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The conference will take place on the campus of Umeå University. All sessions will be located to the Arts Building, while social arrangements will take place in localities in its close vicinities. The campus is easily accessible from the airport. It is located near Umeå centre with all hotels and necessary facilities close at hand. The conference programme consists of four keynote lectures, one plenary book session and fourteen parallel sessions, with social arrangements in between.

Revised programme (updated on August 17):

Thursday, August 21

10-11.30 Pre-Conference Guided City Walk (Umeå Tourist Office)
12-15 Registration (Arts Building)
15-16 Opening Ceremony (Auditorium G)
Welcome address by Göran Sandberg, Vice-Chancellor of Umeå University
Welcome address by Christian Fleck, RCHS President
Introductory speech by Björn Wittrock, Member of the Organising Committee
Saami yoik by Krister Stoor
16-17 Keynote lecture I: Raewyn Connell (Auditorium G)
17-18 Keynote lecture II: Eileen Yeo (Auditorium G)
18 - Reception (Lindellhallen)
   

Friday, August 22

10-12 Parallel sessions I-III (Auditorium E-G)
Session I: Rise of European Sociology
Session II: Alternative Histories
Session III: Sociology and Communism I
12-13 Lunch
13-14 Keynote lecture III: Saïd Arjomand (Auditorium G)
14-15 Keynote lecture IV: Johan Heilbron (Auditorium G)
15-15.30 Refreshments
15.30-17.30 Parallel sessions IV-VI (Auditorium E-G)
Session IV: Imperialism and Indigenous Knowledge
Session V: Nordic countries
Session VI: Sociology and Communism II
18-19 Visit at Umeå University’s Musem of Art and Visual Culture (Gammlia)
   

Saturday, August 23

10-12 Parallel sessions VII-VIII (Auditorium E, G)
Session VII: Public Social Knowledge
Session VIII: Empirical Social Research and Statistics
12-13 Lunch
13-14 Plenary book session: Jennifer Platt, Sanja Magdaleni& Neil McLaughlin (Auditorium G)
14-14.20 Refreshments
14.20-15.50 Parallel sessions IX-XI (Auditorium E-G)
Session IX: Power and Loyalties
Session X: Sociology of Octavio Paz
Session XI: Gender
16-17 RCHS Business Meeting (Auditorium G)
18.00- Outdoor Conference Dinner by the Baltic Sea (Kont)
   

Sunday, August 24

9-11 Parallel sessions XII-XIV (Auditorium E-G)
Session XII: Geopolitics and Transnationalism
Session XIII: Concepts
Session XIV: Transatlantic Reciprocity
11-11.15 Closing Ceremony (Auditorium G)
11.30-17.30 Post-Conference tour to Norrbyskär