BULLETIN OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST ASSOCIATION NUMBER 9 SUMMER 1999 Final Announcement CONTENTS 4th European Sociological Conference Will Europe Work? 4th European Conference of Sociology - Final " August 18-21, 1999 Announcement Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nominations for Election to he European Sociological Association 12.30-14.00 lunch Next ESA Executive invites you to its 4th Conference this 14.00-15.30 Four Parallel Serni-plenaries Committee Iisummer in Amsterdam. The theme, 'Will Symposium I 'Working in Europe' Europe Work?' isan ambitious question inboth of Maria Petmesidou, Greece, its meanings: the emergence of a European Employment and Labour Market Policies in Publications Report society with its institutional frameworks and its Southern Europe: Developments andtrends in the identities, and the future of the European 'work context of European integration societies' and its alternatives. It is a truism that New Editor for Newsletter Joakim Pal me, Sweden, Needed the European unification process suffers from a Making Social Europe Work deficit in democratic participation. There is also a deficit on the scientific level: a lack of analyses Symposium II 'Working on Europe ­ Research Networks beyond the purely economic and social terms. Constructing Identities' Sociology has been slow to address the Liam O'Dowd, Northern Ireland, comparative issues among European societies, State Borders, Border Regions and the Announcements and even more the issues of the emerging Construction of European Identity European society. The Conference will be a Marco Martiniello, Belgium, moment of reflection. It will take stock of what Post-ethnicity in Europe our discipline has already contributed, and during lunch Posterviewing inthe main lobby challenge it to do more. Symposium III 'Working on Europe ­ 14.00-15.30 Middle Plenary Session The Conference is built around a number of Constructing Institutions' 'European Perspective' thematic symposia defined to directly address Franz Traxler, Austria, Wolfgang Streeck, Germany, theseissues, andaround thework ofthe Research Labour Market Regulation between the Demand National Solidarity, International Competition, Networks. It will also present plenary speakers for Social· Dialogue and Economic Performance. Supranational Policy: The emerging social and discussions, and specific intellectual events Towards anEuropean model? constitution of Europe related to, e.q., the host country andto European Walter Korpi, Sweden, Gesta Esping-Andersen, Denmark/Italy, unification. Gender, Class and Patterns of (nequality in Micro Foundations of Post-industrial Society Martin Kohli, ESA President Different Types of Welfare States 15.30-16.00 tea break 16.00-17.30 Paper Sessions, part 3 Program Symposium IV'Europe's Working in theWorld' 18.00-19.00 General Assembly of the Anne Haila, Finland, European Sociological Association Tuesday 17 August 1999 European Cities in theGlobal World 19.30-21.00 Paper Sessions, part 4 Pre-conference business meetings and the Risto Heiskala, Finland, meeting ofthe Executive Committee will be held Our Time: Europe in theAgeof Global Networks Friday 20 August in the SISWO building. Early registration at the andFlowing Identities 9.15-10.30 MeetThe Authorsessions, part II Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: 15.00-17.00 15.30-16.00 teabreak 9.15-10.30 Session on 'Ten Years After The 16.00-17.30 Paper Sessions, part 1 Fall of theWall' Wednesday 18 August 1999 18.00-19.00 Plenary on Europe 10.30-11.00 coffee break 9.00 Registration and coffee 19.30 Reception in the Town Hall, 11.00-12.30 Paper Sessions, part 5 10.00 Opening address hosted by theCityof Amsterdam 12.30-14.00 lunch 11.00 Plenary Opening Session 'East - West' 14.00-15.30 Plenary on'Dutch Society' Abram deSwaan, The Netherlands, Thursday 19 August 15.30-16.00 tea break Vicious Circles andVirtuous Squares: The poMical 9.15-10.30 Meet The Author sessions part I 16.00-17.30 Paper Sessions, part 6 sociology of theEuropean language constellation 9.15-10.30 Panel on Europe 18.00-19.00 Presidential Address by Prof. Vadim Volkov, Russia, 10.30-11.00 coffee break Martin Kohli, ESA president On Practical Knowledge, Personal Power, and 11.00-12.30 Paper Sessions, part2 19.00-20.00 Publisher's Reception Outsiders to European Integration 12.30-14.00 lunch EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST NUMBER 9

20.00-21.30 Paper Sessions, part7 industrial relations, and European integration. protection, industrial structures, labour markets and employment, social inequality, social Saturday 21 August Esping-Andersen will address Micro Foundations exclusion and poverty. 9.15-10.30 Paper Sessions, part 8 of Post-industrial Society. He has taught at Joakim Palme (Sweden) will also address 9.15-10.30 The Issue of Language in Harvard University and at the European University the audience of Symposium I (Sweden) through European Sociology at Firenze. He isnowprofessor attheUniversity of hisunderstanding of Making Social Europe Work. 10.30-11.00 coffee break Trento and Universidad Pompeu Fabra Presently, he is senior researcher at the Swedish 11.00-12.30 Plenary Closing Session (Barcelona), and also member of the Scientific Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. Dominique Schnapper, France, Councillnstituto Juan March. He has worked with His research focuses on the development of The National Tradition in Sociology: Is there the United Nations and the DECO. He has welfare state institutions, and the causes and anything like an European sociology? published on comparative social democracies consequences ofthis development He has written Chiara Saraceno, 11aly, (Politics against Markets), on welfare states (The on pension rights, the public/private mix of Constructing European Citizenship: Trends and Three Worlds of Capitalism; Welfare States in welfare provisions, and on health and social challenges Transition), and on social stratification (Changing insurance. Last year he published a joint article 12.30 Conference ends. Classes). His most recent book The Social with Walter Korpi entitled 'The Paradox of Foundations of Post-industrial Economies is an Redistribution and Strategies of Equality' in the For information about the program: attempt to give a sociological analysis of the American Sociological Review. He has recently Bernard Kruithof emerging new economic order. directed a study of theWelfare State in Crisis for SISWO, Plantage Muidergracht 4, 1018 TV the Council of Europe and ispresently chairman of Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Closing Plenary session will be taken by a government committee on the development of tel.: + 31 20527 0646, Fax: + 31 206229430 Dominique Schnapper (France) and Chiara welfare in Sweden in the 1990s. e-mail: [email protected] Saraceno (Italy). Liam O'Dowd (Northem Ireland) vvll address

In her speech, Schnapper (France) will the semi-plenary Symposium II Working on Europe * Key Note Speakers at the 4th address The National Tradition in Sociology: Is Construaing Identities with his speech on State European Conference of Sociology there anything like an European sociology? She Borders, Border Regions and the Construction of has made her whole sociological career at !'Ecole European Identity. Presently he is Professor of Abram de Swaan (the Netherlands) and Vadim des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales where is Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast. He was she has been a Director since 1981. Since 1995, Chairman of the National Committee for Volkov (Russia) will address the Opening Plenary. de Swaan will present his views on the she also has been the President of the French Economics and Social Sciences of Royal Irish Sociological Association. Her latest most Academy (1992-1996): His current research linguistic aspect of European unification under the significant publications concern Le relation a interests include: state borders and border title Vicious Circles and Virtuous Squares: The political sociology of the European language l'eutre (1988) Contre la fin du travail (1997) and regions; the sociology of European integration; constellation. Presently, de Swaan is the chair of Le communaute des citoyens (1994) forwhich she British and Irish nationalism. His most recently was rewarded the Prix del'Assemblee Nationale. published articles are on the sociology of border the Amsterdam School for Social Science Saraceno will address theplenary audience change, the Northern Ireland conflict and British Research, and was its co-founder and dean as with her speech on Constructing European well. He has been Professor of Sociology at the nationalism, Other publications include: Whither Citizenship: Trends andchallenges. Presently, she the Irish Border?: Sovereignty, Democracy and University of Amsterdam since 1973. His most is Professor of Family Sociology at the University (1994), prestigious publications are In the Care of the Economic Integration On Intelleauals and of Turin, Italy. During the period 1991-1998 she Intelleaual Life in Ireland (1996 - editor); co-editor State; Health Care, Education and Welfare in was Head ofthe Department of Social Sciences at Europe and theUSA intheModern Era (1988) and of Borders, Nations and States: Frontiers of the same university, since 1998 she has been the National Sovereignty in the New Europe (1996); The Management of Normality; Critical Essays in Director of the University's interdepartmental Health and Welfare (1990). De Swaan's present and Irish Society: Sociological Perspectives (1995). Center for Gender Studies. During the period He is currently joint editor (with James Anderson) research interests are in trans-national society, as 1990-1994, she was the Italian expert at the EC of a special issue of Regional Studies on 'State it concerns social policy, social identifications, and Observatory on Policies for Combating Social language problems. Borders and Border Regions' to be published in Exclusion. Her major professional interests are on October 1999. Volkov is MacArthur Foundation post­ family changes and family policies, on poverty and Marco Martiniello (Belgium) will also doctoral fellow in the project on peace and social policies, and on gender and women's issues. address the semi-plenary audience of Symposium international security in the changing world. His Her major recent publications concern Mutamenti II, focusing on Post-ethnicity in Europe. Presently topic will be On Praaical Knowledge, Personal della famiglia e Politiche societi in Italia (1998), he is the senior research fellow at the National Power, and Outsiders to European Integration. (with M. Barbagli) Separarsi in Italia (1998) and Fund forScientific Research and lecturer in Politics volkov's current publications deal mostly with Family Change, Family Policies and the at the University of liege. His current publications entrepreneurship in post-communist Russia and Restructuring of Welfare (in Family, Market and concem Ou la la Belgique? (1998) and Multicultural propaganda while his field of interest concerns Community. Equity andEfficiency in Social Policy, (1998) while ethnicity, the state, violence, and politics. Policies and the State DECO Social Policy Series, 1997) migration, racism, and citizenship are his pivotal fields of interest. The Middle Plenary session will be addressed by There will befour parallel semi-Plenary sessions at Wolfgang Streeck (Germany) and Espinq­ Franz Traxler (Austria) will address the Andersen (Denmark/Italy). the conference organised around the four main audience of Symposium III Working on Europe ­ Symposium streams. Constructing Institutions by his viewing of Labour Streeck will consider National Solidarity, Maria Petmesidou (Greece) will address Market Regulation between the Demand for International Competition, Supranational Policy: the semi-plenary audience of Symposium I Social Dialogue and Economic Performance: The emerging social constitution of Europe. While Working in Europe; viewing Employment and Towards an European model? Presently, he is teaching world-wide, Streeck isthe Director ofthe Labour Market Policies in Southern Europe: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in professor of sociology at University of Vienna. Developments and trends in the context of Among his numerous publications, two which Cologne since 1995. His latest co-authored European integration. Presently, she isProfessor of should be mentioned are the co-authored: publications address The Political Economy of Social Policy in the Department of Social Industrial Relations between Command and Modern Capitalism; Mapping Convergence and Administration at Democritus University ofThrace. Market (1997) andOrganised Industrial Relations Diversity (1997) and Governance in theEuropean Her extensive list of publications concerns the in Europe (1995). His specific fields of interest Union (1996). Streeck's major fields of interest are fields of social change and development social concern industrial relations, industrial sociology and comparative political economy, comparative EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST NUMBER 9 organisational sociology in comparative perspective. The Round Table will consist of the following distributed onthe first day of the conference and Walter Korpi (Sweden) will present his participants: at the Conference Desk. You arekindly requested speech on Gender, Class andPatterns of Inequality. Bob Deacon ( Sheffield UK), author of The to have a look at that programme, make your in Different Types of Welfare States. Presently, heis New Eastern Europe, chair choice and fill in your reply slip. aprofessor atthe Swedish Institute forSocial Research • Julia Szalai (Budapest, Hungary) at Stockholm University. His recent publication was • Anna Krasteva (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Sponsors co-authored with loakin Palme (1998), concerning • Marju Lauristin (Tartu. Estonia). This conference has been made possible through The Paradoxes of Redistribution andStrategies of the financial support of: Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality and Date and TIme: Friday morning, August 20, 9.15­ • The Royal Academy of Sciences (Koninklijke Poverty in the Western Countries. Currently he is 10.45am Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschap­ working on the book Contested Citizenship: A Bart van Steenbergen (coordinator) pen); Century of Social Rights in the Western World. His • Onderzoekschool AWSB (Utrecht­ research interest covers political sociology, social Presentation of 'Dutch Society' Rotterdam), de Amsterdamse School voor policy and distributive conflict. One of the pecularities of most international Sociale Wetenschap (Amsterdam School for Anne Halla (Finland) will address the conferences is that the participants get to know Research in the Social Science), audience of Symposium IVEurope's Working in the little to noting of the host country. From the OnderzoekschoollCS (Utrecht-Groningen); World by her viewing of European Cities in the beginning the ESA has triedto break through this • NWO (Dutch Society for Scientific Research); Global World. Presently, she is professor in pattern by introducing at its conferences a • NSV (Netherlands Sociological Organisation); Department of Social Policy at the University of panlediscussion where sociological 'angehauchte' • Nederlandse Vereniging voor Maatschappij­ Helsinki. Her extensive list of publications and intellectuals give their vision on their society and en Cultuurwetenschappen NVMC; fields of interest concern urban economics, its people. Many of you still may remember the • Randstad Holding; economics of real estate, real estate evaluation succesful Hungarian panel at the Budapest • The Netherlands Convention Bureau­ and land use planning. conference (Summer 1995). At the coming Holland Destination; In the same Symposium, Risto Heiskala Amsterdam conference this tradition will be • SISWOllnstitute .for the Social Sciences (Finland) will focus on Our Time: Europe in the Age continued in the form of a panel discussion on (Amsterdam). of Global Networks and Flowing Identities. Dutch Society. Presently, he is the senior research fellow at the The general theme of this panel will be The ESA gratefully acknowledges their University of Helsinki. His recent publication 'Dutch exceptionalism', i.e, inwhat way areDutch contribution to the 4th European Conference of concerns Society as Semiosis: Neostructuralist society and the Dutch different from others? One Sociology. Theory of Culture and Society (1997). Gendered can think in that respect of phenomena like: the power resources, qlobalisation, economy and Dutch welfare state; the permissive society; the Organisation of the 4th ESA society are a few from a long list of his 'poldermodel'; Dutch policy with regard to drugs, professional interests. abortion, prostitution, homosexuals, refugees etc. conference Local Organisation Committee Paper Sessions The members of the panel will be: Erik deGier (SISWa, Amsterdam, chair) Kees Knipscheer (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, There will be more than 190 paper sessions • Prof. Paul Schnabel, Director of the Social devoted to the presentation of papers in the and Cultural Planning Bureau treasurer) Symposia and Research Networks. There are eight • (chair); Harry Ganzeboom (Utrecht University) time slots reserved during the conference. The • Prof. Joop Goudsblom (author ofDutch Society): Jantine van Gogh (ESA) organisation ofthe sessions is up tothe convenors. • Prof. Jelle Visser (co-author of A Dutch MartJan delong (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) As a rule, more than four papers per session should Miracle), and Bernard Kruithof (SISWa, Amsterdam) be avoided. A session lasts 90 minutes. • Prof. Christien Brinkgreve. Maryke Borghardt (SISWO, Amsterdam) A difference should be made between Bartvan Steenbergen (Utrecht University) accepted papers (presented orally), contributed Date and place: Friday afternoon, August 20, Kea Tijdens (University of Amsterdam) paper (author hands paper to other participants, 14.00-15.30pm, Aula of the Free University Nico Wilterdink (University of Amsterdam) but there will be no oral presentation) and poster. Posters will bedisplayed in the main lobby, poster Theme tours ESA Program Committee Daniel Bertaux - France viewing during lunch-time on Thursday. In order to make these ideas on Dutch society more visual on Saturday afternoon August 21 franca Bimbi - Italy Round Table on'Ten years aftertheTransition. after closing the Conference we give you the Thomas Boje - Sweden Looking backward,looking forward' opportunity to walk through special districts of Harry Ganzeboom - The Netherlands It is almost ten years ago that in the fall of 1989 Amsterdam with a guide with scientific expertise MaxHaller - Austria the most revolutionary event of this century took on a number of 'theme tours' will take place on Martin Kohli - Germany place: the fall of communism in Central/Eastern Saturday afternoon. All these tours will start at Robert Miller- Northern Ireland Europe. 14.00pm from the main hall of the Amsterdam Mojca Novak (chair) - Slovenia Since its foundation in 1994, the ESA has Central Railway Station (Meeting Point). J.P. Roos - finland shown great interest inthese developments and to Bartvan Steenbergen - The Netherlands some extent it even was one ofthe 'raisons d'etre' A selection will be made among the following Alison Woodward 8elgium of this new organization. The choice of the place themes: for the first ESA-conference, was a clear expression • Jewish Amsterdam; Address of the Chair of the Programme ofthat interest. An extra session will take place in • 'Coffeeshops' Amsterdam; Committee: Amsterdam toevaluate these events. Four scholars • Social welfare Amsterdam; Mojca Novak Social Protection Institute from different parts of Europe will address the • Gay Amsterdam; issue ofwhat has happened over the last ten years • Red Light District Amsterdam; Rimska 8 in that region, especially in the social field and to • Modern Amsterdam; SL-l000 Ljubljana what extent this can be seen as progress. • Historical capital Amsterdam (Wallerstein). Slovenia Moreover the expectations and prospects for the tel: +38661 2000252 future will be explored. You will find a more definitive programme of fax: +386 61 2000260 these theme tours in your programme book, e-mail: [email protected] EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST NUMBER 9

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European Sociologist, the newsletter of the EsA, Candidates for the New ESA accepts all types of material of relevance to sociologists working on orin Europe- 'think pieces', Executive Committee, 1999-2001 comments orletters totheEditor, announcements of research initiatives, conferences, seminars, newly­ published books etc. The newsletter is pleased to oting for the sixteen members of the ESA Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Riga, Latvia take advertisements from publishers, software Executive Committee will commence at - Rural sociology, biographical sociology; companies etc. (rates available upon request). &the Amsterdam conference 18-21 August Traxler, Franz, Institute of Sociology, Center for Material for thenewsletter should besentdirectly to: 1999 and continues for six weeks after that by Business Administration, University of Vienna, Editor, European Sociologist mail.Inaccordance with the Statutes, there are 15 Austria - Comparative industrial relations, ESA Secretariat male and 15female candidates. industrial sociology and political sociology. siswo Plantage Muidergracht 4 The following sociologists have accepted the WOMEN: NL-' 018TV Amsterdam candidacy. They represent different geographical AUias-Donfut, Claudine, Caisse Nationale The Netherlands areas and fields of sociology. In constructing the d'Assurance Viellesse, Paris, France - Aging, tel: +31 20 527 0646 list. the Nominations Committee has been advised generations; Fax: +31 2D 622 9430 by the national sociological associations and e-mail: [email protected] individual members ofthe ESA. BertHsson, Margareta, Department ofSociology, 1------,1 Copenhagen University, Denmark - Social theory, Elina Haavio-Mannila sociology of knowledge, and sociology of the Chairperson of the Nominations Committee professions; Communicating Bjornberq, Una, Department of Sociology, with the ESA MEN: University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Family, social Fischler, Claude, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en policy, comparative research at European level; Secretariat Sciences Sociales, France - Sociology of food: food The EsA maiMains its Secretariat at slsWa, the habits, consumption, representations and beliefs Brinkgreve, Christien, University of Utrecht. Dutch social science support organisation. about food andhealth; Netherlands - Sociology of family, children, General enquiries, Membership Applications etc. women's studies; Haller, Max, Institut fur Soziologie, Karl Franzens­ all should go to the seqetariat at the following Universitaet, Austria - Social structure, class; Diaz-Martinez, Capitol ina, Departamento de address: Secretariat ESA lalive d'Epinay, Christian, Centre Interfacultaire Sociologla, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain ­ Bernard Kruithof de Gerontologie, universite de Geneve, Sociology ofeducation and sociology of gender; ·slswa Switzerland - Gerontology; Halas, Elzbieta, Catholic University of Lublin, Plantago Muidergracht4 Lane, David, Faculty of Social and Political Poland - Interpretive sociology and history of NL-l 018TV Amsterdam Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, sociology; The Netherlands United Kingdom - Political sociology and economy, Kutzar, Dagmar, Department of Sociology, tel: +31 20527 0646 transition and transformation, elites and classes, University of Tartu, Estonia - Family sociology, Fax: +31 206229430 European expansion; societal transitions, living conditions; e-mail: [email protected] leisering, lutz, Unlversltat Bremen, Germany ­ Lyon, Stina, South Bank University, Faculty of Social policy and social inequality; Research Networks Humanities and Social Science, London, United Len9yel, Gyorgy, Budapest University of Kingdom - Research methods and methodology, Communication with ESA Research Networks Economic Sciences. 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The journal European Societies. and Norway' by Stefan Svallfors; Essex, UK; Antonio Schizzerotto, Milan, Italy; and The first issue of European Societies has just been • 'Unemployment, the Household and Stefan Svallfors, urnea, Sweden. published. This issue includes five articles and six Social Networks inthe European Union' book reviews. The articles in thefirst issue are: by Duncan Gallie; The ESA Book Series Studies in European Societies • 'Gender Politics in the European Union: The ESA Book Series has been established in • 'National Models for Making and The return of the public' by Ulrike cooperation with RoutledgefTaylor & Frances. The legitimating Elites: A comparative Liebert; aim of the ESA Book Series and guidelines for analysis of the 200 top executives in • 'Unemployment, Employment and sending in proposals for publication were France, Germany and Great Britain' by Poverty' byAnita Haataja. described in detail in the last issue of European Michel Bauer and Benedicte Bertin­ Sociologist. Here I shall just mention theeditors of Mourot; The number of papers submitted for publication in the ESA Book Series (in alphabetical order): • 'Models of the Family, Women's role European Societies is still growing and several and Social Policy: A new perspective good papers areavailable for thecoming issues of • Thomas P. Boje, Umea University, Umea from preference theory by Catherine journal. However I strongly encourage European Sweden; Hakim; sociologists to submit papers for publication in • Max Haller, Karl-Franzens University, • 'The European Union and Equal European Societies. We need a strong and Graz, Austria; Opportunities Policies' by Sylvia Walby; influential European journal in sociology debating • Martin Kohli, Free University, Berlin, • 'Private and Public Transfers between all theburning issues of economic, social, political, Germany; Generations: Linking the family andthe and cultural development in Europe. Papers • Alison E. Woodward, Free University of state' by Martin Kohli; submitted for publication in European Societies Brussels (VUB). Brussels, Belgium. • 'Ethnicity, Multicultiralism and the should besent to: Problem of Culture' byAlexandra Lund. European Societies If You have ideas or proposals for publications Jutta Allmendinger please conta.,q pne of theBookSeries editors. The first issue has been sent to all members of the lnstitut fUr Soziologie European Sociological Association who paid their Konradstr. 6 The first three bookfromthe ESA Book Series will member fee and the subscription price for the D-8080t Munich, Germany be published in·1999, the first appearing in mid­ journal for 1999. Furthermore, members of the May: ESA who paid their membership fee for 1999 but An important element in sociological debate isthe not the subscription price for the journal also will review of books published by European European Societies: Fusion or Fission?, edited by receive the first issue along with a strong appeal sociologists. It is our aim to have a large and Thomas P. Boje, Bart van Steenbergen and Sylvia to pay the subscription price for 1999 (BO NFL for highly qualified group of book review editors to Walby; Western Europeans and 50 NFL for Central and ensure that all parts of Europe are covered and The Myth of Generational Conflict: The family and Eastern Europeans). Those members who do not that all significant publications in European statein ageing societies, edited by Sara Arber and pay this extra fee for the journal will not receive sociology are reviewed in the journal. European Claudine Attias-Donfut; thefollowing issues of European Societies but will Societies has succeeded in building up of a The End of theWelfare State? Responses to State remain ordinary members of the ESA until the end network of regional book review editors, each Retrenchment, edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby and of 1999. responsible for a specific region. If you have ideas Stefan Svallfors. for books to be reviewed or suggestions for The second issue of European Societies is already themes for review articles please contact one of All three books areoffered to members of the ESA compiled and will include four articles and IS the regional book review editors: Andreas for half price. If you wantto avail yourself of this bookreviews. Its articles are: Balog,Vienna, Austria; Jacques Coenen-Huther, offer, fill out the leaflet included with thisissue of Geneva, Switzerland; Ana Guillen, Oviedo, Spain; European Sociologist. • 'Political Trust and Attitudes towards Mihaly Nyilas, Budapest, Hungary; John Scott, Thomas P. Boje Redistribution: A comparison of Sweden New Editor Needed for the Newsletter

fter six and a half years, I will bevacating The Editor, ,working with the support of the ESA Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to the Editorship of European Sociologist, the Executive sub-Committee for Communications, thank those colleagues who so generously ESA newsletter, when a new Executive has overall control of newsletter content. He/She contributed material to European Sociologist over Committee is elected at the 4th European has responsibility for soliciting new material for the years of my Editorship. Your assistance gave Conference of Sociology. Hence, the newsletter the newsletter, disseminating information on the the newsletter a breadth of coverage that I could will need a newEditor from August 1999. The ESA activities of the ESA, and collating announcements not have hoped to provide on my own. invites applications for the post. and conference reports relevant to European sociology. The Editor of the newsletter attends Robert Miller, The Editor of European Sociologist has the chance meetings of the ESA Executive Committee as an Editor, European Sociologist to make a genuine contribution to the exofficio member. Tel: +44 (1232) 335975 development of sociology in Europe and the Fax: +44 (1232) 320668 opportunity of interacting with sociologists Applications should go to the ESA Secretariat at e-mail: [email protected]. uk scattered across the continent The position is SISWO in Amsterdam. Interested parties are unpaid, but the ESA has been able to provide invited to contact thepresent Editor to discuss the support with the cost of technical assistance in post. laying out the newsletter. EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST NUMBER 9 New Books by ESA Members

Sara Arber andClaudine Attias-Donfut (eds.), The leske+Budrich VerlaglUTB (1999). Herausforderung andie Myth of Generational Conflict: The family and Generationenbezfehungen unter Erwachsenen. state in ageing societies. Routledge (1999). Humphrey Ter Horst, Socialism, Capitalism and Konstanz: Universitatsverlag (199B). Transition with special reference to Poland. Wolfgang Beck, laurent van derMaesen & Alan Tilburg: Tilburg University Press (1997). 90-361­ Robert Miller, Researching Life Stories andFamily Walker (eds.), Questioning the Social Quality of 974B-1. Histories. london: Sage (Autumn, 1999). Europe. The HaguelNew York: Kluwer law International (forthcoming, 1999). Sibylle Hiibner-Funk, Loyalita! undVerblendung. Petar-Emil Mitev (ed.), The Bulgarian Transition: Hitlers Garanten derlukunft alsTrager der Challenges andcogniUon. Sofia: Bulgarian Thomas P. Boje, Bart van Steenbergen and Sylvia zweiten deutschoo Demokratie. Baden-Baden: Sociological Association (1998). 954-607-162-5. Walby (eds.), European Societies: Fusion or Verlag fUr Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH. 3-932981­ Fission? Routledge (1999). 0-41 S-19B43-7. 11-1 Janusz Mucha (ed.), Dominant Culture as a Foreign Culture. Dominant Groups in the Eyes of Jacky Brine, UnderEducating Women: Globalizing sibylle Hubner-Funk & Manuela du Bois­ Minorities. NewYork: East European Monographs inequality. Buckingham: Open University Press Reymond, Intercultural Reconstruction. Trends andColumbia University Press. 0-B8033-410-X (1999). andChallenges, Vol.2 of European Yearbook on Youth Policy and Research. Berlin/New York: Ariel salleh, Ecofemism as Politics: Nature, Marx Chris Corrin, Feminist Perspectives on Politics. Walter deGruyter (1999). andthe postmodern. london:Zed Books (1997) longman (1999). 0 582 35638 5. & New York: St Martins_Press (199B). 1-B5649­ David lane& Cameron Ross, The Transition from 400-4. MikeDent, Maggie O'Neill and Carl Bagley (eds.), Communism toCapitalism: Ruling elites from Professions, New Public Management and the Gorbachev to Yeltsin. St. Martins and Macmillan Peter Taylor-Gooby and Stefan Svallfors (eds.), European Welfare State. Staffordshire University 1999. The End of the Welfare State? Responses toState Press (1999). 1 B9789B 460 Retrenchment. Routedge (1999). Russell King, Gabriella tazandis & Charalambos Fiona Devine & Sue Heath, Sociological Research Tsardanidis (eds.), Eldorado orFortress? Henk Vinken, Political Values and Youth Methods in Context. Macmillan (1999). Migration in Southern Europe. Macmillan Centrism. Tilburg: Tilburg University Press (1997). (Autumn, 1999). 90-361-9618-3. Elisabeth Fix, lteliens Parteiensystem im Wandel. Von derErsten zur Zweiten Republik. Campus A. lange & K. luscher, Kinder undihre Osten Wahlbeck, Kurdish Diasporas: A Verlag (1999). 3593362201. Medienakologie. Munchen: KoPad (199B). Comparative Study of Kurdish Refugee Communities. london: Macmillan (1999). 0-333­ Max Haller, Sozio!ogische Theorie fm K. l.uschet K. & B. Pajung-Bilger, Forcierte 7S011-X. systematfsch-kritischen Vergleich. Opladen: Ambivalenzen. Eheschefdung a!s

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2000 'Making Time - Marking Time' 17-20 April 2000 University of York n the Millennium Year it is appropriate Symbolic time: religion and ceremony; Work-time (paper, poster, etc), and which theme(s) the that the BsA Annual Conference will be and play-time; Open Stream presentation might fit. Abstracts (which can be II about constructions and representations submitted on disk or as an email attachment) ofTime. The theme is intended to be wide-ranging. As well as paper sessions we will be organising should be sent to the address below by no later The conference will cover all aspects ofTime and other types of presentation including workshops, than 30September 1999. Sociology and will be ofinterest to all sociologists. displays, posters, round table discussions and debates. We would welcome other innovative Abstracts should be sent to: We are inviting proposals for papers, posters and suggestions. As usual there will be an open stream other forms of presentation. Potential streams for papers not addressing the conference theme, BSA Conference 2000 include: Theories of time; Time as a social and other events usually associated with the BSA British Sociological Association construction; Time as a methodological problem; Annual Conference. Units 3FIG, Mountjoy Research Centre, Stockton Routine and repetition; Careers of individuals and Road, Durham, DHI JUR, UK. institutions; Age and the life course; Time and Abstracts should be not more than 250 words. Tel: +44(0) 191 383 0839; ephemeral cultures; Continuity and change; Time They should include: name, institutional affiliation, Fax: +44(0)191 3830782 and space; Public time and private time; History of full postal address, phone and faxnumbers, and an e-mail: [email protected] sociology; Cohort and generation; Social trends; e-mail address (if you have one). The title should Biography, history and memory; Times future: reflect the topic and content of the paper. They anticipation and futurology; The Millennium; should indicate how the work is to be presented EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST NUMBER 9 Research Networks Biographical Perspectives on Environmental Activism; S- 90654 Umea European Societies Ornul!Seippel, 'Political Environmentalism: Class Sweden interests, modern values orpostmodern Tel: +4690165984 J.P. Roos feelings 1'; fax: +4690166694 Department of Social Policy Ann Nilsen, 'Where is theFuture? Time and e-mail: [email protected] University of Helsinki Space asCategories in Analyses of Young P.O. Box 18 People's Images of theFuture'; Globalization (Snellmaninkatu 10) Karl Dake and Michael Thompson, 'Making Ends Bart van Steenbergen Sf-00014 Helsinki Meet, in theHousehold andon the Plenet'; finland Department of General Social Sciences Marianne Penker and Roman Tronner, 'Toward University of Utrecht Tel: +35801917782 Sustainable Law: Deriving a planning tool for P.O. 80x 80.140 Fax: +35801917019 legislation'. e-mail: [email protected] 3308TC Utrecht The Netherlands Family Sociology Sociology of Consumption Tel: +31 302535472/2535526 Jean Kellerhals Fax: +31 30 2S3 4733 Kaj IImonen Department of Sociology e-mail: [email protected] Department of Socioloqy University of Geneva University of Jyvaskyla Boulevard Carl Vogt102 Industrial Relations, PO Box. 35,40351 Jyvaskyla CH-1211 Geneva 4 Labour Market Institutions finland Switzerland Tel: +358091462969 or 050-5292882 Tel: +41 22 7058 309 and Employment (movable, leave message) Fax: +41 22 781 4100 Franz' Traxler" e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] University of Vienna Bruennerstrasse 72 An e-mail bulletin board for the networknow A JointSeminar of the Family Sociology Research Ac121 0 Vienna " exists. It can bejoinedby contacting: Network and the (amite de Sociologie de la Tel: +431 29128541 [email protected] and sending the Famille of the International Association of French Fax: +43 1 29 128 544 command: Speaking Sociologists (Convenor: B. Bawin­ e-mail: [email protected] join esa-consumption Legros) took place on October 14-16,1998, at yourfirstname yourlastname the University of Liege (Belgium). Its theme was: So.ciology of Mass Media & Communications Family Shifts andIntergenerational Relations. Professor Peter Golding Economic Sociology Head of Department, Vadim Radaev The sessions weredevoted to: Department of Social Sciences

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III State Transformation and E-mail: [email protected] Environment & Society lntergenerational Links. Maarten A. Mentzel RENCORE: School of Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis The scientific committee consisted of five persons Methods for Comparative representing the two associations: CI. Attias­ and Management Research on Europe Delft University of Technology Donfut; B. Bawin-Legros; J. Kellerhals; M. Segalen; Jaffalaan 5 and F. de Singly. Twenty-one communications Peter Mohler NL-2600 GADelft were presented andaboutfifty persons attended ZUMA The Netherlands the meeting. PO Box 122155 Tel.: +31 152788458 0-68072 Mannheim Fax +31 152784811 Gender Relations, Germany e-mail: [email protected] and the Labour Market e-mail: [email protected] and the Welfare State Selected papers presented during seesion of the Loek Halman research network at the 3rd European Eva Cyba WORC Conference of Sociology (Essex 1997) appear in a lnstitut fur Sozloloqte University of Tilburg special edition of Innovation, Volume 12 (2) (June UniversitatWien PO Box 90153 1999): Universitatsstrefie 7 5000 LE Tilburg Atle Midthon, The Weakness of Strong A-l010Wien The Netherlands Governance andthe Strength of SoitRegulation'; Tel.: +43 1 713 8174 e-mail: [email protected] Maarten Mentzel, "Cliimete" for Social Fax: +43 1 597 0635 Assessment: Experts, uncertainty and policy e-mail: [email protected] Social Movements development; Dieter Rucht Thomas P. Boje Carlo Jaeger, Ralf Schule and Bernd Kasemir, Department of Sociology 'Focus Groups in Integrated Assessment'; Department of Sociology Darwin College Christopher Rootes, 'The Transformation of urnea University University of Kent EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST NUMBER 9

Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NY 'Migration andunregistered labour in theGreek United Kingdom economy', Rossetos Fakiolas; e-mail: [email protected] 'Labour market andimmigration: economic opportunities for immigrants in Portugal', Maria Mario Dani Baganha; Department of Government 'Recent immigration to Catalonia: economic 'Overcoming University of Strathdyde charader andresponses', Angels Pascual de Sans, 16 Richmond Street Jordi Cardelus and Miguel Solana Solana; Glasgow Gl 1XQ 'Clandestine labour migration from Poland to Boundaries: United Kingdom Greece, Spain andItaly: anthropological e-mail: [email protected] perspectives', Krystyna Romaniszyn. Ethnicity, Paul Statham Part 2 containschapters on gender relations Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (W2B) and social exclusion, alwayswith migration Reichpietschufer 50 issues at the core of the analysis: Gender and D~ 10785 Berlin 'Immigrant women inSouthern Europe: social Fax: +49 30 2549 16B4 exclusion, domestic work andprostitution in e-mail: [email protected] Italy', Giovanna Campani; 'Migrant flows from Albania to Greece: economic, Sexuality' Social Policy social andspatial exclusion', Gabriella tazaridis Alan Walker and lordanis Psimmenos; Special Year Department of Sociological Studies "Recists? Us? Are you joking?" The discourse of University of Sheffield social exclusion of immigrants in Greece and Sheffield 510 2TU Italy', Anna Triandafyllidou; 2000 issue of United Kingdom 'Urban restructuring, immigration andthe Tel: +44 114276~B555 generation of marginalised spaces in theLisbon Thamuris Fax: +44 114276~BI25 region', Jorge Malheiros. e-mail: [email protected] Part 3 concerns questionsof policy and his issue of Thamyris will focus on the Youth and Generation security: similarities and"differences of ethnic, 'European migration policy: questions from Italy: gendered and sexual identities, Jean-Charles Legree Corrado Bonifazi; Iicommunities, movements. We look for GRAss~UlIss 'Becoming a country of immigration at theendof articles that discuss these groups, their 59~61 rue Pouchet the twentieth century: thecase of Spain', Joaquin interrelations and oppositions, possibilities for 75B49 Paris cedex 17 Arango; coalition and striving. Articles may be both France 'Migration, trade anddevelopment: theEuropean theoretical or more practical. Case studies of Tel: +33140251216 Union and theMaghreb countries', Georges cooperation and conflict are welcome. Fax: +33140251212 Tapinos; e-mail: [email protected] 'Migration andsecurity in theMediterranean.' a Thamyris is an interdisciplinary journal that pays complex relationship', Sarah Collinson; special attention to ethnic, gendered and queer The EU Mediterranean states, themigration issue themes. Articles, requests, proposals, or abstracts Regional Network on andthe 'threat' from thesouth', Charalambos should be sent in duplicate before 21 December, Southern European Societies Tsardanidis and Stefano Guerra. 1999 to the issue editors, Dr.TheoPapadopoulos School of Social Sciences do Gert Hekma, University of Bath Dept. of Sociology, Claverton Down Amsterdam University, Bath BA2 7AY Research Network Oude Hoogstraat 24, United Kingdon 1012 CEAmsterdam, Tel.: +44 115 826381 Coordinator The Netherlands, Fax: +44 115 826831 or bye-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] The ESA invites applications from groups A book based upon papers presented at the interested in forming new Research Networks. Instructions to Contributors and information Santorini conference on Migration, Security and Queries aboutstarting a newNetwork, or Employment (19~21 September 19971 will appear enquiries aboutexisting Networks or their aboutthe journal are available on request from: in the autumn of 1999. Eldorado orFortress? activities should goto the Convenors of The Editors of Thamyris Migration in Southern Europe, edited by Russell specific Networks or to: King, Gabriella lazaridis and Charalambos do Nanny deVries Tsardanidis, The fifteeen chapters in the book are The ESA Vice-President for Research Networks Najade Press P.O. Box 75933 organised into three groups: do ESA Secretariat srswo 1070 AXAmsterdam The Netherlands Part 1 deals with migrants and the labour Plantage Muidergracht 4 market: NL~ 1018 TV Amsterdam Tel: +3nO~471 ~3305 'Southern Europe in the changing global map of The Netherlands Fax: +31~20~679~8874 migration: Russell King; Tel: +31 205270646 'The participation of immigrants in the Fax: +31 20622 9430 e-mail: [email protected]@wxs.nl underground economy in Italy', Enzo Mingione e-mail: [email protected] and Fabio Quassoli; EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST NUMBER 9 Ten Years After - 1989-1999 A First Balance Memorial Conference on Eastern & Central Europe's Road into the New World Organised by the Hungarian Sociological Association

The Hungarian Sociological Association is Budapest, Hungary 13. Sociology of gender, new feminist pleased to announce its Memorial movements (Andrea Peto) Conference dedicated to social studies on 14. Educational reforms of the 90ies (Tamas Iithe first decade in the post-socialist 23-25 September 1999 Kozma) transformation process. The Conference aims to 15. Church and religion in the post-transformation bring together researchers from a wide range of Sections and Round Tables Central Europe (Miklos Tomka) backgrounds to discuss the present and future (organisers) 16. Ethnopolitics, theethnical dimensions of directions of the Eastern and Central European 1. Social stratification andmobility in the social inequalities (Gyorgy Csepeli) transition. The key challenge forthisConference is 1990s (Peter Robert) 17. The media transformation, as integral part how we can rethink traditional concepts about 2. The distribution andre-distribution of of social reforms (Janos Horvat) theperformance of social, economic andpolitical incomes, consumption andwealth (Istvan 18. Minorities in Eastern Europe: a hidden order and social relations in theprocess of radical Gyorgy Toth) dimension of transformation (Laszlo Szarka) transformation of the region. We are interested in 3. Institutionalisation of thenew political system, 19. The R&D system: a resource for the catching­ examining pivotal issues in the analysis of social legitimacy and party system (Jozsef Bayer) upsocieties and economies (Pal Tamas) transformation (transition studies) from an inter­ 4. National strategies and EU-Enlargement disciplinary perspective. The Conference (Andras Inotai) Venue Organisers plan to invite social activists. 5. Social Policies of the post-socialism (Julia The Conference will be held in the magnificent reformers, political leaders and international Szalai) premises of theuunqariap. Academy of Sciences, experts who have played significant roles in the 6 New economic actors and institutions in situated on the bank -of the Danube near the actual transformation processes of the region Eastern & Central Europe (Gyorgy Lengyel) Chain Bridge, 1051 8udapest, Roosevelt ter during the lastdecade. 7. Organizational innovation and (square) 9. The Conference venue is within organizational power in the privatized walking distance of downtown Budapest. The Structure and Themes enterprises (Csaba Mako) offic;:iallanguage of.theConference is English. The Conference sessions will take place in four 8. The roleof trade unions in the post-1989 main streams. economic and social policies (Mihaly Csako) Registration fee: US$70 9 The East European historiography and the Theme I: Elements of the New Social Order post-1989 transformation (Attila Pok) '10 YEARS AfTER' SECRETARIAT (Visions, Prospects and Realities) 10. Collective memories - strategies of do SCOPE Meetings Ltd. Theme II: Structure and Institutions remembering (Denes Nemedi) Kende u. 13-17 Theme III: Transformations of the Everyday life ­ 11. Rural transformation and innovation (lmre H-llll Budapest, Hungary New Styles and Orientations Kovach) tel: +361 2096001, 209 644Z Theme IV: The New World of Work 12. Social change andurban restructuring in fax: +361 3869378 Central Europe (Viktoria Szirmai) email: [email protected]

Centre for European Studies Research University of Portsmouth CESR Millennium Essay Competition o celebrate themillennium, theCentre for 'What is For copies of the Competition Rules and European Studies Research (CESR) at the the relevant forms, please contact: University of Portsmouth has organized anessay competition, sponsored by Frank Cass, on Europe?' The Secretary the subject 'What is Europe?' PRIZE: £1,000 Centre for European Studies Research, select essays for publication in a volume entitled University of Portsmouth The competition is open to any person who What is Europe? to be published by frank Cass in Park Building adheres to the Competition Rules. There are no the summer of 2000. King Henry I Street, restrictions on the basis of academic discipline. Portsmouth POl ZDZ The competition will be adjudicated by a Jury All entries must address the question 'What is United Kingdom composed of three distinguished European Studies Europe)' in between 5,000 and 6,000 words. experts: Susan Bassnett, Professor of Comparative Entries must be accompanied by the appropriate tel. +44 (0)1705 846163 Literary Studies. University of Warwick; Richard forms, available from the Secretary of CESR. The fax: +44 (0)1705 846031 Overy, Professor of Modern History, King's College, deadline is12.00 noon on30September 1999. The e-mail: [email protected]). London; and William E. Paterson, Professor of receipt of all entries admissible under the German and European Politics, University of competition rules will be acknowledged. The Birmingham. They will decide the winner and will winner will beannounced in January 2000. ------

EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST NUMBER 9 ISSEI 2000 ECSR MZES Approaching a New European Consortium Mannheim Centre for Millennium: for Sociological European Sociological Lessons From the Research Research Past - Prospects for the Future ECSR Graduate ECSR Workshops Summer School 1999 1999 he University of Bergen, Norway in cooperation with the International September 30th to October 7th to Ii Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) is staging the seventh ISSEI conlerence October 6th October 8th lrom 14 to 18 August 2000. We expect 1500 participants who will take part in about 150 different workshops, grouped into five sections. The workshops should encourage multi­ at the Mannheim Centre for European SOCial Research (MZES) disciplinary contributions and presentations. • Democracy: Possibilities, Problems and , Challenges at the Close 01 the 20thCentury he ECSR Graduate School is a graduate­ he ECSR Workshops provide a forum • Law. Civilised Societies and Collapse - State level training programme for social particularly for yQJjng researchers to Powers andthe Rule of law Ii scientists offered by the European Ii present their work and facilitate co­ • Europe in Search 01 Identity: Multi-ethnicity, Consortium for Sociological Research. From 1999 operation among them. migration and the challenges of integration onwards, annual courses will takeplace at one • European Identity and its Expression in of the ECSR's member institutions. The primary Each of the parallel Workshops focuses ona Philosophy, Science, literatureandArt targetgroup for the courses are PhD students specific topic from the-agenda of comparative • European Education Decline, Market working in various fields of sociological research. social research and comprises several sessions. Adaptlon or Critical Continuity The programme comprises five days of teaching. Workshops consist 01 a working group led by If you are interested in participating in a Each day a distinguished scholar will give a . notedprofessors orexperienced researcher. They workshop, second announcement and call for lecture on a specific theoretical issue or will attempt to build up a networkof continued papers will be ready by August/September 1999. methodological approach in comparative co-operation among the Workshop participants. All information will be available at the website: research. http://www.uib. nolissei 20001 Applicants are asked to opt for one of the Chair: Prof. Walter MOiler Workshops. The official language of the conference will be English. lecturers: Groupson the lollowing topics are chaired by: ISSEI 2000 has applyed lor a limited number 01 • Prol. Hans-Peter Blossleid grants for participants from Eastern Europe. As Event History Modelling inComparative • Dr. Thomas Bahle and Astrid Pfenning soon as a decision has been made, details will be Research Family Policy in Europe made available at our website or you can contact • Prof. Richard Breen • Dr. Sonja Drobnic and Dr. Karin Kurz the conference secretariat. Rational Choice in Comparative Research Work/Family in Comparative Perspective • Prof. Frank Furstenberg • Prof. Anthony Heath and For further information please contact our Famify Change andthe Welfare of Children Prof. Nan DirkdeGraal conference secretariat (or use our online in Comparative Perspective Comparative Political Sociology registration form). • John H. Goldthorpe • Prof. Karl-Ulrich Mayer ISSEI 2000 Methodological Issues in Comparative Comparative Life Course Analysis Centre for the Study of European Civilization Macro-Sociology • Dr. Paul Nieuwbeerta University of Bergen • Prof. Charles Ragin Causes andConsequences of Socio­ Haakon Sheteligs plass 11 Alternative Strategies of Comparative Economic andPolitical Attitudes in Eastern N-5007 Bergen - Norway Research and Western Europe tel: +47 55582434 fax: +47 55584717 Plenary lectures e-mail: [email protected] • Prof. Jutta Allmendinger and Stefan Fuchs: You may also subscribe to ISSEI's official journal No tl-Tum? The fnternationallntegration of The European legacy: Toward NewParadigms, and for further information please refer to our Women intotheEducational System and receive regular and up-to-date information on ISSEI. website: Scientific Labour Markets httpllwww.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/ecsr • Prof. Marlis Buchmann or contact MZES: Conference Chairs The Interplay between the Private andthe [email protected]~mannheim.de Odd Bjorn Fure Dept. of History e-mail: Public Self'Images of the Selfover the 20th Ezra Talmor Dept. of Philosophy Century inSwitzerland EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST NUMBER 9

impact of computer technology on the worlds of knowledge. Among the issues addressed are Telecosm 2000 writing processes, the research of information, exchange networks, and the transmission of University of Sunderland knowledge.

European Identity in the Convenor: Charlie Mansfield Information Society' Centre for European Studies University of Sunderland nformation & Communications Technologies papers from the conference will be published in LDS Hutton Building (ICTs) impact upon the way we learn and The Journal of European Culture in theInformation work in Europe's new Information Society. Society. Papers are accepted in English and in Chester Road IJ Sunderland SRI 3SD Email, the Web and videoconferencing put us in French. Papers and presentations may be given in touch with fellow Europeans but language and French or English. Question interpreters will be United Kingdom cultural differences still present dialogic available between French and English. German, challenges. Telecosm 2000 explores those Spanish, Russian andJapanese are alsostudied at e-mail: [email protected] challenges. the University and every endeavour will be made Tel: +441915153189 to accommodate speakers of these languages. Fax: +441915152279

Venue Keynote Speaker Wednesday 3rd May 2000, Call For Papers University of Sunderland Professeur EricGuichard he Journal of Poverty: Innovations on The Internet Atelier Social, Political Pt Economic Inequalities is Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Ij a refereed journal designed to provide an Call for Papers 'Networks, Knowledge, andTerritories' outletfor discourse onpoverty and inequality. The Papers are sought on the subject of European editorial board welcomes manuscripts which Identity in the Information Society. It is expected Since 1995, the Ecole Normale Superieure's sensitize social scientists and practitioners to the that academics from a range ofdisciplines will be Internet Atelier has brought together researchers varied forms and patterns of inequalities, new interested in presenting papers. Peer reviewed from various disciplines involved in assessing the developments in cultural diversity, and interventions promoting equality and social justice. Articles guided by conceptual analyses involving quantitative and qualitative methods are encouraged. The intent is to produce and Developing Poverty Measures: disseminate information on poverty and social, political, and economic inequalities and to offera Research in Europe means by which nontraditional strategies for A series of Conferences sponsored by the Economic and Social change might be considered. The journal is concerned, with various levels of intervention Research Council (UK) and the Soros Foundation in Budapest ranging from direct practice to community organization to social policy analysis. Manuscripts he general aim of this series of six Bristol in response to the United Nations first should increase knowledge of oppressive forces, conferences is to review the best European International Decade for the Eradication of Poverty such as racism, sexism, dassism. andhomophobia. Ij research into poverty and seek scientific (1997-2006) andalso in recognition of the work of which contribute to the maintenance of poverty consensus on measures of 'absolute' and 'overall' Professor Peter Townsend. and inequality and suggest methods of change poverty suggested in the programme of action leading towards theireradication. agreed by 117 countries at the 1995 World Summit 5-6 October 1999 in Dartington, United Kingdom, on Social Development, to draw together the huge 'Poverty and Inequalities in Health'. This conference The Journal of Poverty is now in its second year volume of scientific work into poverty around will examine the evidence for the widening gap in of publication and is published quarterly by Europe, and to give greater public authority to the inequalities in health in Europe and look at the Haworth Press, Inc, Authors should submit four best findings and the most reliable methodologies implications of therecent report of theIndependent copies of the manuscript. Manuscripts should be of that research. This can bedone effectively only in Inquiry into Inequalities and Health, under the double spaced. Please include an abstract of no the context of the work going on in all countries chairmanship of Sir Donald Acheson, for health more than 100 words. References and format and' with continuing reference to international research and policy in Europe. Dartington Hall is should followAPA style. Manuscripts will be peer developments. For this reason, the international located near the Devon town of Totnes. reviewed by at least two consulting editors and agencies, including the United Nations, have been returned with comments. Additional information invited to playa partin theprogramme. A series of For further information about these conferences, about the Journal of Poverty is available on the books and other reports are planned and will be please contact David Gordon, e-mail: web: http://www.csw.ohio-state.edu/jpov published as theprogramme iscompleted. The most [email protected] recent (second) conference took place in Budapest Manuscripts should besent to: 2H2 May 1999 on 'Monitoring Poverty and the Alternatively, you canwrite to: The Editors Influence of Past and Current Government Policies'. The Townsend Centre for International Poverty Journal of Poverty: Innovations on Social, Political Research & Economic Inequalities Future Conferences in this Series University of Bristol P. O. Box 3613 H July 1999 in Bristol, United Kingdom, 'Defining 8 Priory Road Columbus, OH 43210-3613 and Measuring Poverty' .This conference willalso mark Bristol BS8 H2 the launch of the Townsend Centre for International Tel: +1614-292-7181 Poverty Research. This isa multi-disciplinary research Tel: +44 (0)117 954 6761 Fax: +1614-292-6940 centre which has been established bythe University of Fax: +44 (0)117 9546756 EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST NUMBER 9 Gender and Rural Transformations in Europe: Past, Present and Future Prospects

rofound transformations are occurring in 14-17 October, 1999 Theme I: Gender in rural households, • rural Europe - Western, Central and Eastern. livelihoods and economies ri1 New policies around the environment, Wageningen, Theme II: Gender and rural environments, social security and equal opportunity are cultures and living spaces provoking profound economic, social and environmental adjustment in rural areas. They are The Netherlands deeply affecting the identities aswell as working Contact: and livingconditions of rural people. At the same time, these changes are stimulating important these processes according to theirown visions. Margreet van der Burg, Conference initiatives resulting in newforms of pluriactivity, Coordinator means to protect nature, food supplies, and the At the Conference, scholars and special invitees Gender Studies inAgriculture landscape, and changing social relations. throughout Western and Central and Eastern Hollandseweg 1 Europe will present and discuss gender research NL·6706 KN Wageningen Considering existing gender inequalities in rural from various disciplinary and regional The Netherlands communities and households, it is certain that perspectives. They will exchange views among past and current developments are gender­ themselves and with others whowill be invited to Tel. +31 317 483374 differentiated. Rural women throughout Europe hear, discuss and critique the findings as well as Fax: +31 317485477 continue to have limited access to all kinds of their practical and political implications. e-mail: [email protected]; resources - economic, political and cultural. The risks of increasing gender inequalities is great The conference will be structured around two Visit theconference website and pre-register and rural women may have relatively less chance major themes, with three sub-themes each. at: http://www.sls.wau.nl/ads/congr_gs.htrn to benefit from the opportunities and to influence

Skilling and the Role ofthe Firm 4th Annual ILM Conference Centre for International Labour Market Studies (CILMS) The Robert Gordon University elief in the inadequacy of private sector Aberdeen, Scotland Annual International Labour Markets (ILM) " training is the ostensible motive for Conference please send an abstract (not fJ government intervention to regulate or 11-12 October 1999 exceeding 250words) to: subsidise. Levy schemes for financing industry ILM Conference 1999 training are frequently advocated. Others point to clo Ms Lynnette Smart initial, further and higher education as promising from government, business, industry and Viewfield Road mechanisms to equip workers with the academia world-wide to discuss these and other Aberdeen AB15 4PH appropriate setof skills. Most governments seem related issues. The conference is multi-disciplinary United Kingdom. to be prepared to subsidise some forms of in nature and intends to cover a range of topics, training, especially for the disadvantaged in the including: Company-Financed Training; Training Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday, 18 labour market, as longas companies contribute to and Government Subsidy; Education-Business June 1999. In case of acceptance full papers are the wage bill. And then there are those who Partnerships; Recruitment, Retention and Skills; required by friday, 10Septernber 1999. believe that it is the sole responsibility of firms to The Relationship between Schooling andTraining; provide relevant skilling opportunities. Butwho is Graduate Labour Markets; Vocational Training If you have any questions regarding the ILM right? What kind of learning opportunities need to Policy and Practice; Core Skills and Key Conference or you would like a registration form be available, who will pick up the bill, when is Competencies; Training and the Impact of the for the Conference you can contact either Greig intervention beneficial, when harmful and what is Minimum Wage; MotivationlBarriers to Learning Robertson ([email protected]) or Lynnette the role of the firm in this context? in theWorkplace. Smart ([email protected]) at The Centre for International Labour Market Studies, Robert The 4th Annual International Labour Markets Call for Papers Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. Telephone Conference will bring together representatives If you would like to present a paper at the 4th (+441214263118) or fax (+44 1224263112). EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGIST NUMBER 9

CALL FOR PAPERS 'The Long Run': Long-term Developments in the Arts and Cultural Industries

he Department of Art and Culture Studies February 23-25, 2000 Deadline for the submission of abstracts is at Erasmus University in Rotterdam focuses Rotterdam, August 15, 1999. Ii onthesociological, economic and historical aspects of the arts and cultural industries. In The Netherlands february 2000, theDepartment celebrates its 10th For further information, visit: Anniversary with aninternational conference. Just http://www.eur.nl/fhkw/thelongrun like the Department itself, the Conference or related topics: provides an open, interdisciplinary forum for or contact the Conference Secretariat research into the world of art and culture. The • Public, Nonprofit and for-Profit futuresof the conference aims at charting long-term Arts; Theresa Oostvogels developments in the arts and cultural industries. • Artistic Work and Artistic Careers between Dept. of Art andCultufe Studies (Room L3-25) Speculation about future developments is Market and Organization; Erasmus University Rotterdam welcomed, as long as it is grounded in empirical • (Mass) Media as a Source of Information on P.O. Box 1138' research or theoretical argument. theArts; NL-3000 DR Rotterdam • The Museum as Urban Representation; The Netherlands The Conference features keynote lectures by • The Dynamics of Transnational Cultural -,.,' eminent scholars in the sociology, economics and Exchange; Tel +31104081020 history of the arts and cultural industries. It also • Perspectives on European Cultural Industries; fax +31 104089135 includes paper sessions and a cultural program. • Cultural Industries: Risks, Rights and e-mail [email protected]. You are invited to submit papers on the following Revenues. The Role ofthe Romanies: Images and Self-Images of Romanies/Gypsies' in European Cultures An Interdisciplinary Conference

ince theirarrival in Europe at thebeginning University of Liverpool Nicholas Saul of the eleventh century, the 'Gypsies' have Department of German FJ stimulated and fascinated the European 15-18 September University of Liverpool imagination, but have also always been perceived Modern languages Building as 'other' and marginalised. At the end of the 2000 Liverpool L69 3BX millennium, after centuries of discrimination and Tel.: +44-1517942351/2 persecution, Romaniesf'Gypsies' remain the least fax: +44-1517942307 understood and least popular ethnic minority e-mail: [email protected] We invitecontributions in the fields of linguistics, group in most European countries. Yet very few cultural and media studies (particularly film and people have first-hand knowledge of them. music), literary studies, social history, and -Ol- anthropology. The language of the conference will This conference seeks to address the questions be English. The organisers plan to publish a 5usan Tebbutt raised by the ambivalent encounter of the selection of the papers. Offers of papers by Dept of Modern languages 'Gypsies' with European cultures. It aims both to Romanies and papers relating to Eastern Europe University of Bradford re-examine Gadjo constructions of Bradford areparticularly welcome. Romaniesf'Gypsies' in theOrientalist (7) style over West Yorkshire BD7 lOP Tel.: +441274234588 the centuries and to appraise and compare the Those interested in contributing a paper should contributions made by Romanies themselves to please contact with a brief proposal (300 words) fax: +441274385590 European cultures. e-mail: [email protected] either: