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Visiting Researchers Summer 2010	Swetlana Knorr Completes Training Program
Roy Karadag Awarded Doctorate	Fifth Summer Conference on Economy and Society at Sciences Po
MPIfG at International Conferences in 2010

 
16/08/2010

Visiting Researchers Summer 2010

Ben Jacoby, doctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, will be a visiting researcher at the MPIfG from June to October. He is working on a dissertation entitled "Moral values in markets: Attitudes toward the housing market in the UK and Germany."  
Lucia Quaglia from the University of Sussex will be a visiting researcher at the MPIfG from August 2010 to May 2011. During her stay in Cologne she will be investigating international, European, and national aspects of the governance of financial services in the European Union.  
Kathleen Thelen, Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a visiting researcher at the MPIfG in August. Together with Marius Busemeyer she is working on an internationally comparative book on the political economy of vocational training systems.  
Dimitris Sotiropoulos of the University of the Aegean in Greece will be a visiting researcher at the MPIfG from July to September. His research examines the financialization of capitalism.
 

 

 
15/08/2010

Roy Karadag Awarded Doctorate

Roy Karadag was awarded his doctorate by the University of Cologne on July 23, 2010. In his dissertation "Political Capitalisms: Power, Elites and the Economy in Turkey and the Philippines" he analyzes the emergence of political-economic power structures whose origins lie in the postcolonial formation of the state and capitalism. Roy Karadag is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the MPIfG.
 

 

 
14/08/2010

MPIfG at International Conferences in 2010

Several MPIfG researchers presented papers at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in Philadelphia from June 24 to 26, 2010. The institute also had a book exhibit at the meeting. The theme of this year’s meeting was transnational governance in a global economy. Founded in 1989, SASE is an international interdisciplinary organization that aims to advance the understanding of economic behavior across a broad range of academic disciplines.  
The MPIfG had a book exhibit at the World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association (ISA) held from July 11 to 17 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The theme of the conference attended by 4,400 participants was "Sociology on the Move."
 

 

 
13/08/2010

Swetlana Knorr Completes Training Program

On June 23, 2010, Swetlana Knorr successfully completed her training as a certified office communication specialist with an oral examination at the Cologne Chamber of Commerce. At the MPIfG since 2007, Knorr will work for another two years as a member of the MPIfG administration. On August 1, 2010, Lina Beyer started her training as an office communication specialist. The MPIfG has been training office communications specialists since 1999 and information systems specialists since 2001. There are currently three trainees at the institute.
 

 

 
12/08/2010

Fifth Summer Conference on Economy and Society at Sciences Po

The Fifth Summer Conference on Economy and Society of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) was held from June 10-12, 2010, at Sciences Po in Paris. Focusing this year on the impact of the economic crisis on institutions that regulate capitalist economies, doctoral students from the IMPRS-SPCE, Northwestern University, Harvard University, and Sciences Po presented their research to leading scholars in their fields. In 2011, the Summer Conference of the IMPRS-SPCE will be held at Ringberg Castle, the Max Planck Society’s conference center on Tegernsee, a lake in the Bavarian Alps.