International Colloquium 2010 - 9/10/11 June - Berlin

18th International Colloquium of Gerpisa

Date:

Wednesday 9 June 2010, 11:00 CEST - Friday 11 June 2010, 19:30 CEST

WZB - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin-Tiergarten
Germany

Factory visit the 10th of June 2010 : AutoUni
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
Brieffach 12310
38436 Wolfsburg
Germany

Organisation committee

Antjie Blöcker, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Bernard Jullien, Université de Bordeaux

Ulrich Jürgens, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung

Tommaso Pardi, CNRS-IDHES, GIS-Gerpisa

Call for papers

The Greening of the Global Auto Industry in a Period of Crisis

Programme 9-10-11 June 2010

Summary

Within the framework for Gerpisa’s 5th International Research Programme, “Sustainable Development and the Automobile Industry”, the 18th International meeting calls on researchers to examine the different dimensions of the sustainability of the automobile’s development. While the principles of sustainable development tend to highlight automobile firms’ social and environmental responsabilities, the current crisis has focused attention on the economic sustainability of many of the firms within the industry. With governments at both regional and national level called upon to invest heavily to preserve the automobile sector, a political dimension of sustainability has also emerged. A new series of compromises is emerging as these four dimensions of sustainability interact, termed The Second Automobie Revolution.

The 2010 International Meeting calls for contributions on the development of knowledge and analysis of the questions that are currently being asked across the global economy, at every stage of the value chain, across all corporate fonctions and at all levels of public intervention. It is no longer only the traditional participants within the automobile system that are involved as new actors emerge whose future role within the industry is generating much speculation and interest from both investors and researchers.

Information

How to get to the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB)

By Plane

from Schönefeld Airport
Take the bus SXF1 towards Südkreuz, get off and take the train S2 in direction to Buch until Anhalter Bhf, get off and continue by bus M29 to Roseneck until Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, 3 minutes walk.
from Tegel Airport
Take the bus 109 in direction to Zoologischer Garten until Bleibtreustraße, change for the bus M29 in direction to U-Bhf Hermannplatz until Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, 3 minutes walk.

By Train

from Berlin main station (Hauptbahnhof)
Take the bus M85 in direction to Lichterfelde Süd, get off at Kulturforum, 2 minutes walk.
from Berlin east station (Ostbahnhof)
Take the Regionalbahn (RB14) in direction to Nauen, get off at Friedrichstraße take the S1 to Wannsee until Anhalter Bahnhof, continue by bus M29 towards Roseneck until Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, 3 minutes walk.
from Lichtenberg
Take the train S5 in direction to Warschauer Straße, get off and continue by the metro U12 in direction to Ruhleben, change at Gleisdreieck and continue on the U2 in direction to Pankow until Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park, go on by bus M29 towards Roseneck until Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, 3 minutes walk.
from Wannsee
Take the train S7 in direction to Ahrensfelde until railway station Zoologischer Garten, switch to the metro U12 to Warschauer Straße, get off at Wittenbergplatz, go on by bus M29 towards Hermannplatz until Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, 3 minutes walk.

Questions and contact

In case you need any support or have questions please contact:

Gebhard Glock
E-mail: glock@wzb.eu
Phone: ++49 30 / 25491-273
Fax: ++49 30 / 25491-255

Antje Blöcker
E-mail: bloecker@wzb.eu
Phone: ++49 30 /25491-231

We look forward to meeting you at the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin in June.

Accomodations

See here for the Hotels list.