Program of "Knowledge and Civil Society"
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Friday, June 22, 2018
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Lunch (12:00)
Session 1: Civil Society and Societal Transformation
Chair: Johannes Glückler, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
Welcome Address & Introduction (13:00)
Johannes Glückler and Laura Suarsana, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
Civil Society and Philanthropy as Change Agents (13:45)
Rupert Graf Strachwitz, Maecenata Institute for Philanthropy and Civil Society, Berlin (Germany)
Coffee Break (14:45)
Agenda Setting and Deliberation on Constitutional Reform in Hong Kong under Communist China (15:15)
Kin-man Chan, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
General Discussion (16:15)
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Session 2: Civil Society, Agenda-Setting, and Public Discourse
Chair: Elizaveta Fouksman, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University (USA)
The Philanthropic Foundations of Knowledge: Practice, Power, Politics (09:00)
Tobias Jung, Centre for the Study of Philanthropy & Public Good, University of St Andrews (UK)
Civil Society and Public Issues as Social Constructions: A Network Perspective (10:00)
Mario Diani, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (Italy)
Coffee Break (11:00)
Epistemic Activism: Movements, Coalitions, and the Making of Sensibilities (11:30)
Jen Sandler, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
Lunch (12:30)
Chair: Kin-man Chan, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Demonizing the Islamic Counter-Hegemonic Legal Knowledge and Its Unofficial Interpretation and Glocal Dissemination by A Religio-Secular Turkish-Islamic Movement (13:30)
Ihsan Yilmaz, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization, Deakin University (Australia)
Smart Cities and Future Knowledges: Undone Science, Civil Society, and Social Movements (14:30)
David J. Hess, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University (USA)
Coffee Break (15:30)
General Discussion (16:00)
Friday, June 22, 2018
Session 3: Civil Society, Philanthropy, and Educational Landscapes
Chair: Annette Zimmer, Institute of Political Science, University of Muenster (Germany)
Education, Civil Society and Globalization: A Conundrum Revisited (09:00)
Heinz-Dieter Meyer, Department of Educational Policy & Leadership, State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany (USA)
"Policy Patrons": Private Philanthropic Foundations as Political Entrepreneurs in U.S. Public Education (10:00)
Megan Tompkins-Stange, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan (USA)
Coffee Break (11:00)
The German Country Women`s Associations in Regional Development, Education, and Feminist Politics (11:30)
Laura Suarsana, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
Lunch (12:30)
Chair: Jen Sandler, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
The Civic and Political Engagement of Collaborative Philanthropists: Examining Giving Circles in the UK and the USA (13:30)
Angela M. Eikenberry, School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska Omaha (USA)
#FeesMustFall and the Advancement of Social Justice (14:30)
Adam Habib, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Coffee Break (15:30)
Philanthropy in UK Higher Education: Networks of Collaboration and Competition (16:00)
Michael Hoyler, Department of Geography, Loughborough University (UK)
General Discussion (17:00)
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Session 4: Geographies of Knowledge and Civil Society
Chair: Michael Hoyler, Department of Geography, Loughborough University (UK)
Innovative Chameleons - Nonprofits Contributing to Regional and Local Development (09:00)
Annette Zimmer, Institute of Political Science, University of Muenster (Germany)
Regional Philanthropic Fields and the Geography of Philanthropy in Heilbronn-Franconia (10:00)
Johannes Glückler, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
Coffee Break (11:00)
Global Authenticity, Local Authority: Discursive Geographies and Epistemic Power within Civil Society Knowledge Networks (11:30)
Elizaveta Fouksman, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University (USA)
Final Discussion (12:30)
Lunch (13:00)
