European Union Center

Program

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Jane Jenson (University of Montreal):
"Building with LEGO™: The European Union 'Modernizes' Welfare"
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Mary Daly (Queen's University, Belfast):
"Quo Vadis EU Social Policy? Assessing the European Social Inclusion Strategy"
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2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Coffee Break

2:30-4:30 p.m.

Tamara Hervey (University of Sheffield Law School):
"EU Governance of Health Care and the Liberalization Agenda"
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Jonathan Zeitlin (UW-Madison):
"The Lisbon Strategy, the Open Method of Coordination, and the Future of Social Europe"
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Workshop Presenters

Mary Daly

Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at the School of Sociology and Social Policy at Queen's University Belfast. Among the fields on which she has published are poverty, welfare state, gender, family and labor market. Much of her work is comparative, in a European and international context. She is a member of a number of European networks and boards on topics related to the welfare state, employment, family and gender. She is also involved in a number of activities on the future of social policy in an international context for the European Commission and the Council of Europe. Her most recent publication on EU social policy is: "EU Social Policy after Lisbon" in Journal of Common Market Studies (2006).

Jane Jenson

Jane Jenson holds a senior Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance (CCCG) at the University of Montreal, where she is also a Professor of Political Science. In 2005 she was named a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation and in 2004 became a member of the Successful Societies Programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) in 1989. Between 1999 and 2004 she was the Director of the Family Network, Canadian Policy Research Networks, Inc., an Ottawa-based social policy think tank, and is currently the Directrice of Lien social et Politique - RIAC, a social policy journal, based in Montreal and with an editorial committee also based in France. Her numerous publications on comparative social policy and gender issues include: Who Cares? Women's Work, Child Care and Welfare State Redesign (with Mariette Sineau, 2001); The Gendering of Inequalities: Women, Men and Work (with Jacqueline Laufer and Margaret Maruani, 2000); Globalizing Institutions: Case Studies In Social Regulation and Innovation (with Boaventura de Sousa Santos, 2000); "Building Blocks for a New Social Architecture: The LEGO™ Paradigm of an Active Society" in Policy and Politics (with Denis Saint-Martin, 2006); "Social Investment Perspectives and Practices: A Decade in British Politics" in Social Policy Review (with Alexandra Dobrowolsky, 2005); "Shifting Representations of Citizenship: Canadian Politics of 'Women' and 'Children'" in Social Politics (with Alexandra Dobrowolsky, 2004); "Family Responsibility or Investing in Children: Shifting the Paradigm" in Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie (2004).

Tamara Hervey

Tamara Hervey is Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Sheffield. She studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Sheffield, and held lectureships at the Universities of Durham and Manchester, and a Readership and subsequently Chair at the University of Nottingham. Professor Hervey's interests are in the law of the European Union, in particular its social and constitutional dimensions. She is author of European Social Law and Policy (1998) and co-author (with Jean McHale) of Health Law and the European Union (2004). She is co-editor (with Jeff Kenner) of Economic and Social Rights under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (2003), and (with Professor David O'Keeffe) of Sex Equality Law in the European Union (1996). She has written on the EU's contribution to sex and race equality in its Member States, on the EU's regulation of genetically modified organisms, and of human reproduction. In 2000-01, she held a Leverhulme Fellowship and in 2002-03 an Arts and Humanities Research Board Research Leave Scheme award, for research on the emerging health law and policy of the European Union. She is currently working on the implications of EU law for health law in a number of fields, including the "constitutional" significance of governance of health care by EU institutions; the implications for health care regulation of the current broader European welfare debates, including those calling for the embedding of rights-based models; and application of EU law to stem cell research. She is also working on an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project on theory and methodology in EU law.

Jonathan Zeitlin

Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also directs the European Union Center of Excellence and the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE). His research ranges widely across the comparative and historical analysis of socioeconomic governance, business organization, and employment relations, with particular emphasis on contemporary Europe. He has presented his policy research to committee hearings and conferences organized by European Union institutions, including the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the Greek Presidency of the EU. His recent publications include Local Players in Global Games: The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation (with Peer Hull Kristensen, 2005); The Open Method of Co-ordination: The European Employment and Social Inclusion Strategies (with Philippe Pochet, 2005); Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments (with David Trubek, 2003); Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Postwar Europe and Japan (with Gary Herrigel, 2000); as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is co-editor of Socio-Economic Review, published by Oxford University Press for the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).