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Max Weber and the Spirit of Modern
Capitalism - 100 years later
Centenary Conference, London, 11-12 June, 2004, organised
by Max Weber Studies and supported by the British Sociological
Association. Venue: Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial St,
E1. Registration 9.30am. Full cost £90, reduced
rate £30 - contact organisers.
See also <http://www.maxweberstudies.org/anconfdetails.htm>
Contact: s.whimster@londonmet.ac.uk
or m.nafissi@londonmet.ac.uk
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10.00
Welcome to conference
Professor Roderick Floud, FBA, President of London Metropolitan
University
Toynbee Hall, Tawney, and the Troeltsch-Weber Thesis
Dr Sam Whimster, Editor Max Weber Studies
Nationalism and the Modern Economy: Communing with
the Spirit of Max Weber Professor Liah Greenfeld, University
of Boston
Discussion
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11.15 Coffee
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11.30
Interpreting the text
Dr Peter Ghosh, St Anne's College, Oxford
Not an Elective but a Selective Affinity:the 'Protestant
Ethic' as a Neo-Darwinian Co-evolutionary Hypothesis
Lord Runciman, President of British Academy
Discussion
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1-2 Lunch
2-3 Visit (optional) to Wesley's Chapel
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3. 15
Max Weber and Judaism: An Insight into
the 'Protestant Ethic' Methodology
Professor Jack Barbalet, University of Leicester
Weber and merrie olde England
Professor David Chalcraft,
University of Derby
Max Weber's use of scholarly praise and criticism
in PESC
Professor Hartmut Lehmann, Emory College, Atlanta
Discussion
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4.45 Tea
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5.0
Weber on trust, social norms and modern capitalism
Professor
Sandro Segre, University of Genoa
Islamic reform as secular democracy
Dr Mohammad Nafissi
Post-protestant ethics
Professor Vic Seidler, Goldsmiths
College, London
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7.0 Dinner at Prithi's, 124-6 Brick Lane
(optional)
Saturday 12 June
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9.30
Weber's Protestant Ethic as hypothetical
narrative
Professor
Peter Breiner, New York State University at Albany
Weber in
the US
Professor Larry Scaff, Wayne State University
Weber versus
the economic
Nikola Regent, Central European University,
Budapest
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11.15
Capitalism, theoretical economics and the pre-history
of the thesis about capitalism and the Protestant Ethic
Professor Wolfgang J. Mommsen, University of Düsseldorf
Capitalism and the Spirit of Critique
Pier-Paolo Pasqualone & Professor Alan Scott, University
of Innsbruck
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12.45 Lunch
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1.45
Work and the conduct of life. Weber's Legacy
Professor Hans-Peter Müller, Humboldt University,
Berlin
Weber and Sombart on Politicians
Professor Kari Palonen, University of Jyväsklyä,
Finland
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2.45 Tea
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3.00
Weber's City and the 'Islamic' City
Professor Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck College
Multiple Modernities
Professor Björn Wittrock, Director, Swedish Collegium
for the Advanced Study of the Social Sciences, Uppsala.
Concrete versus abstract universalisms: some differences
between Weber's and Troeltsch's conceptions of modernity
Dr Austin Harrington, University of Leeds and Humboldt
University
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4.30 Conference concludes
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