Conferences, held every second year, are a main focus of the European Sociological Association.
The fifth European Conference:
"Visions and Divisions Challenges to European Sociology", took
place August 28th - September 1st, 2001 on the city campus of the University of Helsinki,
Finland.
The fourth European Conference of
Sociology, entitled 'Will Europe Work?', took place in 18-21 August 1999 in Amsterdam.
It had four main sub-themes: working in Europe; working on Europe - constructing
identities; working on Europe - constructing institutions; Europe's working in the world.
The third
conference was held at the University of Essex, United Kingdom between 27 and 30
August 1997 around the theme "20th Century Europe: Inclusions/Exclusions". This
theme was designed to reflect both the promise of social inclusion that the end of the
twentieth century offers along with the dangers of new and resurrected forms of social
exclusion coming with the changed circumstances of a new century. The conference had six
main sub-themes: revisiting classical theory; work, welfare & citizenship;
inequalities old & new; globalizations; European processes, boundaries &
institutions; and cultures & identities.
The Second
European Conference of Sociology was held in Budapest 28 August - 2 September 1995
around the theme 'European societies: fusion or fission'. This theme reflected the
divergent dynamics of an increase in the significance of ethnic and national projects and
identities on the one hand, and increasing economic and political integration of the
European Union via the Single European market and Social Chapter following the Maastricht
Treaty on the other. The conference had five main sub-themes: nationalism, ethnicity &
racism; gender & class (in)equality; gender, citizenship & the welfare state;
models of transition & transformation; culture. About 50 sociologists drawn from all
parts of Europe co-ordinated the selection of papers for approximately 30 groups of
sessions.
The inaugural conference was held in Vienna in 1992.
