For our detailed program, see:
http://www.uni goettingen.de/de/61023.html

Preliminary program, November 2007:

FRIDAY, 07.12.2007

12.00 Registration
13.30 - 14.00 Welcome and Introduction
14.00 - 15.15 Opening Plenary Session
Chair: Gabriele Rosenthal (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Ursula Apitzsch (University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany):
Ethnicity as belonging & participation
Carola Lentz (University of Mainz, Germany):
Constructing ethnicity: elite biographies in Ghana
15.45 - 17.30 Simultaneous Sessions
How to Conceptualize Collective Ethnic Belonging?
Chair: Peter Alheit (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Methodology of Researching Ethnicity, Belonging and Ethnic
Conflicts
Chair: Kathy Davis (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

17.45 - 19.30: Simultaneous sessions:
Transnational Biographies
Chair: Helma Lutz (University of Muenster, Germany)
Networks & Belonging
Chair: Brian Roberts (University of Glamorgan, UK)
Ethnicity & Belonging of Migrants in Florida
Chair: Gabriele Rosenthal (University of Goettingen, Germany)
20.00 Congress dinner

SATURDAY, 08.12.2007:
9.15 - 10.30 Plenary Session
Chair: Helma Lutz (University of Muenster, Germany)
Nina Glick-Schiller (University of New Hampshire, USA):
Beyond the nation-state and its units of analysis: towards a postessentialist agenda for migration studies
Floya Anthias (Oxford Brookes University, UK): Belonging, identity, intersectionality, and translocational positionality

11.00 - 13.00 Simultaneous sessions:
Violent Ethnic Conflicts
Chair: Lena Inowlocki (University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany), Dan Bar-On (Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Looking back to Collective Belongings in the Past?
Chair: Victoria Semenova (Russian Acadamy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia)
Migration & Belonging I
Chair: Nicole Witte (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Current Studies of the Committee Biographical Research in the German Sociological Association*
Chairs: Gerhard Riemann (University of Bamberg, Germany), Bettina Dausien (University of Flensburg, Germany)

14.30 - 16.30 Simultaneous Sessions
Politics of Belonging
Chair: Ursula Apitzsch (University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
Local Communities & Belonging
Chair: Julia Chaitin (Sapir Academic College, Israel)
Migration & Belonging II
Chair: Kaja Kazmierska (University of Lodz, Poland)

17.00 - 19.00 Simultaneous Data Sessions/Method Workshop
Method Workshop Biographical Interviewing
Christine Mueller-Botsch, Nicole Witte (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Data Session 1
Biographical Approaches
Hee-Young Yi (Sungkonghoe University, Seoul, Korea), Anne Juhasz (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Data Session 2
What do pictures show? Interpreting the ‘visual’ in social phenomena
Roswitha Breckner (University of Vienna, Austria)
Data Session 3
What do we actually do when we are interpreting a text? Dealing with texts and contexts of interpretation
Bettina Dausien (University of Flensburg, Germany)
19.30 RC 38: Business Meeting

SUNDAY, 09.12.2007
9.00 - 9.30: Business Meeting Committee Biographical Research in the German Sociological Association
9.30 - 11.30 Simultaneous Sessions
Ethnicity & Intersectionality
Chair: Renate Bitzan (University of Goettingen, Germany)
US-American Identity
Chair: Michaela Koettig (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Intergenerational Transmission
Chair: Gabriele Rosenthal (University of Goettingen, Germany)
12.00 - 13.15: Plenary Session
Chair: Gabriele Rosenthal (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Dan Bar-On (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel):
Redefining dialogue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Ann Phoenix (University of London, UK): Transforming transnational biographies
13.15 - 14.15: Panel: Ethnicity and Biography
Chair: Kathy Davis (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Panel participants: Floya Anthias (Oxford Brookes University, UK), Roswitha Breckner (University of Vienna, Austria), Nina Glick- Schiller (University of New Hampshire, USA), Helma Lutz (University of Muenster, Germany), Brian Roberts (University of Glamorgan, UK), Gabriele Rosenthal (University of Goettingen, Germany), Victoria Semenova (Russian Acadamy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
14.15: Close of congress