Program

25 April 2013

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

26 April 2013

Saint Petersburg, Ligovsky Prospect, 10 (Hotel „Oktiabrskaya”)

• 08.45 – 9:00      Registration

Opening Session

9:00 – 9.20         Opening Speech by Christian Welzel (WVS president; Leuphana University, Luneburg; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) and Eduard Ponarin (Director of LCSR; HSE, St. Petersburg)

Working Session 1: Social Changes: society, families and individuals

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

9.20 – 9.40             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)

9.40 – 10.00           Questions and discussion

10.00 – 10.20         Ekaterina Lytkina (LCSR HSE, Moscow) – Anomie: Between Normlessness and Cognitive Disorientation (Progress Report)  Presentation

10.20 – 10.40         Questions and discussion

10.40 – 11.00         Evgenia Bystrov  (Jacobs University, Bremen) -  Family Behaviour and Social Change in Eastern and Central Europe 1991-2008  (Progress Report)  Presentation

11.00 – 11.20         Questions and discussion

Discussants: Roberto Foa, Christopher Swader

• 11.20  – 11.20        Coffee break

Guest lecture I:

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

11.50 – 12.30         Marcel Das  (CentERdata, Tilburg University) -  Innovation in Online Data Collection for Scientific Research: the Dutch MESS Project  Presentation

12.30 – 13.00         Questions and discussion

• 13.00 – 14.00         Lunch

Working Session 2: Values, Attitudes and Socio-Economic Development

Moderator: Vladimir Magun (HSE, Moscow)

14.00 – 14.20         Kirill Zhirkov  (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)  -  Between Culture and Politics: Testing Alternative Explanations of Anti-Americanism  (Progress Report)
 Presentation

14.20 – 14.40         Questions and discussion

14.40 – 15.00         Maksim Rudnev  (ISRAS; HSE, Moscow)  -  Value Consensus and Socioeconomic Development (Progress Report)  Presentation

15.00 – 15.20         Questions and discussion

15:20 – 15.40         Serban Tanasa  (HSE, St. Petersburg) -  Happier Than Thou: A Reassessment of the Happiness-Income Paradox  (Progress Report)  Presentation

15.40 – 16.00         Questions and discussion

Discussants: Veronika Kostenko, Ronald Inglehart

• 16.30 – 18.00         Committee Meeting of the LCSR  (Invited: E.Ponarin, Ch.Welzel. R.Inglehart, T.Karabchuk).
• 18.30 – 21.00         Welcome cocktail 

27 April 2013

Working Session 3: Nationalism I

Moderator:  Roberto Foa (Harvard university, USA)

9.00 – 9.15            Zufar Makhmutov (Department of Ethnology at the Mardzhani Institute of History of the Academy of Science of the Tatar Republic (Kazan) -  The Nationalism in Kazakhstan: theory and practice  (New Project)  Presentation

9.15 – 9.30            Questions and discussion

9.30 – 9.50            Boris Sokolov (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) -  Values, Migrants or Economy? Country-Level Predictors of the Electoral Fortunes of Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe: 1990-2011 (Progress Report)  Presentation

9.50  – 10.10         Questions and discussion

Discussants: Kirill Zhirkov, Eduard Ponarin

• 10.10  – 10.20          Short Break

Working Session 4: Nationalism II

Moderator:  Andrey Shcherbak (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

10.20 – 10.40        Marharyta Fabrykant  (Belarusian State University, Minsk) -  Collecting the Nation? Nationalism between Invention of Tradition and Daily Plebiscite  (Progress Report)  Presentation

10.40 – 11.00        Questions and discussion

11.00 – 11.20        Margarita Zavadskaya  (European University Institute, Florence)  -  Protests under Non-Democratic Regimes: ‘Contingent’ Democrats Versus ‘Genuine’ Democrats. Exploring the Cross-National Variation at the Individual Level  (Progress Report)  Presentation

11.20 – 11.40        Questions and discussion 

Discussants: Alexei Zakharov, Christian Welzel

• 11.40  – 12.00          Coffee break

Guest lecture 2:

Moderator: Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan, USA; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

12.00 – 12.40        Stefan Hradil  (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) -  Recent trends in social inequality in Germany compared to other European countries  Presentation

12.40 – 13.00        Questions and discussion

• 13.00 – 14.00         Lunch

Working session 5: Intergenerational Solidarity and Welfare Support

Moderator: Arye Rattner (University of Haifa, Israel)

14.00 – 14.20        Irina Siegel  (University of Freiburg)  -  Filial Responsibilities and “Conceptions of Life” Under Different Modernization Conditions and Health & Elder Care Regimes (Progress Report)  Presentation

14.20 – 14.40        Questions and discussion

14.40 – 15.00        Olga Gryaznova  (LCSR HSE Moscow)  -  Multidimensional support of welfare state in a cross cultural perspective  (Progress Report)  Presentation

15.00 – 15.20        Questions and discussion

Discussants: Natalia Soboleva, Joshua Dubrow

• 15:20 – 15.40        Coffee break

Working session 6: Social Justice, Aging and Generations

Moderator: Stefan Hradil (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

15.50 – 16.00        Zsófia Ignácz  (Humboldt University, Berlin)  -  Socialization and Justice Attitudes: To What Extent Does Socialist Legacy  Determine Justice Attitudes towards the Wage Distribution after the Transition in Post-socialist Countries? Does Generation Membership Determine Opinions on the Wage Distribution?  (Progress Report) 
Presentation

16.00 – 16.20        Questions and discussion

16.20 – 16.35        Julia Zelikova  (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)  -  Welfare Policy, Successful Aging and Social Justice  (New Project)  Presentation

16.35 – 16.50        Questions and discussion

Discussants: Francesco Sarracino, Arye Rattner

• 17.00 – 18.00         Meeting for Fundraising for LCSR (Invited: A.Nemirovskaya, E.Ponarin, Ch.Welzel. R.Inglehart, T.Karabchuk. A.Shcherbak) 

28 April 2013

Working Session 7: Innovative Consumption and Social Capital

Moderator: Malina Voicu (Eurolab, GESIS)

9.00 – 9.20           Natalia Firsova (HSE, Moscow) - Social Determinants of Innovative Consumption Practices: Computer and Internet Utilization in Russian Households (Progress Report)  Presentation

9.20 – 9.40           Questions and discussion

9.40 – 9.55           Fabio Sabatini  ( Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - The Internet, Social Capital, Subjective Well-Being and Health (New Project)  Presentation

9.55  – 10.10        Questions and discussion

Discussants: Serban Tanasa, Benjamin Lind

• 10.10  – 10.20          Short Break

Working Session 8: Attitudes towards Corruption and Justification of Bribe-taking

Moderator: Benjamin Lind (HSE Moscow)

10.20 – 10.40       Mariya Kravtsova (HSE, Moscow) and Aleksey Oshchepkov (CLMS HSE, Moscow)  - Corruption and Social Values: Do Post-Materialists Justify Bribe-Taking (Final Report)  Presentation

10.40 – 11.00       Questions and discussion

11.00 – 11.20       Nicolas Griesshaber (Humboldt University Berlin)  - Forms of Civic Engagement and Corruption Disentangling the Role of Voluntary Associations, Elite Challenging Mass Movements and the Type of Trust within Networks (Progress Report) 
Presentation

11.20  – 11.40      Questions and discussion

Discussants: Tatiana Karabchuk, Christopher Swader 

• 11.40  – 12.00          Coffee break

Guest lecture 3:

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, Saint-Petersburg) 

12.00 – 12.40       Arye Rattner (University of Haifa, Israel)  - Trust and Legitimacy: Police and the Legal System in Comparative Perspective  Presentation

12.40 – 13.00       Questions and discussion

• 13.00 – 14.00        Lunch

Working Session 9: International Professional Associations and Revealed State Capacity

Moderator: Mikhail Chernysh (ISRAS, Moscow)

14.00 – 14.15       Joshua Dubrow et al. (Polish Academy of Sciences) - Inclusion in an International Professional Association (New Project)  Presentation

14.15 – 14.30       Questions and discussion

14.30 – 14.50       Roberto Foa (Harvard University, USA; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) - Natural Experiments in Revealed State Capacity (Progress Report) 
Presentation

14.50 – 15.10       Questions and discussion

Discussants: Zsofia Ignacz, Ronald Inglehart 

• 15:10 – 15.30        Coffee break

Working Session 10: Social Change and Genetic Diversity

Moderator: Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE, Moscow)

15.30 – 15.50       Andrey Shcherbak (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) and Svetlana Borinskaya (Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)  - Exogenous Shock, Genetic Diversity and Social Change: the Case of Alcohol and European Colonization (Progress Report)  Presentation

15.50 – 16.10       Questions and discussion

16.10 – 16.30       Alexey Zakharov (HSE, Moscow) and Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)  - Genetic Factors and Preferences for Redistribution and Collective Behavior (Progress Report)  Presentation

16.30 – 16.50       Questions and discussion

Discussants: Anna Nemirovskaya, Christian Welzel

• 18.00 – 20.00        Group go-out for dinner (upon wish) 

29 April 2013

Working Session 11: Nationalism and Democracy

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

9.00 – 9.15          Alexey Domanov  ( LCSR HSE, Moscow)  - Commitment to Nationalism: Predictors of Popular Political Euroscepticism about Common Immigration Policy in the EU (New Project)  Presentation

9.15 – 9.30          Questions and discussion

9.30 – 9.45          Pavel Kuzmichev (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) - Democracy in the Arab World  (New Project)  Presentation

9.45  – 10.00       Questions and discussion

Discussants: Margarita Zavadskaya, Christian Welzel

• 10.00  – 10.10      Short Break

Working Session 12: Migration, Values and Anti-Trafficking Enforcement

Moderator: Alexey Zakharov (HSE, Moscow)

10.10 – 10.30      Veronica Kostenko (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)  - Gender Attitudes of Muslim Migrants in Western and Northern Europe (Final Report)  Presentation

10.30 – 10.50      Questions and discussion

10.50 – 11.05      Maria Ravlik (Georg August University Goettingen, Germany)  - A Cross-National Evaluation of the Sources of Anti-Trafficking Enforcement (New Project)
Presentation

11.05  – 11.20     Questions and discussion

Discussants: Roberto Foa, Joshua Dubrow

• 11.20  – 11.40      Coffee break

Guest lecture 4:

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

11.40 – 12.20      Malina Voicu (EUROLAB, GESIS) - Unemployment and Attitudes towards Gender Equality  Presentation

12.20 – 12.50      Questions and discussion

• 13.00 – 14.00         Lunch

Working Session 13: Gender Attitudes, Work, Marriage and Life Satisfaction

Moderator: Christopher Swader (LCSR HSE, Moscow)

14.00 – 14.15       Ekaterina Turanova (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)  - Sexual Liberalization in Central Asia: a Marker of Modernization or a Choice of the Poorest? (New Project) 
Presentation

14.15 – 14.30       Questions and discussion

14.30 – 14.50       Natalia Soboleva (LCSR HSE, Moscow)  - Gender Attitudes in the World of Work: Cross-Cultural Comparison (Progress Report)  Presentation

14.50 – 15.10       Questions and discussion

15.10 – 15.30       Malgorzata Mikucka (Polish Academy of Sciences)  - Well-being premium to marriage. Time trends and macro processes involved (Progress Report)  Presentation

15.30 – 15.50       Questions and discussion

Discussants: Tatiana Karabchuk, Malina Voicu 

• 15.50  – 16.10      Coffee break 

Working Session 14: Subjective Well-being: Personal Achievements and Creative class

Moderator: Roberto Foa (Harvard University) 

16.10 – 16.25       Irina Vartanova (HSE, St. Petersburg)- The Creative Class and Subjective Well-Being: Multilevel Analysis (New project)  Presentation

16.25 – 16.40       Questions and discussion

16.40 – 16.55       Dmytro Khutkyy (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Ukraine)  - Individual Activism as a Way to Personal Achievement and Subjective Well-Being (New Project)  Presentation

16.55 – 17.10       Questions and discussion

Discussants: Anna Nemirovskaya, Andrey Shcherback

• 19.00 – 21.00       Reception

30 April 2013

Working Session 15: Urban Loneliness and Civic Engagement 

Moderator:Joshua Dubrow (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw)

9.00 – 9.20           Christopher Swader (LCSR HSE, Moscow)  - Urban Loneliness?: Investigating the Roots of Russian Loneliness through WVS Data (Progress Report)

9.20 – 9.40           Questions and discussion

9.40 – 9.55           Alla Marchenko (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine) - Comparative Perspective of Civic Engagement in Europe (New Project)  Presentation

9.55  – 10.10        Questions and discussion

Discussants: Serban Tanasa, Arye Rattner

• 10.10  – 10.30      Coffee break

Guest lecture 5: 

Moderator: Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan, USA; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

10.30 – 11.10       Benjamin Lind (HSE, Moscow)  - Organizational Evolution and Homophily: A Comparative Application of Dynamic Blau Space Presentation

11.10 – 11.40       Questions and discussion

Closing Session

11.40 – 12.00        Closing Session by Ronald Inglehart and Eduard Ponarin

12.00 – 13.00       Lunch

Participants’ departure