Full schedule with paper titles (updated 20 August).  

Downloadable summary version of the programme.

 

THURSDAY 23 AUGUST

8:00-9:00 Registration

9.00-9:30 Welcome – Opening by the Norwegian Minister for Labour and Social Affairs Ms Hanne Bjurstrøm

9:30-10:20 Keynote talk – Professor Fiona Williams Migrant care workers: a window on to the global care crisis

10:20-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-12:45 Parallel sessions A

1) Health politics and policies

2) Retirement income systems: Challenges for the 21st century

3) Care I: Domestic workersMentoring session I

12:45-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:45 Parallel sessions B

1) Changing norms and principles in social policy: A comparative outlook

2) Welfare state evolution: Identifying the political drivers

3) Poverty I: ConsequencesGendered perspectives on welfare state challenges 

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16.50 Keynote talk – Professor Shireen Hassim: Global interconnectedness and the struggle for social justice and equality of well-being

17:00 Social programme with guided visit to the Munch Museum

 

FRIDAY 24 AUGUST

08:30-10:00 Parallel sessions C

1) Meeting new needs in ageing societies: Explaining policy choices

2) Attitudes and perceptions in the welfare state I

3) Poverty II: Explaining cross-national variation

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:30 Thematic plenary 1: The Nordic model and globalisation

12:30-13:30 Lunch (and board meeting)

13:30-15:00 Thematic plenary 2: Welfare states responding to global economic turbulence: A democratic deficit?

15:00-15:15 Coffee break

15:15-16:45 Parallel sessions D

1) Attitudes and perceptions in the welfare state II

2) Governing social policy: New levels and forms of regulation and participation

3) Global social policy I: Ideas and concepts

4) Care II: Individual and societal choices

16:45-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:30 Thematic plenary 3: Perspectives on migration and the welfare state

18:30-19:30 RC19 General Assembly

20:15 Festive dinner

 

SATURDAY 25 AUGUST

08:30-10:30 Parallel sessions E

1) Mentoring session II

2) Varieties of capitalism: A changing landscape?

3) Global social policy II: Problems and solutions

4) Migration: integration strategies, social policy and migrant realities

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:45 Thematic plenary 4: Theoretical tools for grasping crisis-ridden welfare states

12:45-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:15 Parallel sessions F

1) Social investment through family policy

2) Minimum income I: Assessing effects in different settings

3) Marginalised groups: Understanding the problem, finding solutions

15:15-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 Parallel sessions G

1) Minimum income II: Exploring the case for a universal basic income

2) Economic and social reforms in a development context – CANCELLED

3) Old and new cleavages: Problems and responses

17:00-17.15 Coffee break

17.15-18:00 Concluding comments – end of conference