›Sociology and history of world society: Interdisciplinary perspectives on globalization‹
Symposium on occasion of Rudolf Stichweh’s 65th birthday, November 4th-5th
Bonner Universitätsforum, Heussallee 18-24
Rudolf Stichweh is one of the leading representatives of the sociological theory of social systems in the tradition of Niklas Luhmann. In his work, Stichweh has advanced the Luhmannian approach in several key dimensions, among them the concept of world society. His understanding of world society has a number of distinct features that sets it apart from other sociological theories of globalization. Most notably, it implies that regional diversification and regional particularities can be conceptualized as an implication of, rather than a contradiction to, the existence of one world society, and that the making of modern world society needs to be studied in a long-term historical perspective.
The symposium “Sociology and history of world society: Interdisciplinary perspectives on globalization“, which takes place on occasion of Rudolf Stichweh’s 65th birthday at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW) in Bonn, aims to stimulate a discussion on this dimension of Rudolf Stichweh’s work that goes beyond the beaten paths of the globalization debate, instead opening new and possibly unexpected perspectives on the historical making of world society. It brings together scholars from different disciplinary contexts whose work promises to inspire this kind of discussion.
Due to the limited number of seats, registration is necessary for participation. For this, please contact Dr. Evelyn Moser ([Email protection active, please enable JavaScript.]).
Programme
Friday, November 4th
Introduction
| 09:00-9:30 | Welcome and Introduction by the Organizers |
| 09:30-10:30 |
RUDOLF STICHWEH (BONN) Key Elements of a Theory of World Society |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Session 1: Infrastructures of World Society
| 11:00 - 11:50 |
HEIDI TWOREK (VANCOUVER) & SIMONE MÜLLER (MÜNCHEN) Infrastructure and Information in a Wired World |
| 11:50-12:40 |
VANESSA OGLE (PHILADELPHIA) Standardization in the Age of Nationalism: The Invention of Universal Time, 1870s - 1950s |
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session 2: Functional Systems in World Society
| 14:00 - 14:50 |
MATHIAS ALBERT (BIELEFELD) The Emergence of World Politics |
| 14:50 - 15:40 |
POUL F. KJAER (COPENHAGEN) The Functional Transformation of Constitutions |
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10-17:00 |
PETER BEYER (OTTAWA) Transformations in the Religious System of World Society: From Patriotism to Consumerism in Religious Modeling |
| 17:00 - 17:50 |
CHRISTOPHER L. HILL (ANN ARBOR) The Chronogeography of the Novel: On the Transnationalization of Literary Forms |
Saturday, November 5th
Session 3: NGOs and Global Civil Society
| 09:30 - 10:20 |
MONIKA KRAUSE (LONDON) Organizations, Professions, and Symbolic Differentiation in Global Humanitarianism |
| 10:20-11:10 |
THOMAS DAVIES (LONDON) An Historical Perspective on International NGOs in Worlds Society |
11:10 - 11:40 Coffee Break
Session 4: Regions in World Society
| 11:40-12:30 |
ALDO MASCARENO (SANTIAGO DE CHILE) The Latin American Variant of Functional Differentiation |
| 12: 30 - 13:20 |
DOMINIC SACHSENMAIER (GÖTTINGEN) The Search for Distinctively Chinese Perspectives on World History and Modernity |
