Thursday, September 14, 2017
13:00 – 13:30: Registration and Welcome
13:30 – 13:45: Introduction
Delia González de Reufels (Universität Bremen) / Teresa Huhle (Universität Bremen)
13:45 – 15:15: Panel 1 Transnational Labour Policies
- Delia González de Reufels (Universität Bremen): Chair
- Manuel Bastias Saavedra (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main / Universität Bremen): Jehring and the Working Class. Law and Labour in Turn of the Century Latin America, 1890-1930
- Thomas Maier (University College London / Universität Bremen): The Worker’s State and the International Agenda – Perón’s „Nueva Argentina“, Labour Diplomacy, and Counterdiscourses during the Early Cold War
- Rainer Dombois (Universität Bremen): Comment
15:15 – 15:45: Coffee
15:45 – 17:15: Panel 2 Colonial and Imperial Social Policies
- Norbert Finzsch (Universität zu Köln): Chair
- Daniel Nethery (Australian National University, Canberra): Imperial Legacies in the French Welfare State
- Andreas Eckert (Humboldt Universität Berlin): From Poverty to Informality? Labour and the Social Question in Sub-Saharan Africa after 1945
- Carina Schmitt (Universität Bremen): Comment
17:15 – 17:30: Coffee
17:30 – 18:45: Keynote 1
- Teresa Huhle (Universität Bremen): Introduction
- Anne-Emanuelle Birn (University of Toronto): South-South Cooperation: Building Healthy Societies through Alternative Solidarities
Friday, September 15, 2017
09:00 – 11:00: Panel 3 International Organizations and Platforms
- Carina Schmitt (Universität Bremen): Chair
- Nina Schneider (Universität zu Köln): Latin American Child Labour Laws in Historical and Global Perspective
- Teresa Huhle (Universität Bremen): Promoting the „Model Country“: Uruguays International Display of Public Assistance Policies in the Early Twentieth Century
- Paula Lucía Aguilar (CONICET, Buenos Aires): Households, Food and Wages: The Hygienic-Economic Survey of the National Institute of Nutrition and the ILO
- Delia González de Reufels (Universität Bremen): Comment
11:00 – 11:15: Coffee
11:15 – 13:15: Panel 4 Welfare, Development & Social Rights
- Teresa Huhle (Universität Bremen): Chair
- Anna Derksen (Universiteit Leiden): The Struggle for Disability Rights in a Development Context: Entanglements and Exchanges between Scandinavia and the Global South in the 1980s
- Angela Villani (University of Messina): From Southern Europe to Global South: Unicef Nation Building Strategy and the Spreading of Welfare Systems after WW2
- Jadwiga Pieper Mooney (University of Arizona): Chile, Mozambique, and Back: The Politics of Social Medicine from the Welfare State to Dictatorship
- Norbert Finzsch (Universität zu Köln): Comment
13:15 – 14:30: Lunch
14:30 – 15:45: Keynote 2
- Delia González de Reufels (Universität Bremen): Introduction
- Christoph Conrad (Université de Genève): ‘Global Aging’: Planetary Process – Transnational Discourse – National Responses
15:45 – 16:00: Coffee
16:00 – 16:30: Concluding Remarks and Final Discussion
Delia González de Reufels (Universität Bremen) / Teresa Huhle (Universität Bremen)