social Science, London, UnitedKingdom - Research methods and methodology,sociology ofeducation, welfare state;Moxnes, Kari, Department of sociology,University ofTrondheim, Norway - Family, gender;Novak, Mojca, Social Protection Institute of theRepublic ofSlovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia - Poverty,social exclusion;5afilios-Rothchild, Constantina, NationalCentre for Social Research, Athens, Greece - Familysociology and gender issues, rural sociology andrural development;Saraceno, Chiara, Dipartimento di ScienzeSociali, University ofTorino, Italy - Family, genderand the welfare state;Soysal, Yasimil, Department of Sociology,University of Essex, United Kingdom - Citizenship,nation state;Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika, Department ofSociologyof Religion, University of Leipzig, Germany ~

Sociology of religion, sociology of the life courseand biography;Zdravomyslova, Elena, European University inst. Petersburg and the Center for IndependentSocial Research, 51. Petersburg. Russia - Socialmovements and civic society, gender relations.

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Riga, Latvia- Rural sociology, biographical sociology;Traxler, Franz, Institute of Sociology, Center forBusiness Administration, University of Vienna,Austria - Comparative industrial relations,industrial sociology and political sociology.

Elina Haavio-MannilaChairperson of the Nominations Committee

Candidates for the New ESAExecutive Committee, 1999-2001

MEN:Fischler, Claude, Ecole des Hautes Etudes enSciences Sociales, France - Sociology of food: foodhabits, consumption, representations and beliefsabout food andhealth;Haller, Max, Institut fur Soziologie, Karl Franzens­Universitaet, Austria - Social structure, class;lalive d'Epinay, Christian, Centre Interfacultairede Gerontologie, universite de Geneve,Switzerland - Gerontology;Lane, David, Faculty of Social and PoliticalSciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge,United Kingdom - Political sociology and economy,transition and transformation, elites and classes,European expansion;leisering, lutz, Unlversltat Bremen, Germany ­Social policy and social inequality;Len9yel, Gyorgy, Budapest University ofEconomic Sciences. Department of Sociology,Hungary Economic sociology, elites,entrepreneurs;Meulemann, Heiner, Institut fiir AngewandteSozialwissenschaft, Universitat zu K61n, Germany ­Sociology ofeducation, social mobility;Mitev, Peter-Emil, Sofia University, BulgariaSociology ofyouth;Musil, Jiri, Central European University, Praha,Czech Republic - Urban sociology, internationalorganizations .

Perez-Vilarino, Jose, Departamento de Sociologfa,Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain ­Sociology oforganizations and social structure;

Radaev, Vadim, Department of EconomicSociology and Social Policy, Russian Academy ofSciences, Moscow, Russia. - Economic sociology,sociology ofentrepreneurship, informal economy;

Roos, J.P., Department of Social Policy, Universityof Helsinki, Finland - Life politics, biographicalapproach, generations, comparative research;Schizzerotto, Antonio, Faculty of Sociology,University of Milano, Italy;Tisenkopfs, Talis, Latvian Academy of Sciences,

The following sociologists have accepted thecandidacy. They represent different geographicalareas and fields of sociology. In constructing thelist. the Nominations Committee has been advisedby the national sociological associations andindividual members of the ESA.

&oting for the sixteen members of the ESAExecutive Committee will commence atthe Amsterdam conference 18-21 August

1999 and continues for six weeks after that bymail.Inaccordance with the Statutes, there are 15male and 15female candidates.

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Report from the ESA Publications CommitteeThe journal European Societies.The first issue of European Societies has just beenpublished. This issue includes five articles andsixbook reviews. The articles in the first issue are:

• 'National Models for Making andlegitimating Elites: A comparativeanalysis of the 200 top executives inFrance, Germany and Great Britain' byMichel Bauer and Benedicte Bertin­Mourot;

• 'Models of the Family, Women's roleand Social Policy: A new perspectivefrom preference theory by CatherineHakim;

• 'The European Union and EqualOpportunities Policies' bySylvia Walby;

• 'Private and Public Transfers betweenGenerations: Linking the family andthestate' by Martin Kohli;

• 'Ethnicity, Multicultiralism and theProblem of Culture' byAlexandra Lund.

The first issue has been sent to all members of theEuropean Sociological Association who paid theirmember fee and the subscription price for thejournal for 1999. Furthermore, members of theESA who paid their membership fee for 1999 butnot the subscription price for the journal also willreceive the first issue along with a strong appealto pay the subscription price for 1999 (BO NFL forWestern Europeans and 50 NFL for Central andEastern Europeans). Those members who do notpay this extra fee for the journal will not receivethe following issues of European Societies but willremain ordinary members of the ESA until the endof 1999.

The second issue of European Societies is alreadycompiled and will include four articles and ISbookreviews. Itsarticles are:

• 'Political Trust and Attitudes towardsRedistribution: A comparison of Sweden

and Norway' byStefan Svallfors;• 'Unemployment, the Household and

Social Networks in the European Union'byDuncan Gallie;

• 'Gender Politics in the European Union:The return of the public' by UlrikeLiebert;

• 'Unemployment, Employment andPoverty' byAnitaHaataja.

The number of papers submitted for publication inEuropean Societies is still growing and severalgood papers areavailable for thecoming issues ofjournal. However I strongly encourage Europeansociologists to submit papers for publication inEuropean Societies. We need a strong andinfluential European journal in sociology debatingall theburning issues of economic, social, political,and cultural development in Europe. Paperssubmitted for publication in European Societiesshould besent to:European SocietiesJutta Allmendingerlnstitut fUr SoziologieKonradstr. 6D-8080t Munich, Germany

An important element in sociological debate isthereview of books published by Europeansociologists. It is our aim to have a large andhighly qualified group of book review editors toensure that all parts of Europe are covered andthat all significant publications in Europeansociology are reviewed in the journal. EuropeanSocieties has succeeded in building up of anetwork of regional book review editors, eachresponsible for a specific region. If you have ideasfor books to be reviewed or suggestions forthemes for review articles please contact one ofthe regional book review editors: AndreasBalog,Vienna, Austria; Jacques Coenen-Huther,Geneva, Switzerland; Ana Guillen, Oviedo, Spain;Mihaly Nyilas, Budapest, Hungary; John Scott,

Essex, UK; Antonio Schizzerotto, Milan, Italy; andStefan Svallfors, urnea, Sweden.

The ESA Book Series Studies in European SocietiesThe ESA Book Series has been established incooperation with RoutledgefTaylor & Frances. Theaim of the ESA Book Series and guidelines forsending in proposals for publication weredescribed in detail in the last issue of EuropeanSociologist. Here I shall justmention theeditors ofthe ESA Book Series (in alphabetical order):

• Thomas P. Boje, Umea University, UmeaSweden;

• Max Haller, Karl-Franzens University,Graz, Austria;

• Martin Kohli, Free University, Berlin,Germany;

• Alison E. Woodward, Free University ofBrussels (VUB). Brussels, Belgium.

If You have ideas or proposals for publicationsplease conta.,q pne of theBookSeries editors.

The first three bookfromthe ESA Book Series willbe published in·1999, the first appearing in mid­May:

European Societies: Fusion or Fission?, edited byThomas P. Boje, Bart van Steenbergen and SylviaWalby;The Myth of Generational Conflict: The family andstatein ageing societies, edited bySara Arber andClaudine Attias-Donfut;The End of theWelfare State? Responses to StateRetrenchment, edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby andStefan Svallfors.

All three books areoffered to members of theESAfor half price. If you wantto avail yourself of thisoffer, fill out the leaflet included with this issue ofEuropean Sociologist.

Thomas P. Boje

New Editor Needed for the Newsletterfter six and a half years, I will bevacatingthe Editorship of European Sociologist, theESA newsletter, when a new Executive

Committee is elected at the 4th EuropeanConference of Sociology. Hence, the newsletterwill need a newEditor from August 1999. The ESAinvites applications for the post.

The Editor of European Sociologist has the chanceto make a genuine contribution to thedevelopment of sociology in Europe and theopportunity of interacting with sociologistsscattered across the continent The position isunpaid, but the ESA has been able to providesupport with the cost of technical assistance inlaying out the newsletter.

The Editor, ,working with the support of the ESAExecutive sub-Committee for Communications,has overall control of newsletter content. He/Shehas responsibility for soliciting new material forthe newsletter, disseminating information on theactivities of the ESA, and collating announcementsand conference reports relevant to Europeansociology. The Editor of the newsletter attendsmeetings of the ESA Executive Committee as anexofficio member.

Applications should go to the ESA Secretariat atSISWO in Amsterdam. Interested parties areinvited to contact thepresent Editor to discuss thepost.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity tothank those colleagues who so generouslycontributed material to European Sociologist overthe years of my Editorship. Your assistance gavethe newsletter a breadth of coverage that I couldnot have hoped to provide on my own.

Robert Miller,Editor, European SociologistTel: +44 (1232) 335975Fax: +44 (1232) 320668e-mail: r.miller@queens-belfast.ac.uk

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New Books by ESA MembersSara Arber andClaudine Attias-Donfut (eds.), TheMyth of Generational Conflict: The family andstate in ageing societies. Routledge (1999).

Wolfgang Beck, laurent van derMaesen &AlanWalker (eds.), Questioning the Social Quality ofEurope. The HaguelNew York: Kluwer lawInternational (forthcoming, 1999).

Thomas P. Boje, Bart van Steenbergen and SylviaWalby (eds.), European Societies: Fusion orFission? Routledge (1999). 0-41 S-19B43-7.

Jacky Brine, UnderEducating Women: Globalizinginequality. Buckingham: Open University Press(1999).

Chris Corrin, Feminist Perspectives on Politics.longman (1999). 0 582 35638 5.

MikeDent, Maggie O'Neill and Carl Bagley (eds.),Professions, New Public Management and theEuropean Welfare State. Staffordshire UniversityPress (1999). 1 B9789B 460

Fiona Devine & Sue Heath, Sociological ResearchMethods in Context. Macmillan (1999).

Elisabeth Fix, lteliens Parteiensystem im Wandel.Von derErsten zur Zweiten Republik. CampusVerlag (1999). 3593362201.

Max Haller, Sozio!ogische Theorie fmsystematfsch-kritischen Vergleich. Opladen:

leske+Budrich VerlaglUTB (1999).

Humphrey Ter Horst, Socialism, Capitalism andTransition withspecial reference to Poland.Tilburg: Tilburg University Press (1997). 90-361­974B-1.

Sibylle Hiibner-Funk, Loyalita! undVerblendung.Hitlers Garanten derlukunft alsTrager derzweiten deutschoo Demokratie. Baden-Baden:Verlag fUr Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH. 3-932981­11-1

sibylle Hubner-Funk & Manuela du Bois­Reymond, Intercultural Reconstruction. TrendsandChallenges, Vol.2 of European Yearbook onYouth Policy and Research. Berlin/New York:Walter deGruyter (1999).

David lane& Cameron Ross, The Transition fromCommunism toCapitalism: Ruling elites fromGorbachev to Yeltsin. St. Martins and Macmillan1999.

Russell King, Gabriella tazandis & CharalambosTsardanidis (eds.), Eldorado orFortress?Migration inSouthern Europe. Macmillan(Autumn, 1999).

A. lange & K. luscher, Kinder undihreMedienakologie. Munchen: KoPad (199B).

K. l.uschet K. & B. Pajung-Bilger, ForcierteAmbivalenzen. Eheschefdung a!s

Herausforderung andieGenerationenbezfehungen unter Erwachsenen.Konstanz: Universitatsverlag (199B).

Robert Miller, Researching Life Stories andFamilyHistories. london:Sage (Autumn, 1999).

Petar-Emil Mitev (ed.), The Bulgarian Transition:Challenges andcogniUon. Sofia: BulgarianSociological Association (1998). 954-607-162-5.

Janusz Mucha (ed.), Dominant Culture as aForeign Culture. Dominant Groups in the Eyes ofMinorities. NewYork: East European MonographsandColumbia University Press. 0-B8033-410-X

Ariel salleh, Ecofemism as Politics: Nature, Marxandthe postmodern. london:Zed Books (1997)& New York: St Martins_Press (199B). 1-B5649­400-4.

Peter Taylor-Gooby and Stefan Svallfors (eds.),The End of the Welfare State? Responses toStateRetrenchment. Routedge (1999).

Henk Vinken, Political Values andYouthCentrism. Tilburg: Tilburg University Press (1997).90-361-9618-3.

Osten Wahlbeck, Kurdish Diasporas: AComparative Study of Kurdish RefugeeCommunities. london: Macmillan (1999). 0-333­7S011-X.

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2000'Making Time - Marking Time'

17-20 April 2000 University of York

II n the Millennium Year it is appropriatethat the BsA Annual Conference will beabout constructions and representations

ofTime. The theme is intended to be wide-ranging.The conference will cover all aspects ofTime andSociology and will be ofinterest to all sociologists.

We are inviting proposals for papers, posters andother forms of presentation. Potential streamsinclude: Theories of time; Time as a socialconstruction; Time as a methodological problem;Routine and repetition; Careers of individuals andinstitutions; Age and the life course; Time andephemeral cultures; Continuity and change; Timeand space; Public time and private time; History ofsociology; Cohort and generation; Social trends;Biography, history and memory; Times future:anticipation and futurology; The Millennium;

Symbolic time: religion and ceremony; Work-timeand play-time; Open Stream

As well as paper sessions we will be organisingother types of presentation including workshops,displays, posters, round table discussions anddebates. We would welcome other innovativesuggestions. As usual there will be an open streamfor papers not addressing the conference theme,and other events usually associated with the BSAAnnual Conference.

Abstracts should be not more than 250 words.They should include: name, institutional affiliation,full postal address, phone and faxnumbers, and ane-mail address (if you have one). The title shouldreflect the topic and content of the paper. Theyshould indicate how the work is to be presented

(paper, poster, etc), and which theme(s) thepresentation might fit. Abstracts (which can besubmitted on disk or as an email attachment)should be sent to the address below by no laterthan 30September 1999.

Abstracts should be sent to:

BSA Conference 2000British Sociological AssociationUnits 3FIG, Mountjoy Research Centre, StocktonRoad, Durham, DHI JUR, UK.Tel: +44(0) 191 383 0839;Fax: +44(0)191 3830782e-mail: Conference2k@britsoc.org.uk

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Research Networks

An e-mail bulletinboard for the networknowexists. It can bejoinedby contacting:mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk and sending thecommand:join esa-consumptionyourfirstname yourlastname

+4690165984+4690166694thomas.boje@soc.umu.se

Industrial Relations,Labour Market Institutionsand EmploymentFranz' Traxler"University of ViennaBruennerstrasse 72Ac121 0 Vienna "Tel: +431 29128541Fax: +43 1 29 128544e-mail: traxler@soc.bwl.univie.ac.at

So.ciology of Mass Media & CommunicationsProfessor Peter GoldingHead of Department,Department of Social SciencesLoughborough Universityun 3TUUnited KingdomTel: +44 1509223390Fax: +44 1509 223944E-mail: P.Golding@lboro.ac.uk

GlobalizationBart van SteenbergenDepartment of General Social SciencesUniversity of UtrechtP.O. 80x 80.1403308TC UtrechtThe NetherlandsTel: +31 302535472/2535526Fax: +31 30 2S3 4733e-mail: B.vanSteenbergen@fsw.ruu.nl

RENCORE:Methods for ComparativeResearch on EuropePeter MohlerZUMAPO Box 1221550-68072 MannheimGermanye-mail: Mohler@ZUMA-Mannheim.de

S- 90654 UmeaSwedenTel:fax:e-mail:

Loek HalmanWORCUniversity of TilburgPO Box 901535000 LE TilburgThe Netherlandse-mail: loek.halman@kub.nl

Social MovementsDieter RuchtDepartment of SociologyDarwin CollegeUniversity of Kent

The sessions weredevoted to:III The Upwards;• Personal Trajectories and

Intergenerational Dynamics;• Modes of Intergenerational

Tranmission;III State Transformation and

lntergenerational Links.

Gender Relations,and the Labour Marketand the Welfare StateEva Cybalnstitut fur SozloloqteUniversitatWienUniversitatsstrefie 7A-l010WienTel.: +43 1 713 8174Fax: +43 1 597 0635e-mail: eva.cyba@univie.ac.at

The scientific committee consisted of five personsrepresenting the two associations: CI. Attias­Donfut; B. Bawin-Legros; J. Kellerhals; M. Segalen;and F. de Singly. Twenty-one communicationswere presented andabout fifty persons attendedthe meeting.

A JointSeminar of the Family Sociology ResearchNetworkand the (amite de Sociologie de laFamille of the International Association of FrenchSpeaking Sociologists (Convenor: B. Bawin­Legros) took place on October 14-16,1998, atthe University of Liege (Belgium). Its themewas:Family Shifts andIntergenerational Relations.

Family SociologyJean KellerhalsDepartment of SociologyUniversity of GenevaBoulevard Carl Vogt102CH-1211 Geneva 4SwitzerlandTel: +41 22 7058 309Fax: +41 22 781 4100e-mail: kelals@ibm.unige.ch

Environmental Activism;Ornul!Seippel, 'Political Environmentalism: Classinterests, modern values orpostmodernfeelings 1';Ann Nilsen, 'Where is theFuture? Time andSpace asCategories in Analyses of YoungPeople's Images of theFuture';Karl Dake and Michael Thompson, 'Making EndsMeet, in theHousehold andon the Plenet';Marianne Penker and Roman Tronner, 'TowardSustainable Law: Deriving a planning tool forlegislation'.

Thomas P. BojeDepartment of Sociologyurnea University

+35801917782+35801917019j.p.roos@helsinki.fi

+358091462969 or 050-5292882(movable, leave message)IImonen@dodo.jyu.fie-mail:

Biographical Perspectives onEuropean SocietiesJ.P. RoosDepartment of Social PolicyUniversity of HelsinkiP.O. Box 18(Snellmaninkatu 10)Sf-00014 HelsinkifinlandTel:Fax:e-mail:

Sociology of ConsumptionKaj IImonenDepartment of SocioloqyUniversity of JyvaskylaPO Box. 35,40351 JyvaskylafinlandTel:

Environment & SocietyMaarten A. MentzelSchool of Systems Engineering, Policy Analysisand ManagementDelft University of TechnologyJaffalaan 5NL-2600 GADelftThe NetherlandsTel.: +31 152788458Fax +31 152784811e-mail: mentzel@sepa.tudelft.nl

Selected papers presented duringseesion of theresearch network at the 3rd EuropeanConference of Sociology (Essex 1997) appear in aspecial edition of Innovation, Volume 12 (2) (June1999):Atle Midthon, The Weakness of StrongGovernance andthe Strength of SoitRegulation';Maarten Mentzel, "Cliimete" for SocialAssessment: Experts, uncertainty and policydevelopment;Carlo Jaeger, Ralf Schule and Bernd Kasemir,'Focus Groups in Integrated Assessment';Christopher Rootes, 'The Transformation of

Economic SociologyVadim RadaevRussian Academy of SciencesInstituteof EconomicsNaklimovski Prospekt, 32Moscow 117 218 Russiae-mail: 7521.g23@g23.relcom.ru

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+33140251216+33140251212lagree@msh-Paris.fr

Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NYUnited Kingdome-mail: d.rucht@ukc.ac.uk

Mario DaniDepartment of GovernmentUniversity of Strathdyde16Richmond StreetGlasgow Gl 1XQUnited Kingdome-mail: diani@strath.ac.uk

Paul StathamWissenschaftszentrum Berlin (W2B)Reichpietschufer 50D~10785 BerlinFax: +49 30 2549 16B4e-mail: stratham@medea.wz-berlin.de

Social PolicyAlan WalkerDepartment of Sociological StudiesUniversity of SheffieldSheffield 510 2TUUnited KingdomTel: +44 114276~B555Fax: +44 114276~BI25e-mail: alan.walker@sheffield.ac.uk

Youth and GenerationJean-Charles LegreeGRAss~UlIss

59~61 rue Pouchet75B49 Paris cedex 17FranceTel:Fax:e-mail:

Regional Network onSouthern European SocietiesDr.TheoPapadopoulosSchool of Social SciencesUniversity of BathClaverton DownBath BA2 7AYUnited KingdonTel.: +44 115 826381Fax: +44 115 826831

A book based upon papers presented at theSantorini conference on Migration, Security andEmployment (19~21 September 19971 will appearin theautumn of 1999. Eldorado orFortress?Migration in Southern Europe, edited by RussellKing, Gabriella lazaridis and CharalambosTsardanidis, The fifteeen chapters in the book areorganised into three groups:

Part 1 deals with migrants and the labourmarket:'Southern Europe in the changing global map ofmigration: Russell King;'The participation of immigrants in theunderground economy in Italy', Enzo Mingioneand Fabio Quassoli;

'Migration andunregistered labour in theGreekeconomy', Rossetos Fakiolas;'Labour market andimmigration: economicopportunities for immigrants inPortugal', MariaBaganha;'Recent immigration to Catalonia: economiccharader andresponses', Angels Pascual de Sans,Jordi Cardelus and Miguel Solana Solana;'Clandestine labour migration from Poland toGreece, Spain andItaly: anthropologicalperspectives', Krystyna Romaniszyn.

Part 2 containschapters on gender relationsand social exclusion, alwayswith migrationissues at the core of the analysis:'Immigrant women inSouthern Europe: socialexclusion, domestic work andprostitution inItaly', Giovanna Campani;'Migrant flows from Albania to Greece: economic,social andspatial exclusion', Gabriella tazaridisand lordanis Psimmenos;"Recists? Us? Are you joking?" The discourse ofsocial exclusion of immigrants in Greece andItaly', Anna Triandafyllidou;'Urban restructuring, immigration andthegeneration of marginalised spaces in theLisbonregion', Jorge Malheiros.

Part 3 concerns questionsof policy andsecurity:'European migration policy: questions from Italy:Corrado Bonifazi;'Becoming a country of immigration at the endofthe twentieth century: thecase of Spain', JoaquinArango;'Migration, trade anddevelopment: theEuropeanUnion and theMaghreb countries', GeorgesTapinos;'Migration andsecurity in theMediterranean.' acomplex relationship', Sarah Collinson;The EU Mediterranean states, themigration issueandthe 'threat' from thesouth', CharalambosTsardanidis and Stefano Guerra.

Research NetworkCoordinator

The ESA invites applications from groupsinterested in forming newResearch Networks.Queries aboutstarting a newNetwork, orenquiries aboutexisting Networks or theiractivities should go to the Convenors ofspecific Networks or to:

The ESA Vice-President for Research Networksdo ESA SecretariatsrswoPlantage Muidergracht 4NL~1018 TV AmsterdamThe NetherlandsTel: +31 205270646Fax: +31 20622 9430e-mail: esa@siswo.uva.nl

'OvercomingBoundaries:Ethnicity,

Gender andSexuality'Special Year2000 issue of

Thamuris

Iihis issue of Thamyris will focus on thesimilarities and"differences of ethnic,gendered and sexual identities,communities, movements. We look for

articles that discuss these groups, theirinterrelations and oppositions, possibilities forcoalition and striving. Articles may be boththeoretical or more practical. Case studies ofcooperation and conflict are welcome.

Thamyris is an interdisciplinary journal that paysspecial attention to ethnic, gendered and queerthemes. Articles, requests, proposals, or abstractsshould be sent in duplicate before 21 December,1999 to the issue editors,

do Gert Hekma,Dept. of Sociology,Amsterdam University,Oude Hoogstraat 24,1012 CEAmsterdam,The Netherlands,or bye-mail: hekma@pscw.uva.nland ihoving@hovi.demon.nl

Instructions to Contributors and informationaboutthe journal are available on request from:

The Editors of Thamyrisdo Nanny deVriesNajade PressP.O. Box 759331070 AXAmsterdamThe Netherlands

Tel: +3nO~471 ~3305

Fax: +31~20~679~8874

e-mail: najade@wxs.nlorthamyris@wxs.nl

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Ten Years After - 1989-1999

Registration fee: US$70

13. Sociology of gender, new feministmovements (Andrea Peto)

14. Educational reforms of the 90ies (TamasKozma)

15. Church and religion in the post-transformationCentral Europe (Miklos Tomka)

16. Ethnopolitics, theethnical dimensions ofsocial inequalities (Gyorgy Csepeli)

17. The media transformation, as integral partof social reforms (Janos Horvat)

18. Minorities in Eastern Europe: a hiddendimension of transformation (Laszlo Szarka)

19. The R&D system: a resource for the catching­upsocieties and economies (Pal Tamas)

'10 YEARS AfTER' SECRETARIATdo SCOPE Meetings Ltd.Kende u. 13-17H-llll Budapest, Hungarytel: +361 2096001, 209 644Zfax: +361 3869378email: sos@sztaki.hu

VenueThe Conference will be held in the magnificentpremises of theuunqariap. Academy of Sciences,situated on the bank -of the Danube near theChain Bridge, 1051 8udapest, Roosevelt ter(square) 9. The Conference venue is withinwalking distance of downtown Budapest. Theoffic;:iallanguage of.theConference is English.

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Social stratification andmobility in the1990s (Peter Robert)The distribution andre-distribution ofincomes, consumption andwealth (IstvanGyorgy Toth)Institutionalisation of thenew political system,legitimacy and party system (Jozsef Bayer)National strategies and EU-Enlargement(Andras Inotai)Social Policies of the post-socialism (JuliaSzalai)New economic actors and institutions inEastern & Central Europe (Gyorgy Lengyel)Organizational innovation andorganizational power in the privatizedenterprises (Csaba Mako)The roleof trade unions in the post-1989economic and social policies (Mihaly Csako)The East European historiography and thepost-1989 transformation (Attila Pok)

10. Collective memories - strategies ofremembering (Denes Nemedi)

11. Rural transformation and innovation (lmreKovach)

12. Social change andurban restructuring inCentral Europe (Viktoria Szirmai)

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A First Balance Memorial Conference on

Eastern & Central Europe's Road into the New WorldOrganised by the Hungarian Sociological Association

Budapest, Hungary23-25 September 1999

Theme I: Elements of the New Social Order(Visions, Prospects and Realities)

Theme II: Structure and InstitutionsTheme III:Transformations of the Everyday life ­

New Styles and OrientationsTheme IV: The New World of Work

Structure and ThemesThe Conference sessions will take place in fourmain streams.

Ii The Hungarian Sociological Association ispleased to announce its MemorialConference dedicated to social studies on

the first decade in the post-socialisttransformation process. The Conference aims tobring together researchers from a wide range ofbackgrounds to discuss the present and futuredirections of the Eastern and Central Europeantransition. The key challenge for thisConference ishow we can rethink traditional concepts abouttheperformance of social, economic andpoliticalorder and social relations in theprocess of radicaltransformation of the region. We are interested inexamining pivotal issues in the analysis of socialtransformation (transition studies) from an inter­disciplinary perspective. The ConferenceOrganisers plan to invite social activists.reformers, political leaders and internationalexperts who have played significant roles in theactual transformation processes of the regionduring the lastdecade.

For copies of the Competition Rules andthe relevant forms, please contact:

The SecretaryCentre for European Studies Research,University of PortsmouthPark BuildingKing Henry I Street,Portsmouth POl ZDZUnited Kingdom

tel. +44 (0)1705 846163fax: +44 (0)1705 846031e-mail: carolyn.carr@port.ac.uk).

select essays for publication in a volume entitledWhat is Europe? to be published by frank Cass inthe summer of 2000.

All entries must address the question 'What isEurope)' in between 5,000 and 6,000 words.Entries must be accompanied by the appropriateforms, available from the Secretary of CESR. Thedeadline is12.00 noon on30September 1999. Thereceipt of all entries admissible under thecompetition rules will be acknowledged. Thewinner will beannounced in January 2000.

Centre for European Studies Research University of Portsmouth

CESR Millennium Essay Competition'What isEurope?'

o celebrate themillennium, theCentre forEuropean Studies Research (CESR) at theUniversity of Portsmouth has organized

anessay competition, sponsored byFrank Cass, onthe subject 'What is Europe?' PRIZE: £1,000

The competition is open to any person whoadheres to the Competition Rules. There are norestrictions on the basis of academic discipline.The competition will be adjudicated by a Jurycomposed of three distinguished European Studiesexperts: Susan Bassnett, Professor of ComparativeLiterary Studies. University of Warwick; RichardOvery, Professor of Modern History, King's College,London; and William E. Paterson, Professor ofGerman and European Politics, University ofBirmingham. They will decide the winner and will

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at the Mannheim Centre for European SOCial Research (MZES)

ISSEI 2000Approaching a New

Millennium:Lessons From the

Past - Prospects forthe Future

Ii he University of Bergen, Norway incooperation with the InternationalSociety for the Study of European Ideas

(ISSEI) is staging the seventh ISSEI conlerencelrom 14 to 18 August 2000. We expect 1500participants who will take part in about 150different workshops, grouped into five sections.The workshops should encourage multi­disciplinary contributions and presentations.• Democracy: Possibilities, Problems and

Challenges at the Close 01 the 20thCentury• Law. Civilised Societies and Collapse - State

Powers andthe Rule of law• Europe in Search 01 Identity: Multi-ethnicity,

migration and the challenges of integration• European Identity and its Expression in

Philosophy, Science, literatureandArt• European Education Decline, Market

Adaptlon or Critical Continuity

If you are interested in participating in aworkshop, second announcement and call forpapers will be ready by August/September 1999.All information will be available at the website:http://www.uib. nolissei20001

ECSREuropean Consortium

for SociologicalResearch

ECSR GraduateSummer School 1999

September 30th toOctober 6th

Ii heECSR Graduate School is a graduate­level training programme for socialscientists offered by the European

Consortium for Sociological Research. From 1999onwards, annual courses will takeplace at oneof the ECSR's member institutions. The primarytargetgroup for the courses arePhD studentsworking in various fields of sociological research.

The programme comprises five days of teaching.Each day a distinguished scholar will give a .lecture on a specific theoretical issue ormethodological approach in comparativeresearch.

Chair: Prof. Walter MOiler

MZESMannheim Centre forEuropean Sociological

Research

ECSR Workshops1999

October 7th toOctober 8th

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Ii he ECSR Workshops provide a forumparticularly for yQJjng researchers topresent theirwork and facilitate co­

operation among them.

Each of the parallel Workshops focuses onaspecific topic from the-agenda of comparativesocial research and comprises several sessions.

Workshops consist 01 a working group led bynotedprofessors orexperienced researcher. Theywill attempt to build up a networkof continuedco-operation among the Workshop participants.

Applicants are asked to opt for one of theWorkshops.

lecturers:

for further information please refer to ourwebsite:

httpllwww.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/ecsror contact MZES:

e-mail: ecsr@mzes.uni~mannheim.de

The official language of the conference will beEnglish.

ISSEI 2000 has applyed lor a limited number 01grants for participants from Eastern Europe. Assoon as a decision has been made, details will bemade available at ourwebsite or you can contacttheconference secretariat.

For further information please contact ourconference secretariat (or use our onlineregistration form).ISSEI 2000Centre for the Study of European CivilizationUniversity of BergenHaakon Sheteligs plass 11N-5007 Bergen - Norwaytel: +47 55582434fax:+47 55584717e-mail: ISSEI2000@uib.no

You may also subscribe to ISSEI's official journalThe European legacy: Toward NewParadigms, andreceive regular and up-to-date information onISSEI.

Conference ChairsOdd Bjorn Fure Dept. of HistoryEzra Talmor Dept. of Philosophy

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Groupson the lollowing topicsare chaired by:

• Dr. Thomas Bahle and Astrid PfenningFamily Policy in Europe

• Dr. Sonja Drobnic and Dr. Karin KurzWork/Family in Comparative Perspective

• Prof. Anthony Heath andProf. Nan DirkdeGraalComparative Political Sociology

• Prof. Karl-Ulrich MayerComparative Life Course Analysis

• Dr. Paul NieuwbeertaCauses andConsequences of Socio­Economic andPolitical Attitudes in Easternand Western Europe

Plenary lectures

• Prof. Jutta Allmendinger and Stefan Fuchs:No tl-Tum? The fnternationallntegration ofWomen intotheEducational System andScientific Labour Markets

• Prof. Marlis BuchmannThe Interplay between the Private andthePublic Self' Images of the Selfover the 20thCentury inSwitzerland

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Telecosm 2000University of Sunderland

European Identity in theInformation Society'

impact of computer technology on the worlds ofknowledge. Among the issues addressed arewriting processes, the research of information,exchange networks, and the transmission ofknowledge.

Convenor:Charlie MansfieldCentre for European StudiesUniversity of SunderlandLDS Hutton BuildingChester RoadSunderland SRI 3SDUnited Kingdom

IJ nformation & Communications Technologies(ICTs) impact upon the way we learn andwork in Europe's new Information Society.

Email, the Web and videoconferencing put us intouch with fellow Europeans but language andcultural differences still present dialogicchallenges. Telecosm 2000 explores thosechallenges.

papers from the conference will be published inThe Journal of European Culture in theInformationSociety. Papers are accepted in English and inFrench. Papers andpresentations maybe given inFrench or English. Question interpreters will beavailable between French and English. German,Spanish, Russian andJapanese are alsostudied atthe University and every endeavour will be madeto accommodate speakers of these languages.

e-mail:Tel:Fax:

charlie.mansfield@sunderland.ac.uk+441915153189+441915152279

Developing Poverty Measures:Research in Europe

A series of Conferences sponsored by the Economic and SocialResearch Council (UK) and the Soros Foundation in Budapest

VenueWednesday 3rd May 2000,University of Sunderland

Call for PapersPapers are sought on the subject of EuropeanIdentity in the Information Society. It is expectedthat academics from a range ofdisciplines will beinterested in presenting papers. Peer reviewed

Ij he general aim of this series of sixconferences is to review the best Europeanresearch into poverty and seek scientific

consensus on measures of 'absolute' and 'overall'poverty suggested in the programme of actionagreed by 117 countries at the 1995 World Summiton Social Development, to draw together the hugevolume of scientific work into poverty aroundEurope, and to give greater public authority to thebest findings and the most reliable methodologiesof that research. This can bedone effectively only inthe context of the work going on in all countriesand' with continuing reference to internationaldevelopments. For this reason, the internationalagencies, including the United Nations, have beeninvited to playa partin theprogramme. A series ofbooks and other reports are planned and will bepublished as theprogramme iscompleted. The mostrecent (second) conference took place in Budapest2H2 May 1999 on 'Monitoring Poverty and theInfluence of Past and Current Government Policies'.

Future Conferences in this SeriesH July 1999 in Bristol, United Kingdom, 'Definingand Measuring Poverty' .This conference willalso markthe launch of the Townsend Centre for InternationalPoverty Research. This isa multi-disciplinary researchcentre which has been established bythe University of

Keynote Speaker

Professeur EricGuichardThe Internet Atelier

Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris'Networks, Knowledge, andTerritories'

Since 1995, the Ecole Normale Superieure'sInternet Atelier has brought together researchersfrom various disciplines involved in assessing the

Bristol in response to the United Nations firstInternational Decade for the Eradication of Poverty(1997-2006) andalso in recognition of the work ofProfessor Peter Townsend.

5-6 October 1999 in Dartington, United Kingdom,'Poverty and Inequalities in Health'. This conferencewill examine the evidence for the widening gap ininequalities in health in Europe and look at theimplications of therecent report of theIndependentInquiry into Inequalities and Health, under thechairmanship of Sir Donald Acheson, for healthresearch and policy in Europe. Dartington Hall islocated near the Devon town of Totnes.

For further information about these conferences,please contact David Gordon, e-mail:dave.gordon@bristol.ac.uk

Alternatively, you canwrite to:The Townsend Centre for International PovertyResearchUniversity of Bristol8 Priory RoadBristol BS8 H2

Tel: +44 (0)117 954 6761Fax: +44 (0)117 9546756

Call For Papers

Ij he Journal of Poverty: Innovations onSocial, Political Pt Economic Inequalities isa refereed journal designed to provide an

outletfor discourse onpoverty and inequality. Theeditorial board welcomes manuscripts whichsensitize social scientists and practitioners to thevaried forms and patterns of inequalities, newdevelopments in cultural diversity, andinterventions promoting equality and socialjustice. Articles guided by conceptual analysesinvolving quantitative and qualitative methods areencouraged. The intent is to produce anddisseminate information on poverty and social,political, and economic inequalities and to offerameans by which nontraditional strategies forchange might be considered. The journal isconcerned, with various levels of interventionranging from direct practice to communityorganization to social policy analysis. Manuscriptsshould increase knowledge of oppressive forces,such as racism, sexism, dassism. andhomophobia.which contribute to the maintenance of povertyand inequality and suggest methods of changeleading towards theireradication.

The Journal of Poverty is now in its second yearof publication and is published quarterly byHaworth Press, Inc, Authors should submit fourcopies of the manuscript. Manuscripts should bedouble spaced. Please include an abstract of nomore than 100 words. References and formatshould followAPA style. Manuscripts will be peerreviewed by at least two consulting editors andreturned with comments. Additional informationabout the Journal of Poverty is available on theweb: http://www.csw.ohio-state.edu/jpov

Manuscripts should besent to:The EditorsJournal of Poverty: Innovations on Social, Political& Economic InequalitiesP. O. Box 3613Columbus, OH 43210-3613

Tel: +1614-292-7181Fax: +1614-292-6940

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Gender and RuralTransformations in Europe: Past,

Present and Future Prospects

Contact:

Visit theconference website andpre-registerat: http://www.sls.wau.nl/ads/congr_gs.htrn

Theme I: Gender in rural households,livelihoods and economiesTheme II: Gender and rural environments,cultures and living spaces

Margreet van der Burg, ConferenceCoordinatorGender Studies inAgricultureHollandseweg 1NL·6706 KN WageningenThe Netherlands

+31 317 483374+31 317485477Gender.Conf@alg.vsl.wau.nl;

Tel.Fax:e-mail:

At the Conference, scholars and special inviteesthroughout Western and Central and EasternEurope will present and discuss gender researchfrom various disciplinary and regionalperspectives. They will exchange views amongthemselves and with others whowill be invited tohear, discuss and critique the findings as well astheir practical and political implications.

14-17 October, 1999Wageningen,

The Netherlands

The conference will be structured around twomajor themes, with three sub-themes each.

these processes according to theirown visions.

Considering existing gender inequalities in ruralcommunities and households, it is certain thatpast and current developments are gender­differentiated. Rural women throughout Europecontinue to have limited access to all kinds ofresources - economic, political and cultural. Therisks of increasing gender inequalities is greatand rural women may have relatively less chanceto benefit from the opportunities and to influence

ri1 rofound transformations are occurring in• rural Europe - Western, Central and Eastern.New policies around the environment,

social security and equal opportunity areprovoking profound economic, social andenvironmental adjustment in rural areas. They aredeeply affecting the identities aswell as workingand livingconditions of rural people. At the sametime, these changes are stimulating importantinitiatives resulting in newforms of pluriactivity,means to protect nature, food supplies, and thelandscape, and changing social relations.

Markets (ILM)abstract (not

Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday, 18June 1999. In case of acceptance full papers arerequired by friday, 10Septernber 1999.

If you have any questions regarding the ILMConference or you would like a registration formfor the Conference you can contact either GreigRobertson (Iasgr@rnail.rgu.ac.uk) or LynnetteSmart (I.srnart@rgu.ac.uk) at The Centre forInternational Labour Market Studies, RobertGordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. Telephone(+441214263118) or fax (+44 1224263112).

Annual International LabourConference please send anexceeding 250words) to:ILM Conference 1999clo Ms Lynnette SmartViewfield RoadAberdeen AB15 4PHUnited Kingdom.

from government, business, industry andacademia world-wide to discuss these and otherrelated issues. The conference is multi-disciplinaryin nature and intends to cover a range of topics,including: Company-Financed Training; Trainingand Government Subsidy; Education-BusinessPartnerships; Recruitment, Retention and Skills;The Relationship between Schooling andTraining;Graduate Labour Markets; Vocational TrainingPolicy and Practice; Core Skills and KeyCompetencies; Training and the Impact of theMinimum Wage; MotivationlBarriers to Learningin theWorkplace.

Call for PapersIf you would like to present a paper at the 4th

Skilling and the Role of the Firm4th Annual ILM Conference

Centre for International Labour Market Studies (CILMS)The Robert Gordon University

Aberdeen, Scotland11-12 October 1999fJ elief in the inadequacy of private sector

" training is the ostensible motive forgovernment intervention to regulate or

subsidise. Levy schemes for financing industrytraining are frequently advocated. Others point toinitial, further and higher education as promisingmechanisms to equip workers with theappropriate setof skills. Most governments seemto be prepared to subsidise some forms oftraining, especially for the disadvantaged in thelabour market, as longas companies contribute tothe wage bill. And then there are those whobelieve that it is the sole responsibility of firms toprovide relevant skilling opportunities. Butwho isright? What kind of learning opportunities need tobe available, who will pick up the bill, when isintervention beneficial, when harmful and what isthe role of the firm in this context?

The 4th Annual International Labour MarketsConference will bring together representatives

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-,.,'+31104081020+31 104089135Oostvogels@fhk.eur.nl.

or contact the Conference Secretariat

For further information, visit:http://www.eur.nl/fhkw/thelongrun

Theresa OostvogelsDept. of Art andCultufe Studies (Room L3-25)Erasmus University RotterdamP.O. Box 1138'NL-3000 DR RotterdamThe Netherlands

Telfaxe-mail

Deadline for the submission of abstracts isAugust 15, 1999.

Public, Nonprofit and for-Profit futuresof theArts;Artistic Work and Artistic Careers betweenMarket and Organization;(Mass) Media as a Source of Information ontheArts;The Museum asUrban Representation;The Dynamics of Transnational CulturalExchange;Perspectives on European Cultural Industries;Cultural Industries: Risks, Rights andRevenues.

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'The Long Run':Long-term Developments in the Arts and

Cultural IndustriesFebruary 23-25, 2000

Rotterdam,The Netherlands

The Conference features keynote lectures byeminent scholars in the sociology, economics andhistory of the arts and cultural industries. It alsoincludes paper sessions and a cultural program.You are invited to submit papers on the following

Ii he Department of Art and Culture Studiesat Erasmus University in Rotterdam focusesonthesociological, economic and historical

aspects of the arts and cultural industries. Infebruary 2000, theDepartment celebrates its 10thAnniversary with aninternational conference. Justlike the Department itself, the Conferenceprovides an open, interdisciplinary forum forresearch into the world of art and culture. Theconference aims at charting long-termdevelopments in the arts and cultural industries.Speculation about future developments iswelcomed, as long as it is grounded in empiricalresearch or theoretical argument.

Nicholas SaulDepartment of GermanUniversity of LiverpoolModern languages BuildingLiverpool L69 3BXTel.: +44-1517942351/2fax: +44-1517942307e-mail: nsaul@liv.ac.uk

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5usan TebbuttDept of Modern languagesUniversity of BradfordBradfordWest Yorkshire BD7 lOPTel.: +441274234588fax: +441274385590e-mail: s.tebbutt@bradford.ac.uk

We invitecontributions in the fields of linguistics,cultural and media studies (particularly film andmusic), literary studies, social history, andanthropology. The language of the conference willbe English. The organisers plan to publish aselection of the papers. Offers of papers byRomanies and papers relating to Eastern Europeareparticularly welcome.

Those interested in contributing a paper shouldplease contact with a brief proposal (300 words)either:

The Role of the Romanies:Images and Self-Images of

Romanies/Gypsies' in European CulturesAn Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Liverpool15-18 September

2000

This conference seeks to address the questionsraised by the ambivalent encounter of the'Gypsies' with European cultures. It aims both tore-examine Gadjo constructions ofRomaniesf'Gypsies' in theOrientalist (7) style overthe centuries and to appraise and compare thecontributions made by Romanies themselves toEuropean cultures.

FJince theirarrival in Europe at thebeginningof the eleventh century, the 'Gypsies' havestimulated and fascinated the European

imagination, but have also always been perceivedas 'other' and marginalised. At the end of themillennium, after centuries of discrimination andpersecution, Romaniesf'Gypsies' remain the leastunderstood and least popular ethnic minoritygroup in most European countries. Yet very fewpeople have first-hand knowledge of them.