November 5, 2012

7 Vavilova St.

HSE Guest House

Suvorovskaya sq., 2, building 3

Hotel “Slavyanka”

• 15:00 – 19:00      Guests’ arrival
• 19:00 – 21:00      Dinner (upon wish)

November 6, 2012

20 Myasnitskaya St.,

room 101

• 09.00 –09.30         Registration

Opening Session

09.30 – 09.45      Opening Speech by the Dean of the HSE Sociology Department Alexander Chepurenko and Eduard Ponarin (Professor at HSE, St. Petersburg)

Working Session1: Social Well-Beingand its measurement

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (Professor at HSE, St. Petersburg)

09.45 – 10.05      Francesco Sarracino (University of Siena, Italy) - What was all that growth for? Explaining Chinese and Indian decreasing well-being in times of economic growth (Progress Report)   Presentation

10.05 – 10.25      Questions and discussion

10.25 – 10.45      Ekaterina Lytkina (LCSR, Moscow)– Anomie and Anomia: an Approach towards the Measurement of Social Well-Being and Deviance (Progress Report) 
 Presentation

10.45 – 11.05      Questions and discussion

11.05 – 11.25      Svitlana Khutka (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev) - Subjective Well-being and Human agency in transition vs. non-transition countries (Final Report)   Presentation

11.25 – 11.45      Questions and discussion

Discussants: Roberto Foa, Ronald Inglehart

• 11.45 – 12.00    Coffee break

Working Session 2: Values change, attitudes towards migrants and educational achievements

Moderator: Joshua Dubrow (Polish Academy of Sciences)

12.00 – 12.20      Evgeniy Varshaver (LCSR HSE, Moscow) - Self-control index as a predictor of educational achievement on country level (Progress Report)   Presentation

12.20 – 12.40      Questions and discussion

12.40 – 13.00      Boris Sokolov (LCSR, Saint Petersburg State University) - Value Change and Nationalist Attitudes in the Western Europe (Progress Report)
 Presentation

13.00 – 13.20      Questions and discussion

13.20 – 13.40      Olga Demidova (professor at HSE, Moscow)  - The European residents' attitude towards migrants: a comparative analysis based on the ESS data (Guest presentation)   Presentation

13.40 – 14.00      Questions and discussion

Discussants: Maria Ravlik, Christian Welzel

• 14.00 – 15.00      Lunch (ground floor)

Working Session 3: Social Tolerance and Trust

Moderator: Ronald Inglehart (Professor at University of Michigan and HSE, St. Petersburg)

15.00 - 15.20       Anna Nemirovskaya (LCSR, St. Petersburg) -Social Tolerance under Harsh Conditions (Final Report)   Presentation

15.20 – 15.40      Questions and discussion

15.40 – 16.00      Anna Almakaeva (Samara State University, Samara)- Human Empowerment and Paradoxes of Trust: a Multi-level Analysis (Final Report)   Presentation

16.00 – 16.20      Questions and discussion

16.20 – 16.35      Anna Kuchenkova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) and Rebecca Radlick (University of Bergen) - Trust and local context of life: A cross-national comparative analysis of Scandinavian and East European countries (guest presentation)   Presentation

16.35 – 16.50      Questions and discussion

Discussant: Maxim Rudnev, Chris Swader

• 16.50 – 17.10      Coffee break

Working Session 4: Social solidarity and welfare states

Moderator: Christian Welzel (Professor at Leuphana University,Luneburg,  and LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

17.10 – 17.30     Anna Shirokanova (Belarus State University, Minsk) – Individualization and Social Solidarities in Post-Communist Europe: Do Old Divisions Persist? (Final Report)   Presentation

17.30 – 17.50     Questions and discussion

17.50 – 18.05     Irina Siegel (University of Freiburg) - Intergenerational solidarity and value orientations under different welfare and modernization conditions  (New Project)
 Presentation

18.05 – 18.20     Questions and discussion

18.20 – 18.35     Olga Gryaznova (ISRAS, Moscow) – Multidimensional support of welfare state in a cross cultural perspective (New Project)   Presentation

18.35 – 18.50     Questions and discussion

Discussants: Alexander Kustov, Eduard Ponarin

• 19:00 – 21:00     Welcome cocktail  (room 300)

November 7, 2012

20 Myasnitskaya Str.

room 116

Working Session 5: Nationalism, Ethnicity and conflicts

Moderator: Jon Miller (Professor at University of Michigan)

09.30 –09.45      Marharyta Fabrykant (Belarusian State University, Minsk) - Do Nations Need Time? Nationalism between Invention of Tradition and Daily Plebiscite (New Project)   Presentation

09.45 –10.00      Questions and discussion

10.00 – 10.20     Nadezhda Shilova(HSE, Moscow) - Xenophobia in the Lab (Final Report)

10.20 – 10.40     Questions and discussion

10.40 – 10.55     Alexander Kustov (University of Mannheim, Mannheim) - Identity and Intra-state Conflicts: What Determines the Role of Ethnicity in Civil Wars? (Progress Report)   Presentation

10.55 – 11.10    Questions and discussion   

Discussants: Alexei Zakharov, Christian Welzel

• 11.10 – 11.30     Coffee break

Working session 6: Political regimes, elections and elites

Moderator: Roberto Foa (Harvard University)

11.30 – 11.45     Yegor Lazarev (Columbia University, New-York) – Personal Authoritarianism and Foreign Policy Views of Russian Elites (New Project)   Presentation

11.45 – 12.00     Questions and discussion

12.00 – 12.15     Margarita Zavadskaya (European University Institute, Florence) – Election, Referendums across Democracies and Autocracies: the role of secular-rational and emancipative values (New Project)
 Presentation

12.15 – 12.30     Questions and discussion

12.30 – 12.50     Kristina Puzarina (University of Manheim) - Public perceptions of human rights conditions: a values-based approach using a multi-level method of estimation (Final Report)   Presentation

12.50 – 13.10     Questions and discussion

Discussants: Kirill Zhirkov, Jon Miller 

• 13.10 – 14.10     Lunch(ground floor)

Working session 7: Religiosity and family behavior

Moderator: Christian Welzel (Professor at Leuphana University,Luneburg; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

14.10 – 14.25      Evgenia Bystrov (Jacobs University Bremen) - Family behaviour and social change in Eastern and Central Europe 1991-2008  (New Project)   Presentation

14.25 – 14.40      Questions and discussion

14.40 – 14.55      Elena Prutskova (St.Tikhon’s Orthodox University, Moscow)– Religiosity and tolerance of behavior that is disapproved by religions: the effect of primary religious socialization (based on European Values Study)  (New Project)   Presentation

14.55 – 15.10      Questions and discussion

15.10 – 15.25      Anna Shubenkova (HSE,  Moscow) - Social and Economical Determinants of Religious Radicalization (New Project)   Presentation

15.25 – 15.40      Questions and discussion

Discussants: Serban Tanasa, Eduard Ponarin

• 15.40 – 16.00     Coffee Break

Working Session 8: Anti-Americanism, Loneliness, Social Cohesion and Value Consensus

Moderator: Ronald Inglehart (Professor at University of Michigan and HSE, St. Petersburg)

16.00 – 16.20     Kirill Zhirkov(LCSR, St. Petersburg) - Is it Really Economy? Socio-Economic Drivers of Anti-Americanism (Progress Report)
 Presentation

 

16.20 – 16.40     Questions and discussion

16.40 – 16.55     Maksim Rudnev (ISRAS, HSE, Moscow) - Value Consensus and Socioeconomic Development (New Project) 

16.55 – 17.10     Questions and discussion

17.10 – 17.30     Zsófia Ignácz et al.(Jacobs University Bremen) - Measuring Social Cohesion: Results from a Screening Study (Guest presentation) 
 Presentation

17.30 – 17.50     Questions and discussion

Discussants: Anna Nemirovskaya, Joshua Dubrow

• 18.00 – 21.00     Group Dinner in a café on Myasnitskayast. (upon wish) 

November 8, 2012

20 Myasnitskaya St.

room 311

• 09:00 – 09.20     Welcome Coffee, Registration  (room 311)

Opening Session

09.20 – 09.30      Opening Speech by professor Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan, USA; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)  

Plenary session 1: Political attitudes under the changes and frontier theory

Moderator: Joshua Dubrow (Polish Academy of Sciences)

09.30 – 10.00     Anna Andreenkova (Institute for Comparative Social Research, European Social Survey) – Political Change in Russia and Post-Soviet Countries: Unique Paths and Common European Trends in Political Attitudes and Behaviour (Key Lecture) 
  Presentation

10.00 – 10.20      Questions and discussion

10.20 – 10.50     Roberto Foa (Harvard University, USA; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) and Anna Nemirovskaya(LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)– Internal Empires: Politics and Society on the Frontier (LCSR Research Project) 
 Presentation

10.50 – 11.10      Questions and discussion

• 11.10 – 11.30     Coffee break (room 311)

Plenary Session 2: Evolutionary modernization, human empowerment and partizanship 

Moderator: Daniel Alexandrov (HSE, St. Petersburg)

11.30 – 12.00      Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan, USA; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) -Evolutionary Modernization and Cultural Change (Key lecture)
 Presentation

12.00 – 12.20      Questions and discussion

12.20 – 12.50     Christian Welzel (Leuphana University, Luneburg; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) – Human Empowerment and the Sustainability Challenge  (Key Lecture) 
  Presentation

12.50 – 13.10      Questions and discussion

13.10 – 13.40     Jon Miller(University of Michigan, USA) - The Development of Ideological Partisanship in the United States: An examination of the life experiences of Generation X  (Key lecture)    Presentation

13.40 – 14.00      Questions and discussion

• 14.00 – 15.00    Lunch (underground floor)

Plenary Session 3: Nationalism, integration and cross-national surveys

Moderator: Christian Welzel (Leuphana University, Luneburg; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

15.00 – 15.30     Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) - Institutionalization of official nationalisms in the Volga-Urals region (Key Lecture)    Presentation

15.30 – 15.50     Questions and discussion

15.50 – 16.20    Joshua Dubrow(Polish Academy of Sciences) - Intersectionality and Socio-economic Status: Analysis of Cross-national Survey Data (Key lecture) 

16.20 – 16.40     Questions and discussion

16.40 – 17.10    Igor Zadorin (ZIRKON) V. Moisov (ZIRKON) – Integration Moods of CIS countries: first wave of extended Eurasian Barometer (Key lecture)

17.10 – 17.30     Questions and discussion

• 18.00 – 20.00     Group dinner in a café on Myasnitskaya st. (upon wish)

November 9, 2012

20 Myasnitskaya St.,

room 101

Working Session 9: Social Change and Genetic Diversity

Moderator:Joshua Dubrow (Polish Academy of Sciences)

09.30 – 09.50    Andrey Shcherbak  (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)  and Svetlana Borinskaya (Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences)  - Exogenous shock, genetic diversity and social change: the case of alcohol and European colonization (Progress Report) 
  Presentation

09.50 – 10.10     Questions and discussion

10.10 – 10.25    Alexey Zakharov(LCSR HSE, Moscow) -Genetic factors and preferences for redistribution and collective behavior (New Project)
   Presentation

10.25 – 10.40    Questions and discussion

10.40 – 11.00    Alexey Belyanin  (ICEF HSE, Moscow)- Clinical  Conditions and Perceived  Well-Being of the Patients Suffering from Chronic Diseases: An Application to Multiple Sclerosis (Progress Report)
  Presentation

11.00 – 11.20    Questions and discussion

Discussants: Eduard Ponarin, Christian Welzel

• 11:20 – 11:40   Coffee break

Working Session 10: Gender, work and Life Satisfaction

Moderator: Christopher Swader (Associate Professor at HSE, St. Petersburg)

11.40 – 12.00   Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE, Moscow) – Career VS Fertility Combinations: What Makes Females Happier? (Final report)    Presentation

12.00 – 12.20   Questions and discussion

12.20 – 12.40   Natalia Soboleva (LCSR, Moscow) - Gender Attitudes in the  World of  Work: Cross-Cultural Comparison (Progress Report)    Presentation

12.40 – 13.00   Questions and discussion

13.00 – 13.15   Malgorzata Mikucka(Polish Academy of Sciences) -Well-being premium to marriage. Time trends and macroprocesses involved (New Project)    Presentation

13.15 – 13.30   Questions and discussion

Discussants: SerbanTanasa, Ronald Inglehart

• 13.30 – 14.30   Lunch (ground floor)

Working Session 11: Ageing and Social Well-Being

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (Professor at HSE, St. Petersburg)

14.30 - 14.50    Julia Zelikova(LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) - Successful Ageing. Subjective Well-Being in the Late Life Period: A Cross-National Study (Final Report)   Presentation

14.50 – 15.10    Questions and discussion

15.10 – 15.30    Vladimir Kozlov (HSE, Moscow) - Perception of Ageing and the Third Age (comparative analysis)  (Progress Report) (Final report) 
  Presentation

15.30 – 15.50    Questions and discussion

16.50 – 16.05    Natalia Levchuk (Institute for Demography and Social Studies, Ukraine) – To What Extent do Living Arrangements  Affect Self-rated Health at  Later Ages? (guest presentation)

16.05 – 16.20    Questions and discussion

Discussants: Evgenia Bystrov, Zsófia Ignácz

• 16.20 – 16.40    Coffee break

Working Session 12: Migration, value change and nationalism

Moderator: Jon Miller (Professor at University of Michigan)

16.40 – 17.00    Peter Schimidt (University of Giessen, Germany, and HSE) – When do values matter: The case of attitudes towards immigration (Guest presentation)   Presentation

17.00 – 17.20    Questions and discussion

17.20 – 17.40    Veronica Kostenko (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)  - Values of Migrants and Local Population in Europe: Comparative Study (Final Report) 

17.40 – 18.00    Questions and discussion

18.00 – 18.15    Maria Ravlik and Olga Basmanova (LCSR, St. Petersburg) - Is migration a key issue for the rise of radical right politics: Eastern Europe vs. Western Europe? (New Project)    Presentation

18.15 – 18.30    Questions and discussion

Discussants: Roberto Foa, Joshua Dubrow

• 19.00 – 21.00    Reception (room 300)

November 10, 2012

20 Myasnitskaya St.,

room116

Working Session 13: Happiness and Values of the Generations

Moderator:Daniel Alexandrov (Vice director of HSE, St. Petersburg)

10.00 – 10.15    Serban Tanasa (HSE, St. Petersburg) - The Rich are happier than thou: Reevaluating the Easterlin Paradox (New Project)

10.15 – 10.30    Questions and discussion

10.30 – 10.45    Zsófia Ignácz(Jacobs University Bremen) - The Effects of Generational Ties on Justice ProfilesDoes Generation Membership Determine Opinions on the Wage Distribution (New Project)    Presentation

10.45 – 11.00    Questions and discussion

11.00 – 11.15    Christopher Swader (HSE, Moscow) - Urban Loneliness?Investigating its Roots and Consequencesthrough European Social Survey Data (New Project)   Presentation

11.15 – 11.30    Questions and discussion

Discussants: Tatiana Karabchuk, Ronald Inglehart

• 11:30 – 11:50    Coffee break

Working Session 14: Innovative consumption, Bribery and Corruption

Moderator: Serban Tanasa (Associate Professor at HSE, St. Petersburg)

11.50 – 12.05    Natalia Firsova (HSE, Moscow)– Social Determinants of Innovative Consumption Practices: Computer and Internet Utilization in Russian Households (New Project)    Presentation

12.05 – 12.20    Questions and discussion

12.20 – 12.40    Alexey Bessudnov(HSE, Moscow) - Regional variation in everyday bribery in Russia: A multilevel study (Progress Report)

12.40 – 13.00    Questions and discussion

13.00 – 13.15    Nicolas Griesshaber(Humboldt University Berlin) - Separating the Bright from the Dark Side. Association Membership and Individuals’ Attitudes towards Corrupt Activities in Cross‐National Perspective (Guest presentation)    Presentation

13.15 – 13.30    Questions and discussion

Discussants: YegorLazarev, Cristian Welzel

• 13.30 – 14.30    Lunch (ground floor)

Working Session 15 New Projects

Moderator: Ronald Inglehart (Professor at University of Michigan and HSE, St. Petersburg)

14.30 – 14.45    Roberto Foa (Harvard University) - State History and State Capacity at the Subnational Level (New Project )   Presentation  

14.45 – 15.00    Questions and discussion

15.00 – 15.15    Marina Goroshit(Tel Hai College, Israel) - The determinants of European countries citizens' engagement in protest behavior (New Project)   Presentation

15.15 – 15.30    Questions and discussion

15.30 – 15.45    Elena Polyakova (Johannes GutenbergUniversity Mainz, Germany) - The economic and cultural components of integration of labor immigrants: economic approach (New Project)   Presentation

15.45 – 16.00    Questions and discussion

16.00 – 16.15    Alexander Sherstobitov et al. (Saint Petersburg State University) - We are the Champions! Does it Matter for Government? (New Project) 
  Presentation

16.15 – 16.30    Questions and discussion

Closing Session

16.40 – 17.00        Closing Speech by Christian Welzel and Daniel Alexandrov