Programme

The full programme can be viewed here.

Monday 17 August 2015

• 10am to 5pm (and continues until 2.45pm 18th August)- Pre Congress Workshop on Digital and Visual Technologies in Social Research (extra charge), at the Macaulay Suite, James Hutton Institute. Keynote speakers: Eric Laurier; Anne Galloway; Katrina Myrvang Brown and Helen Lomax. Discussant: Gillian Rose.
• 7pm:  Optional evening meal: ESRS executive and participants in the precongress workshop, Nargile Restaurant, Aberdeen city centre.

Tuesday 18 August 2015

• 9am to 2.45 pm- Pre Congress Workshop on Digital and Visual Technologies in Social Research (continued from 17th August), Macaulay Suite, James Hutton Institute
• 10am to 2.45 pm- ESRS executive committee meeting, Maxwell Room, James Hutton Institute
• 3:30pm:  Conference opening ceremonies from 3:30 pm, Chaired by Charalambos Kasimis, ESRS president, Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre, University of Aberdeen 
  • Welcome: Iain Gordon, Chief Executive of the James Hutton Institute
  • Welcome: Mark Shucksmith, ESRS 2015 scientific committee chair
  • Keynote:  Dr Bettina Bock, “Social innovation – a solution for marginalising rural areas?”
  • Keynote:  Prof Costis Hadjimichalis, “Neoliberalism and the omission of socio-spatial justice in regional development theories and policies”
  • Congress logistics and intro to the welcome reception:  Lee-Ann Sutherland, local organising committee chair
• 6pm:  Conference welcome reception and local food fayre, Elphinstone Hall, University of Aberdeen

Wednesday 19 August 2015 (AECC)

• 8:30am: Welcome Coffee - Boyd Orr Hall​
• 9am:  Working Group Session 1
• 10:30am: Coffee - Boyd Orr Hall​
• 11am: Working Group Session 2
• 12:30pm:  Lunch  - Boyd Orr Hall​
• 12:30pm: General Assembly of the European Society for Rural Sociology – Crombie B
• 2:30pm: Parallel symposium “Land and community” - Gordon A
  • With Ottar Brox, Lesley Riddoch, and Tim Ingold. This symposium will be chaired by Mark Shucksmith. 
• 2:30pm: Parallel symposium “Food security – for whom?” - Gordon B
  • With: Phil McMichael (on a 'Critical overview of the concept of food security'); Maria Fonte (on 'The role of civic food networks'); and Tiina Silvasti (on 'Food shortages at the household level'). This symposium will be chaired by Geoff Lawrence.
• 4pm: Coffee - Boyd Orr Hall​
• 4:30pm- 6pm: Working Group Session 3
• 6pm- 8pm: Sociologia Ruralis editorial board meeting, AECC - Forbes Room
• 7.30pm: Whisky tasting and fish supper event - Ashvale Restaurant, Aberdeen city centre
• 7.30pm: Student and Early-career researcher evening, hosted by James Hutton Institute PhD students - Illict Still pub, Aberdeen city centre

Thursday 20 August 2015 (AECC)

• 8:30am: Welcome Coffee - Boyd Orr Hall​
• 9am:  Working Group Session 4
• 10:30am: Coffee - Boyd Orr Hall​
• 11am-12pm: Sociologia Ruralis Lecture – Fleming Auditorium
  • ​Chair: Bettina Bock, Editor of Sociologia Ruralis, Wageningen University
  • Invitation to the International Rural Sociology Congress 2016 – Geoff Lawrence, IRSA President, University of Queensland, Australia
  • Sociologia Ruralis Lecture, Prof Harriet Friedmann “Precipice and Possibility: A Food Regime Approach to Emergent Futures of Growing and Eating”​​​​
  • This will be followed by the Sociologia Ruralis Best Paper 2013/2014 and Student Paper Awards
• 12:15pm:  Buses leave for academic field trips around Aberdeenshire (returning between 7pm and 9pm)
  • Note:  Lunch for field trip participants is served on the field trip buses. Lunch for non-participants will be served in Boyd Orr Hall

Friday 21 August 2015 (AECC)

• 8:30am: Welcome Coffee - Boyd Orr Hall​
• 9am: Working Group Session 5
• 10:30am: Coffee - Boyd Orr Hall​
• 11am: Working Group Session 6
• 12:30pm- 1:45pm: Lunch - Boyd Orr Hall​
• 12:30pm- 1:45pm: *Lunch with the authors - Boyd Orr Hall​
• 12:30pm- 1.45pm: Meeting of study group leaders - Crombie B
• 1:45pm: Keynote Speakers – Fleming Auditorium
• • Chair: Talis Tisenkopfs, ESRS Executive, Baltic Studies Centre
  • Prof Terry Marsden “Natural Powers: Exploring the rural eco-economy 'beyond neo-liberalism"
  • Dr Nigel Swain “Eastern European Rurality in a Neoliberal World”​
• 3.15pm: Coffee - Boyd Orr Hall​
• 3.45pm-5.15pm: Working Group Session 7
• 7pm:  Conference dinner - Aberdeen Beach Ballroom
  • Welcome from Aberdeen City Council
  • Ceilidh and address to the haggis
  • Awards presentation
  • Introduction of new ESRS executive

* There will be an opportunity to have lunch with the authors of some recent books by congress participants.