Villa Vigoni 2023

17th Conference “Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe” Rising Conflicts and Polarisation in European Societies? Indicators, Empirical Evidence, and Future Prospec

Villa Vigoni 9-11/10/2023

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Monday, October 9

Afternoon

 

Arrival of participants

 

19:00

 

Reception & Dinner

 

 

 

Tuesday, Morning, October 10

9:00 – 10:45

Session I.    Chair: Christian Suter (University of Neuchâtel)

Rising Conflicts and Polarisation in European Societies? Empirical Evidence, Conceptualizations, Measurements

 

Christian Suter (University of Neuchâtel)

Welcome and Introduction to the Conference

Presentation

 

Maik Herold (TU Dresden)

Affective polarization in Europe

Presentation

 

Marcus Gercke & Jan Delhey (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg)

Perspectives on societal polarisation

Presentation

 

Jeroen Boelhouwer (The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, The Hague)

Increasing polarization in the Netherlands: perceived or factual?

Presentation

 

 

 

 

10:45 – 11:15

 

Coffee Break

 
       

11:15 – 12:45

Session II. Chair: : Heinz-Herbert Noll (formerly GESIS, Mannheim)

Economic Polarisation

 

Carlos Vacas-Soriano (Eurofound)

Income inequalities and the changing middle class in the EU

Presentation

 

Stefano Filauro & Zachary Parolin (Bocconi University)

Within-country differences in income and housing costs: their impact on poverty

Presentation

 

Loukas Stemitsiotis & Jakub Caisl (European Commission, Brussels) 

The uneven impacts of high inflation

Presentation

 

 

13:00

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, Afternoon, October 10

 

Afternoon

 

14:30 – 16:00

Session III. Chair: Laura Kestilä (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki

Spatial Polarisation

 

Marie Hyland, Eleonora Peruffo, Marta Anzillotti, Garance Hingre & Massimiliano Mascherini (Eurofound)

Rural-urban divide – analysing trends and drivers across income, opportunity and values

Presentation

 

Dirk Konietzka & Yevgeniy Martynovych (TU Braunschweig)

Spatial polarization and social inequality in Germany. Are social class differentials in place of residence increasing?

Presentation

 

Oliver Nahkur, Helina Maasing, Ave Kovaljov & Mare Ainsaar (University of Tartu)

Measuring the risk of immigration related conflicts

Presentation

 

 

 

 

16:00 – 16:30

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

 

16:30 – 18:00

Session IV. Chair: István Toth (Tarki, Budapest

Political and Social Polarisation

 

Paulina Pankowska (Utrecht University), Davide Morselli (University of Lausanne), and Ruben Bach (Mannheim University)

Can online behavior predict political attitudes?

Presentation

 

Sakari Karvonen, Jukka Sivonen & Laura Kestilä (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki)

Cleavages of trust in a high trusting country – Level of trust and attitudes towards climate change in Finland

Presentation

  Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Nils Teichler, Carina Cornesse, Clara Dilger, Olaf Groh-Samberg, Holger Lengfeld, Eric Nissen, Jost Reinecke, Stephan Skolarski, Richard Traunmüller & Lena Verneuer-Emre (Research Institute Social Cohesion, RISC) Network homogeneity, network segregation and social cohesion in Germany Presentation

19:30

 

Dinner

 
 

Wednesday, Morning, October 11

9:15 – 11:00

Session V.   Chair: Peter Farago (formerly FORS, Lausanne)

Recent Developments in European Social Monitoring, Reporting, and Indicator Construction

 

Thomas Eichhorn, Christina Boll, Harald Eichhorn, Ortrud Leßmann & Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer (German Youth Institute, DJI)

An index of relative deprivation for children under 14 years of age

Presentation

 

Jeroen Boelhouwer (The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, The Hague)

New Dutch social report: Social and cultural developments. The state of the country

Presentation

 

Monica Budowski (University of Fribourg) & Christian Suter (University of Neuchâtel)

A Panorama of Swiss Society: The forthcoming 2024 report on ageing

Presentation

 

István Toth (Tarki, Budapest)

The Hungarian Social Report 2022

Presentation

11:00– 12:30

 

Coffee Break

 

11:30– 12:30

 

Business Meeting    
Chair: Christian Suter (University of Neuchâtel)

 

 

 

Future Plans

 

 

 

 

 

13:00

 

Lunch and Departure