Author: Heidi Haggrén

Afternoon seminar:

Migration, Institutions and Welfare States – Negotiating Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion

University of Southern Denmark, 27 October 2011, Room U141

Programme
14.45 Coffee
15.00 Opening of the seminar
15.05 Magnus Dahlsted (REMESO, Linköping University): “Governing Citizenship, Governing Multi-Ethnic Sweden”
16.00 Regine Paul (University of Bath): “Linchpin or Poor Cousin? On the Variable Role of the Bismarckian Welfare State in German and French Labour Migration Governance”
16.55 Closing of the seminar
17.00 Seminar ends

All are welcome. No registration needed.
For further information please contact Jakob Sinding Skött: jpa@sam.sdu.dk

Programme (Pdf)

The application period for NordWel’s mobility fellowships for 2012 is now open. Fellowships are open for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. The deadline for applications is 28 October 2011.

For more information see:

Call for Applications: PhD student fellowship (Pdf)

Call for Applications: postdoctoral researcher fellowship (Pdf)

University of Jyväskylä, 18 October 2011
Venue: Seminaarinkatu 15, Building Seminarium (S), Classroom S304

PROGRAMME

12.15 Introduction, Professor Pirjo Markkola (University of Jyväskylä)

12.30 Mette Buchardt (University of Jyväskylä / University of Copenhagen), Labour education and Lutheranism in Danish State Schooling 1900s–1937

13.15 Ólöf Gardarsdottir (University of Iceland), Teaching and going to school at the wake of compulsory schooling in Iceland in the beginning of the 20th  century

Coffee break

14.30 Heli Valtonen (University of Jyväskylä), Academic Professionals – Teacher Training in Jyväskylä

15.15 Mervi Kaarninen (University of Tampere), Education to the citizenship – The School of Social Sciences and the modern citizen

16.00 The end

The workshop is organized by the theme group Religion, Lutheranism and the Nordic Welfare State Model that is part of the Nordic Centre of Excellence NordWel (The Nordic Welfare State: Historical Foundations and Future Challenges, https://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/).

The workshop is open to all interested.

For further information, pirjo.markkola@jyu.fi or heli.valtonen@jyu.fi

Leader: Einar Overbye, NOVA, Norge
Venue: Aalborg University, Fibigerstræde 1, room 37
Time: 14 October
Organiser: Christian Albrekt Larsen, AAU, albrekt@dps.aau.dk

In this Ph.D. seminar, the theoretical foundation of welfare state research will be presented and discussed. The idea is take a “step back” and look at some of the main theoretical questions that are at the core of welfare state research. Why do we care for each other? Why do we create a state-solutions instead of market-solutions to cover risks? How do sociologists, economists, political scientists, social administrators etc. study the welfare state?

The aim of the seminar is to help Ph.D. students within welfare state research to understand the background and context for their specific projects. Establishing a link to “the big questions” often increases the quality of the project, research motivation and outsiders interest in the project.

Registration and abstract (for participating with paper): Not later than 28 September

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NCoE NordWel and the Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark, are organizing an international conference in Odense, 14-16 June 2012.

We invite scholars from different backgrounds both within and outside the Nordic countries to participate in discussing the development of the welfare state, its preconditions, present status and how we ought to study it.

Key note speakers include: Sigrun Kahl (Yale University), Ann Orloff (Northwestern University), Matthieu Leimgruber (University of Geneva) and Jørn Henrik Petersen (University of Southern Denmark).

Abstract dead-line 15 January 2012

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The Welfare State and Beyond: New research on religion, co-operation and the welfare state

University of Jyväskylä, 30 August 2011
Venue: Seminaarinkatu 15, Historica H 306

PROGRAMME

9.00 Introduction, Professor Pirjo Markkola (University of Jyväskylä)

9.15 Co-operatives and the welfare state: reflections on current political debates in the

UK, Senior Lecturer Mary Hilson (University College London)

10.00 Lutheranism and Islam as ‘culture’ in the Danish state schooling, Visiting Research

Fellow Mette Buchardt (University of Jyväskylä / University of Copenhagen)

The workshop is organized by the theme group Religion, Lutheranism and the Nordic Welfare State Model that is part of the Nordic Centre of Excellence NordWel (The Nordic Welfare State: Historical Foundations and Future Challenges, https://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/).

The workshop is open to all interested.

For further information, pirjo.markkola@jyu.fi<mailto:pirjo.markkola@jyu.fi>

NordWel Workshop in Turku 28.6.2011
Åbo Akademi University
Arken, Tehtaankatu 2, Turku

This workshop will highlight the history of social policy in Hungary, Finland and Scandinavia. The seminar discusses how notions of class, ethnic difference and gender have shaped ideas about social reform, social inclusion and exclusion. One aim is to establish a link between two somewhat different fields of historical inquiry: agricultural history and the history of social policy. The construction of masculinity via welfare programs will also be investigated.

Programme

Organisers: The NCoE The Nordic Welfare State – Historical Foundations and Future Challenges (NordWel) and The Academy of Finland’s Research project “Male citizenship and societal reforms in Finland, 1918-1960”, History, Åbo Akademi University

For further information, please email aostman@abo.fi.

Workshop: Religion and the Nordic Welfare State

Date and time: 6 September 2010, 13.00-16.45
Venue: University of Jyväskylä, Seminaarinkatu 15, Historica H105

PROGRAMME

The workshop is organized by the theme group Religion, Lutheranism and the NordicWelfare State Model

For more information, please contact pirjo.markkola@jyu.fi

The workshop is open to all interested.

The EU and futures of the Welfare States?

Date and time: Monday 21 June 2010, 10:00-16:00
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 (4th floor), Stockholm

This seminar brings together researchers for an open discussion on the EU and futures of the welfare and is organised by Bruno Palier and Joakim Palme with support from The Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic welfare state – historical foundations and future challenges (NordWel). Network participants are most welcome to attend this event. Places are limited.

Deadline for registration: Thursday June 17th, 2010
Contact: Jakob Larsson: jakob.larsson@framtidsstudier.se

Organisers:
Joakim Palme: joakim.palme@framtidsstudier.se
Bruno Palier: bruno.palier@sciences-po.fr

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Johan Strang defended his doctoral dissertation in Philosophy titled  “History, Transfer, Politics – Five studies on the legacy of Uppsala philosophy” in a public examination at the University of Helsinki on 29 May 2010. Opponent was Professor Friedrich Stadler, University of Vienna, and custos Professor Jan von Plato.

The dissertation is published inb the series Philosophical Studies from the University of Helsinki. The dissertation is available in electronic form in E-thesis.