Stephan Scheuzger, Abteilung Geschichte, Liechtenstein-Institut
THURSDAY, 12 OCTOBER
18:00 – 18:15 – Welcome address / Introduction
Stephan Scheuzger (Liechtenstein-Institut)
18:15 – 19:00 – Keynote lecture
Matthieu Leimgruber (Universität Zürich): Observing, Borrowing, Re-Packaging. The Porous Boundaries of the Welfare State
FRIDAY, 13 OCTOBER
09:00 – 10:30 – Panel I: Spaces of Biopolitics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts
Martin Gabriel (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt): Fat Indians, Mad Paupers, Speckled Monsters – Spaces of Biopolitics in Colonial New Spain
Delia González de Reufels (Universität Bremen): Schools as Spaces of Social Policy: The Transnational History of Latin American School Hygiene
11:00 – 12:30 – Panel II: Social Policy and the Nation State
Sandra Fleischmann (Universität Basel): A Strong Nation State = A Strong Welfare State? The Power of Municipalities and Localized Charities in Swiss Poor Relief, 1870–1930
Marcus Gräser (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz): Welfare State Building without a Nation State: Austria 1918/20
14:00 – 15:30 – Panel III: Territories of Social Insurance
Beate Althammer (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin): Passing through Spaces: Migration and the Design of Social Insurance (ca. 1880–1914)
Daniel Nethery (Freie Universität Berlin): Worlds of Welfare, Old and New: The Territoriality of Social Insurance and Social Security
16:00 – 18:15 – Panel IV: Spaces of Social Housing
Peirou Chu (École normale supérieure de Lyon): Tensions between Mass Lodging and Individual Dwelling: A Study of Spatial Dynamics in Franco-German Interwar Public Housing Programmes
Daniel Hadwiger (Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung, Erkner): Temporary Homes. The Accommodation of Migrant Workers in Marseille, 1950–1980
Eliane Schmid (Université du Luxembourg): Navigating through Blue and Green Space – Marseille’s Conception of Parks and the Ocean in the Early 1970s
SATURDAY, 14 OCTOBER
09:30 – 10:15 – Panel V: A Question of Size and Scales
Stephan Scheuzger (Liechtenstein-Institut): A National Microhistory? Poor Relief in Liechtenstein, 19th and 20th Centuries
10:45 – 12:00
Final discussion