CINEFOGO Conference: Programme

CINEFOGO Workshop
Social Capital and Democracy in Europe and the USA
October 27-28, 2006

Organised by Analistas Socio-Políticos Research Center, Madrid, Spain

Venue:
Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset
Fortuny 53
Madrid, Spain

P R O G R A M M E

Friday,  27 October 2006

9:30

Opening of the CINEFOGO Workshop Social Capital and Democracy in Europe and the USA

Víctor Pérez-Díaz (Analistas Socio-Políticos Research Center, Madrid, Spain)

A general presentation

10:00-14:00
Session I. Social capital: inclusion and exclusion

Joaquín Pedro López Novo (Analistas Socio-Políticos Research Center, Madrid, Spain)

Religion, irreligion and democratic governance: the problem of exclusionary secularism

Coffe-break (15 minutes)

Carlo Ruzza (University of Trento, Italy)

Organized civil society and multi-level governance in the EU

Grzegorz Ekiert (Harvard University, USA)

Democratization and civil society in postcommunist Europe: assessing the relationship
14:00 Lunch at the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset
16:00-19:00
Session II. Politics and civil society

Tiago Fernandes (European University Institute, Italy / Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

Political origins of civil society: Spain and Portugal in comparative perspective

Coffe-break (15 minutes)

Xavier de Souza Briggs (MIT, USA)

Study of civic capacity at the local level, with pairs of cities in three problem domains--economic restructuring, managing urban growth and development, and investing in people (social protection, human development)

Distributed paper:

Tomas Sirovatka (The School for Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic) and Petr Mares (Masaryk University, Czech Republic): Transformation, social capital, social exclusion: Czech case

21:00 Flamenco spectacle and tapas
Venue: Casa Patas
Steet: Cañizares, 10
Metro: Tirso de Molina

Saturday, 28 October 2006

9:30-12:30
Session III. Civil society and democratic governance

Alejandro Portes (Princeton University, USA)

The Two Meanings of Social Capital and its Bearing on the Adaptation of the Immigrant Second Generation

Coffe-break (15 minutes)
 

Lars Tragardh (Ersta Skondal University College, Sweden)

Commissions constitute the linchpin of democratic governance in Sweden as the location where agents of the state co-govern with representatives of civil society organizations

Marti Siisiäinen, Raimo Blom, Kaj Ilmonen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)

Social capital in Finland: Trust in voluntary and work organizations

Distributed paper:

Lars Hulgard (Roskilde University, Denmark)

Institutional configurations of bonding and bridging social capital

13:00-14:00
Session IV. Round table

 

14:00 Lunch at "El aliño" Restaurant
Street: Rafael Calvo, 40