Keynote Address, "A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium on Debt", University of llinois and the American Bankruptcy Institute, Champaign, Illinois, May 2008

 
   
Keynote Address. "After McDonaldization" Oxford University, England, June 2008

 
    Invited Speaker, "Sociology for the 21st Century: Theoretical and Critical Perspectives”, University of Crete, Rethimno, Crete, June 2008.

 
   
Keynote Address. "Eighth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations: The Management Conference." Cambridge University, England, August 2008

 
   
Chair, Invited Session on Production and Consumption; Workers and Consumers: Rethinking Their Relationships, ASA Meetings, Boston, MA, August, 2008.

 
   
Keynote Address, “Social Work Practice and Research between Regulation and Autonomy”. The Danish Social Work Research Association, Aarhus, Denmark, August, 2008.

 
   
 
 Email: ritzer@socy.umd.edu