Sein - Identity, Diversity, Inequality Research BLOG: 2017

Wednesday 13 December 2017

Public conference Closing Event Francqui Chair Steven Vallas

Flexible work and social inequality:
Renegotiating the future of the labour market

8 February 2018

Organizers: Patrizia Zanoni (UHasselt) and Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven)

Room: Grote Aula
UHasselt, Oude Gevangenis
Martelarenlaan 42, 3500 Hasselt

Program

13:30-14:00

Welcome by Prof. Luc De Schepper, Rector Magnificus UHasselt
Welcome by Prof. Piet Pauwels, Dean of the Faculty of Business Economics
Welcome by Prof. Steven Vallas, International Francqui Chair Holder
Welcome by Prof. Patrizia Zanoni, Faculty of Business Economics, Director of SEIN – Identity, Diversity & Inequality Research

Presentation of speakers by Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven)

14:00-14:25

Precarious work and protective gaps: strategies for more inclusive labour markets by Jill Rubery, Professor and Director of the Work and Equalities Institute , University of Manchester (UK)

14:25-14:50

European Integration, Mobility Traps and the Pan-European Precariat by Nathan Lillie, Professor of Social and Public Policy, University of Jyväskylä (Finland)

14:50-15:15

New solidarities: organising and organised precarious workers from a UK perspective by Jane Hardy, Professor, University of Hertfordshire (UK)

15:15-15:45

Coffee break in the foyer

Presentation of speakers by Patrizia Zanoni (UHasselt)

15:45-16:05

Social dumping in transport: the road to Slovakia, by John Reynaerts, Deputy federal secretary, BTB-ABVV

16:05-16:25

Social rights and protection under pressure in the platform-economy, by Jeroen Vandamme, National Trade Union Officer LBC-NKV of ACV-CSC

16:25-16:45

Bridging autonomy and protection of workers: the case of SMart, by Sarah de Heusch, Project Officer for Development and Strategy Unit of SMart

16:45-17:30

Panel discussion with Jill Rubery, Nathan Lillie, Jane Hardy, Jeroen Vandamme, John Reynaerts and Sarah de Heusch moderated by Patrizia Zanoni

17:30-18:30

Reception in the foyer

*Participation is free of charge but registering is required before 25/01/2018

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Thursday 17 August 2017

Invitation: International Francqui Chair Professor Steven Vallas

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Invitation: International Francqui Chair Professor Steven Vallas
September 2017 - February 2018

Flexible Employment Regimes and Social Inequalities

Inaugural Francqui Lecture Professor Steven Vallas - 21 September 2017

A spectre is increasingly haunting European workers. Increasingly called "precarity", the term has only recently been invented, and has quickly become a major concern among not only scholars studying the transformation of employment, but also policy makers, union leaders, feminists, immigrants, and social activists generally. In an age of globalization, the financial crisis, and the digital revolution, a sense of fear and anxiety about economic security has gripped millions of workers to an extent not felt for generations.

Mindful of these concerns, the Francqui Foundation is proud to sponsor a program of events that will be led by the American sociologist Professor Steven Peter Vallas of Northeastern University.

The program commences with an inaugural lecture on "Precarity, Inequality, and the Crisis Tendencies of Neo-liberalism." Scholars from nine Belgian universities will then participate in a series of monthly workshops designed to advance the state of our knowledge about five core themes:

the reconfiguration of collective bargaining;

the health consequences of economic vulnerability;

labor market restructuring and the need for active labor market policies;

alternative forms of employment beyond market-based work; and

the meanings of workplace "diversity" in an age of ethno-nationalism.

The program will close with a symposium in which leading policy makers and intellectuals share their vision of social and economic paths leading beyond the political economy of insecurity.

Personal invitation opening lecture:

We are very pleased to invite you to this opening lecture with Professor Steven Vallas which will include speeches by a member of the Board of Governors (KU Leuven), Bart Kerremans (Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences) and Professor em. Pierre Van Moerbeke (Francqui Foundation). This will be followed by a reception at 7 pm. Please let us know if you will be joining us by clicking here. Please contact us at francquichair@kuleuven.be if you have any questions.

Date: 21 September 2017
Time: 5:00 -7:00 pm
Venue: Promotiezaal (Universiteitshallen), Naamsestraat 22, 3000 Leuven
Reception: R-café, Boekhandelstraat 2, 3000 Leuven

Please register here for the opening lecture and/or the workshops before 14 September 2017.

Workshops:

Please click here for more details on the workshops.

Negotiating Precarity: Comparative Perspectives on Post-Fordist Employment Regimes

19 October 2017, 12:00-5:00 pm, at Université Catholique de Louvain.
Organizers: Valeria Pulignano (KUL) and Laurent Taskin (UCL)

The Personal Consequences of the Neo-Liberal Turn: Subjectivity, Alienation, and Worker Health

16 November 2017, 12:00-5:00 pm, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Organizers: Christophe Vanroelen (VUB) and Pierre Desmarez (ULB).

Neo-Liberalism and 'Active' Labor Market Policies: Dilemmas and Debates

14 December 2017, 12:00-5:00 pm, Université de Liège.
Organizers: Francois Pichault (Ulg) and Ive Marx (UA)

Different Forms of Work in a Post-Fordist Labor Regime: Policies, Discourses, and Experiences

18 January 2018, 12:00-5:00 pm, Universiteit Gent.
Organizers: Lesley Hustinx (UGhent) and Valeria Pulignano (KUL)

Neo-Liberalism and Social Differences: Organizing 'Diversity'

8 February 2018, 10:30 am-1:30 pm, Universiteit Hasselt.
Organizers: Patrizia Zanoni (UHasselt) and Christophe Vanroelen (VUB)

Closing Conference

8 February 2018, 2:00-5:30 pm, Universiteit Hasselt.
Organizers: Patrizia Zanoni (UHasselt) and Valeria Pulignano (KUL)

International Francqui network: KU Leuven (Host institution – Prof. Valeria Pulignano), Universiteit Hasselt: Prof. dr. Patrizia Zanoni, Université Catholique de Louvain: Prof. dr. Laurent Taskin, Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Prof. dr. Christophe Vanroelen, Universiteit Gent: Prof. dr. Lesley Hustinx, Université de Liège: Prof. dr. François Pichault, Universiteit Antwerpen: Prof. dr. Ive Marx, Université Libre de Bruxelles: Prof. dr. Pierre Desmarez.

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