12.45 – 13.00 CET

Arrival & Technical Tests

11.45 am London (CET -1), 07.45 pm Beijing (CET +7), 05.15 pm New Delhi (CET +4,5)
07.45 am New York (CET -5), 04.45 am Los Angeles (CET -8)

13.00 – 13.15 CET

Official Start and Welcome

13.15 – 14.00 CET

Keynote Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College and Harvard University):
Transnational Education: The Impact on Knowledge Production,
Circulation, and Regulation

14.00 – 14.15 CET

- Short Break -

14.15 – 15.45 CET

Panel: Transnational Civil Society I (Chair: Ilka Sommer)

• Bettina Mahlert (University of Innsbruck):
  Global inequality and development: New perspectives for
  empirical globalization research
• Ludger Pries (Ruhr-University of Bochum):
  Transnational forced migration: between global and local
  approaches
• Lakshmi Krishnakumar N. (SRM Institute of Science and
  Technology, Chennai):
  When the Global comes to the Local: A Study of Ayurveda in
  Kerala

15.45 – 16.00 CET

- Short Break -

16.00 – 17.00 CET

03.00 pm London
11.00 pm Beijing
08.30 pm New Delhi
11.00 am N.Y.
08.00 am L.A.

Plenary: How to study the global? Theories and concepts
(Chair: Anja Weiß)

• Hannah Bradby
• Tobias Werron
• Tao Liu

17.00 – 17.45 CET

- Long Break/Breakout Sessions -

17.45 – 18.30 CET

Keynote Stefan Timmermans (University of California, L.A.):
The Cultural Authority of Health

18.30 – 18.45 CET

- Short Break -

18.45 – 20.15 CET

Panel: Medicine (Chair: Sarah Weingartz)

• Loes Knaapen (University of Ottawa):
  Transnational control of standard multiplicity:  competition,
  certification or distribution of ‘local’ standards
• Lucia Candelise, Antoine Kernen, Jean-Marie Oppliger (University
  of Lausanne):
  Chinese medicine in Cameroonian medical pluralism.
  The reappropriation of Chinese medical practices and product
  by Cameroonian therapists
• Hilal Bal Eryılmaz (Istanbul Technical University):
  Local Reflections of Global Trends: Anti Vaccination Movement in
  Turkey

20.15 - Open end

07.15 pm London
03.15 am Beijing
00.45 am New Delhi
03.15 pm N.Y.
12.15 pm L.A.

Breakout Sessions (on demand)

09.45 – 10.00 CET

Arrival and Welcome

08.45 am London (CET -1), 04.45 pm Beijing (CET +7), 02.15 pm New Delhi (CET +4,5),
04.45 am New York (CET – 5), 01.45 am Los Angeles (CET -8)

10.00 – 10.45 CET

Keynote Hannah Bradby (Uppsala University):
The uses of medical authority in an era of globalized migration: racism, de-prioritization and vulnerability

10.45 – 11.00 CET

- Short Break -

11.00 – 12.30 CET

Panel: Professions I (Chair: Benjamin Quasinowski)

• James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University):
  Variegated financial knowledge: the case of global law firms in
  South-east Asia
• Parvati Raghuram (The Open University):
  Information Technology, gender and globalization: researching a
  global(ising) industry 
• Anja Weiß, Ilka Sommer (University of Duisburg-Essen):
  Clinical practice around the world: a transnationally comparative
  approach with data from Ankara, Beijing, Groningen and
  Würzburg

12.30 – 12.45 CET

- Short Break -

12.45 – 13.30 CET

Keynote Tobias Werron (University of Bielefeld):
Identifying „enablers“ of world society: A sociological approach
to the study of globalization

13.30 – 14.15 CET

- Long Break/Breakout Sessions -

14.15 – 15.45 CET

Panel: Professions II (Chair: Ilka Sommer)

• Justyna Aniceta Turkowska (University of Edinburgh):
  Reordering of Space and References: Geological Surveys in
  Ghana in the 1950-1960s
• Sigrid Quack (University of Duisburg-Essen):
  National Prerogative over Global Cooperation? Reflections on the
  Role of Health Experts in the Covid-19 Pandemic
• Tao Liu, Benjamin Quasinowski (University of Duisburg-Essen):
  The standardization of heart failure in clinical practice guidelines
  and the rise of a global cardiology community in the world society

15.45 – 16.00 CET

- Short Break -

16.00 – 17.00 CET

03.00 pm London
11.00 pm Beijing
08.30 pm New Delhi
11.00 am N.Y.
08.00 am L.A.

Plenary: How to study the global? Research Designs and Methods
(Chair: Tao Liu)

• Karin Knorr Cetina
• Stefan Timmermans
• Anja Weiß

17.00 – 17.15 CET

- Short Break -

17.15 – 18.00 CET

Keynote Karin Knorr Cetina (University of Chicago)
Bounded Globalization and its Path Dependence: The Case
of Financial Markets

Discussant: Tobias Werron

18.00 – 18.15 CET

- Short Break -

18.15 – 19.45 CET

Panel: Transnational Civil Society II (Chair: Benjamin Quasinowski)

• Gilberto Rescher (University of Hamburg):
  The theoretical relevance of socially minoritized groups in
  processes of globalization
• Thomas Laux (TU Chemnitz):
  What makes a global movement? Analyzing the conditions for
  strong participation in the climate strike
• Jannik Schritt, Jan-Peter Voß (TU Berlin):
  The travel of ‘deliberative mini-publics’ as ‘democratic
  innovation’: three modes of translation in the translocal
  circulation of know-how

19.45 – 20.15 CET

Concluding Session

20.15 – Open end

07.15 pm London
03.15 am Beijing
00.45 am New Delhi
03.15 pm N.Y.
12.15 am L.A.

Breakout Sessions (on demand)