All Plenary sessions are held in amphitheatre Poseidon
| Monday, 22 August | |
| 9.00-11.30 | Registration |
| 10.30 - 11.30 | Introductory session Chair: Charalambos Kasimis (Agricultural University of Athens) Welcome address on behalf of Local Organisers Welcome address by Jo Little, President of ESRS Welcome address by Local Authorities Introduction to the congress by Gianluca Brunori, Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Congress Download introduction |
| 11.30-12.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.45-13.30 | Chair: Jo Little (University of Exeter) Keynote speakers Timothy Lang (City University London) Food Inequalities (old and new) and the long Pursuit of Food Democracy Download paper Mark Shucksmith (University of Newcastle) Inequality, Power and Injustice in Rural Areas: Beyond Social Exclusion? Download paper |
| 13.30-15.00 | Lunch |
| 15.00-16.30 | Plenary I: The Multidimensionality of Inequalities Chair: Bettina Bock (University of Wageningen) Mario Giampietro (ICTA Barcelona) Characterizing the Metabolic Pattern of Rural Communities: Facing the Yin-Yang Tension of Industrial versus Organic Agriculture Download paper Kai Shafft (Penn State University) Ways of Knowing and Ways of Seeing: Thinking about Poverty and Inequality and Social Exclusion in Internationally Comparative Contexts Download paper |
| 16.30-17.00 | Coffee break |
| 17.00-18.30 | Parallel sessions |
| 18.30-20.00 | Welcome reception |
| Tuesday, 23 August | |
| 9.00-11.00 | Parallel sessions |
| 11.10-11.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.30-13.30 | Parallel sessions |
| 13.30-15.00 | Lunch |
| 15.00-16.30 | Plenary II: The Changing State of Rural Inequalities. Chair: Krzysztof Gorlach (Jagellonian University - Kracow) Ildikó Asztalos Morell (University of Uppsala) Post-socialist Rural Transitions in the Intersecting Arenas of Social Differentiation along Class, Gender, Age and Ethnicity Download paper Max Spoor (ISS/Erasmus University Rotterdam) Social Exclusion and Rural Poverty in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia Download paper |
| 16.30-17.00 | Coffee break |
| 17.00-18.30 | Parallel sessions |
| Wednesday, 24 August | |
| 9.00-11.00 | Parallel sessions |
| 11.10-11.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.30-13.30 | Plenary III: Financial Crisis and Aadjustment Policies: What Impact on Rural Areas? Chair: Dimitris Damianos (Agricultural University of Athens) Download introduction George Stathakis (University of Crete) The Fiscal Collapse of the Greek Economy and the Global Crisis. A Political Economy Perspective" Download paper Tassos Haniotis (European Commission) The Eeconomic Crisis and EU Agriculture: Impacts, Challenges and Policy Options Download paper Dimitris Diakosavvas (OECD) Towards a Green Growth Strategy for Food and Agriculture: Issues and Challenges for Policy Download paper |
| 13.30-15.00 | Lunch |
| 15.00-19.00 | Field trip |
| Thursday, 25 August | |
| 9.00-11.00 | Parallel sessions |
| 11.10-11.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.30-13.30 | Parallel sessions |
| 13.30-15.00 | Lunch |
| 15.00-15.45 | Plenary IV: Governing Diversity and Addressing Inequalities: What Role for Regions, National States and European Institutions? Chair: Hilkka Vihinen (MTT Economic Research) Elena Saraceno (Advisor for the EU Commission) Institutional Approaches to Rural Diversity and Inequality in the European Union Download paper |
| 15.45-16.30 | Sociologia Ruralis lecture Chair: Henry Buller (Sociologia Ruralis, Editor) Jo Little (University of Exeter) Fit Farms and Fat Camps: New Perspectives on Nature, Well-being and the Body Download paper |
| 16.30-17.00 | Coffee break |
| 17.00 -18.30 | ESRS General Assembly |
| 19.30 - | Cretan night |
For further information please contact Gianluca Brunori (gbrunori@agr.unipi.it)
Download the Plenary Sessions & Working Groups Programme leaflet, as a PDF file (650KB).
Timetable by WG (PDF file 116KB)
Timetable by Room (PDF file 119KB)
Download the Book of Abstracts by Working Group, as a PDF file (1283KB).
