Plenary Sessions

Opening Ceremony

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Amartya Sen: "Challenges for the Social Sciences in the New Century"

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Award Ceremony: The Stein Rokkan Prize

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One Social Science – or Many?

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Towards Novel Assemblages of Territory, Authority, and Rights

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Knowing Better – and Doing Worse? What Social Science Can Provide for Policy Makers

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Can Science Save Us? Challenges for the Social Sciences from Climate Change

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Closing Ceremony

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Sunday Parallel Sessions

Social Scientists in the Corridors of Power (S1)

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Emergent Urban Research and Theorisation Agendas (S2)

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Globalization and Migration (S3)

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Rankings and Reactions: The Comparative Politics of International Rankings (S4)

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The Unfinished Agenda – The Legacy of Stein Rokkan for Social Research (S5)

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Social Structure and Development (S6)

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Gender and Armed Conflicts Panel 1 of Civil Wars and Fragile States (S7)

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Monday Parallel Sessions

Speaking Truth to Power (M1)

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Long Shadows: Pandemics and Social Collapse (M2)

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Hazards and Managing Catastrophes: Panel 1 of Environmental Hazards and Social Catastrophes (M3)

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Global Studies and the Heritage of Social Sciences (M4)

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Science Ethics: Ensuring Ethics in Research (M5)

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Worlds Apart: Inequality of Income and Opportunity (M6)

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Religion, Democracy and the Future: “A Truth which Will Set Us Free”? (M7)

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Humanities and Social Sciences: Intersections and Shared
Paradigms (M8)

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Social Science Systems in the World (M9)

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Land-use Conflicts: The Competition Between Food, Bioenergy, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services (M10)

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Social Forces and Public Health (M11)

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Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation: Different or the Same? Panel 2 of Environmental Hazards and Social Catastrophes (M12)

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Intro

Allan Lavell

Colleen Vogel

David Johnston (PowerPoint)

Discussion

Development from Below (M13)

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Digitizing Social Science and the Humanities (M14)

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Governance and Development (M15)

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Adebayo Olukoshi

Abdul Raufu Mustapha

Adam Mohamed Habib

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The Science of Science and Innovation Policy (M16)

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Intro

Fred Gault (PowerPoint)

Elisabeth Müller (PowerPoint)

T.T. Sreekumar (PowerPoint)

John Forje (PowerPoint)

Sunil Mani (PowerPoint)

Wesley Shrum

Discussion

Science Ethics: Ensuring Research Integrity (M17)

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Tuesday Parallel Sessions

Post-Conflict Reconstruction Panel 2 of Civil Wars and Fragile States (T1)

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Poverty: The Role of Social Research and Social Policy (T2)

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The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Publishing Social Science Research in the Age of the Internet (T3)

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One World or Many – Are Values Converging or Diverging? (T4)

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Frontiers of Complexity Science and Social Science (T5)

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Universalism vs. Multiculturalism (T6)

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University Rankings: Ranking for what? (T7)

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The Future of Armed Conflict: Panel 3 of Civil Wars and Fragile States (T8)

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Race and Citizenship: Form and Substance (T9)

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The Marketisation of Social Science (T10)

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One Planet – Different World Views? (T11)

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Data for International Social Science Research: What We Have and What We Need (T12)

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Possible Futures (T13)

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Rethinking Social Policies in Light of the Response to the Financial Crisis: How to Turn Crisis into Opportunity for Social Development and Policies? (T14)

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