Place	Unicom Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Contact Person	Dr. Jakob Frizell; Felix Lanver
Lecture Series	Political Economy Workshop (PEW)
Semester	WiSe 2024/25

PEW offers a platform to discuss early/unpublished papers that investigate the political economy, broadly construed, of social policy and inequality, with the ambition to bring together researchers at the SOCIUM and beyond, across methodological divides and with varying levels of experience.

The workshop format is as follows: Authors briefly introduce the background of the paper (1-2 minutes), a discussant shortly summarizes the paper and provides feedback (10-15 minutes), and subsequently we open to the audience. Papers are circulated one week in advance.

And most importantly, everyone is warmly welcome to attend!

You can sign up here for our mailing list.

Place	Unicom-building Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Contact Person	Dr. Jakob Frizell; Felix Lanver
Lecture Series	Political Economy Workshop (PEW)
Semester	SoSe 2024

PEW offers a platform to discuss early/unpublished papers that investigate the political economy, broadly construed, of social policy and inequality, with the ambition to bring together researchers at the SOCIUM and beyond, across methodological divides and with varying levels of experience.

The workshop format is as follows: Authors briefly introduce the background of the paper (1-2 minutes), a discussant shortly summarizes the paper and provides feedback (10-15 minutes), and subsequently we open to the audience. Papers are circulated one week in advance.

And most importantly, everyone is warmly welcome to attend!

You can sign up here for our mailing list.

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	Dr. Johanna Fischer; Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang
Lecture Series	Jour Fixe
Semester	WiSe 2023/24

Place	Haus der Wissenschaft Sandstr. 4 28195 Bremen
Time	9.45/9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Contact Person	Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter; Julian Götsch, M.A.
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.

Place	Unicom-building Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Str. 7 28359 Bremen
Time	2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Contact Person	Dr. Jakob Frizell; Dr. Johanna Kuhlmann
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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Place	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

Place	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

Place	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

Place	Mary-Somerville-Str. 7 28359 Bremen
Time	10 am - 4 pm
Contact Person	Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss
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. 1) handling of typical data formats for model training and prediction (CSV, XMI CAS, CoNLL),
2. 2) application of pre-trained models,
3. 3) training or fine-tuning of models with own data for new tasks,
4. 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; 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

Place	Room: Seminar Room 3 (ground floor) Mary-Somerville-Str. 3 28209 Bremen
Time	10.15 am - 11.45 am
Commentator of the Lecture	Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter

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

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	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	4 pm - 5.30 pm
Organiser	Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen
Contact Person	Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss
Partic. Organisation	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS); SOCIUM Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen
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

Place	Online, via Zoom
Time	9.30 am - 3.30 pm
Contact Person	Dr. Johanna Fischer
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.

Place	online
Time	Flexible
Contact Person	Dr. Johanna Fischer
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.

Place	Bremen
Time	diverse
Organisation	Philipp Jarke
Partic. Organisation	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS); Institut für Europastudien; Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Universität Bremen; Zentrum für Arbeit und Politik (zap)

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.

Place	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

Place	Unicom Building Room: 3.350, 3.380, 3.390 Mary-Somerville-Straße 3 28359 Bremen
Time	tba
Contact Person	Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter; Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels
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

Place	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

Place	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

Place	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