Conference Program
Date: August 28 – 30, 2023
Place: UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3013 Bern (site plan)
Detailed conference program: https://www.conftool.com/as23/sessions.php
Program Outline
Monday, 28 August 2023
| 13:00 | Registration |
| 13.30–14.00 | Welcome Addresses |
| 14.00–15.00 | Keynote speech: "How Knowledge is Gendered: Brilliance, Credentials and AI" by Claudia Buchmann (Ohio State University) |
| 15.00–15.30 | Coffee break |
| 15.30-17.15 | Paper sessions on Health, Labour Market & Gender, Conflicts, Crime, Uncertainty, and Digitalization |
| 17.15–20.00 | Poster session & Apéro |
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
| 09.00–10.45 | Paper sessions on Education & Gender, Social Origin & IEO, Skills & Labour Market, and Neighborhood & Region |
| 10.45–11.15 | Coffee break |
| 11.15–13.00 | Paper sessions on Student & Friendship Segregation, Occupational Change, Globalization & Politics, and Gender |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00–15.00 | Keynote speech: "The Myth of the Middle Class Squeeze: Employment and Income by Class in Six Western Countries, 1980-2020" by Daniel Oesch (University of Lausanne) |
| 15.00–15.30 | Coffee break |
| 15.30–16.30 | Dissertation Award Ceremony |
| 16.30–18.00 | AS Business Meeting |
| 19.00–22.00 | Conference Dinner |
Wednesday, 30 August 2023
| 09.00–10.45 | Paper sessions on Education System, COVID-19, Minority Groups, and Mobility & Wages |
| 10.45–11.15 | Coffee break |
| 11.15–12.15 | Keynote speech: "Engines of (in-)equality? Analysing the role of schools for social inequality in learning" by Jan Skopek (Trinity College Dublin) |
| 12.15-13.15 | Lunch break |
| 13.15–15.00 | Paper sessions on Gender, Migration, Research Designs & Methods, and Climate Change |
| 15.00–15.30 | Coffee break |
| 15.30–17.30 | Panel Discussion on Methods Training in Sociology Study Programs Best Poster Award and closing remarks |