Monday

Volkshaus Jena

Image: Anne Günther/ FSU

Volkshaus Jena, Carl-Zeiß-Platz 15
Doors open at 4 p.m.

Admission to the opening event will be with your name tag, which you will be handed out with your conference documents at the check-in desk in the central auditorium building directly at Ernst-Abbe-Platz.

Official event from 5–8 p.m.

Welcome address by:

• Wolfgang Tiefensee
  Thuringian Minister for Economics, Science and the Digital Society
• Dr. Thomas Nitzsche
  Lord Mayor of the city of Jena
• Prof. Dr. Walter Rosenthal
  President of the Friedrich Schiller University
• Prof. Dr. Silke van Dyk
  Director of the Institute for Sociology

Opening address by:

• Prof. Dr. Blättel-Mink, Prof. Dr. Nicole Burzan
  Current and former Chairwoman of the German Society of Sociology (DGS)
• Prof. Dr. Klaus Dörre, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa
  Directors of the Research Group "Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften"

Branko Milanović

Image: Rolf Schulten

Prof. Dr. Branko Milanović is currently Presidential Professor at the Graduate CenterExternal link and Senior Fellow at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic InequalityExternal link at the City University of New YorkExternal link. For a long time he has been a senior economist in the research department of the World BankExternal link. Main areas of work include: income inequality in individual countries and worldwide as well as historically in pre-industrial societies.

Standing reception from 8–11 p.m.

After the official opening, there will be a standing reception with snacks and drinks. The reception is included in the conference fee (with the exception of drinks).