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“All Well in the Welfare State? Mental wellbeing and the politics of happiness”

Helsinki, 24–25 October 2011 (Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki)

The aim of the workshop is to bring historians, social scientists and  health
professionals and together to discuss the various economical  and non-economical factors
connected to “(mental) wellbeing”, “life quality”, “happiness”, “stress”,
“self-actualization”, “self-help”,  “therapeutic society” and related issues. Our aim is
to discuss, what  is new about the recent articulation of wellbeing and happiness, if
anything at all, and why does it emerge now?

They keynote speeches will be given by Professor Jonathan Bradshaw  (Department of Social
Policy and Social Work, University of York), Dr.  Katarina Piuva Department of Social
Work, University of Stockholm) and  Professor Pekka Sulkunen (Department of Social
studies  [Sociology],  University of Helsinki; Senior Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium
for  Advanced Studies).

If you are interested in presenting a paper in the workshop, please  send an abstract to
Carl Marklund (carl.marklund(at)helsinki.fi), no  later than 1st August, 2011.

NordWel visiting professor Daniel Béland will give a talk on “National Limits of Social Solidarity” on Friday May 27 at 10.15. The venue is Tieteiden talo (Kirkkokatu 6), room 104. Professor Béland’s lecture will be commented by professor Helena Blomberg-Kroll (Swedish School of Social Sciences) and professor Pauli Kettunen (Social Science History).

After the lecture, NordWel is happy to invite you to a lunch buffet at the venue. Please register by May 23 at jussi.vauhkonen(at)helsinki.fi.

 

Welcome to NordWel Symposium Intevention and Deprivation – Long-Run Perspectives on Policy and Poverty. Symposium will take place at the University of Helsinki 8 – 9 June 2011. Please see the programme: Intervention and Deprivation

INCLUSIONS AND EXCLUSIONS – CROSSING BORDERS OF THE WELFARE STATE
Wednesday 11 May 2011, Swedish School of Social Science, Helsinki

The Nordic Ph.D.-student Network for Research on Immigration, Integration & Welfare
(WelMi) invites you to join four public lectures by established international scholars on
the relationship between welfare states and immigration at the Swedish School of Social
Science (Snellmansgatan 12, Helsingfors) Lecture hall, 11 May 2011, 1–6 pm. The event is
organized in cooperation with the NCoE NordWel and the Swedish School of Social Science.

13.00 WELCOMING WORDS
Prof. Pauli Kettunen, University of Helsinki

13.15 IMMIGRATION POLICY: CONTRADICTIONS, CONTINUITY AND EXCLUSION
Prof. Rosemary Sales, Middlesex University
Commentary by Adjunct Prof. Pasi Saukkonen, University of Helsinki

14.15 WHEN RIGHTS DISAPPEAR: EU MIGRATION POLICY IN A POST-SOCIAL EUROPE
Associate Prof. Peo Hansen, Linköping University
Commentary by Prof. Sirpa Wrede, University of Helsinki

15.15-15.45 Coffee break

15.45 GENDER EQUALITY AND THE NORDIC WELFARE STATES: ACTORS, DYNAMICS AND INSTITUTIONS
Prof. Anette Borchorst, Aalborg University
Commentary by Adjunct Prof. Suvi Keskinen, University of Turku

16.45 ETHNIC ORGANISATION AND POLITICAL INTEGRATION
Prof. Bo Bengtsson, Uppsala University
Commentary by Adjunct Prof. Aino Saarinen, University of Helsinki

17.45 CLOSING OF THE EVENT
Prof. Pauli Kettunen, University of Helsinki
For additional information, please contact WelMi coordinator Saara Pellander,
saara.pellander@helsinki.fi

PLEASE NOTE: The programme is open to all and does not require registration. However, we
ask that you please inform WelMi coordinator Saara Pellander by Friday 6.5. if you plan
to be present at the coffee break, so that the appropriate amount of refreshments can be
reserved.

KEY NOTE SPEAKERS:
Rosemary Sales
is Professor Emiritus of Social Policy at Middlesex University. She has written and
researched widely on migration processes and policy in Britain and Europe. Her recent
research projects have focused on new migration to London, including Chinese and Polish
migration, and on migration, schooling and diversity. Her most recent book Understanding
Migration and Refugee Policy was published by Policy Press in 2007.

Peo Hansen
is a political scientist and Associate Professor at the Institute for Research on
Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University. His main research
interest lies in the contemporary as well as historical development of European
integration. His publications include Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare
State, co-authored with Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Stephen Castles (Oxford University Press,
2006); The Politics of European Citizenship: Deepening Contradictions in Social Rights
and Migration Policy, co-authored with Sandy B. Hager (Berghahn Books, 2010); and
Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism, co-authored with
Stefan Jonsson (Bloomsbury Academic. Forthcoming 2012).

Anette Borchorst
is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her
primary research interests are related to the intersection between gender, ethnicity and
class in public policies. Among her recent publications are Borchorst, Anette & Mari
Teigen (2010) ”Political Intersectionality: Tackling Inequalities in Public Policies in
Scandinavia”, Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2–3, and Borchorst, Anette & Birte Siim (2008)
”Woman-friendly Policies and State Feminism: Theorizing Scandinavian Gender Equality”,
Feminist Theory 9(2).

Bo Bengtsson
is Professor of Political Science, esp. housing and urban policy, at Uppsala University,
Sweden. He has published extensively in the field of housing policy and politics, in
recent years also on integration politics and ethnic organization. Theoretically, his
main interests are historical institutionalism, political opportunity structures,
corporatism and perspectives of thin rationality. He has been keynote speaker and
workshop organizer at a number of international conferences, and is a member of the
editorial board of Housing, Theory and Society. He has been the editor of five books,
most recently Diversity, Integration and Citizenship in Scandinavia (with Per Strömblad
and Ann-Helén Bay).

The University of Southern Denmark will host a 2-day workshop in Odense on September 14 – 16, 2011, titled Post-Crisis Post-Lisbon Economic and Social Policy: A New Era?

Call for Papers is downloadable here: Post-Crisis Post-Lisbon Economic and Social Policy

Johannes Kananen, MSocSc, will defend his doctoral thesis on the 1 March. Mr Kananen studies the 1980s and 1990s transformation in the ideas about the welfare state. His thesis is titled Modern Societal Impulses and their Nordic Manifestations. On emancipation and constraint in societal development. Flyer: Modern Societal Impulses and their Nordic Manifestations

More information (in Finnish) on the Faculty of Social Sciences website

Professor Sven Steinmo gives a talk on his latest book The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan and the United States (Cambridge University Press) on the 24th of February 2011 at 14.00 in the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockolm

The Evolution of Modern States is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism, and social science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: Why do rich capitalist democracies respond so differently to the common pressures they face in the early 21st century? Drawing on insights from evolutionary theory, Steinmo challenges the common equilibrium view of politics and economics and argues that modern political economies are best understood as complex adaptive systems.  The book examines the political, social and economic history of three different nations–Sweden, Japan and the U.S.‹and explains how and why these countries have evolved along such different trajectories over the past century.  Bringing together social and economic history, institutionalism, and evolutionary theory, Steinmo thus provides a comprehensive explanation for differing responses to globalization as well as a new way of analyzing institutional and social change.

Sven Steinmo holds the Chair in Public Policy and Political Economy at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is also a NordWel Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm, Sweden.  He is currently on leave as a professor of political science at the University of Colorado.

The 2nd seminar discussing recent trends in political history convenes in Odense in May 2011. See Call for Papers

Åsa Lundqvist (Lund University): Family policy paradoxes. Gender equality and labour market regulation in Sweden 1930 – 2010. Policy Press 2011.

Family policy paradoxes examines the political regulation of the family in Sweden between 1930 and today. It draws attention to the political attempts to create a ‘modern family’ and the aspiration to regulate the family and establish gender equality, thereby shedding light on ongoing policy processes within Europe and how these can be understood in the light of a particular political experience.

Leaflet: Family policy paradoxes

RECWOWE Doctoral workshop:

Adapting European welfare states to the emergence of new social risks

Swiss graduate school of public administration (IDHEAP), Lausanne, Switzerland

Thursday and Friday 12-13 May 2011

Topic of the workshop:

The socio-economic context in which welfare states operate has undergone substantial changes over the last few decades. These include, most significantly, the decline of industrial employment and the expansion of the service sector; the massive entry of women into labour markets, and migrations. These developments have resulted in a major shift in social risk in comparison to the postwar years. While traditional welfare states provided a replacement income to those who were temporarily or permanently unable to work, today new social risks have emerged. These include the fact of being a working poor, being long term unemployed, possessing insufficient human capital, reconciling work and family life.

The objective of this workshop is to discuss these new social risks and the policy responses that are being developed to deal with them. We invite contributions by PhD students working on any aspect of the process of welfare state adaptation to the emergence of new social risks. The workshop is interdisciplinary, and we are particularly interested in studies of how social risks are evolving and what their impact on people’s welfare is (from sociology, economics, and social policy) and studies of how countries are responding to emerging new social risks (from political science, social policy).

The main aim of the workshop is to allow extensive discussions of on-going PhD projects. Doctoral candidates are invited to present their project or a related paper which will be discussed by the senior scholars. The workshop will include both presentation by senior scholar and discussions of PhD projects.

Senior scholars:

The following experts will make comments on papers and give lectures:

• Giuliano Bonoli, Professor of Social Policy, IDHEAP
• Patrick Emmeneger, Associate Professor, Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark
• Yuri Kazepov, Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Urban Sociology, University of Urbino
• Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Professor of Sociology, University of Hamburg
• Daniel Oesch, Assistant Professor, University of Lausanne
• John Stephens, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Centre for European Studies, University of North Carolina (USA)

Application:

Interested students are requested to send in an abstract (max. 750 words) of the project or the paper they plan to present. The abstract should give information on research question, theory, methodology, and (expected) findings. The number of participants will be limited to 20.

Application deadline is 15th March 2011. Please send your application to aurelien.abrassart@idheap.unil.ch. Applicants will be notified about acceptance by 31st March 2011.

Costs: accommodation (two nights), lunches and one workshop dinner are provided free of charge. Participants must pay for their own travel additional meals. There is no registration fee.

Organisers:

Aurélien Abrassart, Giuliano Bonoli, Cyrielle Champion
If you have further questions, please contact aurelien.abrassart@idheap.unil.ch.

A pdf version of this call can be downloaded at http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/recwowetac/doctoral_workshops/lausanne_2011