Monday, 1 September 2014, PANEL 1: GLOBALISATION OF ECONOMY, GLOBAL WORK PROCESSES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Ludger Pries (Ruhr-University Bochum):
Internationalisation of Companies and Possibilities of Cross-Border Employee Representation (Keynote)

Bengt Larsson (University of Gothenburg):
Conditions for and Obstacles to Trade Union Cooperation in Europe

Sarah Bormann (Free University of Berlin):
Building Union Power through Transnational Campaigns

Graeme Hayes (Aston University):
Understanding Tactical Dilemmas in Context: A Comparison of Direct Action against Genetically Modified Crops in Belgium, France and the UK

Tuesday, 2 September 2014, PANEL 2: LABOUR PARTIES AND DISTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL WEALTH

Gerassimos Moschonas (Panteion University, Athens):
The Labour Parties' Transformation: A Historical and Comparative Approach (Keynote)

Stefan Berger (Ruhr-University Bochum):
Social-Democratic Labour Movements

Kevin Morgan (University of Manchester):
Revolutionary Labour Movements

Traugott Jähnichen (Ruhr-University Bochum):
Protestantism and Trade Union Movement in the 20th Century

Wednesday, 3 September 2014, PANEL 3: SOCIAL CONFLICTS OVER THE RIGHT TO LAND

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (Australian National University, Canberra):
Understanding Resistance and Social Movements in Mining (Keynote)

Carl Levy (Goldsmiths, University of London):
Land Tenure, Labour and Politics in Southern Europe during the Long Nineteenth
Century

Enrico Dal Lago (National University of Ireland, Galway):
Emancipation from Slavery and Serfdom, and Land Rights: The Americas and Eastern Europe Compared

Liviu Mantescu (Humboldt University Berlin):
Environmental Activism and Green Grabbing

Thursday, 4 September 2014, PANEL 4: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, CAPITALISM AND MARKETS

Sabrina Zajak (Ruhr-University Bochum):
A Political Economic Perspective on Social (Keynote)

Laurence Cox (National University of Ireland, Maynooth):
Marxism and Social Movements

Frank de Bakker (VU University Amsterdam):
How Activist Groups Try to Impact Firms on Issues of Corporate Social Responsibility

Anannya Bhattacharjee (AFW International Secretariat, India):
Global Supply Chain Bargaining and Campaigning

Friday, 5 September 2014, PANEL 5: WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS

Ilse Lenz (Ruhr-University Bochum):
Women's Movements in Global Perspectives (Keynote)

Kathleen Fallon (Stony Brook University, New York):
Women’s Movements in sub-Saharan Africa

Tuba Kancı (Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara):
Women’s Movements and Social Activism in Turkey: Historical Assessment, Contemporary Challenges and Future Prospects

Poster Session
Presentation and Discussion of Scientific Posters

Monday, 8 September 2014, PANEL 6: PEACE MOVEMENTS

Holger Nehring (University of Stirling):
Peace Movements as Social Movements: Some Conceptual Thoughts (Keynote)

Sean Scalmer (University of Melbourne):
The Global Gandhi

Jared Donnelly (Texas A&M University):
Transnational Diffusion of Protest Methods: Civil Disobedience and the West German Peace Movement

Stephen Milder (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey):
Caught between Nuclear Freeze and Hot Autumn: The Complicated Relationship of the German and American Peace Movements, 1979-1983

Tuesday, 9 September 2014, PANEL 7: ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS

Frank Uekötter (University of Birmingham):
Befriending Leviathan: Environmentalism and the Decline of the Nation-State (Keynote)

Thomas Lekan (University of South Carolina):
Thinking Locally, Acting Globally: Global Environmentalism in the Age of Asymmetry

Carola Betzold (University of Gothenburg):
Environmental Advocacy in the International Climate Change Negotiations

Matthias Dietz (University of Bremen):
Survival Strategies of the Climate Movement

Wednesday, 10 September 2014, PANEL 8: DEMOCRACY MOVEMENTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS

Håkan Thörn (University of Gothenburg):
Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society (Keynote)

Jan Eckel (University of Freiburg):
Human Rights in Global Politics

Chris King-chi Chan (City University of Hong Kong):
Workers' Rights and Human Rights in an Authoritarian State: Changing State and Society Relations in China

Marica Tolomelli (University of Bologna):
Serve the Workers! How Italian and German Students Developed into Political Militants Devoted to Workers (Keynote)

Ulf Teichmann (Ruhr-University Bochum):
Struggles after 1968. 1968 in Bochum: The Ruhr-University as a Part of a Global Social Movement?

Thursday, 11 September 2014, PANEL 9: ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTS

Hans-Jörg Trenz (University of Copenhagen):
The Euro Crisis: New Socio-Political Divisions, Mobility and Mobilization (Keynote)

Julia Hofmann (Johannes Kepler University Linz):
Transnational Trade Union Protests since the Euro Crisis: Chances and Obstacles

Markos Vogiatzoglou (European University Institute, Florence):
Workers' Mobilization in Greece: Protest and Social Movements in the Context of Austerity Politics

Moritz Sommer and Franziska Scholl (Free University of Berlin):
Crisis Protests in the Eurozone: Insights from Discursive Actor Attribution Analysis

Alissa Starodub (Ruhr-University Bochum):
Participatory Action Research: Crisis Protest Forms in Spain, Germany and Greece
Alissa Starodub

Friday, 12 September 2014, PANEL 10: WITNESS SEMINAR: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN ACTION

Dieter Rucht (Berlin Social Science Center):
Social Movements in Action: Without Structures and Strategies?

Yusuf Doğan Çetinkaya (Müşterekler/Başlangıç):
Gezi Park Protests in Turkey

Lina Ben Mhenni
Arab Spring: Tunisian Revolution

Wolfgang Schaumberg (Forum Arbeitswelten e.V.):
Transnational Labour Struggles in the Automobile Industry

Bettina Musiolek (Entwicklungspolitisches Netzwerk Sachsen e.V.):
Clean Clothes Campaign

Victor Strazzeri (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade / Comitê pela desmilitarização da polícia):
Social Protests in Brazil