2012 Workshop on Social Change

                          Theory and Applications (the case of Greek society)

Friday, 9 March 2012
London School of Economics

• Final Programme

• Workshop Report

• Podcast (available to all) and Video (available to LSE users only) for Keynote Lectures 

• Podcast for Session I. (due to a technical problem there is no podcast for Session II.)

 

Welcome Address

Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies & Professor of European Politics, LSE 

 

Keynote Lectures 

• Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone 
  
  
   
• Professor Margaret Archer
  Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick & Director, Centre for Social Ontology, Centre d'Ontologie Sociale EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL – Collège des Humanités
  Social change and changes in reflexivity

 

• Professor Nicos Mouzelis
  Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
  Developments leading to the Greek crisis

 

Session I -  Social Change: Theory and Applications

• Chair: Dr Athanasia Chalari

• Dr Vanessa May
  Lecturer in Sociology, Sociology Department, University of Manchester
  Belonging and the many faces of social change  

• Dr Matthew Adams
  Principal Lecturer in Psychology, School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Brighton
  Being as nothingness: reflexivity and new sociologies of class 

 

 

Session II - Reform and Regulating Business & Financial Sector

• Chair: Dr Vanessa May
  
  
• Dr Sofia Vasilopoulou
  Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics, University of York
  Dr Theofanis Exadaktylos
  Ministry of Finance Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory London School of Economics & Lecturer in European Politics, University of Surrey
  Dr Daphne Halikiopoulou
  Fellow in Comparative Politics, Department of Government, London School of Economics
  Greece in crisis: the rise of populism in an age of austerity
   
• Dr Athanasia Chalari
  A.C. Laskaridis Post-Doctoral Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics
  How Greek Social Reality changes and Why?