Economic Sociology and New Theoretical Directions, Noors Slott, 12-15 September
2013
Under the title Economic Sociology and New Theoretical Directions, the Department of
Sociology at Uppsala University proudly welcomed a number of outstanding international
scholars from Europe and the U.S. in honor of Richard Swedberg for his lifetime
achievements and scholarly activity in the field of economic sociology at the conference
venue Noors Slott in Sweden from September 12-15 2013. As the conference title indicates,
the event was not solely dedicated to celebrate one of the key figures of this vibrant sub
field of sociology, but also to reconsider state of the art theorizing in economic sociology
and its contribution to general sociology. The conference program put together by Patrik
Aspers and Nigel Dodd focused on three major thematic threads: I. Creating Economic
Worlds with contributions by Jens Beckert, Nigel Dodd and Karin Knorr Cetina; II.
Consolidating Economic Structures with contributions by Bruce C. Carruthers, Victor Nee,
Frank Dobbin and Laurent Thévenot and III. Enacting Economic Relations with
contributions by Nina Bandelj, Kieran Healy, Patrik Aspers and Phillipe Steiner.
The conference was funded within the ERC-project Coordination by Evaluations and
Valuations: Market Logic Inside and Outside the Economy situated at the Department of
Sociology at Uppsala University and also gave young researchers working in the field of
economic sociology the chance of bringing in their fresh perspectives and new ideas to the
latest theoretical innovations and research sights.
Conference participants: (FLTR, starting with top row) Kieran Healy (Duke University),
Karin Knorr Cetina (Chicago University), Frank Dobbin (Harvard University), Bruce C.
Carruthers (Northwestern University), Jens Beckert (Max-Planck Institute for the Studies of
Societies, Cologne), Alexander Dobeson (Uppsala University), Tiziana Sardiello (Stockholm
University), Jonas Bååth (Uppsala University), Helena Olsson (Uppsala University), Henrik
Fürst (Uppsala University); Patrik Aspers (Uppsala University), Nigel Dodd (London School
of Economics), Richard Swedberg (Cornell University), Mabel Berezin (Cornell University),
Nina Bandelj (University of California, Irvine), Victor Nee (Cornell University), Petter
Bengtsson (Stockholm University), Dominik Döllinger (Uppsala University); Phillipe
Steiner (University Paris-Sorbonne and Institute Universitaire de France), Laurent
Thévenot (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Adel Daoud (Gothenburg
University), Ellinor Anderberg (Uppsala University), Elena Bogdanova (Stockholm
University)