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The New Challenges of the Sociological Imagination
(in honor of Charles Wright Mills)
Conference Programme
Friday, 25.11.2016
Faculty of Philosophy - Skopje
Conference hall
09:00 – 10:00
Registration of Participants
10:00 – 11:00
Welcome speeches
Professor Konstantin Minoski, PhD, President of the Association of
Sociologists of the Republic of Macedonia
Professor Frank Welz, PhD, President of the European Sociological
Association
Professor Sari Hanafi, PhD, Vice-President of the International
Sociological Association
Representative of the Faculty of Philosophy – Skopje
Representative of the “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University Skopje
Video: Interview with Franco Ferarroti
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45
First session
Moderators: Ilo Trajkovski, Sari Hanafi
Keynote speaker: Gerard Delanty, University of Sussex
The Sociological Imagination after the Anthropocene
Konstantin Minoski, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje,
Faculty of Philosophy
Mills’ Critique of Parsons’ Grand Theory
Petre Georgievski, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje,
Faculty of Philosophy
Mill’s Understanding and Critique of the Sociological
Method
Gjorgje Mladenovski, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje,
Faculty of Philosophy
The Relevance of C. Wright Mills' Ideas for Contemporary
Sociology
Georgi Dimitrov, St. Klement Ohridski University of Sofia
The Twinned Trends of Feminization of American
Sociology and Its Crisis at the Turn of the Century
Discussion
12:45 – 13:45
Lunch Break
13:45 – 15:15
Second session
Moderators: Marija Tasheva, Roland Pfefferkorn
Keynote speaker: Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut
Crisis of Postcolonialism’s After-Life: Toward post-authoritarian
approach
Marian Niezgoda, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in
Cracow
Sociological Imagination Today. Have we still this kind of
sensibility?
Antoanela Petkovska, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje,
Faculty of Philosophy
The Contemporary Sociology of Art: Sociological
Imagination and/or Distinction
Christiana Constantopoulou, Department of Sociology, Panteion
University, Athens
Dimitra Laurence Larochelle, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III
Media, Imagination and Sociology
Bobi Badarevski, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje,
Faculty of Philosophy
The Two Faces of Social Neuroscience
Zlatko Zoglev, Gordana Stojanovska, University “St. Kliment
Ohridski“ Bitola
Considerations of Charles Wright Mills for Social
Sciences, Education, Intellectuals and their Relevance
Today
Discussion
15:15 – 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00
Third session
Moderators: Konstantin Minoski, Georgi Dimitrov
Keynote speaker: Frank Welz, Innsbruck University
Cultivating Differences in Contemporary Sociology: Readjusting
C. Wright Mills’ ‘Sociological Imagination’ to the Post-Cold War
Era
Vjeran Katunarić, Institute of Sociology, University in Zadar
The End of Liberal-Socialist Partnerships and the Rise of
Post-democracies
Ilo Trajkovski, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje,
Faculty of Philosophy
The Illegal Sources of Power of the Political Elite in the
Republic of Macedonia
Marija Tasheva, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje,
Faculty of Philosophy
The Positive Attitude of Wright Mills in Relation to the
Work of Leon Trotsky as a Starting Point for Reflection
Roland Pfefferkorn, University of Strasbourg
Mills's Power Elite. An Academic and Political Firestorm
Marija Babovic, Jelena Peshic, Dragan Stanojevic, Faculty of
Philosophy, University of Belgrade
The Culture of Political Clientelism – values and norms
underpinning clientelistic relations and practices in
Serbia
Discussion
19:00 – 21:00
Dinner
Saturday, 26.11.2016
Faculty of Philosophy - Skopje
Conference hall
10:00 – 11:30
Fourth session
Moderators: Antoanela Petkovska, Gerard Delanty
Ilija Aceski, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje, Faculty of
Philosophy
Transition in Macedonia in the sociology mirror
Vesna Dimitrievska, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje,
Faculty of Philosophy
The Perspectives of the Recently Impoverished Citizens in
the Republic of Macedonia
Mileva Gjurovska, Jelena Perovska, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”
University of Skopje, Faculty of Philosophy
The Informal Economy, Political Clientelism and
Corruption
Dimitar Apasiev, Faculty of Law, “Goce Delchev” University
Syndicalism in the Republic of Macedonia in the Period of
Transition: Factual and Legal Conditions
Strashko Stojanovski, Daniela Koceva, “Goce Delchev” University
Religious Distance in the Republic of Macedonia
Sashe Gerasimovski, Faculty of Security, University “St. Kliment
Ohridski” Bitola
The Sociological Imagination Perceived through the
Relation Public-Private Security
Discussion
11:30 – 11:45
11:45 – 13:15
Coffee break
Fifth session
Moderators: Mileva Gjurovska, Vesna Dimitrievska
Marina Andeva, Veno Pachovski, Sara Al-Bander, University American
College Skopje
Imagining the Future: Migration Scenarios in Europe
Igor Micevski, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje, Faculty
of Philosophy
Seeing the General in the Particular: The Sociological
Imagination of the Actively Protesting Counter-Publics in
Macedonia
Emina Rustemovska, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje,
Faculty of Philosophy
On Culture and the Political Elite
Iva Petrunova, MIT University Skopje, Faculty of Architecture
The socialist layer of Skopje, its civic ideology and
current trends of transition
Filip Trajkovski, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje,
Faculty of Philosophy
Re-Reading the Sociological Imagination: A Postmodern
Perspective
Robert Bosilkovski, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje,
Faculty of Philosophy
Sociology or Revolution? Reason and Freedom as Key
Concepts in the Sociological Imagination
Discussion
13:15 – 14:15
14:15 – 16:00
Lunch break
Discussion: The state of sociology today – Conference closing
Moderator: Konstantin Minoski