Doctoral Workshop Political Economy and Economic Sociology

Annual “Economy and Society” Summer Conference for Graduate Students in Political Economy and Economic Sociology 

Since 2006, a summer conference on “Economy and Society” brings together renowned scholars and graduate students in political economy, economic sociology and related fields from a network of partner institutions that now include Central European university, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Northwestern University, Sciences Po, Brown university, University of California - Berkeley. 

The three-day conference is hosted on a rotation basis by one of the partners around an orienting theme, with the ambition to bring graduate students and senior scholars. As a result of this long-term cooperation, the joint summer conferences have become a nodal element in the institutional partnerships of its members, connected faculty members and young scholars on new projects and on-going research. They have been particularly precious for graduate student training, allowing young scholars from all universities to present their findings, confront a variety of standards and perspectives and make important international connections early on.

We are glad to welcome Summer school 2024 “Political Economy and Economic Sociology” to be held in Menton, France from June 23 to 26, 2024. 

Schedule

Sunday June 23

Arrival in the afternoon in Menton

Hotel Royal Westminster
28/30 Avenue Félix Faure
06 500 Menton, phone +33 (0)4 92 41 78 20

Hotel Balmoral
38 bis, Avenue Félix Faure
06 500 Menton, phone:+33 (0)4 92 41 78 20

19.30 onwards - Opening dinner at Hotel Royal Westminster

Monday June 24

Breakfast at the hotels
Itinerary from the Hotel Royal Westminster to the Menton Campus
Itinerary from the Hotel Le Balmoral to the Menton Campus

9.30-10.00 - Opening Session
Youssef Halaoua, Director of the Menton Campus (Sciences Po) - Welcome speech
Pierre François (Sciences Po)

Menton Campus
11 place saint Julien 06500 Menton, 
Amphithéâtre Richard Descoings - 1st floor

10.00-11.00 – Graduate student breakout sessions

Session 1 - Stephan Gruber (MPIfG) – Discipline and Promise: Neoliberal Imaginaries in Peru (1945-2000)
Discussant: Daniel Aldana Cohen (Berkeley)
Room 103 - 1st floor 

Session 2 - Louison Caroué (Sciences Po) – Seeking "Use Cases": Consultants and Their Clients Building an AI-Driven future
Discussant: Marion Fourcade (Berkeley)
Room 105 - 1st floor 

11.00-11.30 – Coffee break
Faculty Room 104 - 1st floor 

11.30-12.30 – Graduate student breakout sessions

Session 3  - Kaan Kubilay Aşar (CEU) – Thinking like a contractor: Politics and poetics of class mobility in piecemeal urban development in Istanbul
Discussant: Bruce Carruthers (Northwestern University)
Room 103 - 1st floor

Session 4 - Ritika Goel (Berkeley) – Populism and Status Gains
Discussant: Patrick Heller (Brown)
Room 105 - 1st floor

12.30-13.30 – Lunch
Faculty Room 104 - 1st floor 

13.30-15.00 – Keynote session
Matthias Thiemann (Sciences Po) – Taming the cycles of finance
Discussant: Steve Nelson (Northwestern University) 
Amphithéâtre Richard Descoings - 1st floor

15.00-15.30 - Coffee break
Faculty Room 104 - 1st floor 

15.30-16.30 – Graduate student breakout sessions

Session 5 - Elisabeth Soer (MPIfG) – From Comrades to Capitalists: How South Africa’s Economic Future was (Re)Imagined
Discussant: Dora Piroska (CEU)
Room 103 - 1st floor

Session 6 - Isabella Bellezza (Brown) – The emergence of global border governance
Discussant: Andre Kaiser (MPIfG)
Room 105 - 1st floor

16.30-19.00 – Break time and faculty meeting
Room 103 - 1st floor

19.00 – Dinner
Restaurant Côté Bistrot
1 rue Longue, 06500 Menton 

Tuesday June 25

Breakfast at the hotels

9.00-10.00 – Graduate student breakout sessions

Session 7 - Diego Ayala (Berkeley) – The Social Origins of State Discipline: A Case Study of Twentieth-Century Spain
Discussant: Steve Nelson (Northwestern University)
Room 103 - 1st floor 

Session 8 - Marco Oberti (MPIfG) – (Re)inventing instruments: the German redefinition of state finance in a changing world market.
Discussant: Matthias Thiemann (Sciences Po)
Room 105 - 1st floor 

10.00-10.30 – Coffee break 
Faculty Room 104 - 1st floor

10.30-11.30 – Graduate student breakout sessions

Session 9 - Ildar Daminov (CEU) – The Art of (Not) Saying Goodbye: Patterns of Business Exit from the Autocratic Political Economy in the aftermath of political disruptions
Discussant: Nitsan Chorev (Brown)
Room 103 - 1st floor 

Session 10 - Isabella Luisa Mariani (Berkeley) – Regulating the Attention Economy: The Possibilities and Limits of Antitrust
Discussant: Dora Piroska (Sciences Po)
Room 105 - 1st floor 

11.30-12.00 – Coffee break
Faculty Room 104 - 1st floor

12.00-13.00 – Graduate student breakout sessions

Session 11 - Rodriguez-Caceres (Northwestern University) – The great depression and the working week
Discussant: Patrick Heller (Brown)
Room 103 - 1st floor 

Session 12 - CANCELLED Claire Lejeune (Sciences Po) – Planning in the Anthropocene : (Dis)continuities between French 'Reconstruction' and 'Ecological' Planning
Discussant: Aldana Cohen (Berkeley)
Room 105 - 1st floor 

13.00-14.00 – Lunch
Faculty Room 104 - 1st floor

14.00-15.00 – Graduate student breakout sessions

Session 13 - Chloé Socha (Sciences Po) – Emergence and institutionalization of corporate « LGBT+ policies” in French transnational companies
Discussant: Isabell Stamm (MPIfG)
Room 103 - 1st floor 

Session 14 - Katherine Copas (Northwestern University) – What do people complain about when they complain about banks? Textual Analysis of Consumer Complaints Submitted to the CFPB
Discussant: Pierre François (Sciences Po)
Room 105 - 1st floor 

16.00 - 17.30 – Guided tour 
Val Rahmeh Botanical Garden 
Avenue Saint Jacques 
06500 Menton 

19.00 – Dinner
Restaurant Côté Bistrot
1 rue Longue, 06 500 Menton 

Wednesday June 26

Breakfast at the hotels

9.00-10.00 – Graduate student breakout sessions

Session 15 - Alejandra Cueto (Brown) – Mobilizing Expertise: The Role of Social Movements in State Knowledge Production
Discussant: Inna Melnykovska (CEU)
Room 103 - 1st floor 

Session 16 - Shai Karp (Northwestern University) – Urbanization, Private Rental Housing, and the Anti-Renter Regime in American Housing Policy
Discussant: Andre Kaiser (MPIfG)
Room 105 - 1st floor 

10.00-10.30 – Coffee break 
Faculty Room 104 - 1st floor

10.30-11.30 – Graduate student breakout sessions

Session 17 - Suvina Singal (Brown) – An Offer You Can Refuse: The Making and Defense of Biometric Data Privacy in Illinois
Discussant: Marion Fourcade (Berkeley)
Room 103 - 1st floor 

Session 18 - Rajesh Kayyalaparambil Parameswaran (CEU) – Platform ownership and labor regulation
Discussant: Isabell Stamm (MPIfG)
Room 105 - 1st floor 

11.30-12.00 - Closing Session
Pierre François  (Sciences Po) & Matthias Thiemann (Sciences Po)
Faculty Room 104 - 1st floor

12.00-14.00 – Lunch and farewell 
Faculty Room 104 - 1st floor

Useful information

Campus contact details

Adress: 11, place Saint Julien - 06 500 Menton
Email: info.mom@sciencespo.fr
Phone: + 33 (0)4 97 14 83 40