The History and Sociology of Welfare Work
Previous events
2023
14 March 2023, 15-17: Conversations about the paradoxes of welfare work – a book launch (read more - in Danish)
2019
25 September 2019, 9:00-16:00: Studying the benevolence of welfare work: Extending and experimenting with fruitful concepts
Spring 2016
Thursday 26 May 2016 09:00-10:30 Public lecture by Professor Vincent Dubois, Institute for Political Studies, University of Strasbourg: Welfare work as bureaucratic work: how state agents state individual cases. Read more about the lecture here.
Room 23.0.49 (auditorium)
Thursday 26 May 2016 09:00-16:00 Analysing the history and sociology of welfare work. All-day seminar with a lecture and two roundtable discussions. Read more about the seminar here.
Spring 2015
Tuesday 3 March 2015 10:00-16:00: Neoliberalisations of welfare work? Analyses of shifting practices – Read description of seminar, programme and abstracts.
Room 22.0.11 (auditorium).
Thursday 5 March 2015 10:00-12:00: Public lecture by Andrew Woolford (Professor at Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba): “First I have to tell you about the genocide”: Canadian residential schools, social services, and the settler colonial present. Read more information on this lecture.
Room 22.0.11 (auditorium)
Friday 13 March 2015 14:00-16:00: Hanne Marlene Dahl (Professor at Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University): New Public Management og andre diskurser møder de velfærdsprofessionelle: Om identitet, modstand og oversættelse.
Room 14.3.46.
Monday 20 April 2015 14:00-16:00: Marie Østergaard Møller (Senior Researcher at KORA: The National Institute for Municipalities’ and Regions’ Analyses and Research): Sagsbehandleres rolleopfattelser og problemforklaringer: Tegn på neoliberalisme i danske og svenske velfærdsstater? Read more about this seminar here.
Room 14.3.46.
Autumn 2014
Monday 27 October 14:00-16:00 Niklas Olsen (Assistant professor in History, University of Copenhagen): Liberalisme og neoliberalisme: diskussioner og varianter.
Friday 7 November 15:00-17:00 Thomas Brante (Professor in Sociologi, University of Lund): Professionelle landskaber: felter, generationer og tværgående tendenser.
Thursday 20 November 14:00-16:00: Gitte Sommer Harrits (Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Aarhus): Velfærdsprofessionelt arbejde og symbolske hierarkier mellem og på tværs af professioner.