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Welfare State Transformation Since 1970: Comparative International Perspectives

Symposium Agenda

Friday, April 24, 2009

Welcoming Remarks

10:00 a.m.

Jeanne C. Marsh
Dean and George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration


Welfare Governing, Community and the State

10:15 a.m.-Noon

Chaired by Robert Fairbanks II & Fabian Kessl

Theoretical Positions
Margit Mayer (Berlin/GER)
Catherine McDonald (Melbourne/AUS)


lunch

Noon - 1:30 p.m.


Actors and State-Space(s)

1:30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.

Chaired by John Krinsky

Gregory Marston (Queensland/AUS)
Volker Eick (Berlin/GER)


break

3:00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.


Welfare (Re)Regulation, Security and Welfare States

3:30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.

Chaired by Bob Jessop

Theoretical Positions
Jamie Peck & Nik Theodore (Vancouver/CAN & Chicago/USA)
Ngai-Ling Sum (Lancaster/UK)

Empirical Problematization
Ellen Bareis (Frankfurt a.M./GER)


Keynote Address

6:00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.

Aihwa Ong (Berkeley/USA)


Saturday, April 25, 2009

Post-Neoliberalism, Theory and Politics

10:00 a.m. - Noon

Chaired by William Sites

Bob Jessop (Lancaster/UK)
Barbara Cruikshank (Massachusetts/USA)  

Empirical Problematization
Robert Fairbanks II (Chicago/USA)


lunch

Noon - 1.30 p.m.


Governing Social Policy and Social Services

1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Chaired by Philipp Sandermann

Theoretical Positions
Adrienne Chambon (Toronto/CAN)
Fabian Kessl (Duisburg-Essen/GER)

Empirical Problematization
John Clarke (Milton Keynes/UK)


Transforming Welfare States – Roundtable Discussion

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Chaired by Robert Fairbanks II & Fabian Kessl

John Clarke (Milton Keynes/UK)
Barbara Cruikshank (Massachusetts/USA)  
Bob Jessop (Lancaster/UK)
Aihwa Ong (Berkeley/USA)
Jamie Peck & Nik Theodore (Vancouver/CAN & Chicago/USA)
Margit Mayer (Berlin/GER

Robert Fairbanks, II

Robert Fairbanks, II