Keynote Speaches
Keynote Speaches, Plenary Presentations and Invited Lectures
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Keynote Speech, Care policies in European welfare states, Final Conference INNCARE, Brno, Czech Republic, 30.3.2017
- Pfau -Effinger, Birgit, Keynote Speech on ‘Culture and Welfare State Change’ at the Annual Conferences of ESPAnet Israel, 2017, Bar-Ilan-University, 22.2.2017.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Lecture, Doctoral Workshop at Bar-Ilan-University, Israel, 23.2.2017
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Lecture, How Culture can contribute to Change in Welfare States, Collegio Carlo Alberto, October 20, 2016
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Talk in Common Session (representing RC19) on ‘Culture and Welfare State Change’, World Forum of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Vienna, July 2016 (representing RC 19)
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Plenary Speech, Family Policy in Germany, International Work-Family Network (WFRN) Conference, Washington, June 2016
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Introductory Keynote Speech; ‘Gender culture and gender inequality’, GRACE Launch Conference, University of Hull, 11.5.2016
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Lecture, Contribution of cultural change to institutional change in family policy 1960-2000: Tracing cultural and institutional processes, Bocconi University, Milan/Italy, 22.2. 2016
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Keynote Speech, The Blurring of the Boundary between Informal and Formal Care Work in European Welfare State Policies, International Conference of Labour Net, University of Tampere, 1.-3.10.2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Keynote Speech, Explaining cross-national Differences in Women's Employment and Childcare: The Interaction between Family policy, culture and socio-economic factors, International EDAC-ESPAnet Summer School at the University of Leuven, 18.-24.9. 2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Keynote Speech, Welfare States and Varieties of Undeclared Work, International Conference, School of Law, University of Sheffield, 24.-26.6.2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Lecture, Erosion der Grenzziehung zwischen formeller und informeller Arbeit in europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten, Institut Zukunft der Arbeit und Technik (IZT), Berlin, 8.6.2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Lecture, Women’s Labour Market Integration in Cultural and Institutional Context, Research Colloguium of the Graduate School BIGSSS, University of Bremen, 22.4.2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Lecture, The contribution of cultural change to institutional change in family policy - historical analysis with process tracing, Research Colloquium, Dept. of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, 9.4.2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Keynote Speech, Reconciliation of Employment and Family in Cultural and Institutional Context, First National Expert Conference of Childhood and Family Sciences, Hamburg, 9.-10.2.2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit - Invited Lecture ‚The Gender Arrangement Approach -Theorising Women’s Employment Behavior‘,Colloquium of the DFG-Collaborative Research Programme/SFB 882 at the University of Bielefeld, 3.12.2014
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Lecture „Interaction of Cultural and Institutional Processes in Changing Welfare States, Colloquium of the Institute for Sociology, University of Goettingen, 26.11.2014
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Lecture, “The Gender Arrangement Approach - Theorising women’s employment behaviour”, University of Nantes, France, 18.10.2014
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Lecture, New Concepts of Care Work by Family Members in European Welfare States, Institute of Gerontology, University of Tokyo, Japan, 16.7.2014
- Pfau-Effinger, Invited Lecture “Concluding Comments”, International Workshop Transnationality and Social Protection: Changing Patterns of Inequalities, University of Bielefeld, Collaborative Research Program/SFB 882, 13.12.2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The theoretical Approach of the Gender Arrangement, Women’s Employment and Care, Keynote Speech, International Young Researchers´ Conference: Local Welfare Systems and Female Labour Market Participation in Europe, University of Hamburg, September 19-20, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Discussant at Roundtable on “Social Justice” of the DAAD Meeting of “International Election Evaluators”, Maison van den Boer Deutschland, Hamburg, September 17,2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Local Welfare Systems and Welfare Culture, Keynote Speach, International PhD Conference ‘Local Welfare Systems and Social Cohesion’ of the EU Projects COPE, FLOWS, Localise, and WILCO, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, June 10-12, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Women’s Èemployment and LTC policies in Germany, International Forum on ‘Long-term Care’, Invited Lecture, Ministry of Health, Taipei, Taiwan, March 28, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Women’s employment and LTC policies in Germany, Keynote Speach, International Conference ‘Long-term Care systems in Denmark, Finland, Germany and What We can Learn in Taiwan’, Medical School, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 26, 2013.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, How to Conduct Ccross National Comparative Women’s Studies: Differences in Women’s Employment Patterns and Family Policies in Europe and the implications for Taiwan Women Employment and Family Policy, Invited Lecture, Spring Workshop
- “Comparative Research on Care Policy in Different Welfare Regimes” for PhD Students, Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, March 25-27, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Long-term Care by Family Members – Comparative Analysis of Welfare State Policies, Invited Lecture, Seminar at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, January 24, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Varieties of Gender Arrangements in Europe, Plenary Speach at the 36. German Congress for Sociology, ‘Ruhr University of Bochum and TU Dortmund, October 2, 2012.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Keynote Speach: ‘Culture and Welfare State Change’, NordWell and REASSESS International Conference “Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare States, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 15, 2012.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, ‘The Role of Migrant aCrers in Different Tpes of Gender Arrangement’, Invited Lecture, Hilary Term 2012 Seminar Series, Oxford Institute of Social Policy, University of Oxford.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare and Culture, Invited Lecture at the Research seminar and Ph.D. workshops: Social justice and the good life?, Centre of Comparative Welfare State Studies (CCWS), University of Aalborg, March 9, 2012.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Kulturelle Grundlagen des Wandels von Wohlfahrtsstaaten, (Cultural Basis of Welfare State Change), Invited Lecture at the Jour Fixe of the Centre for Social Policy, University of Bremen, January 25, 2012.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Cultural and institutional foundations of gender arrangements in international comparison, Invited Lecture at SOCLIFE Seminar, University of Cologne and Max-Planck-Institute for Societal Research, January 18, 1012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Vermarktlichung, Konsumentenprinzip und freie Wahl - Lösung der Probleme von "Care"? (Marketization, Consumer Principle and ‚Free Choice‘), Invited Lecture to Lecture Series on ‚Care – Work for a Good Life), Institute for the Science of Menkind, University of Vienna, December 6, 2011.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Keynote Speach: Welfare State Reforms and Active Citizenship in Europe, at the Annual Conference of the Chinese Association for Industrial Relations/Section in Zhuhai/China, Nov. 19-20, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: The Relationship between Culture and Welfare State Development –Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Research, Invited Lecture at the Renmin University of Bejing, Nov. 17, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: The link between religion and family policies in Europe. Keynote Speach at the Conference Lo Spiriti del Welfare. Le matrici religiose die welfares in Europa, Università di Bologna, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Nov. 11, 2011.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: “The relationship of culture and welfare state development – theoretical reflections and empirical evidence. Invited Lecture at PhD Seminar, Università di Bologna, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche Nov. 10, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: “ Formal and informal care, de-familization and marketization of care, Invited Lecture at the ESPAnet Italia Summer School "Family and Care Policies in Changing Societies", Milan, (Italy), September 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Wohlfahrtskultur in der Pflege in West- und Ostdeutschland. (Welfare Culture in the Care for Senior Citizens in West and East Germany), Invited Lecture at the Federal German Centre for Issues of Ageing), Berlin, 31.3.2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Elternzeit in Europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten (Parental Leave in European Welfare tates), Invited Lecture at the Expert Conference ‚Perspectives for Returning after Childbirth, Scientific Centre Berlin (WZB), Berlin, 22./23.9.2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: The contribution of cultural change to welfare state change, Keynote Speach at the International PhD Conference of ESPAnet Israel, Tel Hai College, July 27, 2010.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, with Melanie Eichler, Ralf Och, Regional differences in Germany – Designing Local Social Policies, Invited Lecture at the Fulbright German Studies Seminar, June 17, 2010.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit:’Geschlechterkultur im Wandel (Changing Gender Culture), Keynote Speach of the Annual Conference of the Association of Municipal Referees for Gender Equality, Wuppertal, April 2010.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‘Lifelong Learning and Active Ageing’, Keynote Speach at the European Conference on “Active Ageing, Lifelong Learning and Research in the Third Life Stage, The Role of the Elderly’, University of Hamburg, March 24-26, 2010.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‘Conceptualising gender, employment and social cohesion in European gender arrangements, Invited Lecture, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 23.11.2009.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‘Welfare Cultures from a European Perspective’, Keynote Speach at the Annual Conference of the Section Social Policies of the Italian Sociological Association “Nuovi welfare, politiche e servizi per la famiglie”, February 5-6, 2009, Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Milano
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‘Social rights to care, new forms of care work and social integration in European societies’, Conférence internationale, Invited Lecture to Université de Genève ’Face à la dépendence. Etats sociaux, citoyenneté et action publique en Europe’, 4-5 September 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‚Internationale Differenzen in der Organisation der Kinderbetreuung – Wohlfahrtsregime als Indikatoren?’ (Cross-national differences in the organisation of childcare – welfare regimes as indicators ?’, Invited Lecture at the 3. European Congress for Family
- Research, University of Vienna, June 12.-14. 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Erosion of the boundaries between formal and informal work in Europe. Keynote speach at the International Conference „Transforming Care“ of the Sektion Sociology of Ageing of the German Sociological Association and the SFI, Copenhagen, June 26-28, 2008.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‚Informalität von Erwerbsarbeit im europäischen Vergleich.’ Invited Lecture at the ForStar - Kolloquium, Institute for Geography, University of Bremen, June 3, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‘Varieties of undeclared work in European welfare states’. Invited Lecture at the Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies (CCWS), University of Aalborg, March 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Career Chances of Women in Nanoscience – Conditions for International Diversity Keynote Speach at the Final Workshop of the EU Project “Career Chances of Women in Nanoscience”, Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, March 2008, Dresden
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Career Chances of Women in Nanoscience – Conditions for International Diversity. Keynote Speach at the Nano Winter School, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, February 7-9, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: The contested neoliberal turn of the German welfare state. Invited Lecture at the Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies (CCWS), University of Aalborg, November 2007
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Brauchen Tiere mehr Rechte? (Do Animals need more rights?) Invited Lecture at the Children’s University Hamburg, organised by the University of Hamburg and the October 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Erosion of the boundaries of formal and informal work in Europe. Keynote speach at the 2nd Doctoral workshop of the Network for European Social Policy Analyses (ESPAnet) and the EU Network of Excellence “Reconciling Work and Welfare in European Societies” (RECWOWE), University of Hamburg, October 5-6, 2007
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: The relationship between family and employment and the well-being of children. Keynote Speach at the Final Conference of the WELLCHI Network, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, February 8-10, 2007
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‘Development of informal work in the work-welfare arrangements of European societies’, Keynote Speach at the PhD seminar on “Formal and informal work in Europe”, University of Aalborg, November 29, 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‘Culture, welfare state change and actors – a multi-level approach’, Keynote Speach at the International HBS Conference “Explaining Welfare State Transformation – Rivalling Perspectives on Social Change”, University of Osnabrueck, November 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: The hidden work regime - formal and informal work in Europe, Keynote speach at the International Conference "Work and Welfare", Helsinki, 8-10. September 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, ‘Active citizenship: The new face of welfare’, Keynote speach at the International Conference on ‚Welfare State Change‘, of the Centre for Comparative Welfare (CCW) of the University of Aalborg and the National Danish Institute for Social Studies (SFI) Copenhagen, Aalborg University, 13-15 January 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Welfare state policies and the role of informal work in the new work society, Keynote Speach at the International Conference ‘Social Significance of informal work in Europe’ of the EU, Final Conference of the EU-Project FIWE, Brussels, Thursday 27 October 2005.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‘Wandel der kulturellen Grundlagen von Wohlfahrtsstaaten und das Leitbild von „active citizenship“’ (Change of the cultural foundations of welfare states and the cultural model of „active citizenship“), Invited Lecture at the University of Rostock, June 16, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Zur Bedeutung religiöser Werte in europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten (The role of religious values in European welfare states), Invited Lecture in the Lecture Series ‚God for the World‘? Of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, December 1rst, 2004
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Zukunft der Arbeit und Geschlecht (Future of work and gender), Keynote speach at the Scientific ‘The consequences of policies on women’s life plans and cultural models’, October 18., 2004 in the German Parliament, Berlin
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Care Arrangements in the context of labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship – Trends, Concepts and Policies’, Keynote speach at the Final conference of COST A13: ‘New Challenges to Welfare: Trends, Concepts and Policies’ in Oslo, October 9-11, 2003.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Development of informal work in Europe- causal factors, problems, approaches to solutions, Keynote Speach at the EU Workshop: Informal/Undeclared Work: Research on its changing nature and policy strategies in an enlarged Europe, jointly organised by
- DG Research and DG Employment and Social Affairs, Brussels, Wednesday 21st May 2003, Albert Borschette Conference Centre
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Plädoyer für die Weiterentwicklung der sozialen Rechte für die Familie (Towards a further development of social rights for the family), Keynote speach at the Congress of the Social democratic Party of Bavaria ‚Die Familie gewinnt‘. Augsburg, 28. März 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Social Services and the future of Work, Keynote speach at the International Conference for the Opening of the Danish National Graduate School for Social Sciences, University of Aalborg, January 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Das Segmentationskonzept – ein alter Hut (aus Gründertagen) oder ein wichtiges analytisches Instrument mit Praxisrelevanz? (Segmentation theory – an outdated concept or an important analytical instrument), Keynote Speach at the Annual Conference of SAMF – German Association of Social Scientific Labour Market Research, Düsseldorf, December 5./6.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Pfadabhängigkeit europäischer Wohlfahrtsstaatsentwicklung (Path dependent development of European welfare states), Invited Lecture to the Lecture Series „Sozialpolitik in Europa“ of the Hellmuth-Loening-Zentrum für Staatswissenschaften Jena, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, December 13, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‚Konvergenz? Die Entwicklung von Arbeitsmärkten in der EU‘ (Convergence? The development of labour markets in the EU), Invited Lecture to Lecture Series of the Institute for Political Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, 12. December 2002
- „Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Labour Market Exclusion in the Cultural and Institutional Framework of European Societies, Keynote Speach at the EURESCO Conference 'Labour Market Change, Unemployment and Citizenship in Europe: A Euro Conference in Helsinki, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Restructuring of the Social Care Sector in European Welfare States, Keynote Speach at the International Conference on Changing Work and Life Patterns in Western Industrial Society", Scientific Centre Berlin (WZB) September 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: New Patterns of Social Integration, Keynote Speach at the European COST A13 Conference ‚Social Policy, Marginalisation, and Citizenship', University of Aalborg, November 2-4, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Pfadabhängigkeit gesellschaftlicher Modernisierung: kulturelle und soziale Konstruktion von Vollbeschäftigung (Path dependence of modernisation: cultural and social construction of full employment), Invited Lecture to the Lecture Series on ‚Sociology of Work – Aspects of Post Fordism‘, Faculty for Sociology, University of Bielefeld, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Kulturelle Grundlagen der international vergleichenden Sozialpolitikanalyse, (Cultural Basis of cross-national social policy analyses‘), Invited Lecture at the Post Graduate Colloquium at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of the Free University Berlin, 2000
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Labour Market Transformations and Human Welfare, Keynote Speach at the International Conference of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) European Seminar in Helsinki/Petersburg, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Gender Arrangements and the Welfare State in European Societies, Invited Lecture, Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Roehampton Institute, London, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Frauenerwerbstätigkeit und ihre kulturellen Codes im europäischen Vergleich, (Women’s Employment and related Cultural Codes in Europe), Invited Lecture to the Lecture Series "Das Ende der Arbeitsgesellschaft und die Zukunft der Arbeit" of the Technical University of Dresden, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Wertewandel der Arbeit und soziale Dienstleistungen, Keynote Speach at the Conference ‚Change of Work Values‘, University of Rostock, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Flexible Labour Markets and Flexible Work Arrangements, Keynote Speach 18th EUCEN (European Universities Continuing Education Network) European Conference 'Changing Work and Educational Needs', Universität Joensuu, Finnland, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Defizite der Theoriebildung zu den Grenzen wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Geschlechterpolitik (Deficits of theory building about the borderlines of gender policies of welfare states), Plenary speach at the Annual Conference of the German, Austrian and Swiss
- Sociological Associations, Plenum I: Grenzen des Wohlfahrtsstaates, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, 1998
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Kultureller und institutioneller Wandel von Geschlechter-Arrangements im europäischen Vergleich (Cultural and institutional change of gender arrangements in European societies), Invited Lecture at the Institute for Sociology of the Universität Heidelberg, 1998
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Theorising Cross-national differences in Gender Arrangements, Invited Lecture at the Dept. of Economics, Politics and Public Administration, University of Aalborg, 1998
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Frauen zwischen Familie und Beruf im europäischen Vergleich - theoretischer Rahmen und empirische Ergebnisse (Women between family and profession in a comparative European perspective), Invited Lecture, University of Stuttgart, 1996
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Zum theoretischen Rahmen für die Analyse internationaler Differenzen in der gesellschaftlichen Integration von Frauen (On the theoretical framework for the analyses of cross-national difference in the social integration of women), Plenary speach at the 28. Annual Sociology Congress of the German Sociological Association, Plenum IV: Subjektivität, Bewegungen, Machtverhältnisse, Universität Dresden, 1996
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Erwerbsbeteiligung und Geschlechter-Arrangement im internationalen Vergleich, (Labour force participation and gender arrangements in a cross-national comparison), Invited Lecture at the University of Economics and Politics, Hamburg, 1995
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Theorising the interrelations of welfare regime, family and employment, Invited Lecture at the Dept. of Social Policy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 1994
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Socio-cultural conditions of the employment behaviour of women in Europe, Keynote Speach at the Annual Conference on Social Policy, Tampere/Finnland, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Modernisation and the Change of Employment Structures, Invited Lecture at the Dept. of Social Policy, University of Rovaniemi, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Restructuring of the Labour Market and Flexibilisation of Employment, Invited Lecture at the Dept. of Social Policy, University of Rovaniemi, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Social Change and New Forms of Employment, Invited Lecture at the Dept. of Sociology, University of Helsinki, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Women"s Work and New Forms of Employment in Germany, Invited Lecture at the Dept. of Social Policy, University of Jyväskylä, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Women and the German Unification Process, Invited Lecture at the Centre of Women"s Studies, University of Tampere, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: The Structural Change of the Production and the Distribution Chain and the Impact on Labour Market Risks, Invited Lecture at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, 1988