Scientific Programme
Preliminary Programme
4 December 2024
Wednesday (evening) | Welcome lectures and drinks at Charles University Karolinum
5–6 December 2024
Thursday – Friday (all day) | Conference presentations at the venue with lunch and coffee breaks
Friday (evening) | Conference dinner at Café Louvre
7 December 2024
Saturday (morning) | Closing lectures at Charles University Karolinum
Plenary Speakers
Professor Marta Bucholc
University of Warsaw
Marta Bucholc, sociology professor at the University of Warsaw, leads the ERC project "ABORTION FIGURATIONS", heads the Polish team for the Volkswagen Foundation's "Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism" project and the Polish National Science Centre project “National Habitus”. She was a research professor at the University of Bonn's "Law as Culture" Centre. She has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Saint-Louis Brussels and the University of Graz, a visiting bye-fellow at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, a fellow at the IWM Vienna and Imre Kertesz Kolleg Jena. She is Distinguished Fellow at the University of Munich's Universalism and Particularism Centre.
Professor John M. Hobson
University of Sheffield
John M. Hobson is a political scientist, sociologist and scholar of international relations. Since 2005, he has been Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. His main research interest concerns the area of inter-civilizational relations and everyday political economy. His work is principally involved in carrying forward the critique of Eurocentrism in World History/Historical Sociology, International Relations and IPE.
Professor Helmut Kuzmics
University of Graz
Helmut Kuzmics is professor of sociology at the University of Graz. Kuzmics studied economics and sociology in Graz and Vienna and completed his habilitation in sociology at the University of Graz in 1987. His research interests include: historical sociology, figuration sociology, civilization theory, general sociology, economic sociology, literary sociology, sociology of emotions, national mentalities, modernity and modernization, symbolic interactionism.
Professor Gerda Reith
University of Glasgow
Gerda Reith is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research interests lie in the intersections of sociology, political economy, public health and psychology, with a particular focus on the substantive areas of consumption, risk and addiction.
