14:00–15:30 Panel: Frontlash, Backlash, and the Civil Repair
       Presenters:
       Jeffrey C. Alexander
       Nelson Arteaga Botello
       Anna Durnová, Raili Marling, Elif Sandal-Önal, Sarah Schäfer, and Susanna Soosaar

16:00–17:30 Panel: Revisiting the Civil Sphere: Concepts and Critiques
       Presenters:
       Giuseppe Sciortino
       Galen Watts and Mervyn Horgan
       Marcus Morgan

18:00–19:30 Democratic Resilience in the making? The Civil Sphere in Central and Eastern Europe.
       Speakers:
       Katharina Renner
       Csaba Szaló
       Adriana Zaharijević
       Dominik Zelinsky

       Moderated by Anna Durnova (unviersity of Vienna)

       Location: Aula– Campus, University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 1.11, 1090 Vienna

       Organized by Team Political Sociology Vienna in association with the Civil Sphere Theory Working Group Meeting        2025 and supported by the Department of Sociology of the University of Vienna

       A small reception will follow the discussion.

09:00–10:30 Room A: Civil Polarizations and Social Divides
       Presenters:
       Caroline Russell and Celso M. Villegas
       Håkon Larsen
       Marian Pradella

Room B: Theory and Methodology in Civil Sphere Research
       Presenters:
       Andrea M. Maccarini
       Csaba Szaló
       Andrea Voyer

11:00–12:30 Room A: Urban Civil Spheres and Micro-spaces of Interaction
       Presenters:
       Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky
       Mervyn Horgan & Saara Liinamaa
       Danny Kaplan

Room B: Boundary Issues: Civil vs. Non-Civil Spheres
       Presenters:
       Werner Binder
       Ines Ribas Ferreira Dias
       Christopher Thorpe

14:00–15:30 Room A: Resistance in Authoritarian Contexts
       Presenters:
       Runya Qiaoan
       Milica Resanović & Ivana Spasić
       Sergey Konovalov

Room B: Journalism, News, and the Public Sphere
       Presenters:
       Jackie Harrison
       Nikolaus Poechhacker
       Thomas Olesen

16:00–18:00 Room A: Political, Communicative, and Literary Experiences
       Presenters:
       Horng-luen Wang
       Steve Koh
       María Luengo Cruz & Matthias Revers
       Jan Váňa

Room B: Uncivil Repair: Breakdown and Contestation
       Presenters:
       Dominik Zelinsky
       Polina Zavershinskaia & Francesco Spera
       Federico Quadrelli

09:00–11:00 Room A: Civil Sphere and the Environment: Climate Change and Public Responsibility
       Danny Daniel Mollericona Alfaro
       Liv Egholm
       Till Hilmar
       Sarah Schäfer

       Room B: Multiculturalism, Incorporation, and Civil Solidarity
       Elisabeth Becker-Topkara
       Hizky Shoham
       Jakob Egholm Feldt
       Stefan Lund, Anna Lund, and Ali Osman

11:30–13:30 Room A: Cultural Trauma and Collective Memory
       Hee-Jeong Lee
       Gabriela Müggenburg y Rodriguez Vigil
       Matthew Coetzee
       Carina Carlhed Ydhag

       Room B: Spaces of Care: Childhood and Beyond
       Trygve B. Broch
       Rebecca Brinch, Ylva Lorentzon, and Anna Lund
       Julia Schmid
       Marianna Melenteva