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10/02/2010
Juan Fernandez Receives A.SK Fellowship
Juan Fernandez will receive a fellowship for 2011 from the A.SK Academic Prize Foundation for his dissertation, "Labor and the Elderly in the Welfare Retrenchment Era: Institutions and Collective Action in the Public Pension Reforms of Affluent Democracies." The Social Science Research Center Berlin devotes 50,000 euros from the foundation’s budget each year to supporting postdoctoral researchers who make an important contribution to political and social reform issues. Fernandez has been a postdoctoral fellow at the MPIfG since September 2009 and is working on his research project on pension reforms. Another of the three prize winners for 2011 is Alexander Petring, who was a postdoctoral fellow at the MPIfG from 2008 to 2009 and is currently a research fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin. Press information (in German)27/01/2010
IMPRS-SPCE/Sciences Po Doctoral Seminar on the Sociology of Markets
Over twenty doctoral fellows, from the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris and the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) at the MPIfG, assembled in Cologne for a residential seminar on the sociology of markets from January 11-15, 2010. The seminar was conducted by Jens Beckert and Pierre François, a researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO) in Paris. Participants studied various aspects of the sociology of markets, beginning with the historical and conceptual perspectives of markets and continuing on through market competition, determination of value and cooperation in markets, and a comparison of the sociology of markets and sociological theory. The MPIfG and Sciences Po university in Paris are partner institutions that are continually expanding their joint education and training programs at the doctoral level.News from the MPIfG by E-Mail and Regular Mail
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