The Polycrisis and Social Policy in Europe, Asia, and Beyond 

Best Practices of Social Policy in Turbulent Times

Keynotes by

• Shogo Takegawa – Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo


• Satoko Hotta, Professor, Keio University


• Yasushi Sukenari – Associate Professor, Tokyo University


• Bea Cantillon – Emeritus with assignment, University of Antwerp,
  Dept. of Sociology, FISS Secretary-General


• Emiko Ochiai – Professor of Sociology at Kyoto Sangyo University
  and Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University


• Kenneth Nelson – Barnett Professor of Social Policy, Department
  of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford


• Rense Nieuwenhuis – Researcher, Stockholm University


• Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak –  Associate Professor, SGH Warsaw
  School of Economics

Social Security Systems: Challenges, Responses, Impacts and Sustainability

Keynotes by

Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak (Vice-Rector for Science and Director of the Institute of Statistics and Demography at SGH Warsaw School of Economics)

Arnaldur Sölvi Kristjánsson (University of Iceland)

The Role of Social Security and Social Welfare Responses in a Turbulent World

Keynotes by

Stephen Jenkins, London School of Economics

Caroline Delaporte, Copenhagen Business School

Julia Shu-Huah Wang, University of Hong Kong

Bea Cantillon, University of Antwerp

Mitigating the Economic and Social Impact of Covid-19: The Role of Social Security and Social Welfare Responses in East and West

The 17th Annual Conference of the East Asian Social Policy Research Network & The 27th Annual Conference of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security.

The hybrid event was hosted at Lingnan Universty, Hong Kong.

Keynotes:

• Ruth Lister (Member of the UK House of Lords and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University)


• Bjørn Hvinden (Professor in Sociology, NOVA Norwegian Social Research, Oslo Metropolitan University)


• Olli Kangas (Professor of Practice, University of Turku)


• Nathalie Morel (Assistant Professor, Sciences Po)

Conference Theme: Social Security at the Crossroads? Learning from the Past, Imagining the Future

Keynotes:

• Tim Smeeding (University of Wisconsin) – Child Poverty and Public Policy in Anglo-Saxon Countries


• Tania Burchardt (London School of Economics) – Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Implications for Deprivation and Poverty Across Europe


• Olli Kangas (Director of Government and Community Relations, Kela, The Finnish Social Insurance Institution) – What Can We Learn from Large-scale Experiments: Experimenting with Basic income in Finland?


• Qin Gao (Columbia University) – China’s War on Poverty: Will It Succeed?

Responding to Many Challenges: The Future of Social Security

Keynotes:

• Philippe Van Parijs – Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics, Catholic University of Louvain


• Elsa Fornero – Professor of Economics, University of Turin


• Qin Gao – Associate Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia University


• John Hudson – Professor of Social Policy, University of York

Poverty, Inequality and its Impacts Following the Financial Crisis

Keynotes:

• Tim Smeeding – Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics,
  University of Wisconsin-Madison


• Mary Daly – Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Oxford


• Martin Evans – Senior Advisor Child Poverty, Social Inclusion, Budgeting and Policy, UNICEF


• Holly Sutherland – Research Professor and Director of EUROMOD, Institute for Social and
  Economic Research, University of Essex

Social Security East and West: Common Challenges, Distinctive Solutions?

For the first time, the FISS conference was held outside Europe, signalling an attempt to involve more scholars from Asia in the conference and in FISS more generally.

Keynotes:

• John Hills (The London School of Economics and Political Science)


• Brian Nolan (University College Dublin)


• Lars Osberg (Dalhousie University)


• Lieve Fransen (EC DG Empl)

Keynotes:

• Christina Behrendt (ILO) on the Social Protection Floor


• Lieve Fransen (EC DG Empl) on Europe 2020


• Chris de Neubourg (Chief of Social & Economic Policy at UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre) on how social protection systems can improve the lives of children


• Michele Durant (OECD) on ‘Beyond GDP’

Keynotes:

• Walter Korpi – Causes Of Rise Of The Full Employment Welfare State In Western Countries After 1945 And Of Its Demise After 1980


• Armando Barrientos – Social Protection In The South. A Quiet Revolution?


• Roy Sainsbury – Cross-National Research In Social Security – Is There A Case For Greater Use Of Qualitative Methods?

Growth, Social Protection and Inequality

Keynotes:

• Frank Vandenbroucke – The EU needs a Social Investment Pact


• Martin Ravallion – Weakly Relative Poverty


• Wiemer Salverda – Societies’ (un)equal treatment of the low skilled


• Lane Kenworthy – Should we worry about inequality?

The Global Crises : Impact and Challenges for Social Security

Keynotes:

• Tony Atkinson (Oxford University)


• Anton Hemerijck (VU University Amsterdam)


• Herwig Immervoll (OECD)


• Joakim Palme (Institute For Future Studies – Stockholm)

Social Security, Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rich and Poor Countries

Keynotes:

• Michael Förster on ‘Growing unequal? Income inequality and poverty in OECD countries’


• Märkus Jantti on Gender, poverty, and social policy regimes: a comparative analysis of twenty-four upper-income countries


• Bea Cantillon on Poverty and the ‘investment state’: old and new social risks


• Peter Saunders on Deprivation, social exclusion and social security in Australia 


• Jonathan Bradshaw on How is child poverty related to child well-being? A comparison of
  child income poverty and deprivation in the European Union 

Social Protection for a Post-industrial World

Keynotes:

• Jacob Hacker on The New Economic Insecurity: The American Experience in Cross-National Perspective


• Giuliano Bonoli on The politics of post-industrial social policies


• Jochen Clasen on Re-designing unemployment protection in post-industrial labour markets


• Neil Gilbert on A mother’s work: how feminism, the market and policy shape family life

Social Security, Happiness and Well-being

Social Protection in an Ageing World

Curing the Dutch Disease: An International Perspective on Disability Policy Reform

Social Security and Health Care

Age, Work and Social Security

Co-organised with the Centre for Population, Poverty and Policy Studies (CEPS) in Luxembourg. Selected papers published by Macmillan in volume edited by Tony Atkinson and Martin Rein in 1993