About the keynote
The keynote speech will be given by two distinguished scholars from partner universities within the CIVIS alliance, Prof. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser from the University of Tübingen and Prof. Zoe Lefkofridi from the University of Salzburg.
The keynote will highlight the stratification of social rights and the regional variation within the EU. The speakers will discuss whether we need to look beyond nation states and the concept of a European Social Union as a “holding environment” for national welfare states, if we aim to realize social citizenship in the European Union.
About the speakers
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the Institute of Political Science of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Professor Seeleib-Kaiser’s research focuses on the politics of social policy and comparative social policy analysis. His areas of research interest are: the relationship between globalization and welfare systems, political parties and the welfare state, the interplay between ‘public’ and ‘private’ social protection policies and associated processes of dualization as well as social rights of EU citizens.
Zoe Lefkofridi is University Professor of Politics & Gender, Diversity & Equality at the Department of Political Science at the University of Salzburg. Professor Lefkofridi researches and teaches on democracy, diversity, and equality, focusing on the causes and consequences of unequal political participation and representation.
Practical information
When: May 15th 2024, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm
Where: IEE-ULB | Salle Spaak | 39 avenue Franklin Roosevelt | Campus Solbosch | ULB
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About the IDEAS24 conference
The IDEAS conference is a forum to present and discuss cutting-edge research investigating inequality in relationship with European politics and policies. It brings together scholars interested in how the EU has been a driver of inequality or, on the contrary, how it has tackled it in a number of policy domains.
The biennial Interdisciplinary conference on European Advanced Studies (IDEAS) is a three-day scientific event organized by the Institut d’études européennes of the Université libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB) in collaboration with the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (IES-VUB) and the Politics and International Studies Department at the University of Warwick (PaIS-UoW).
Discover the detailed programme of the conference here.
This conference is organised with the support of IEE’s Jean Monnet Center of Excellence EUqualis, devoted the important topic Inequality and the EU and it is cofunded by the Erasmus + programme of the European Union (101047382 —EUqualis — ERASMUS-JMO-2021-HEI-TCH-RSCH).