Category: Conferences
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Call for Papers: ESPAnet Germany PhD Workshop 2025, Bremen
Diversity within and between life courses: Potentials and challenges for social policy Social policy and its institutional consolidation in welfare states are intended to deal with social problems. Research shows that welfare states have a standardising effect on life courses through the definition of social problems by rewarding, enabling or sanctioning certain behaviours and by categorizing groups…
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Nordic ESPAnet-ReNEW workshop for doctoral students & early career researchers
Life transitions in Nordic Welfare States: Youth, Work, Family, and Retirement 7–8 November 2024, University of Bergen, Bergen Norway This workshop focuses on life course transitions within the Nordic welfare states, and how welfare states frame and interact with important life-course transitions. Key topics include: In addition, we aim to discuss the role of welfare…
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Virtual ESPAnet Workshop 2024 – Comparative and European Welfare State Research
Dear all, We are delighted to announce the full programme for the 2024 edition of the Virtual ESPAnet Workshop. We received a significant number of high-quality paper proposals, and we tried to put together a varied and balanced programme with regard to topics and gender. We are excited to have such an excellent line-up of presenters and discussants. We are launching this year’s workshop with a…
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CALL FOR PAPER ABSTRACTS for the 22nd ESPAnet Annual Conference
(28-30 August 2024, Tampere, Finland) Deadline: 25th of April 2024 23:59 EEST (UTC+3) Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that the call for paper abstracts for the 22nd ESPAnet Annual Conference is now open! The full list of streams is available at our website https://espanet-tampere2024.org. The deadline for submission of paper abstracts is 25th of April 2024 (EEST). We are…
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ESPAnet2024: CALL FOR CONVENERS/STREAMS
The Organising Committee of the 22nd ESPAnet Annual Conference that will take place in Tampere, Finland, 28-30 August 2024, is happy to announce the opening of the call stream proposals! The deadline for submitting streams is 1st December 2023. Go to our website http://espanet-tampere2024.org to learn about the conference, its theme, timeline and about conference organizers. You will find our call for streams…
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ESPAnet – ERC CAPABLE workshop for doctoral students & early career researchers
16 – 17 November 2023, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands Gender inequalities in work and care are some of the most persistent social inequalities of the 21st century. These inequalities are often not easily alleviated by social policy, with policies sometimes leading to new inequalities or the exacerbation of existing ones. This workshop focuses on…
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Workshop: Adequate social policy responses for transformational challenges in the Nordic countries and beyond?
Nordic ESPAnet-ReNEW workshop for doctoral students & early career researchers 7 – 8 December 2023, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen This workshop focuses on the extent to which social policies respond adequately to various exogenous and endogenous challenges in the Nordic countries. These challenges include digitalisation, climate change, demographic ageing, and labour shortages. All have the…
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EspaNet France workshop on Gender and the Welfare State (30-31 March)
In connection with the European network EspaNet, the RT 6 of the French Sociology Association organizes a scientific meeting open to all researchers specializing in the analysis of social protection, social policies and solidarity. This year’s symposium is devoted to gender in social policies. The workshop is held online, on Thursday 30 March and Friday…
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ESPAnet Spain Conference – REPS IX Congreso de la Red Española de Política Social
The University of the Balearic Islands through the Social Observatory of the Balearic Islands (OSIB) and the Research Group Inequalities, Gender and Public Policies (DGiPP) organizes the IX Congress of the Spanish Network of Social Policy (REPS), which also becomes an opportunity to celebrate the first decade of its existence. It is an invitation to…
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CALL for Sessions! 16th ESPAnet Italy Conference, University of Milan 13-15 September 2023 “Welfare systems in transition: between equity and sustainability”
The 16th ESPAnet Italy Conference 2023 will be hosted by the University of Milan – Department of Social and Political Sciences September 13-15 2023 The Conference includes parallel thematic sessions, round-tables and plenaries as well. Guest speakers: Maurizio Ferrera, Elena Granaglia, Ana Guillen, Anton Hemerijck, Manos Matsaganis, Bruno Palier, Chiara Saraceno, Waltraud Schelkle. Ready to…