Place	Bremen
Time	12 pm - 1 pm

The world-wide gender gap in education depends not just on countries' economic performance, but also on cultural factors. However, world cultures are not fixed entities. Rather, culture is a characteristic of groups as well as of (world-)regions. How do global cultures moderate women's low education? Based on data of the World Value Survey, this study applies Latent Profile Analysis to generate a fuzzy-set typology of cultures in the world, but based on individuals instead of nation states. Individuals do not belong exclusively to one culture, but to several cultures simultaneously, with varying probabilities. In the second step, cross-classified logistic multilevel models test the country-time specific effects of 'female' on the risk of getting (at best) low education, controlling for various individual and country-specific factors. Cross-level interactions show that the 'female' effect on low education is indeed moderated by world cultures, but neither world cultures, economic factors nor individual characteristics completely explain the strength of the female effects.

Link to Zoom meeting

Place	Unicom Room: BIGSSS Conference Room Mary-Somerville-Str. 9 28359 Bremen
Time	10 am - 11.59 am
Commentator of the Lecture	Dr. Ruth Abramowski

Place	Bremen
Time	3 pm - 4.30 pm

The presentation will be in German.

To join the event on zoom, please get in touch with Michael Lischka to receive the link.

Place	Unicom Room: 7.2210 Mary-Somerville-Str. 7 28359 Bremen
Time	2.15 pm - 3.45 pm

Zoom Meeting
https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/97921627140?pwd=WkRPMzRWNmc2Z1hHekxseFlFM1ZxQT09

Meeting ID: 979 2162 7140
Passcode: 546570

Place	Bremen
Time	12 pm - 1.30 pm

 

Johanna Fischer's Oral Defense is scheduled for Tuesday, 16th of November at 12:00.

The Examination Board is composed of:

• Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang
• Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter
• Prof. Dr. Simone Leiber
• Prof. Dr. Karin Gottschall
• Dr. Achim Schmid
• Kristin Noack

 

The defense will be public, but audience participation mostly online. To receive the link to the video conference, please send an email to Johanna Fischer before November 1st.

Place	Bremen
Time	10 am - 11.30 am

Jakob Henninger's Oral Defense is scheduled for Friday, 5th of November at 10:00.

The Examination Board is composed of:

• Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt
• Prof. Dr. Christian Joppke   
• Prof. Dr. Heiko Pleines 
• Dr. Friederike Römer
• Prof. Dr. Patrick Sachweh
• Dr. Johanna Kuhlmann

This defense will be public, but audience participation will be mostly online. To receive the link to the video conference, please send an email to Jakob Henninger before October 29th.

Place	Bremen
Time	3 pm - 4.30 pm

Gabriela de Carvalho's Oral Defense is scheduled for Friday, 5th of November at 15:00.

The Examination Board is composed of:

• Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang
• Prof. Dr. Armando Barrientos
• Prof. Dr. Delia Gonzalez de Reufeuls
• Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter
• Dr. Amanda Shriwise
• Marlene Seiffarth

The defense will be public, but audience participation mostly online. To receive the link to the video conference, please send an email to Gabriela de Carvalho before November 1st.

Place	Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 3.30 pm

This workshop is part of the Political Economy Workshop, orgaised by Bastian Becker und Hanna Lierse. Please get in touch with them to get access to the workshop and the readings circulated in advance.

Place	Bremen
Time	4 pm - 5.30 pm

 The Examination Board is composed of:

•  Prof. Sonja Drobnič
•  Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer
•  Prof. Rianne Mahon
•  Prof. Dr. Carina Schmitt
•  Prof. Dr. Tobias ten Brink
•  Dr. Amanda Shriwise
•  Johanna Fischer

This defense will be public, but audience participation will be mostly online. To receive the link to the video conference, please send an email to Keonhi Son before October 20th.

Place	Centre Marc Bloch Friedrichstraße 191 10117 Berlin
Time	9 am - 3.15 pm (Friday); 9.30 am - 12.00 pm (Saturday)
Organiser	Dr. Michele Mioni
Partic. Organisation	Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen

 

15 October 2021

Germaine Tillion Room, 7th Floor

9:00-9:15
Welcoming of participants and public

9:15-9:30
Institutional and scientific introductions

9:30-10:00
Keynote: Klaus Petersen (University of Southern Denmark)

10:30-11:15
Panel 1: Entangling National and International Perspectives: the Case with UNRRA and Italy (WWII)

Healthcare, Politics and Welfare Reforms. The Health Division of the Unrra Italian Mission, 1944-1947
Silvia Inaudi (Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa)

A new school for a new Welfare. Education and social workers in the aftermath of the Second World War in Italy
Domenica La Banca (ISEM/CNR)

Redefining State-society relationships. Humanitarianism, social actors and post-war assistance policies in Italy and France
Giacomo Canepa (Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa)

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:45
Panel 2: Transformative Impacts of War: State Policy and Social Actors (WWI)

Idlers, Victims, Heroes: the Unemployed under Military Occupation (Belgium, 1914-1918)
Sophie De Schaepdrijver (The Pennsylvania State University), Samuel Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam)

Unreliable Promises: Citizenship, Economic Persecution and Right to Compensation for War Damages in the German case (1914-1928)
Cristiano La Lumia (University of Naples Federico II – Scuola Superiore Meridionale)

‘L’aigle Boche sera vaincu. La tuberculose doit l’être aussi’. National and International Mobilisations against the TB in France, 1914-1922
Michele Mioni (University of Bremen)

War and the establishment of welfare ministries
Herbert Obinger (University of Bremen, SFB 1342)

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15
Panel 3: Transformative Impacts of War: State Policy and Social Actors (WWII)

Hyperinflation as a Laboratory for Socio-economic Reforms: the social foundations of post-war stability in Hungary, 1945-1946
Szinan Radi (University of Nottingham)

Towards «National Welfare»: Social Change and Cooperation between Czechs and Germans during the Second World War
Radka Šustrová (University of Cambridge)

The universal military conscription and its aftermath in Europe: the change of the paradigm of the civil-military relations
Serhiy Choliy (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute)

16 October 2021

Germaine Tillion Room, 7th Floor

9:30-10:45
Panel 4: Warfare and Welfare on a Global and Transnational Scale (WWI and II)

Europe in need: women in humanitarian aid in the first half of the 20th century
Francesca Piana (ISG – Trento)

From charity to welfare. The transnational role of the Pontificia Commissione di Assistenza (1944-1953)
Elena Serina (University of Naples Federico II – Scuola Superiore Meridionale)

The Warfare-Welfare Nexus in British and French West African Colonies in the Course of the First and Second World Wars
Carina Schmitt & Amanda Shriwise (University of Bremen, SFB 1342)

11:00 -12:00
General discussion and conclusions

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CONTACT

Michele Mioni (Univerity of Bremen), michele.mioni@alumni.imtlucca.it

Fabien Théofilakis (Paris 1/CHS_CMB), fabien.theofilakis@univ-paris1.fr

RESERVATION

The event should - theoretically - be held in a hybrid format with the presence of a public at the Marc Bloch Center provided that the «3-G» rule (vaccinated, cured, tested) is respected. For those tested, the negative result must not be older than 24 hours (rapid test) or 48 hours
(PCR test).
To attend, please register by sending a message to the
above-mentioned email addresses

Place	Unicom Bremen
Time	9.30 am - 5.45 pm
Contact Person	Prof. Dr. Kerstin Martens

The datailed workshop schedule will be updated in due time.

Place	Bremen
Time	3 pm - 4.30 pm

Helen Seitzer will be defending her dissertation "Conceptualizing the Transnational Education Policymaking Process from a Relational Perspective".

If you would like to join the the defennse colloquium via Zoom, please wrtie an email to Helen Seitzer.

Place	Bremen
Time	10 am - 11.30 am

Fabian Besche-Truthe will defend his dissetation "Global Transformation of Education Systems. Investigating Domestic, Relational, and Transnational Levels of Policy Drivers".

If you would like to join the the defennse colloquium via Zoom, please wrtie an email to Fabian Besche-Truthe.

Place	Bremen
Time	2 pm - 3.30 pm

Alex Nadège Ouedraogo's Oral Defense is scheduled for Monday, 27th of September at 14:00.

 The Examination Board is composed of:

• Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte
• Dr. Alexander Veit
• Prof. Jimi Adésínà
• Dr. Jude Kagoro
• Marlene Seiffarth
• Hawa Noor Zitzmann

Place	Bremen
Time	1.30 pm - 2.30 pm
Contact Person	Prof. Dr. Herbert Obinger

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Report about the Application for Phase 2
3. Report and official Election/Confirmation: New Member of “Mittelbau“ representative (Nate Breznau)
4. Report and official Election/Confirmation: New Member of the Equal Opportunity Team (Kressen Thyen)
5. Open Discussion / Time for other Topics

The meeting will be held online.

Place	Online
Time	10 am - 11.45 am
Scientific Administration	Prof. Dr. Irene Dingeldey

Convenor
Dr. Irene Dingeldey

Chair
Ms. Mengqi Yuan

Co-chair
Dr. Elif Naz Kayran

Discussants
Ms. Betsy Leimbigler

Description
This panel asks to what extent labour market segmentation, i.e., the divide between standard employment and atypical forms of employment, self-employment, and informal work, is influenced by employment regulation. In this regard, the balance between particularistic status protection – often associated with the standard employment relationship - and universal labour standards seems to be crucial. High regulatory standards may go along with strong labour market segmentation and provoke exclusion, while universal standards may lead more integrated labour markets, but may be limited to minimum protection levels.

Furthermore, the panel is interested in how the compliance with labour regulation shapes labour market structures. This touches on possible discrepancies between de-jure regulation and the de-facto implementation and enforcement of labour standards. These discrepancies might explain why countries with similar de-jure protection levels vary in their degree of labour market segmentation. The main goal is the identification and explanation of different “Worlds of Labour”, i.e., groups of countries that resemble each other regarding their de-jure/de-facto employment regulation and/or labour market structures.

We encourage researchers and research groups from all around the world to share their findings on the relation between particularistic and universal labour standards, on “good governance” and the discrepancy between de-jure and de-facto labour regulation, and on the impact of “legal” (de-jure) segmentation on (de-facto) labour market segmentation and informal work. We also welcome studies that deal with specific outcomes of labour regulation such as gendered employment patterns or inequal treatment of particular groups of (atypical) workers. While focusing explicitly on comparative research, we encourage both quantitative analysis and case studies.

A second discussant and chair will be selected from a different region when applications are available. 

Session
RC30 Comparative Public Policy

Papers
Evaluation of the impact of Strategic Trade Controls on trade flows in Central Asian Countries (Author: Ms. Kamshat Saginbekova)

How Does Institutional Investor Gain Political Power?: Political Opportunity Structure and Corporate Governance Reform in Japan (Author: Prof. Susumu Nishioka)

Labor Market Dualization and Realignment of Party Competition: A Comparative Case Study of France, Germany, and Japan (Author: Prof. Takuji Tanaka)

Not just Black and White, but different Shades of Grey: Legal Segmentation in Labour Law and Labour Market Segmentation around the World (Author: Dr. Irene Dingeldey, Co-Author(s): Mr. Jean-Yves Gerlitz)

What (if anything) may justify a new policy regulation for gig-delivery workers? The case of Rappi in Argentina (Author: Mr. Kevin Hartmann)

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IPSA 2021: https://wc2021.ipsa.org/wc/home

Place	Bremen
Time	4 pm - 5 pm
Organisation	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)

BIGSSS Doctoral Colloquium

Place	Bremen
Time	5.15 pm - 6.15 pm
Organisation	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)

BIGSSS Doctoral Colloquium

Place	Bremen
Time	2 pm - 4 pm
Commentator of the Lecture	Dr. Monika Ewa Kaminska; Prof. Dr. Heiko Pleines; Liva Stupele; Prof. Dr. Tobias ten Brink
Organisation	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)

The PhD Dissertation of Gulnaz Isabekova is ready to be defended. 

The Examination Board is composed of:

• Prof. Dr. Heiko Pleines
• Dr. Monika Ewa Kaminska
• Assoc. Prof. Kristina Jönsson
• Prof. Dr. Tobias ten Brink
• Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz
• Dr. Amanda Shriwise
• Liva Stupele

The defense will be public, but will take place online only. To receive the link to the video conference, please send an email to Gulnaz Isabekova by June 21st, 2021.

Place	Lund
Time	5 pm - 6.30 pm
Scientific Administration	Prof. Dr. Irene Dingeldey

Chair
Irene Dingeldey, Institute of Labour and Economics, University of Bremen

This roundtable is based on a special issue forthcoming in the International Labour Review. Applying a global perspective, the special issue focuses on law-induced inequalities in labour markets. It asks: Which forms of legal segmentation can be found? And how do they infuence labour market segmentation and informal work in different regions of the world? How can they be remedied?

Presenters

Ulrich Mückenberger, University of Bremen and Heiner Fechner, University of Bremen;
Judy Fudge, McMaster University and Guy Mundlak, Tel-Aviv University;
Graciela Bensusan, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM)

Discussant
Tzehainesh Teklè, ILO, Managing Editor of the International Labour Review

https://www.ileraworldcongress2021.se/app/netattm/attendee/page/97955

Place	Bremen
Time	2 pm - 4 pm
Contact Person	Prof. Dr. Anna Wolkenhauer
Organisation	Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Universität Bremen

Chair: Alex Veit, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) & SFB 1342, University of Bremen

Participants:

Musa Sadock, Head, Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam

Clement Chipenda, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the SARChI Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa

 

https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/95240280688?pwd=YjFwNTgzTUdLVDhvaFZFRzJzR1lYZz09

Place	Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 3.30 pm

This event is part of the Political Economy Workshop series organized by Bastian Becker and Hanna Lierse. Please subscribe to our email newsletter, and get in touch if you would like to receive this week's reading or present your own work at a future workshop.

Place	Bremen
Time	4 pm - 5 pm
Organisation	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)

BIGSSS Doctoral Colloquium

Place	Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 5.50 pm (21 May); 3 pm - 6.15 pm (28 May)
Organiser	Teilprojekt A06: SFB 1342, Universität Bremen
Commentator of the Lecture	Prof. Sonja Drobnič, PhD; Prof. (pens.) Dr. Johannes Huinink
Contact Person	Dr. Tobias Böger

The workshop seeks to understand how diffusion processes influence family policy across a wide range of contexts by discussing three main sets of questions with pre-eminent experts of family policy and diffusion processes:

• What models of family policy are promoted by international organizations? Do we find conflict among IOs or is a consensual, taken-for-granted paradigm emerging within world-culture?
• Have these global models left imprints on national legislation and policy making? How do we identify the impact and institutionalization of global models in national contexts?
• Which mechanisms and linkages can plausible the explain the connection between global norms and national policy outputs? How do we conceptualize and measure these influences and what alternative linkages need to be considered?

Family policy provides an eminent test case for theories of policy diffusion, since it is inherently linked to local values and beliefs about ‘proper’ families, i.e. deep-seated cultural and normative commitments. Processes of convergence may be indicative of the causal force of ‘normative isomorphism’ emanating from global structures, but also needs to be assessed against possible alternative explanations. Specifically, other channels of diffusion, which work through the emulation of and learning from peers, may produce similar outcomes. The workshop addresses how the effects of ‘vertical’ diffusion processes can analytically and empirically be separated from ‘horizontal’ ones in the field of family policy.

Friday, May 21st, 2021 (Chair: Johannes Huinink & Sonja Drobnič)

14:30 – 15:00 Introduction by Tobias Böger (CRC 1342)

15:00 – 15:50 Family Policy Developments in High-Income Countries: A Political Economy Perspective
Emanuele Ferragina (Sciences Po, Paris)

15:50 – 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 – 17:00 Leave policy development outside the advanced OECD economies in last 100 years
Keonhi Son (CRC 1342)

17:00 – 17:50 Family changes and incipient political responses in a context of high inequalities: Latin America before and since COVID
Merike Blofield (GIGA Hamburg)

Friday, May 28th, 2021 (Chair: Tobias Böger)

15:00 – 15:50 TBC
TBC

15:50 – 16:40 The Diffusion of Child Benefits in Europe
Simone Tonelli (CRC 1342)

16:40 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 17:50 Social Investment and Family Policies
Chiara Saraceno (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy)

17:50 – 18:15 Concluding Discussion

Place	Bremen
Time	2.15 pm - 3.45 pm

Takes place via Zoom (link shared before session).

Place	Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 3.30 pm

This event is part of the Political Economy Workshop series organized by Bastian Becker and Hanna Lierse. Please subscribe to our email newsletter, and get in touch if you would like to receive this week's reading or present your own work at a future workshop.

Place	Bremen
Time	4.15 pm - 5.45 pm
Commentator of the Lecture	Dr. Nate Breznau
Organisation	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)

BIGSSS Doctoral Colloquium

Place	Bremen
Time	12.15 pm - 1.45 pm

How come, that in our studies we deal almost exclusively with European and North American theorists and scholars? How and to which extent do they, with their self-references and focus on Europe, displace and ignore the experience and perspectives of other scholars? And what concrete problems for science and non-European scholars arise from the burden of Eurocentrism in academia?

This and more we would like to discuss with you in an event series of the Politschnack. Our guests in the introductory session on 30th of April at 12:15 (c.t.) concerning “Eurocentrism in Academia” will be:

Alex Nadège Quedraogo (InIIS/SFB 1342), who will talk about the general problematic consequences of Eurocentrism in academia, Hawa Noor Mohammed (BIGSSS), who will talk about the discourse of Eurocentrism with reference to research on the so called “New Terrorism” or “Islamic (st) Terrorism” and Jude Kagoro (InIIS), who will talk about the burden of Eurocentrism in the interpretation of Politics in Africa. All of our guests are political scientists and researchers at University Bremen.

No matter if you would like to discuss or only listen, if you are student or staff: you are very much welcome! The discussion will take place via Zoom. If you would like to participate, feel free to join by clicking on the link below. The discussion will be held in English:

uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/96114631932?pwd=V0NMRFdwclZYN25idDZVWEJ4bWJMdz09

Place	Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Commentator of the Lecture	Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte

Amanda Shriwise (Bremen University) and Carina Schmitt (SOCIUM) discuss the paper The Warfare-Welfare Nexus in British and French West African Colonies in the Course of the First and Second World Wars.

This event is part of the Political Economy Workshop series organized by Bastian Becker and Hanna Lierse. Please subscribe to our email newsletter, and get in touch if you would like to receive this week's reading or present your own work at a future workshop.

Place	Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Commentator of the Lecture	Prof. Dr. Carina Schmitt
Contact Person	Bastian Becker, PhD; Dr. Hanna Lierse

Political Economy Workshop, discussing the paper "Legal Segmentation and Early Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa" by Heiner Fechner.

Meeting time: Tuesday, March 09 from 2:30-3.30 pm (CET)
Meeting place: Online PEW Zoom Link (password pew2020)
Discussant: Carina Schmitt

To receive this week’s reading, please subscribe to the Political Economy Workshop email newsletter or write an email to Bastian Becker and Hanna Lierse.

Place	Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Contact Person	Bastian Becker, PhD; Dr. Hanna Lierse

Political Economy Workshop: The paper "Authoritarian Justifications of Immigration: An Analysis of Government Responses to Parliamentary Questions in Malaysia" by Jakob Henninger will be discussed.

Online Meeting via Zoom.

To receive this week’s reading, please subscribe to the Political Economy Workshop email newsletter or write an email to Bastian Becker and Hanna Lierse.

Place	Bremen
Time	5.30 pm - 7 pm
Organiser	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)
Contact Person	Dr. Mandy Boehnke
Partic. Organisation	SOCIUM Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen; Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen

Prof. Jennifer Pan, PhD (Stanford University) will give a presentation on her recent publication "Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for Its Rulers". Join via Zoom here.

Jennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Her research focuses on political communication and authoritarian politics. Pan uses experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity in China and other authoritarian regimes to answer questions about how autocrats perpetuate their rule. How political censorship, propaganda, and information manipulation work in the digital age. How preferences and behaviors are shaped as a result.

Her book, Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers (Oxford, 2020) shows how China's pursuit of political order transformed the country’s main social assistance program, Dibao, for repressive purposes. Her work has appeared in peer reviewed publications such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, and Science.

Place	Bremen
Time	2 pm - 4 pm
Organiser	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)

BIGSSS Doctoral Colloquium

via Zoom, https://zoom.us/j/98266944212?pwd=MUFpK2ZrZ2VxTHU4SFpsaWdvRytnUT09

Organizers: Dr. Steffen Bandlow-Raffalski / Dr. Mandy Boehnke

Goal and Format

The colloquium offers the opportunity to present current issues (could be questions regarding your methods design, theoretical framework etc.), (first) results of individual dissertation projects or drafts of conference or journal papers and to discuss them with fellows and faculty. Presenters should make clear what they want from the discussion and send these expectations together with at least an abstract of their topic to the participants. The presentation itself should not exceed 25-30 minutes. Typically, presentations will get a short (5-7 min) comment by an expert faculty member or fellow to be followed by an open discussion with the audience. The fellows-first rule applies.

Place	Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Organiser	Bastian Becker, PhD; Dr. Hanna Lierse

 

Presentation and discussion of the outline for a survey on the "Impact of COVID-19 on Globalisation and Social Policy Preferences in Germany and Brazil" by Franziska Deeg, Eloisa Harris and Simone Tonelli. Discussant: Macarena Ares (University of Zurich).

This online presentation is part of the Political Economy Workshop Series, organised by Bastian Becker and Hanna Lierse.