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The Historian in Society

Seminar on the new book by Jorma Kalela, Making History: The Historian and Uses of the Past (Palgrave Macmillan 2012).

Time:  6.2.2012, 10-12
Place: House of Sciences and Letters (‘Tieteiden talo’), Kirkkokatu 6, Seminar room 404

Everyone has a personal connection to the past, independent of historical inquiry. So, what is the role of the historian? Making History argues that historians have damagingly dissociated the discipline of history from the everyday nature of history, defining their work only in scholarly terms. Exploring the relationship between history and society, Kalela makes the case for a more participatory historical research culture, in which historians take account of their role in society and the ways in which history-making as a basic social practice is present in their work.

 Programme

 9.30          Coffee

10.00        Presentation of Making History: The Historian and Uses of the Past, professor (emeritus) JORMA KALELA (University of Turku)

Discussants

Professor CHRISTOPHER LLOYD (University of New England, Australia)
Professor TIINA KINNUNEN (University of Jyväskylä)
Professor NOEL WHITESIDE (University of Warwick, UK)

Chair Professor PAULI KETTUNEN (University of Helsinki)

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The workshop is open for public. However, for coffee please register to Heidi Haggrén, heidi.haggren[at]helsinki.fi, by Thursday 2nd February.

Organiser: The Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State – Historical Foundations and Future Challenges, NordWel.

 

Towards a social investment welfare state? Ideas, policies and challenges.

Edited by Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier, Joakim Palme

Bristol: Policy Press

This book questions whether the recently promoted European ‘social investment’ strategy is able to regenerate the welfare state, promote social inclusion, create more and better jobs, and help address the challenges posed by the economic crisis, globalisation, ageing and climate change. To assess the diversity, achievements, shortcomings and potentials of social investment policies, it brings together amongst the best social policy scholars and well-known policy experts, connecting academic and policy debates around the future of the welfare state.Supported by the Nordic Center of Excellence NordWel and the EU funded Network of Excellence RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare).

 

 

The NordWel mobility fellowship application round is over. The Management of NordWel will consider the applications and those selected will be personally informed during December.

TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES OF VOLUNTARY ACTION

The Voluntary Action History Society is a UK-based group of historians, contemporary researchers and voluntary sector practitioners that promotes research and discussion on the history of charity, campaigning and civic association. We are seeking to build on our strong links with researchers in other countries by establishing a new global network of historians resarching these themes from a transnational perspective. We are particularly keen to collaborate on funding bids for research and/or events.

To find out more information please visit: http://www.vahs.org.uk/about/transnational-network/

If you are interested in this new network, please contact us by 19 November 2011. We would like to hear about your chronological, geographical and thematic areas of interest. At this time, unfortunately, we are only able to receive expressions of interest in English.

Call for expressions of interest

Dr George Campbell Gosling
gcgosling@brookes.ac.uk

Historian of medicine and charity in modern Britain
http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/research/student/gosling

Blog Editor, Voluntary Action History Society
http://www.vahs.org.uk/blog

Workshop: Towards a Social Investment Welfare State?

The Institute for Futures Studies and the Nordic Centre of Excellence,  NordWel,  invites you to an open seminar on the topic of the new book  Towards a Social Investment Welfare State? Ideas, Achievements and  Challenges, edited by Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier and Joakim Palme.  During the course of the workshop, the editors Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier and Joakim Palme will, together with authors of chapters in the  volume, talk about the core issues of the book. The results of the  studies will also be discussed by a panel of invited experts.

Time: 9.00-12.00 November 18, 2011, Coffee served from 8.30
Place: Westmanska palatset, Holländargatan 17, Stockholm

Presentations by: Kerstin Jacobsson, Thomas Lindh, Nathalie Morel,  Bruno Palier, and Joakim Palme, as well as a panel of experts. Katinka  Hort is the moderator.

The seminar is free of charge but you have to register your attendance  in advance. Please sign up by writing your name and affiliation in an  e-mail to fokus@framtidsstudier.se<mailto:fokus@framtidsstudier.se> The number of admissions is restricted.

Program

08.30-09.00  COFFEE AND SANDWICHES

09.00-09.10  Welcome by Urban Lundberg, Swedish NordWel representative and Joakim Palme,  Institute for Futures Studies

09.10-09.30  The Social Investment Perspective.  Origins and Ideas by Nathalie Morel, Sciences-Po, Paris

09.30-09.50  Policy Instruments and Achievements by Bruno Palier, NordWel and  Sciences-Po, Paris

09.50-10.10   Is Activation ‘Social investment’? by Kerstin Jacobsson,  Södertörn University College

10.10-10.30   Social Investment and Ageing Populations by Thomas Lindh, Institute for Futures Studies

10.30-10.45   Towards a Social Investment Welfare State? by Joakim Palme, Institute  for Futures Studies

10.45-11.00    COFFEE and REFRESHMENTS

11.00-12.00    Panel and general discussion: Invited experts

Moderator:  Katinka Hort

Workshop programme (pdf)

Book flyer (pdf)

NordWel Studies in Historical Welfare State Research, Vol. 2:

Suszycki, Andrzej Marcin (ed.) Welfare Citizenship and welfare nationalism. Nordic Centre of Excellence NordWel: Helsinki 2011.

Despite a considerable proliferation of research on citizenship, the term welfare citizenship has remained unclear in conceptual and theoretical terms. Scholars have also rarely scrutinized the relationship between nationalism and the system of welfare provisions. This volume offers contributions from scholars in the field of welfare state studies, comparative politics, political theory as well as history focusing on welfare citizenship and welfare nationalism. The volume deals first with conceptual and theoretical aspects as well as the ethical assessment of the terms welfare citizenship and welfare nationalism. Second, it examines the nature of welfare citizenship and welfare nationalism in a comparative perspective in the context of multi-ethnical or multilingual statehood, and against the background of increasing immigration flows. Third, it includes in-depth single country case studies on Norway, Denmark and Ireland.

Contributors: Andrzej Marcin Suszycki – Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski – Pauli Kettunen – Daniel Béland – André Lecours – Patrick Emmenegger – Romana Careja – Grete Brochmann – Heidi Vad Jønsson – Bryan Fanning

Order now in NordWel Bookstore

The call for applications for mobility fellowship in 2012 has been revised (updates in the list of participating institutions).

Please check the updated call for applications on the NordWel website:
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/mobility/mobility-fellowships/

Welfare Citizenship and Welfare Nationalism

University of Helsinki, Friday 28 October 2011, 9.30 – 16

Venue: The Forest House (Metsätalo), Unioninkatu 40, room 10

An open seminar and book launch of the new book “Welfare Citizenship and Welfare Nationalism” edited by Andrzej Marcin Suszycki and published in the series NordWel Studies in Historical Welfare State Research. The book offers contributions of scholars in the field of welfare state studies, comparative politics and political theory that focus on the relationship between nationalism and citizenship in the context of the modern welfare states. The
workshop will, first, discuss the conceptualisation of the terms welfare citizenship and welfare nationalism. Second, it will examine both in inter-country comparisons and in-depth single country cases how welfare citizenship and welfare nationalism change their meaning and functions in view of the processes of globalisation, European integration and immigration as well as in the context of multi-ethnical statehood.

PROGRAMME

9.30

Lecturer ANDRZEJ MARCIN SUSZYCKI (University of Potsdam and University of Passau): Welfare Nationalism. Conceptual and theoretical considerations

Professor IRENEUSZ PAWEL KAROLEWSKI (Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies, University of Wroclaw): Welfare Citizenship

10.45 Coffee break

11.00

Professor PAULI KETTUNEN (Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki): Welfare Nationalism and Competitive Community

11.45 Lunch break

13.30

Professor GRETE BROCHMANN (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo): Citizenship and welfare in the Norwegian Nation State. The immigration challenge.

Postdoctoral researcher ROMANA CAREJA (Institute for Sociology, the University of Cologne): The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Social policy, migration politics and welfare state nationalism

15.15 Final Discussion

16.00 End of the seminar

The workshop is open for public. However, for coffee please register to Heidi Haggrén, heidi.haggren[at]helsinki.fi, by Wednesday 26 October.

Organizer: The Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State – Historical Foundations and Future Challenges, NordWel. NordWel is a multidisciplinary, cross-national research network of eight partner units in the Nordic universities, financed by NordForsk and hosted by the Department of Political and Economic Studies, Section of Social Science History at the University of Helsinki. Our mission is to deepen our understanding of the
development of the Nordic welfare state in order to foster the research-based discussion on Nordic societies and their future. Www: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/

PROGRAMME (Pdf)

“(Multi)culturalist turns – debates and practices in Scandinavia”

15.15-16.30
Mette Buchardt, Univ. of Jyväskylä/Univ. of Copenhagen:
“The emergence of  ‘the Muslim pupil’. Danish state schooling and ‘the migrants’ since the 1970s”

16.45-18.00
Mats Wickström, Åbo Akademi University:
“Ethnic activism and the multiculturalist turn: the different paths of Sweden and Denmark in a comparative perspective”.

Organisers: Mats Wickström and Ann-Catrin Östman, The NCoE The Nordic
Welfare State – Historical Foundations and Future Challenges (NordWel)
and Nordic History, Åbo Akademi University.

The workshop is open to all interested; please contact aostman@abo.fi
(workshop texts are sent in beforehand)

Venue: The Swedish School of Social Science, Snellmaninkatu 12, room 234

The seminar aims at highlighting various challenges of welfare service delivery in the contemporary welfare state(s). Professor Anna Yeatman is the Foundation Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney. An interdisciplinary political theorist she engages in both theoretical and applied-theoretical research. Her current research interests concern individualization and politics, service delivery and effective citizenship, government capacity and citizenship as well as Hannah Arendt’s political thought. Postdoctoral research fellow Lena Näre, University of Helsinki, is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), University of Sussex. Her research interests include the moral economy of the private employment of migrant workers for care and domestic work in southern Europe.

PROGRAMME

15.00 Opening words by professor HELENA BLOMBERG-KROLL
15.15  Professor ANNA YEATMAN (University of Western Sydney, Australia): “Freedom, Welfare and the Claims of the Self”
16.00 Comment by professor emeritus JORMA SIPILÄ (University of Tampere)
16.30 Coffee
16.45 Postdoctoral Researcher LENA NÄRE (University of Helsinki): “Familism and Migrant divisions of labour in the Italian welfare regime”
17.30 Comment by M. Soc.Sc. SAARA PELLANDER (University of Helsinki)

Organisers: Academy of Finland project “The Shaping of Occupational Subjectivities of Migrant Care Workers: a Multi-Sited Analysis of Glocalising Elderly Care” and the Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State – Historical Foundations and Future Challenges, NordWel. The seminar is part of the activities of NordWel’s theme group four “The Value Systems and Legitimacy in the Nordic Welfare State Model”.

Programme (Pdf)