The Annual Conference of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad was held at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB, Berlin Social Science Center) on 24 and 25 November 2014.
This year’s conference addressed questions of inequality, education and social power from various disciplinary perspectives and discussed them with a view to different geographical contexts. Special emphasis was placed on the topics of global knowledge asymmetries, social diversity, private actors in the education system as well as implications for the labor market.
Here you will find our program.
Tue 21 Oct 2014
“Inequality, Education and Social Power: Transregional Perspectives”
The conference was embedded in an international Winter Academy on the same topic that was held at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 16-25 November. At the Winter Academy, 30 doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America presented and discussed their ongoing projects. They had a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, coming from such different fields as educational studies, sociology, cultural studies, social sciences, economics, development studies, anthropology, history as well as different area studies.
The international Conference and Winter Academy “Inequality, Education and Social Power: Transregional Perspectives” were organized by the Forum Transregionale Studien in cooperation with the Max Weber Stiftung Transnational Research Group “Poverty and education in modern India”. They were chaired by a group of scholars that included Ravi Ahuja (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Marianne Braig (Freie Universität Berlin/Forum), Andreas Eckert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Forum), Andreas Gestrich (German Historical Institute London), Indra Sengupta (German Historical Institute London), Patricio Solís (El Colegio de México), Jana Tschurenev (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), and Hebe Vessuri (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). As experts, they are involved in research projects and networks that address questions of inequality and education in different world regions (among others, desiguALdades.net and re:work).
For more information about the program and the projects of the participants, please visit the blog ies.hypotheses.org.
