Keynotes

Branko Milanović

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The Transformation of Global Inequality

Opening Keynote on 23.09.2019 • 17:00

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.

Joan Tronto

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The Future of Caring Democracy

Keynote on 24.09.2019 • 9:00 – 10:00

Prof. Dr. Joan Tronto is Professor of Political Science at the University of MinnesotaExternal link and was previously Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science at the Hunter CollegeExternal link and the Graduate SchoolExternal link, City University of New YorkExternal link. Main areas of work include: care ethics, women’s and gender studies, political theory, caring democracy.

James Galbraith

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Inequality and the End of Normal

Keynote on 24.09.2019 • 9:00 – 10:00

Prof. Dr. James K. Galbraith is an American economist. He is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public AffairsExternal link at the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Lehrstuhl für Government / Business Relations at the University of Texas, AustinExternal link and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics InstituteExternal link des Bard CollegeExternal link. Main areas of work include: inequality, economic policy, growth theory.

Gurminder Bhambra

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European Colonialism: The Great Transformation that Explains the Global Crisis

Keynote on 24.09.2019 • 13:30 – 14:30

Prof. Dr. Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies
in the Department of International RelationsExternal link at the School of Global StudiesExternal link of the University of SussexExternal link. Main areas of work include: citizenship, colonialism, world history, historical and political sociology, modernity, postcolonial/decolonial theory,
post-colonialism.

Maristella Svampa

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Transformation of the Global South – what Future?

Keynote on 25.09.2019 • 9:00 – 10:00

Maristella Svampa is a sociologist and professor at the Universidad Nacional de la PlataExternal link, Argentina as well as an independent researcher at CONICETExternal link. Main areas of work
include: social movements in Latin and South America, social-ecological transformation, extractivism.

Boltanski & Esquerre

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Naissance du capitalisme intégral

Keynote on 25.09.2019 • 13:30 – 14:30

Prof. Dr. Luc Boltanski is a sociologist and research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences SocialesExternal link, Paris. Main areas of work include: theories of capitalism, sociology of morality, pragmatism, political sociology.

Prof. Dr. Arnaud Esquerre is a sociologist and researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)External link in Paris. Main areas of work include: historical sociology, social criticism, capitalism research.

Lucio Baccaro

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Growth Models in Europe: Which Future?

Keynote on 26.09.2019 • 9:00 – 10:00

Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro is Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of SocietiesExternal link and Professor for Macro-sociology at the University of GenevaExternal link. Main areas of work include: political economy of growth models, comparative industrial relations, global justice.