PTRS@Porto: FINAL PROGRAMME

[Minor changes introduced December the 2nd]

Paths Towards Reflexive Sociology: Ethnography matters

Porto, Faculty of Arts, 10^th-11^th December 2009

Programme

Day 1

10^th December 2009

[Venue: Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Burmester Building, Room 103]

Facilitator: Bruno Monteiro (Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal; PTRS Executive Committee)

10:00-10:30

Opening Session

João Teixeira Lopes (President of the Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal)

10:30-12:30

Session 1: “Grounded approaches to social change”

Aslam Fataar (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

Youth navigation of ‘dys-synchronous’ school spaces across the rural-urban divide in South Africa

Graça Cordeiro (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology – ISCTE, Portugal)

Lígia Ferro (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology – ISCTE, Portugal)

Tim Sieber (University of Massachusetts, USA)

The bright side of darker streets: discussing an unconventional exploratory field research experience with Boston community murals

João Caramelo (Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences – University of Porto, Portugal)

Employee ownership of a sugar factory in Brazil: an ethnography of a social and economic alternative experiment

Discussant: Wiebke Keim (Department for Social Work and Social Policy – Fribourg University, Germany)

12:30-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:30

Session 2: “Inside the state”

John Bourke (Macquarie University, Australia)

Rosemary Lucadou-Wells (Murdoch University, Australia)

Developing a reception theory for the analysis of colonial defamation cases in Van Diemens Land

Susana Durão (Institute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Tales of the field: an ethnographic journey inside police worlds

Christian Hansen (University of Copenhagen, Danmark)

Social workers and the construction and reconstruction of the Danish Welfare State

Discussant: Stefania Barca (Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra, Portugal)

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-19:00

Session 3: “The sociological craft: practical sense and reflexivity”

Marie-Anne Dujarier (Polytechnique, CNAM – Sorbonne University, France)

Aurélie Jeantet (CRESPA – Sorbonne University, France)

Emmanuelle Savignac (CIM – Sorbonne University, France)

To intervene in the media as sociologists: a little exercise of reflexivity on the mediatisation of researchers and knowledge

Manuel Torres Cubeiro (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Making no sense: biography, reflexivity and mental illness

Łukasz Krzyżowski (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology – AGH – University of Science and Technology, Poland)

Co-creating of transnational social spaces. Researching migrations across time and space

Isabel Cruz (Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal)

Between macro and micro: a methodological eclecticism in consumption practices analysis

[DISTRIBUTED PAPER (WILL NOT BE PRESENT FOR ORAL PRESENTATION)]

Discussant: Rita Cachado (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology – ISCTE, Portugal)

21:30-23:00

[Venue: E-Learning Café UP]

“Workers leaving the factory”, Harun Farocki (1995, 37’)

Film + Debate with Carlos Gonçalves (Department of Sociology and Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal) and Luísa Veloso (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology – ISCTE, Portugal)

Day 2

11^th December 2009

[Venue: Faculty of Arts, Main Building, Anfiteatro Nobre]

Facilitator: João Queirós (Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal; PTRS Executive Committee)

10:00-12:30

Session 4: “Innovative ways of thinking and doing ethnography, innovative ways of disseminating results”

Paula Mota Santos (University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal)

Roberto Alzetta (University of Genoa, Italy)

The camera tends to lie and the audience tends to believe. The implications of the use of film in ethnographic research: the case of the international European research project TRESEGY

Pedro dos Santos Bóia (Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal, and University of Exeter, UK)

Living ethnography: tensions and articulations between researcher’s knowledge, the actors’ discourses and sociological ‘classic’ deconstruction

Raúl Cabrera (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)

Anika Meckesheimer (Universidad Xochimilco, Mexico)

Alterity and autonomy in intervention – doing research with, not only about, civil organizations in Chiapas

Marcelle Dawson (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Straddling the divide between academia and activism: exploring different forms of knowledge production

Jonathan London (Department of Asian and International Studies – City University, Hong Kong)

Representing child poverty in Viet Nam

[DISTRIBUTED PAPER (WILL NOT BE PRESENT FOR ORAL PRESENTATION)]

Discussant: Sofia Cruz (Faculty of Economy and Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal)

12:30-15:00

Lunch

15:00-17:00

Final Session

Simon J. Charlesworth (Clare Hall – University of Cambridge, UK)

Education, unemployment, labour market segregation. Social division and meaningless pedagogy

Ariel Sevilla (Laboratoire Printemps and French Sociology Association, France)

Ethnographical data and international comparison. Research notes from the auto-industry in France, Brazil and Argentina

Discussant: José Madureira Pinto (Faculty of Economy and Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal)

Workshop closure

PTRS @ Porto, PORTUGAL: Registration

International Workshop
PATHS TOWARDS REFLEXIVE SOCIOLOGY: ETHNOGRAPHY MATTERS

Porto, Portugal, December 10th-11th 2009
Faculty of Arts, University of Porto

PROGRAMME

Day 1
Facilitator: Bruno Monteiro (ISFLUP)

10:00-10:30 - Opening Session with the President of ISFLUP, João Teixeira Lopes

10:30-12:30 - Session 1: "Grounded approaches to social change"
Discussant: Wiebke Keim (Department for Social Work and Social Policy, Fribourg University, Germany)

12:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-16:15 - Session 2: "Inside the State"
Discussant: Stefania Barca (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal)

16:15-16:45 - Coffee Break

16:45-18:45 - Session 3: "The sociological craft: practical sense and reflexivity"
Discussant: Rita Cachado (Centre for Research and Social Studies, ISCTE, Portugal)

21:30 - Documentary: "Workers leaving the factory", by Harun Farocki (1995, 37') + Debate (with the support of the Goethe Institut)

Day 2
Facilitator: João Queirós (ISFLUP)

10:30-12:30 - Session 4: "Innovative ways of doing ethnography and disseminating results"
Discussant: Sofia Cruz (ISFLUP)

12:30-15:00 - Lunch

15:00-17:00 - Final Session with Simon J. Charlesworth (Clare Hall, University of Cambridge) and Ariel Sevilla (Laboratoire Printemps, Université de Versailles, and General Secretary of the French Sociology Association).

Register now by sending and e-mail with your contact details to: ptrs.porto@gmail.com.

Full Final Programme will soon be available.
Day 1 will take place in the Burmester Building (Room 103) of the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto. Day 2 will take place in the Main Room of the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto (main building).
English will be the official language of the workshop.
Participation is totally free of charges (30 places max. in Day 1 Sessions).

Organiser: ISFLUP - Institute of Sociology - Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, PORTUGAL.

PTRS @ Porto, Portugal: Venues, Travel, Accomodation

Venues

The PTRS discussion-oriented International Workhsop that the Institute of Sociology at the University of Porto is organising will take place in Porto, Portugal next December (the 10th and 11th).
Porto is the second most important city in Portugal. Although it is a "shrinking city", it's the centre of a metropolitan area with over 1,2 million people and a very beautiful location. For general info, see: http://www.portoturismo.pt/.

Day 1 (December the 10th) will consist of three open debate sessions (1. "Grounded approaches to social change"; 2. "Inside the State"; 3. "The sociological craft: practical sense and reflexivity"). Presenters will have about 20 to 25 minutes each one to pose their arguments. Sessions will occur at the Institute of Sociology facilities in Palacete Burmester (click here to check it out; to see how far you are from the airport and how you can find your way to this venue by car or public transportation clike here and here - the map says the location is "Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação", but that's just Google failing to proper update its info; if you search Rua do Campo Alegre, 1055, Porto, Portugal" in Google Earth or Google's Streetview you can also see the place where the workshop's Day 1 is going to happen).

In the evening there will be some cultural activities in Espaços UP (click here and here to see how you can get there from Palacete Burmester). We will show the documentary by Harun Farocki "Workers Leaving the Factory" (1995, 37' in english), followed by a debate with one or two guests.

Day 2 (December the 11th) will have an open session on innovative ways of doing ethnography and disseminating research results and the Final Session with Simon Charlesworth and Ariel Sevilla. Sessions will take place at the Main Room of the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto (click here to see some photos; the main building of the Faculty of Arts is not far away from Palacete Burmester, as you can see if you click here).

For additional info, check the University of Porto, the Faculty of Arts and the Institute of Sociology websites here, here and here.
There are also some other interesting locations near our venues. See, for example, the Botanic Garden (it's the building next to Palacete Burmester), the Serralves Museum or the Music Hall by award-winning architect Rem Koolhas.


Travelling

Porto is served by a very nice airport (Porto Airport or Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport - OPO), which is outside the city but not very far away (visit the website here). It's one of Ryanair's hubs, so it's ideal for participants travelling from other european countries.

To come from the airport to the venues, you just have to grab a taxi or take the metro (Purple Line until Casa da Música/Music Hall, direction Estádio do Dragão/Stadium of Dragon, as you can see here). Please make sure you tell us when are you going to arrive at the airport and if you'd like a ride or prefer to explore the way through here by yourself.

For the ones travelling from outside the EU, if you need a document saying you are going to participate in PTRS for visa purposes, please let us know. We'll scan it and send it to you via e-mail a.s.a.p.


Accomodation

Here are some accomodation suggestions. Prices vary a lot, as you can see. You can either find accomodation near the main venues or near the place where we are going to show the documentary (December the 10th, 21h30). You can also stay at Downtown Porto or in the Historic Centre (UNESCO's World Heritage) if you wish to get to know more about the city.

Near Palacete Burmester and the Faculty of Arts...
- Ipanema Park Hotel (*****), click here.
- Ipanema Porto (****), click here.
- Hotel Tuela Porto (***), click here.
- César Hotel (**), click here.
- Pousada da Juventude/Youth Hostel Porto, click here.

Near Espaços UP and Porto's General Hospital (Metro "Pólo Universitário")...
- Ibis Hotel Porto S. João, click here.

In Downtown Porto/the Historic Centre (Metro, taxi and bus to the main venues)...
- Grande Hotel do Porto, click here.
- Mercure Porto Batalha, click here.
- Pestana Porto Hotel, click here.

Don't forget to pass by this website here to collect some additional info.

Any doubts, please let us know. Send us an e-mail to ptrs.porto@gmail.com.

See you in Porto!

PTRS's Final Session

The Scientific Committee is now releasing the first results of the evaluation of the large amount of answers to our Call for Papers that we received throughout the last couple of months.
We don't have yet the final version of the workshop's program, but we can announce that we'll have an outstanding Final Session, with the presence of Simon J. Charlesworth, sociologist and the author of the impressive "A phenomenology of working-class experience", and Ariel Sevilla, from Laboratoire Printemps at the University of Versailles, France, and currently the General Secretary of the French Sociology Association.

Wether you're going to present a paper or not, please make sure that you're going to take part in the debate!

See you in Porto!

The Call for Papers is now closed

The PTRS's Call for Papers is now closed. We have received a large number of proposals from all around the globe and we're already going through them. Authors should be contacted by the Executive Committee during this week or so. Although we're still analysing the proposals, we can anticipate, taking into account the overall quality of the abstracts that were sent to us, a great workshop, with oustandingly innovative and original presentations.

We can talk the talk... and now we're going to walk the walk!

See you in Porto!

PTRS Executive Committee