Second Call for papers:
Shifting to Post-Crisis Welfare States in Europe? - Long Term and Short Term Perspectives
International conference, Berlin, June 4 - 5, 2013
New extended deadline: March 1, 2013
Welfare states develop, change and adapt to changing circumstances.
Long-term incremental transformations, short-term ruptures and crises have been intertwined in the making and changing of welfare states.
Over the last five years welfare states have been hit by a severe financial crisis. Its effects are in various ways related to structural changes associated with globalization, immigration, generational structures, and old and new social risks. The financial crisis has demonstrated international interdependencies and made the problems concerning the democratic legitimacy of national welfare states and European integration visible.
Against this background the conference Shifting to Post-Crisis Welfare States in Europe? – Long Term and Short Term Perspectives brings together distinguished academics from across the world to discuss whether we are going through a tough time – as a phase in the normal development and adaptation of welfare states – or whether we are facing a complete transformation or even a decline of the welfare state as we know it.
The format of the conference is a combination of plenary keynotes given by some of the most central welfare researchers of today and paper sessions where the work of well-established researchers, post-doctoral researchers and PhD students are discussed. We open up for papers on a variety of topics related to the long- and short-term transformations of welfare states
Key note speakers: Peter Hall (Harvard University, US), Kimberly Morgan (George Washington University, US), Ann Orloff (Northwestern University, US), Bruno Palier (Director of Research, CNRS, Sciences Po, FR), Joakim Palme (University of Uppsala, SE), Chiara Saraceno (Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), DE & Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, IT)
FULL CALL FOR PAPERS WITH PROGRAMME:
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/iwec2013/.
Deadlines:
Abstracts are submitted to the coordinator Heidi Haggrén
(heidi.haggren [at] helsinki.fi)
by March 1, 2013 (extended dead-line).
Successful applicants will be informed by March 15, 2013.
Deadline for full papers is May 10, 2013.
For further information please visit conference website http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/iwec2013/ or contact coordinator Heidi Haggrén (heidi.haggren [at] helsinki.fi).
The conference takes place at the closing phase of the Nordic Centre of Excellence Programme on Welfare Research funded by NordForsk and is organized in collaboration between NordForsk and the two Centres of Excellence NordWel and REASSESS.
Organizers:
NordForsk, http://www.nordforsk.org
NordWel, The Nordic Welfare State – Historical Foundations and Future Challenges, http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/
REASSESS, Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model, http://www.reassess.no
Heidi Haggrén, M.Soc.Sc.
Coordinator
NCoE NordWel
Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State - Historical Foundations and Future Challenges
Department of Political and Economic Studies Section of Social Science History P.O. Box 54 (Snellmaninkatu 14A)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Labor]