Events of Project B02
Argentine Social Policy and the International Labour Organization, 1919-1943. Conflicts, Debates, and Cooperation
Simon Gerards IglesiasNew Directions in Latin American Film History: The Intellectual Network of the Brazilian Film Critic Salles Gomes
Dr. Ricardo BorrmannPlace | 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.
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The Transnational Formation of a Healthy Nation: Travelling Reformers in Uruguay (1903-1933)
Dr. Teresa HuhlePlace | 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.
Joint networking workshop of A03, B02, B03 and B04
Dr. Sarah Berens; Prof. Dr. Irene Dingeldey; Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels; Prof. Dr. Philip Manow; Prof. Dr. Ulrich Mückenberger; Prof. Dr. Susanne K. SchmidtPlace | Unicom building Room: 9.3120 Mary-Somerville-Straße 9 28359 Bremen |
Time | 3.30 pm - 5.30 pm |
Contact Person | Jenny Hahs |
Lecture Series | Internal Events |
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
Causal Mechanisms in the Analysis of Social Policy Dynamics
Teilprojekt B01: SFB 1342, Universität BremenPlace | Haus der Wissenschaft Sandstraße 4/5 28195 Bremen |
Time | 8.30 am - 5.00 pm |
Contact Person | |
Organisation | |
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:
- 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.
- 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)
- Holger Straßheim, University of Bielefeld
Transforming social policy (research): the mechanisms of micro-focusing (Discussant: Hubert Heinelt) - Johannes Schmitt, Martin Noltze, German Institute for Development Evaluation Causal mechanisms in evaluation: conceptual confusion, practical application and the way forward (Discussant: Heinz Rothgang)
- 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)
- Olivier Burtin, LMU München/Princeton University
Mechanisms of veterans’ policy in the United States: A comparative overview (Discussant: Teresa Huhle) - Ellen van Reuler, Leiden University
English hospices and palliative care policies as a model for the Netherlands? (Discussant: Anna Safuta) - 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) - 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)
- Traute Meyer, University of Southampton
Industrialism revisited - Changing kinship systems and pension reform in China and Europe (Discussant: Tao Liu) - 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) - 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)
- 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) - 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) - 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)
- 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) - 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) - 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
A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America
Dr. Olivier Burtin (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)Place | Unicom building Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen |
Time | 2.15 pm - 3.45 pm |
Organiser | Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS); SOCIUM Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen; Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen |
Contact Person | |
Lecture Series | Jour Fixe |
Semester | WiSe 2019/20 |
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
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
Labour Policy, Germanness, and Nazi Influence in Brazil
Prof. Ursula Prutsch, Dr. (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)Place | Unicom Building Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen |
Time | 2 pm - 4 pm |
Organiser | Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS); SOCIUM Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen; Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen |
Organisation | |
Lecture Series | Jour Fixe |
Semester | SoSe 2019 |
Of Doctors and Politicians in Chile, 1850-1939: A Transnational History of the Development of Health Policies in the Southern Cone
Prof. Dr. Delia González de ReufelsPlace | GW2 Room: B2770 Universitäts-Boulevard 13 28359 Bremen |
Time | 12.30 pm - 1.30 p.m. |
Organiser | |
Partic. Organisation | Teilprojekt B02: SFB 1342, Universität Bremen |
Social Policies and the Media - The Creation and Circulation of Images of State Intervention in the 20th Century
SOCIUM Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen; Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität BremenPlace | Unicom Building Room: 7.1020 Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 28359 Bremen |
Time | 9:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Organisation | Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels; Dr. Teresa Huhle |
09:15-09:30 Welcome
Delia González de Reufels
09:30-09:50 Promoting the ‚Model Country‘: The Visualization of Uruguayan Public Assistance Policies in the República Batllista (1903-1932)
Teresa Huhle
09:50-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:35 Working for a Healthy and Modern Nation: The Chilean Instituto de Higiene and the Official Photo Book of 1910
Delia González de Reufels
10:35-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-11:40 Social Policy for Productivity. The Figure of the Worker in the Visual Propaganda of Fascist Italy and Peronist Argentina (1922-1955)
Katharina Schembs
11:40-12:05 Discussion
12:05-12:25 For a Healthy and Hygienic Post-Revolutionary Citizen. Cinema and Hygienic Education in Mexico from the 1920s to 1940s
María Rosa Gudiño Cejudo
12:25-12:50 Discussion
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break and Coffee
14:30-14:50 Film as Instrument of Social Enquiry. The British Documentary Film Movement in the Late 1930s
Christine Rüffert
14:50-15:15 Discussion
15:15-15:35 "In Any Case, the Fees Are the Same for All": Physicians and the Welfare State in Early French TV Broadcasts
Joël Danet
15:35-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 Concluding Remarks and Final Discussion
Delia González de Reufels
The Global History of the New Deal
Prof. Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel (Maastricht University)Place | Unicom Building Room: 3.3380 Mary-Somerville-Straße 3 28359 Bremen |
Time | 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. |
Organiser | Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen |
Organisation | |
Cooperation | |
The historian Kiran Klaus Patel from the University of Maastricht presents his current book "The New Deal. A Global History". In preparation, the participants read parts of the book to discuss them with Kiran Klaus Patel in the workshop. The passages to be discussed and the guiding questions will be communicated in advance.
Registration: The number of places in this workshop are restricted. Please register by sending a short email to Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels at dgr@uni-bremen.de.