Conference Programme
AGENCY AND AUSTERITY: German and British Perspectives
6-8 April 2016

Wednesday 6 April 2016
5.00 pm WELCOME: Prof Gesa Stedman
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Prof Mike Savage, LSE/ London: Austerity and the
Politics of Inequality

7.00 pm Dinner: Restaurant Cha Cha (Friedrichstraße 63)

Thursday 7 April 2016
9.30 am KEYNOTE LECTURE
Dr Rebecca Bramall, University of the Arts/ London: Tax
Justice in Austerity: Logics, Residues and Attachments

10.45 am Coffee Break

11.00 am Robert Ogman: Counteracting Austerity through the
Social Investment Market? The Contradictions of
‘Mobilising Private Capital for Public Good’
11.25 am Respondent: Lynn Parkinson
11.30 am Discussion

11.50 pm In-House Lunch

1.00 pm Prof Ingrid von Rosenberg: Cuts in the Cultural Sector:
Their Political Rationale and Their Cultural, Social and
Economic Consequences
1.25 pm Respondent: Jon Meyer
1.30 pm Discussion

1.50 pm Dr Mikko Sihvonen: Austerity as Means of
Re-Distributing Power and Control in Media: Public
Service Media and Media Policies of the Thatcher and
Cameron Administrations in the UK
2.15 pm Respondent: Dr Hugh Mackay
2.20 pm Discussion

2.45 pm Coffee Break

3.00 pm Tathagata Sarkar: Austerity Protests in London and the
Police
3.25 pm Respondent: Arne Gutsche
3.30 pm Discussion

4.00 pm Time Off

7 pm Dinner: Restaurant Vaporetto (Albrechtstraße 12)

Friday 8 April 2016
9.30 am Prof Allan Cochrane: Localism in a Time of Austerity
9.55 am Respondent: Dr Marius Guderjan
10.00 am Discussion

10.20 am Dr Andrej Holm: Austerity and Housing
10.45 am Respondent: Prof Allan Cochrane
10.50 am Discussion

11.15 am Coffee Break

11.30 am Dr Isabelle Hertner: Centre-Left Parties and Austerity:
How the Labour Party and the SPD Responded to the
Eurozone Crisis
11.55 am Respondent: Dr Adrian Wilding
12.00 am Discussion

12.20 pm CONCLUDING REMARKS: Prof Gesa Stedman

12.30 pm In-House Lunch / Departure