The conference brings together, on one hand, discussions about the genesis of a thin European social citizenship, which seems to be in development process, and on the other hand, issues of care, whether paid or unpaid, in the context of welfare states and different forms of welfare (state, market, civil society). The intention is to relate feminist thinking and feminist theory on citizenship with a specific attention to care together with the empirical tendency towards Europeanization of welfare and changes in European societies taking place presently. The overall aim is to develop new theoretical insights on this field. In doing so, the relationship between Europeanization and globalization dynamics needs to be discussed and theoretized anew.

The Conference includes the following, confirmed key note speakers:

Joan Tronto (Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Hunters College, CUNY)

Judith Squires (Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Bristol)

Fiona Williams (Professor, Dept. of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds)

Kevät Nousiainen (Professor. Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki) 

Papers and participation:

The conference is open to all members of the CINEFOGO Network as well as for other interested researchers throughout Europe. The conference (and accommodation costs) will be free for paper-givers and members of the CINEFOGO Network of Excellence, while travel costs will be covered by each individual participant. For people without a paper, the travel and accommodation costs will have to be covered by themselves/their institution.

The deadline for proposing abstracts for papers is now exceeded with a result of 21 papers to be presented at the conference. We have invited theoretical as well as empirical papers – and will attempt to create an interdisciplinary conference with 30 participants from various disciplines representing different modes of reasoning. We envisage contributions that thematize theories of citizenship with an attention to care (its various forms) and/or to discussions about the emergence of the contours of a European social citizenship.
 
The final deadline for papers is set for 17^th of March 2008. With reference to the complete number of papers, a suitable size for each paper is approximately 25 pages.

 We expect the keynote speeches and some of the presented papers to lead to a publication in a book series by Edwin Elgar.

More information:

Contact associate professor, Dr. Hanne Marlene Dahl  hmdahl@ruc.dk
Professor. Dr. Anne Kovalainen  Anne.Kovalainen@tse.fi
Marja Keränen Markera@yfi.jyu.fi

Media

Article on the conference "Women’s citizenship in Europe: still the more fragile one" on CORDIS