The symposium will bring together elite and civil society researchers to discuss and debate power, stratification, and diversity in European civil societies and the concept of civil society elites. The Symposium also includes additional presentations from distinguished Scandinavian and European scholars and Lund University scholars who participated in the research project on Civil Society Elites.

Welcome to Room Sh128, School of Social Work, Allhelgona kyrkogata 8, Lund!

Full program

Thursday, 16 May

09.00-09.15 Coffee
09.15-09.30 Håkan Johansson (Lund University), Civil Society Elites, an introduction.
09.30-10.30 Anette Zimmer (University of Münster), From Robert Michels to Greta Thunberg – Civil Society Elites and Social Change. 
Chair: Anders Uhlin (Lund University).
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 Looking like an elite? Composition of elites in Europe:

• Roberto Scaramuzzino (Lund University) and Jayeon Lee (University of Gothenburg), Privileged but progressive? Socio-demographic composition and attitudes of civil society elites.
• Anne Skorkjaer Binderkrantz (Aarhus University), Career connections between policy professionals in the civil society and other sectors.
• Christopher Houmann Ellersgaard (Copenhagen Business School), Mapping elite relations: The Danish Power elite as case. 
• Chair: Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska (Lund University).

12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Boundary crossing elites. Mobility as a defining feature of elites:

• Anders Uhlin and Malin Arvidson (Lund University), Title tba.
• Adrienne Sörbom (Södertörn University College), Title tba.
• Liv Egholm (Copenhagen Business School), Futurizing through border-crossing translation. 
• Chair: Roberto Scaramuzzino (Lund University).

15.30-16.30 Coffee
16.30-18.00 Barriers to climbing ladders? Implications for elite diversity at the top:

• Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska (Lund University), Mechanisms of civil society elite reproduction: training, recruitment and consecration in European civil societies.
• Itamar Shachar (University of Hasselt), Who is really ’doing good’? Delineating and governing volunteering and its implications for civil society stratification.
• Jon Dean (Sheffield Hallam University), Title tba. 
• Chair: Malin Arvidson (Lund University).

19.30 Dinner

Friday, 17 May

09.00-09.30 Coffee
09.30-10.30 Mike Savage (London School of Economics), Theorising elites: the role of civil society.
Chair: Anders Sevelsted (Copenhagen Business School).
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 Elites, populism and de-democratization:

• Elżbieta Korolczuk: (Södertörn University College), Anti-elitism of the elites: the case of the anti-gender movement.
• Andrea Krizsan (CEU), Which elites? Reconfiguration of civil society in illiberal autocratizing spaces.
• Neil Datta (European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights), Title tba. 
• Chair: Sara Kalm (Lund University).

12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Future orientation of elite and civil society theory and research (round table):
Anna Meeuwisse (Lund University), Kerstin Jacobson (Gothenburg University), Mario Diani (University of Trento), Lars Skov Henriksen (Aalborg University).
Chair: (tba).

Notification of Interest

If you find this interesting and want to participate, send an email to Prof hakan [dot] johansson [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (Håkan Johansson)
 (School of Social Work) or PhD kajsa [dot] emilsson [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (Kajsa Emilsson) (School of Social Work). Please let us know not later than 22 April. 
Participation is free of charge: we offer you interesting discussions and food.