Place | Unicom-building Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen |
Time | 10.00 am - noon |
Organiser | Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen |
Contact Person | |
Lecture Series | Jour Fixe |
Semester | WiSe 2023/24 |
Events of Project A04
Long-term care policy challenges in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic and opportunities for cross-national learning
Adelina Comas-Herrera (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))Exploring healthcare system introductions and historical developments in Kenya and Nigeria within the context of nation-building and post-colonialism. Project A04 "Global Developments in Health Care Systems"
Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität BremenPlace | Haus der Wissenschaft Sandstr. 4 28195 Bremen |
Time | 9.45/9.00 am - 5.00 pm |
Contact Person | |
Lecture Series | Internal Events |
Semester | WiSe 2023/24 |
The workshop is organized by Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter and Julian Götsch of the CRC project A04 "Global Developments in Health Care Systems". The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading experts working on the historical and contemporary developments in healthcare systems in Kenya and Nigeria. In line with the research program of the CRC, we are especially interested in discussing the potential role of colonial ties, and nation-building that contributed to the introduction and any subsequent reforms of healthcare systems in the two countries. As this also necessitates an understanding of what systems actually looked like at the time of their establishment in the post-colonial states and during colonial rule, another aim of the workshop is to address the challenges of identifying and/or generating reliable data on that period.
Sequence analysis of social policy adoptions
Dr. Fabian Besche-Truthe, M.A.; Dr. Tobias Böger; Dr. Johanna FischerPlace | Unicom-building Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Str. 7 28359 Bremen |
Time | 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm |
Contact Person | |
Lecture Series | Political Economy Workshop (PEW) |
The participants will discuss Fabian Besche-Truthe's, Tobias Böger's and Johanna Fischer's draft paper "Sequence analysis of social policy adoptions".
The event is part of the programme of the Political Economy Workshop.
PEW discusses early/unpublished papers or research plans that investigate the political economy (broadly construed) of social policy and inequality.
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Retreat on Terminologies, Concepts, and Measurement
Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität BremenPlace | Haus der Wissenschaft Sandstraße 4/5 28195 Bremen |
Time | 9 am - 4 pm (Wednesday); 9 am - 4 pm (Thursday) |
Contact Person | Dr. Tobias Böger; Dr. Gabriela de Carvalho; Dr. Nils Düpont; Dr. Heiner Fechner; Dr. Johanna Fischer; Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang |
Lecture Series | Internal Events |
Wednesday
09:00 Opening and Welcome
09:15 Session I: On Generosity, inclusiveness, and Scope of Benefits
11:15 Coffee Break
11:45 Session II: Types of benefits
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session III: Social Groups
15:00 Wrap Up
15:30 Closing Day 1
18:00 Dinner
Thursday
09:00 Opening and Welcome
09:15 Session IV: Fragmentation
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Session V: Data Quality
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Session VI: (How Many) Worlds of Welfare – Joint Book Project
15:00 Wrap Up
15:30 Closing Day 2
Hands-on Workshop on Annotating Healthcare System Legislation
Teilprojekt A04 (2022-25): SFB 1342, Universität BremenPlace | Unicom building Room: 3.4110 Mary-Somerville-Str. 3 28359 Bremen |
Time | 1.30 pm - 4.30 pm |
Contact Person | Dr. Gabriela de Carvalho |
Lecture Series | Internal Events |
Place | Unicom building Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Str. 7 28359 Bremen |
Time | 1 pm - 3 pm |
Lecture Series | Internal Events |
Hands-on Workshop on Annotating Healthcare System Legislation
Teilprojekt A04 (2022-25): SFB 1342, Universität BremenPlace | Unicom building Room: 3.4110 Mary-Somerville-Str. 3 28359 Bremen |
Time | 9.30 am - 12.30 pm |
Contact Person | Dr. Gabriela de Carvalho |
Lecture Series | Internal Events |
Text Classification and Information Extraction with Neural Networks for Computational Social Science
Dr. Gregor Wiedemann (Hans Bredow Institute)Place | Mary-Somerville-Str. 7 28359 Bremen |
Time | 10 am - 4 pm |
Contact Person | |
Organisation | Teilprojekt A04 (2022-25): SFB 1342, Universität Bremen |
Lecture Series | Internal Events |
The two-day workshop conveys basic knowledge of text classification workflows (document and sentence classification, e.g. for identifying relevant documents or sentiment analysis) and sequence tagging forr information extraction (e.g. named entities or protest event data such as protest form, issues, or number f participants). The workflow presented in the workshop is based on neural transformer networks (BERT and successor models) and includes the following steps:
- 1) handling of typical data formats for model training and prediction (CSV, XMI CAS, CoNLL),
- 2) application of pre-trained models,
- 3) training or fine-tuning of models with own data for new tasks,
- 4) hyper-parameter optimisation and evaluation of models.
The workshop includes short lecture content and plenty of time for exercises with prepared Jupyter Python notebooks running in the Google Colab platform in the browser. For machine learning, the Flair NLP framework and the Huggingface library of transformers based on Pytorch will be used.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge in Python programming, handling of Pandas data frames, optional: familiarisation with the Flair NLP framework
Preparation
register a Google account (exercises will be done with Google Colab)
Data set
Test events in local news texts (will be provided)
Place | Unicom building Room: 3.3390 Mary-Somerville-Str. 3 28359 Bremen |
Time | 2 pm - 4 pm |
Contact Person | Dr. Fabian Besche-Truthe, M.A.; Dr. Gabriela de Carvalho; Dr. Johanna Fischer |
Lecture Series | Internal Events |
The working group invites projects from both tiers A and B which deal with and collect information on in-kind benefits. The intention of the meeting is to get an overview what different projects are doing and to find a common vocabulary
The meeting will be held in a hybrid format - for the zoom meeting room follow this link:
https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/93240464934?pwd=eTVjOW0vdld4NWdCNm9Zc0p4VlNuUT09
Meeting-ID: 932 4046 4934 – Kenncode: 147089
Update on First U.S. Long-Term Care Social Insurance Program in Washington State: Challenges, Policy Design, Learnings
Benjamin W. Veghte, PhDPlace | Room: Seminar Room 3 (ground floor) Mary-Somerville-Str. 3 28209 Bremen |
Time | 10.15 am - 11.45 am |
Commentator of the Lecture | |
Moderated by Lorraine Frisina-Doetter
About the topic:
The liberal political culture of social policy in the U.S. has long limited public finance of long-term care to individuals with very low income and assets. A series of changes in the labor market, family structure, and population age structure, along with the failure of private long-term care insurance to extend coverage to the middle class, have ushered in a shift in long-term care finance policy toward a much stronger public role. Washington State's new social long-term care insurance program, the WA Cares Fund, is the leading example of this trend. It was enacted in 2019 and reformed in 2021 and 2022 and begins collecting premiums in 2023 and paying benefits in 2026. The state is also developing a supplemental private insurance market that should be able to offer supplemental coverage to the middle class at a more affordable price point than hitherto. This presentation will discuss what led to enactment of the WA Cares Fund, provide an overview of the policy design, including the supplemental private market, and share early learnings.
About the speaker:
Benjamin W. Veghte is Director of the WA Cares Fund, the first U.S. universal long-term care insurance program in Washington State. He is also an MIT CoLab Mel King Community Fellow, a member of the Care Guild, a group of 125 innovators redesigning care for the 21st century, and an expert on German and OECD social policy. His work focuses on developing policies that improve the economic security of workers and help them balance the responsibilities of work and family caregiving. Veghte studied the history of European social policy during his Ph.D. studies at the University of Chicago. While doing his field work in Germany he took a position at the University of Bremen, where he taught comparative social policy until 2008. In 2008/9 he earned a Mid-Career MPA at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
To RSVP, please contact: Katharina Scherf at s_cvpwv8@uni-bremen.de
The Emergence of Social Policy in the Field of Long-term Care. A Comparative Analysis of the Introduction and Types of Long-term Care Systems in a Global Perspective
Dr. Johanna FischerPlace | 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.
The Role of global actors in shaping healthcare systems: Advancing analytical frameworks to better portray the empirical reality of Global South countries
Dr. Gabriela de CarvalhoPlace | 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.
Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa
Prof. Mario Azevedo, PhD (Jackson State University)Place | Bremen |
Time | 4 pm - 5.30 pm |
Organiser | Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen |
Contact Person | |
Partic. Organisation | |
Lecture Series | Jour Fixe |
Semester | SoSe 2021 |
Mario Azevedo is Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy and Dean of teh College of Liberal Arts at jackson State University. He earned his Ph.D. in African History from Duke University and an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written extensively on African history with a special focus on health politics. In his talk, he will present core findings from his two-volume book "Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa" (Cham: Springer International, 2017).
Zoom link:
https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/97506593878?pwd=QkwycitvOHhwZU40Ni9vaHVZRE5MQT09
Meeting-ID: 975 0659 3878
Kenncode: 118032
"Career Planning: How to shape your future" - workshop and individual coaching for women
Prof. Uta Bronner, Dr. (Impulsplus - Qualitätsnetzwerk Kompetenzentwicklung in Wissenschaft)Place | Online, via Zoom |
Time | 9.30 am - 3.30 pm |
Contact Person | |
Lecture Series | Equality at the CRC |
Target group
Female Doctoral and Postdoctoral candidates
Objectives
What are my unique abilities and interests critical in determining the right career path for me? Can I combine my ideas about a fulfilled life with a university career?
How can I develop a strategy for embarking on an academic career path?
This seminar helps to answer these – and other - questions for those who want to plan their career development strategically. It focuses on supporting experienced scientists and researchers. It offers them possibilities to reflect upon future university careers. Based on their individual profiles, participants develop ideas for their future personal and professional lives.
• You reflect upon your professional career path and develop a well-orchestrated plan
• You develop a biographically-based profile that highlights and evaluates your individual qualifications, skills and job visions
• You explore career options at university/research center
• You get information about formal and hidden requirements for careers at university with special focus on Germany
Contents in brief
• Creating your profile of skills and qualifications, highlighting your strengths and accomplishments
• Developing ideas for your own professional and private life
• Review and evaluation of personal development goals
• Next steps: application procedures and job interview
Methods
• Individual work and team work
• Visualizing methods
• Presentation and group discussion
• Individual coaching session
Individual appointments with the trainer for the coaching (45 min) will follow within two weeks after the workshop.
Place | online |
Time | 5.15 pm - 6.15 pm |
Organisation | Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS); Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen |
Conference session via Big Blue Button.
For access please contact Karin Gottschall.
Online-Workshop: Professor wanted! Planning and optimizing your academic career
Dr. Dieta KuchenbrandtPlace | online |
Time | Flexible |
Contact Person | |
Lecture Series | Equality at the CRC |
1. Webcast of ca. 3 hours, which can be streamed by every participant during the period 6.7. - 20.07.2020.
The advanced PhD and early postdoc years are essential for academic career development. During this period, scientists are often torn between conflicting priorities of intellectual independence, on the one hand, and meeting professional obligations towards their employers, on the other hand. Researchers are expected to develop an independent publication record, apply for external funding, create a distinct research profile, build a teaching portfolio, communicate their research, build a network, undertake research stays abroad, etc. etc. Which of these tasks are particularly important? What are the top priorities?
How important is the habilitation? Which time frame is appropriate and compatible with my personal private priorities? The webcast informs about all important requirements (also beyond publications and funding) and milestones for an academic career. Furthermore, the participants will get tips and advice both on prioritising these requirements and on strategic considerations during the PhD and postdoc phase on the way to a professorship.
2. Accompanying materials like handout, questionnaire for analysing the participants' current academic profile, example CVs will be provided.
3. (Video) face-to face meeting of approx. 45 minutes for each participant, individually with the trainer.
Bremen Week of Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss; Prof. Dr. Kerstin Martens; Prof. Dr. Ivo Mossig; Prof. Dr. Dennis Niemann; Prof. Dr. Frank Nullmeier; Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt; Dr. Helen SeitzerPlace | Bremen |
Time | diverse |
Organisation | Philipp Jarke |
Partic. Organisation | |
In the week from 17 to 22 February 2020, the teaching and research institutes of the University of Bremen and Jacobs University invite you to the first Bremen Social Sciences Week! A variety of events on the topic of "Societies in Transition" will highlight current Bremen research priorities from various perspectives.
The programme is aimed at pupils, teachers, students and the general public. All events are free of charge. Listen, watch, learn, participate and discuss at the University of Bremen, in the Haus der Wissenschaft, on the Internet, in Bremen's pubs and in CITY 46. As diverse as research and teaching in Bremen are, so are the topics that await you during the course of the week: from PISA, social movements, NGOs and their means of political influence, filter bubbles, surrogate motherhood and student housing to questions of social cohesion and the digitalization of the social sciences, you will find everything you could wish for.
Author workshop with Palgrave Macmillan
Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter; Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels; Prof. Dr. Kerstin Martens; Sharla Plant (Palgrave Macmillan); PhD Marianne UlriksenPlace | Unicom buildung Room: 7.4500 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen |
Time | 9 am - 5 pm |
Organiser | Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen |
Lecture Series | Internal Events |
9.00 – 10.45: Meeting of members and guests
- General information about the CRC
- State of the art: 3 books in the process (Schmitt, Leisering, Martens)
- Possible next book "A very short history of social policy" (Obinger, Nullmeier and González de Reufels)
- how to attract books from contributors outside the CRC
- Cover for the series
- Foreword (First draft by González de Reufels)
- Division of work and operational processes (Team and Palgrave)
10.45 – 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00: Open Access
Benjamin Ahlborn (State- and University Library Bremen)
12:00: Slots for individual book projects
- 12:20 - 12:40: B08, Ewa Kaminska
- 12.20 – 12.40: BIGSSS (B09 affiliated), Anna Wolkenhauer
12.45 – 14.00: Lunch Atlantik Campus Restaurant
14:20: Individual book projects
- 14.20-14.40: A03, Ulrich Mückenberger, Irene Dingeldey
- 14.40-15.00: A05, Kerstin Martens, Fabian Besche
- 15.00-15.20: B06, Gulnaz Isabekova
- 15.20-15.40: A02, Nate Breznau
- 15:50-16:10: B05, Armin Müller
- 16:10-16:30: ERC, Lorraine Frisina (on behalf of Amanda Shriwise)
- 16.30-16.50: BIGSSS, Silvana Lakeman
Developments in health and long-term care systems in the Americas
Teilprojekt A04: SFB 1342, Universität BremenPlace | Unicom Building Room: 3.350, 3.380, 3.390 Mary-Somerville-Straße 3 28359 Bremen |
Time | tba |
Contact Person | |
Lecture Series | Internal Events |
The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading experts working on Northern, Central, and South America to discuss historical and contemporary developments in health and long term care. In line with the research program of CRC 1342, we are especially interested in discussing the potential role of transnational linkages or interdependencies that contributed to the introduction and any subsequent reforms of health and/or long term care systems within the region. As this also necessitates an understanding of what systems actually looked like at the time of their establishment - however embryonic - another aim of the workshop is to address the challenges of identifying and/or generating reliable data, particularly for Central and South America, as well as for a period of observation that may date back to as early as the turn of the 20th Century.
Attendance by invitation only.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading experts working on Northern, Central, and South America to discuss historical and contemporary developments in health and long term care. In line with the research programme of CRC 1342, we are especially interested in discussing the potential role of transnational linkages or interdependencies that contributed to the introduction and any subsequent reforms of health and/or long term care systems within the region. As this also necessitates an understanding of what systems actually looked like at the time of their establishment - however embryonic - another aim of the workshop is to address the challenges of identifying and/or generating reliable data, particularly for Central and South America, as well as for a period of observation that may date back to as early as the turn of the 20th Century.
Attendance by invitation only.
PROGRAM
Day 1 Workshop, Room 3.3380
10:00-10:30
Introductory remarks & welcome
by Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang
10:30-11:15
Introduction to A04 Project "Global developments in health care systems and long
term care as a new social risk"
by Dr. Lorraine Frisina-Doetter and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss
11:15-11:30
Coffee break, Room 3.3390
11:30-12:30
Healthcare system developments in the Caribbean
Presentation by Dr. Elsada Diana Cassels
12:30-13:45
Lunch break, Room 3.3390
13:45-16:15
Healthcare system developments in Brazil
Presentations by Dr. Dick Salvatierra, Dr. José Carvalho de Noronha and Dr. Beatriz Nascimento
16:15-16:45
Welcome drink
Day 2 Workshop, Room 3.3380
9:00-11:00
Health care and long-term care system developments in the United States
Presentations by Dr. Ben Veghte and Dr. Pamela Doty
11:00-11:15
Coffee break, Room 3.3390
11:15-12:00
Introduction to B02 Project "Emergence, Expansion, and Transformation of the
Welfare State in the Cono Sur in Exchange with (Southern) Europe (1850–1990)"
by Prof. Dr. Delia Gonzalez de Reufels
12:00-13:15
Lunch break, Room 3.3390
13:30-15:45
Health and long-term care system developments in Chile
Presentations by Prof. Dr. Alejandra Zúñiga Fajuri, Dr. Mauricio Matus-Lopez and Dr. Pablo Villalobos Dintrans
15:45-16:00: Coffee break, Room 3.3390
16:00-17:45
Roundtable discussion (topic tba)
led by Prof. Dr. Delia Gonzalez de Reufels
19:00
Dinner at Ratskeller Restaurant, Address: Am Markt, 28195 Bremen
Day 3 Workshop, Room 3.3380
9:30-10:30
The significance of LTC as a new field of analysis and presentation of A04 typology of long-term care systems
Presentation by Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang and Johanna Fischer
10:30-10:45
Coffee break, Room 3.3390
10:45-12:45
Long-term care system developments in Costa Rica and Uruguay
Presentations by Dr. Mauricio Matus-Lopez and Alexander Chaverri-Carvajal
12:45-14:00
Lunch Break, Room 3.3390
14:00-15:45
Healthcare system developments in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Cuba
Presentation by Dr. Pol de Vos
15:45-16:15
Coffee break, Room 3.3390
16:15-16:45
Presentation of A04 healthcare systems typology by Dr. Achim Schmid and Gabriela de Carvalho
16:45-17:45
Final roundtable discussion on the challenges of researching and classifying systems of the Global South
led by Dr. Lorraine Frisina-Doetter and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss
17:45-18:15
Closing remarks by Prof. Dr. Delia Gonzalez de Reufels
19:00-21:00
Sightseeing tour/group activity, tba
PhD Proposal: The Role of International Relations in Global Public Health Policy Dynamics
Alexander PoltePlace | Unicom Building Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen |
Time | 2.30 pm - 3.45 pm |
Organiser | Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS); Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen |
Alexander Polte defends his PhD Proposal:
The role of international relations in global public health policy dynamics
PhD Proposal: Comparing State Intervention in Long-term Care Worldwide - a Typological Approach
Dr. Johanna FischerPlace | Unicom Building Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen |
Time | 2.15 pm - 3.30 pm |
Organiser | Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS); Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen |
Johanna Fischer defends her PhD Proposal:
Comparing state intervention in long-term care worldwide: A typological approach
PhD Proposal: Typologies of Health Care Systems, Global Social Policy Actors and the Global South - A Comparison of Health Systems in Twenty-four Latin American Countries
Dr. Gabriela de CarvalhoPlace | Unicom Building Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen |
Time | 3.45 pm - 5 pm |
Organiser | Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS); Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen |
Gabriela De Carvalho defends her PhD Proposal:
Typologies of health care systems, global social policy actors and the Global South: A comparison of health systems in twenty-four Latin American countries