Conferência internacional

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Findings on the New Political Culture
27-28 March 2008
Institute of Social Sciences - ‘Polivalente’ Room

Programme
March 27th
14.30pm - Welcome and opening remarks

Session 1: Values, Globalization and Participation
· “Culture is on the Rise - Why? Theories of Cultural Participation and Empirical Evidence”
Terry Nichols Clark (U. Chicago)
· “Association’s membership and self-mobilization in Europe, the US and
Canada: a new political shift?”
Manuel Villaverde Cabral (ICS-UL)
· “Was Tocqueville wrong? Adding Context to Social Capital: Charisma,
creativity and glamour as new civic modes of civic engagement”
Filipe Carreira da Silva (ICS-UL)
· “Ideologically 'illogical'; Why do the Dutch lower educated display so
much value incoherence?”
Dick Houtman and Peter Achterberg (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

March 28th
10.00am

Session 2: Cities, Scenes, Consumption
· “Cities Effects in Selective Modernization Contexts”
Luiz César Q. Ribeiro (U.F. Rio de Janeiro)
· “A cultural polarization of welfare values?”
Dick Houtman and Peter Achterberg (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
· “Urban Scenes and Fallows”
Ari Hynynen (Tampere University of Technology)
· “Assessing quality of place: a comparative analysis of Amsterdam and
Rotterdam”
Jan Jacob Trip (Delft University of Technology)

Round Table: 14:30-16:00pm

For further information, please contact Susana Cabaço: susana.cabaco@ics.ul.pt