Place	Unicom building Room: 7.2210 Ma 7 28359 Bremen
Time	2 pm - 4 pm
Contact Person	Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte
Organisation	Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Universität Bremen

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

Place	Unicom building Room: 7.2210 Mary-Somerville-Str. 7 28359 Bremen
Time	2 pm - 4 pm
Contact Person	Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte
Organisation	Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Universität Bremen

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	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	2 pm - 4 pm
Contact Person	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	2.15 pm - 3.45 pm

Takes place via Zoom (link shared before session).

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	online
Time	2.15 pm - 3.45 pm
Organiser	Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Universität Bremen

This lecture is part of the series "Internationalised Politics" and takes place online via Zoom.

To get acces to this or one of the next lectures, please get in touch with Anna Wolkenhauer (wolkenhauer@bigsss.uni-bremen.de).

Place	Bremen
Time	2.15 pm - 3.45 pm
Lecture Series	Internal Events

The presentation is part of the colloquium "Internationalised Politics" and will take online via zoom.

The link will be shared before the session. 

Place	Unicom building Room: 7.2210 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen
Time	2 pm - 4 pm
Organiser	Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels; Dr. Teresa Huhle; Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte; Dr. Alex Veit
Contact Person	Dr. Alex Veit
Organisation	Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Universität Bremen; Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Universität Bremen; Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen
Semester	WiSe 2019/20

In this colloquium Ricardo Bormann will discuss his paper "New Directions in Latin American Film History: The Intellectual Network of the Brazilian Film Critic Salles Gomes". Participants are expected to read Ricardo's paper in advance. Please contact Alex Veit (veit@uni-bremen.de) to get hold of the paper.

The Transnational & Area Studies-Colloquium is a new venue for interdisciplinary debate on pertinent questions of transnational scope and area studies relevance. Scholars and students meet on a monthly basis to discover new approaches and joint research interests. The colloquium is open to the interested public.

Subscribe to the mailing list for regular updates and pre-circulated readings.

Place	Unicom building Room: 7.1050 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen
Time	1.15 pm - 2.45 pm
Contact Person	Dr. Roy Karadag

Keonhi Son (project A06) will present and discus her paper "The Influence of ILO conventions on the Adoption of Maternity Protection Policies in the World".

Place	Unicom building Room: 7.2210 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen
Time	2.15 pm - 3.45 pm
Organiser	Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels; Dr. Teresa Huhle; Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte; Dr. Alex Veit
Contact Person	Dr. Alex Veit
Organisation	Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Universität Bremen; Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Universität Bremen; Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen
Semester	WiSe 2019/20

In this TASC-Colloquium, Teresa Huhle's paper "The Transnational Formation of a Healthy Nation: Travelling Reformers in Uruguay (1903-1933)" will be discussed. Participants are expected to read Teresa's paper in advance. Please contact Alex Veit (veit@uni-bremen.de) to get hold of the paper.

The Transnational & Area Studies-Colloquium is a new venue for interdisciplinary debate on pertinent questions of transnational scope and area studies relevance. Scholars and students meet on a monthly basis to discover new approaches and joint research interests. The colloquium is open to the interested public, but please sign up with tas-colloquium@mailman.zfn.uni-bremen.de.

Place	Haus der Wissenschaft Sandstraße 4/5 28195 Bremen
Time	8.30 am - 5.00 pm
Contact Person	Dr. Johanna Kuhlmann
Organisation	Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels; Dr. Johanna Kuhlmann; Prof. Dr. Frank Nullmeier; Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte

Recent theoretical and methodological developments in the social sciences converge into the approach of "mechanism-based explanation". Originating from different disciplines such as analytical sociology, political sociology, comparative historical analysis and qualitative research in political science, mechanism-based approaches stress that phenomena cannot fully be explained by correlations between variables: Causal mechanisms are the "cogs and wheels" that scholars come across when opening the "black box" of correlations.

Despite the expanding literature on this topic, two deficits have not been resolved so far:

1. There is no convincing compilation of mechanisms that drive social and political processes. Previous proposals for a comprehensive list of mechanisms collect elements of very different scales and levels. There is no shared understanding on what level (micro, meso, macro) mechanisms should be allocated and what elements a mechanism should have to count as a mechanism.
2. There is also a lack of systematic applications of mechanism-based approaches to an entire policy field. So far, mechanism-based approaches have primarily been used in single case studies or comparative case studies with a limited scope and range. Adopting a mechanism-based approach for studying the transnational dynamics of an entire policy field might be a decisive test for the fruitfulness of mechanism-based approaches.

This conference aims to stimulate discussion on the characteristics of causal mechanisms, and to establish a closer link between these concepts and the study of social policy dynamics.

PROGRAMME

Day 1

9.00-9.30
Registration and welcome coffee

9.30-10.30
Gary Goertz, University of Notre Dame
The veil of ignorance – causal mechanism – process tracing methodology

Coffee break

10.45-12.15
Session 1: Theorizing Mechanisms (Chair: Johanna Kuhlmann)

1. Holger Straßheim, University of Bielefeld
   Transforming social policy (research): the mechanisms of micro-focusing (Discussant: Hubert Heinelt)
2. Johannes Schmitt, Martin Noltze, German Institute for Development Evaluation Causal mechanisms in evaluation: conceptual confusion, practical application and the way forward (Discussant: Heinz Rothgang)
3. Sebastian Haunss, University of Bremen
   Network mechanism driving the development of social policies (Discussant: Sarah Berens)

Lunch

13.30-14.30
Renate Mayntz, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Promise and limits of mechanism-based explanation

Coffee break

14.45-16.15
Session 2: Mechanisms of Social Policy Dynamics – Single Case Studies (Chair: Heiko Pleines)

1. Olivier Burtin, LMU München/Princeton University
   Mechanisms of veterans’ policy in the United States: A comparative overview (Discussant: Teresa Huhle)
2. Ellen van Reuler, Leiden University
   English hospices and palliative care policies as a model for the Netherlands? (Discussant: Anna Safuta)
3. Tobias ten Brink¹, Armin Müller¹, Tao Liu², ¹Jacobs University Bremen, ²University Duisburg-Essen
   Policy experimentation and elite cooperation: Causal mechanisms in the making of China’s social insurance system (Discussant: Osmany Porto de Oliveira)
4. Sarah Berens, Franziska Deeg, University of Cologne
   Moving North and coming back. Migration and social policy preferences in Mexico (Discussant: Cecilia Rossel/Florencia Antía)

Coffee break

16.45-17.45
James Mahoney, Northwestern University
Causal mechanisms and theories of causality: Three approaches

Coffee break

18.00-19.30
Session 3: Mechanisms of Social Policy Dynamics – Comparative Approaches (Chair: Klaus Schlichte)

1. Traute Meyer, University of Southampton
   Industrialism revisited - Changing kinship systems and pension reform in China and Europe (Discussant: Tao Liu)
2. Robert van Niekerk¹, Reynaldo Jiménez Guethón², ¹University of Witwatersrand, ²University de La Habana
   Cultures of social solidarity and the public good: A reflection on South Africa and Cuba (Discussant: Armin Müller)
3. Heinz Rothgang, Karin Gottschall, Anna Safuta, Kristin Noack, Marlene Seiffarth, Greta-Marleen Storath, University of Bremen
   Migrantization of long-term care in Europe. On search of causal mechanisms (Discussant: Friederike Römer)

Conference Dinner at Ratskeller

Day 2
9.30-11.00
Session 4: Mechanisms of Social Policy Dynamics – Transnational Interdependencies (Chair: Frank Nullmeier)

1. Andreas Heinrich¹, Gulnaz Isabekova¹, Armin Müller², Heiko Pleines¹, Tobias ten Brink², ¹University of Bremen, ²Jacobs University Bremen
   Types of international policy-related knowledge transfer. From conditionality to elaborated autonomous policy learning (Discussant: Lutz Leisering)
2. Monika Ewa Kaminska, Ertila Druga, Ante Malinar, Liva Stupele, University of Bremen
   Reforms from within or reforms from without? Defying international organizations’ agenda in healthcare reforms in Central Eastern Europe: in search of causal mechanisms (Discussant: Andreas Heinrich)
3. Friederike Römer, Jakob Henninger, University of Bremen
   Democracy and immigrant rights - Conflicting mechanisms at play (Discussant: Sebastian Haunss)

Coffee break

11.15-12.30
Plenary Session: Could we hope to compile a list of basic causal mechanisms? (Chair: Karin Gottschall)

Peter Starke, University of Southern Denmark
Delia González de Reufels, Johanna Kuhlmann, Frank Nullmeier, Klaus Schlichte, University of Bremen

Lunch

13.45-15.15
Session 5: Mechanisms of Social Policy Dynamics in Latin America (Chair: Delia González de Reufels)

1. Osmany Porto de Oliveira, Federal University of São Paulo
   Mechanisms for social policy diffusion: theory and evidences from the Brazilian case (Discussant: Tobias ten Brink)
2. Cecilia Rossel¹, Florencia Antía², ¹Universidad Católica del Uruguay, ²Universidad de la República
   The politics of sanctioning the poor: Revealing causal mechanisms in Uruguay’s CCT programs (Discussant: Reynaldo Jiménez Guethón)
3. Sebastian Sirén, Stockholm University
   The Struggle over universalisation. Actors and institutions in the process towards health care reform in Bolivia (Discussant: Monika Ewa Kaminska)

Coffee break

15.30-16.30
Armando Barrientos, University of Manchester
The rise and fall of Bismarckian social policy in Latin America

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Place	Unicom building Room: 7.2210 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen
Time	2 pm - 4 pm
Organiser	Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels; Dr. Teresa Huhle; Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte; Dr. Alex Veit
Contact Person	Dr. Alex Veit
Organisation	Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Universität Bremen; Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Universität Bremen; Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen
Semester	WiSe 2019/20

The Transnational & Area Studies-Colloquium is a new venue for interdisciplinary debate on pertinent questions of transnational scope and area studies relevance. Scholars and students meet on a monthly basis to discover new approaches and joint research interests. The colloquium is open to the interested public.

Subscribe to the mailing list for regular updates and pre-circulated readings: https://mailman.zfn.uni-bremen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tas-colloquium

Place	Unicom Building Room: 7.3280 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen
Time	2.15 pm - 3.45 pm
Organiser	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS); Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Universität Bremen; Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen

Alex Nadège Ouedraogo (InIIS) discusses her dissertation proposal:
Analysis of food social policies in Senegal

Place	Unicom Building Room: 7.4500 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 4 pm
Contact Person	Dr. Alex Veit

Ndangwa Noyoo examines global social policy in the current global climate which is typified by, inter alia, increasing unilateralism, narrow nationalism and xenophobia. The former negative forces are not just confined within countries but are rapidly transcending nation-states and regions of the world, with far-reaching consequences. Global social policy is therefore juxtaposed against these cited trends whilst considering the progress that has been made in this area in past decades. Noyoo also advances his position which sees global social policy as a transformative force which needs to be harnessed and specifically directed by various role players in this era. Arguably, one major force that triggered the cited negative forces is the push factor of uncontrolled and illegal migrations of vulnerable groups from conflict and poverty-ridden parts of the world to the developed northern countries. Drawing on secondary literature and other empirical researches, Noyoo argues for a consolidation of global social policy, despite the deteriorating global situation, through the forging of stronger North – South networks. Also, he calls for a more robust global social policy as it could help to stem the tide of not only the cited migrations, but other social ills, at their source, by raising the quality of life of vulnerable groups in stressed countries. Nevertheless, the aforementioned needs to be predicated on a foundation of international solidarity which, at present, seems to be waning.

Place	Unicom Room: 3.3380 Mary-Somerville-Straße 3 28359 Bremen
Time	2 p.m. until 4 p.m.
Organiser	Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Universität Bremen

What were the consequences of the Arab Spring and the subsequent regime changes for Tunisia's and Egypt's social policy? What are the similarities and differences between the two countries? InIIS Managing Director Dr. Roy Karadag will address these questions in a lecture at the InIIS BIGSSS Colloquium.