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 Kerem Gabriel Öktem's, Johanna Kuhlmann's, Laura Andrea Alvárez Tobar's, Frank Nullmeier's and Delia González de Reufel's draft paper "How are groups constituted through social policy legislation? Exploring temporal sequences of inclusion into old-age protection in a global perspective".

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PEW discusses early/unpublished papers or research plans that investigate the political economy (broadly construed) of social policy and inequality.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	Gästehaus der Universität Bremen Teerhof 8 28199 Bremen
Time	12.45 pm - 8 pm (Thursday); 10 am - 3 pm (Friday)
Organisation	Teilprojekt B11 (2022-25): SFB 1342, Universität Bremen

Deep and prolonged recessions put modern societies under immense pressure: such economic crises have the potential to make millions jobless, to produce mass poverty and thus to shake the foundations of social peace.

Consequently, economic depressions have provoked wide-ranging reactions in the field of social policy, destroying established institutions and at the same time opening up new and audacious paths for social policy development. The CRC 1342 workshop "Economic Crises and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century" sets out to explore the repercussions of economic crises on social policy from a trans- and cross-national and historical perspective.

The workshop will focus on the two most important worldwide recession phases of the twentieth century: the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s and the crisis-ridden period spanning from the oil price shock of the early 1970s to the Asian financial crisis and the economic turmoil in Latin America at the end of the millennium. This allows us to examine how economic crises triggered social policy changes and how these fit into a larger context of state activities concerned with citizens’ welfare. We focus on policy shifts and long-lasting institutional breaks as well as the development of discourses and ideas and the emergence of discrete historical actors – collective and individual – who left their imprint on social policy development. The geographical scope is global and deliberately trans-cends the borders of the OECD. 

The full programme of the workshop is availabe here:
https://workshopeconomiccrisesandsocialpolicy.wordpress.com/programme/

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"Economic Crises and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century" will take place as a hybrid event from the 1st to 2nd December 2022 in Bremen. However, we would prefer to meet in person with as many participants as possible and will cover all travel and accommodation costs. The event will start and finish around lunchtime and include presentations and panel discussions. We intend to publish the results of the workshop. 

If you would like to attend the conference, please contact Claire Rostalski (Email: claire1@uni-bremen.de) to receive an invitation.

Organised by Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels and Prof. Dr. Cornelius Torp.

Place	Unicom building Room: 9.3120 Mary-Somerville-Str. 9 28359 Bremen
Time	11 am - 12.30 pm

Mitglieder der Universität Bremen und der BIGSSS an der Jacobs University sind herzlich eingeladen zur mündlichen Verteidigung von Martín Cortina Escuderos Doktorarbeit "Diverging Paths of Social Policy Development in Latin America States: A Case Study on Argentina and Mexico from the Colonial Times to the Early Post-World-War-II Period".

Die Verteidigung findet im Hybridmodus statt. Um den Link zu erhalten, wenden Sie sich bitte direkt an Martín Cortina Escudero (cortinae@uni-bremen.de).

Der Prüfungskommission gehören an:

• Prof. Dr. Philip Manow
  
• Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels
• Prof. Dr. Armando Barrientos
• Prof. Dr. Tobias ten Brink
• Dr. Johanna Kuhlmann
• Dr. Jakob Henninger
• Gonzalo Arevalo Iglesias

Place	Bremen
Time	11 am - 12.30 pm

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.

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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	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

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	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: 7.1020 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	Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels
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

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 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	Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels
Lecture Series	Jour Fixe
Semester	SoSe 2019

Place	GW2 Room: B2770 Universitäts-Boulevard 13 28359 Bremen
Time	12.30 pm - 1.30 p.m.
Organiser	Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Universität Bremen
Partic. Organisation	Teilprojekt B02: SFB 1342, Universität Bremen

Place	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

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	Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels
Cooperation	Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS); SOCIUM Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen

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.