'Whose Welfare? Fresh Perspectives on the Post-war Welfare State and its Global Entanglements

Paul Van Trigt Announcement
Location
Netherlands
Subject Fields
Economic History / Studies

Programme

 

Thursday January 19

9.00 am Registration

9.30 am Introduction

9.45-11.15 am International institutions & welfare state (discussant Peter van Dam)

-The  Internationalization of Social Security in Europe (1945-1970s) A Socio-historical Perspective on the Entrepreneurs of an International Social Law (Karim Fertikh)

-The Liberal Economic Turn of International Disability Policy after the Second World War (Gildas Brégain)

-“A true revolution of the minds concerning the handicapped person, his social situation and the implementation of care”? The Impact of the UN International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) on Belgium’s shifting Welfare State Policies for Disabled Citizens (Anaïs Van Ertvelde)

11.30-12.30 pm International law & welfare state (discussant Lieneke Slingenberg)

-Welfare and Exclusion: Vulnerability as Alternative Foundation for the Provision of Social Rights to Non-Citizens (Veronika Flegar)

-Bordering (on) a Welfare State: A Historical Perspective on Refugee Assistance as ‘International Welfare’  (Evan Easton-Calabria)

Lunch

14-18 pm Public Programme (Lipsius Building, room 227)

14 pm Key-note Sandrine Kott: The Welfare State: National, Transnational, International

15 pm Q&A

15.30 pm Debate with Council for Health and Society (Raad voor Volksgezondheid en Samenleving) about Social Services for Refugees and the question How to Guarantee Social-Economic Human Rights in a Decentralized Welfare State?

17.00 Drinks

 

Friday January 20

10.00-11.00 am (Post)colonial welfare state 1 (discussant Bram Mellink)

-Colonial Moods: Administrative Violence and Welfare State Development (Ernst Rose)

-Ableist life paths: Intersections of Gender, Dis/ability and Family Formation in the Past, Present and Future Swedish Welfare State (Christine Bylund)

11.15-12.15 pm (Post)colonial welfare state 2 (discussant Gert Oostindie)

-Social Rights in the Flotsam of the French Empire (Daniel Nethery)

-Social Citizenship during the Decolonisation of the Dutch Caribbean (Paul van Trigt)

Lunch

13.30-14.30 pm Migration & welfare state 1 (discussant Dennie Oude Nijhuis tbc)

-Universal Welfare States in the Age of Modern Migration. Migrants Social Rights in Denmark 1962-1998 (Heidi Vad Jønsson)

-The Belgian Welfare State and the Labor Migration, 1930/45- 1960 (Frank Caestecker)

14.45-15.45 pm Migration & welfare state 2 (discussant Ido de Haan)

-Migration, European Integration, and the Logics of French Welfare (Michael A. Kozakowski)

-Historical Approaches on the Evolution of the Rights of Non-Working Family Members of Migrant Workers in the European Community  (Monika Baar)

15.45-16.00 pm Final discussion

Contact Information

dr. Paul van Trigt, Institute for History, Leiden University

Contact Email
p.w.van.trigt@hum.leidenuniv.nl