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See here for a new book on family policy and marriage (in Swedish) by NordWel researchers, Det politiska äktenskapet

“Äktenskapet, »instiftat till samhällets bestånd« som det heter i vigselformuläret, är en institution under kontinuerlig förändring. Vägen är lång från 1600-talets bondehushåll, arbetsenheter med tydlig arbetsfördelning, till dagens regnbågsfamiljer och jämställdhetsdiskurser. Men det är inte ens hundra år sedan gifta kvinnor myndighetsförklarades i de nordiska länderna. Fördömandet av utomäktenskaplig sexualitet och accepterandet av inomäktenskaplig kvinnomisshandel har också levt kvar in i vår tid. I denna antologi gör historiker, genusvetare, socialantropologer och religionsvetare från Sverige, Danmark och Norge nedslag i 400 års familje- och reproduktionshistoria.”

Welcome to Reykjavik in June 2011!

NordWel together with NCoE REASSESS and Edda – Center of Excellence organise an interdisciplinary conference Crisis and Renewal: Welfare States, Democracy and Equality in hard Times. See the Call for Papers.

Welcome to Sigtuna in August 2011!

The NordWel Summer School will take place in Sigtuna, Sweden, the 21 – 26 August 2011. See the call for papers and don’t miss the Febryary 15th deadline!

The NordWel visiting fellowships application round is now over. We received more than 20 applications from all over the world. The Management of NordWel will consider the applications and those selected will be personally informed during December.

The NordWel mobility fellowship call for application is now open. See CfA here

NordWel Summer School 2010:

“A sense of excitement in the air”

NordWel and Re-Assess joint summer school brought together two generations of welfare state researchers in Svendborg, Denmark.

The aim of the summer school was to stimulate critical discussions across disciplines and between established scholars and the coming generation welfare state researchers. Over the six very intense days more than 40 PhD-students from Europe and the US as well as more than 20 senior scholars were engaged in discussions of papers and lectures.

The high standard of the papers, of the key note lectures and the very open and critical discussions both within and between the formal sessions were considered by the organizers as signs of a very successful summer school. As stated by one the participants in her feedback to the organizers: “There was a sense of excitement in the air, and that is always a very good thing.”

The summer school attracted international attention. The 40 participants were selected among more than 100 applicants from all over the world and the list of teachers and lecturers includes a distinguished group of leading scholars including

• Bernhard Ebbinghaus (University of Mannheim)
• Bruno Palier (Sciences Po, Paris)
• Christoph Conrad (University of Geneva)
• Gerhard A. Ritter (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
• Gøsta Esping-Andersen (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
• Julia Lynch (University of Pennsylvania)
• Joakim Palme (Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm and Uppsala University)
• Marta Szebehely (Stockholm University)
• Noel Whiteside (University of Warwick)
• Olli Kangas (Kela, Helsinki)
• Philip Manow (University of Heidelberg)
• Bjørn Hvinden (Nova, Oslo)
• Pauli Kettunen (University of Helsinki)
• Pirjo Markkola (Jyväskylä University)
• Cathie Jo Martin (Boston University)
• Christine Trampusch (Universität Bern)
• Kees van Kersbergen (VU Amsterdam/Århus University)
• Niels Ploug (Statistics Denmark and Danish National Centre for Social Research)
• Viggo Nordvik (NOVA, Oslo)
• Niels Finn Christiansen (honorary Professor at Centre for Welfare State Research) as well as
• Patrick Emmenegger, Klaus Petersen and Jon Kvist (all University of Southern Denmark, Odense).

The Summer School was organized by NCoE NordWel in collaboration with the NCoE REASSESS and the Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark, in August 2010.

Sven Steinmo: The Evolution of Modern States (Cambridge University Press, NY 2010)

The Evolution of Modern States is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism, and social science methodology. 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.

See The Evolution of Modern States Flyer

Åsa Lundqvist & Klaus Petersen (eds.), In Experts we Trust. Knowledge, Politics and Bureaucracy in Nordic Welfare States, University Press of Southern Denmark 2010

http://www.universitypress.dk/shop/in-experts-we-2841p.html

What is the relationship between science and politics in the Nordic welfare states? What role has experts played in the development of the Nordic model and who were the experts? Based on in-depth analysis of the historical of the welfare states in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the 20th Century, this volume offers a multifaceted analysis of the interplay between science, experts, politicians and institutions in policy areas such as public health, unemployment insurance, child psychiatry, alcohol research, and social insurance. The book brings together empirically grounded studies of the interplay between science and politics, the theoretical perspectives adopted in different political contexts, and the relationship between the internal dynamics of disciplines and research environments.

The volume is the result of seminars and discussions within the NordWel theme group 3 on “Epistemic Communities: Knowledge and Social Interests in the Making of the Nordic Welfare State”.

Contributors: Lars Schädler Andersen, Annika Berg, Ning de Coninck-Smith, Sara Edenheim, Nils Edling, Svanaug Fjær, Kari Ludvigsen, Carl Marklund, Ann-Catrin Östman.

Call for Papers

Research Training Seminar: Towards a New Political History

Organisers:

Institute of History and Civilization, University of Southern Denmark
Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark
Danish Research School in History
Nordic Centre of Excellence: Nordwel

Date: 23-24 September 2010
Place: University of Southern Denmark, Odense

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