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
