The spring meeting of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 28 took place from the 20^th until the 23^rd of March at the Campus Westend of the Goethe University Frankfurt with a total number of 307 participants.

The 230 presentations were organized into 57 sessions, which included topics ranging from Great Recession, Employment, Education, Family, Mobility, Inequality, Methodology, Attitudes and Migration. During the poster session on Thursday afternoon 29 posters were presented.

Additionally, Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund (University of Oslo, Norway), Louis Chauvel and Anne Hartung (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Mads M. Jæger (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Marika Jalovaara (University of Turku, Finland) and Anette Eva Fasang (WZB Berlin, Germany; Humboldt University Berlin), Jennifer Hook and Eunjeong Paek (University of Southern California, United States of America) as well as Wout Ultee (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) gave inspiring keynotes on their current research.

In our latest discussion paper, Kristina Lindemann and Markus Gangl have examined the role of parental unemployment in transitions from upper secondary education in Germany. Read more here

Read more here: CORRODE Working Paper #6 by Pilar Goñalons-Pons and Markus Gangl

The CORRODE project is happy and honored to be hosting the 2019 Spring Meeting of the ISA RC28 on Social Stratification and Mobility at Goethe University! The conference is planned for March 21-23, 2019, in Frankfurt and will have an emphasis on research that addresses potential long-term impacts of the Great Recession. Watch out for our call for papers, which is to be posted through RC28 by summer 2018.

We occasionally post CORRODE-related news here. We’ll keep you informed on any upcoming conference presentations, new publications, or any media coverage our work may receive. Stay tuned!