CPE RN at the 9th European Sociological Association Conference, Lisbon

Thursday, 3 September 2009

RN6 The financial crisis: Responses and implications in Europe

SEMI-PLENARY SESSION PROMOTED BY RN6

State, Politics and Global Economy (Semi Plenary Session IV)

11.00 – 12.30 Why economic sociology matters to understand the financial crisis (and what should be done accordingly to overhaul finance), Frederic Lordon, Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Second speaker: Manuel VillaVerde Cabral; Discussant: Rui Pena Pires

REGULAR SESSIONS

9.00 – 10.30 Paper session 1 – Social theory and the financial crisis

Chair: Jan Drahokoupil Discussant: Andreas Nölke

• The Financial Crisis and the Re-Regulation of the European Financial Service Markets: The Hour of Heterodox Political Economy? Brigitte Young, University of Münster
• The Global Financial Crisis and the Irrelevance of European Integration Theory, Alan Cafruny, Hamilton College & Magnus Ryner, Oxford Brookes University
• The critical in critical IPE research: Progressive Constitutionalism and immanent critique, Kolja Möller, Universität Bremen

13.30 – 15.00 Paper session 2 – Social theory of the financial crisis

JOINT SESSION WITH RN9 ‘ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY’ AND RN8 ‘DISASTER AND SOCIAL CRISIS’

Chair: Oliver Kessler Discussant: Frederic Lordon

• Everyday Finance in Varieties of Capitalism: A sociological analysis of the credit crisis, Ben Jacoby, University of Warwick
• Financial Crisis – Understanding the past, Raising the future, Pedro Ferreira, University of Coimbra
• Participation and self-management as a strategy for mitigation, reconstruction, prevention and social development in the 2008 global accumulation of capitalsystemic crisis, Vera Vratuša, Belgrade University

15.30 – 17.30 Paper session 3 – Comparative perspectives on the financial crisis

JOINT SESSION WITH RN9 ‘ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY’ AND RN8 ‘DISASTER AND SOCIAL CRISIS’

Chair: Nicholas Petropoulos Discussant: Alan Cafruny

• Financial Crisis, Financialization and Comparative Capitalism, Andreas Nölke and Marcel Heires, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Back to the Future: Can American-Style Consumer Capitalism Be Saved? Should It Be Saved? Maria N Ivanova, New York University
• Global Financial Crisis: Complexity, Dilemmas and regulatory failiures. Alberto Martinelli, Tom R. Burns
• The Credit of the State, Nina Boy, Lancaster University

17.30 – 18.30 RN6 Business meeting

Friday, 4 September 2009

9.00 – 11.00 Paper session 4 – The ‘European sub-prime’: Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

Chair: Klaus Mueller Discussant: Maria Ivanova

• Parasitical economic relationships in the transitional economies: aggravations in the conditions of economic crisis, Uliana Nikolaeva, Russian Academy of Science
• How many solutions to how many crises? The European labour movement vis-à-vis the financial turmoil, Björn Wagner, University of Jena
• Responses to global economic crisis in Eastern Europe? A ‘verdict on transition’? Jan Drahokoupil, Universität Mannheim

14.00 – 15.30 Paper session 5 – Crisis management

Chair: Nina Boy Discussant: Uwe Becker

• The contradictions and tendencies within state responses to the current crisis: the case of Germany, Ian Bruff, Edge Hill University
• Economic crisis and nationalism, Sam Pryke, Liverpool Hope University
• Labour and the Locusts? Emerging Contestation of Financial Governance and Capital Market Liberalisation in the EU? Laura Horn, VU University Amsterdam
• Keeping the Aspidistra Flying: The Political Economy of Capital Accumulation in the United Kingdom, Arjun Singh, London School of Economics and Political Science

Saturday, 5 September 2009

9.00 – 11.00 Paper session 6 – It’s the finance, stupid!

Chair: Arjun Singh Discussant: Brigitte Young

• Global Finance and Modes of Development in Europe, Johannes Jäger & Karen Imhof, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna
• Varieties of banking aid measures, Stefan Schmitz & Beat Weber, Oesterreichischen Nationalbank
• Comparing Britain and France: The Institutional Mediation of the Re-moralisation of Islamic Banking after the Global Financial Crisis, Ebru Thwaites , Lancaster University
• Disintegrative Effects of European Monetary Integration, Klaus Mueller, AGH University of Science & Technology

11.30 – 13.00 Paper session 7 – The crisis and the European model

Chair: David Byrne Discussant: Johannes Jäger

• A European Variety of Capitalism as Normative Socio-Economic Construction, Uwe Becker, University of Amsterdam
• Past and Future of the European Social Model, Christoph Hermann, FORBA – Working Life Research Centre Vienna
• Globalisation, EU Enlargement and the Challenge of the Financial Crisis: East-West Migration and the Search for EU Solidarities, Branka Likic_Brboric, Linköping University

14.00 – 15.30 Paper session 8 – Resistance and the search for alternatives

Chair: Ebru Thwaites Discussant: Ingemar Lindberg, ARENA & AGORA, Sweden

• Neoliberalism: Crisis and ‘Postneoliberal’ Tendencies, Mario Candeias, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• Critiques to Concrete – Problems in Constructing Post-Crisis Policy, David Anderton, School of Oriental and African Studies
• Moving beyond the Crisis: The Mondragon Cooperativist Group, Ramon Flecha, Universitat de Barcelona; Iñaki SantaCruz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Carmen Elboj, Universidad de Zaragoza
• Post-industrial class action in a context of crisis, David Byrne, Durham University