Wednesday, 1 September 2010
17:00 Keynote Lecture
Joachim Radkau (Bielefeld): Eros Versus Logos in Max Weber (tbc)
Thursday, 2 September 2010
09:00 Science and the Intellect I
Austin Harrington (Erfurt): Weber’s Views on Religion and “Intellectual Rectitude”
José M. González García (Madrid): Max Weber and Rainer Maria Rilke: Enchantment, Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment of the World
Mirko Alagna (Florence): For “Sated” People No Future Blooms: The Concept of Sättigung in Max Weber’s Work
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Science and the Intellect II
David Woodruff (LSE): Ideal types (tbc)
Gangolf Hübinger (Frankfurt/ Oder): Max Weber, the Historian: New Aspects from the Gesamtausgabe
Hans Henrik Bruun (Copenhagen): Problems in Translation (tbc)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 The Nature of the State
Kari Palonen (Jyväskylä): The State as a Complex of Chances
Rita Aldenhoff-Hübinger (Frankfurt/ Oder): Max Weber as a University Teacher
Andreas Anter (Leipzig): Max Weber’s Concept of Nature and the Ambiguity of Modernity
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Nation and Charisma
John Breuilly (LSE): Weber, Charisma and Modernity (tbc)
Joshua Derman (Hong Kong UST): “Charisma” and Modern Political Movements: A Transatlantic Concept History
Christopher Adair-Toteff: “The Whip of Hunger”: Max Weber and the Industrial Worker
19:30 Conference Dinner
Friday, 3 September 2010
09:00 Keynote Lecture
Volker Schmidt (Singapore): Modernization
10:00 Weber and Islam
Youcef Djedi (Nantes): Weber, Islam and Modernity
Mehmet Sahin (Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi): Weber and Postcolonialism (tbc)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Economy and Society
Sam Whimster (London Met): Capitalism and Social-Economics
Pierre de Larminat (Centre Maurice Halbwachs): Max Weber’s Answer to Financial Crises: Understanding What Makes Die Börse a Whole
Laura Ford (Cornell): Max Weber on Property: An Effort in Interpretive Understanding
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Citizenship and the City
Joachim Fischer (TU Dresden): Contemporary Society as Bourgeois-Civil-Creative Society: Weber’s Theory of the Origin of Modern Society in the Mediaeval Occidental Cities as
Background of Analysis
Michael Sommer (Liverpool): Citizenship, the Civic and Die Stadt: Ancient Perspectives on a Current Topic
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Authority and Bureaucracy
Masahiro Noguchi (Ritsumeikan): Reflections on Passion in Max Weber’s Works on Bureaucracy: “Sine Ira et Studio” and “Sterile Excitation”
Andrea Erizi (Rome): Different Origin, (Quite the) Same Function: The Concept of Subrogation in Max Weber
Frank Furedi (Kent): The Authority of Public Opinion – Why Weber Declined to Take Part in the Conversation