Presentations and Lectures
Invited Lectures and Keynotes (selection)
- 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, February 22, 2016.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Keynote Speach, Formal and Informal Work in Europe, International Conference of Labour Net, University of Tampere, October 1-3, 2015.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Keynote Speach, 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, September 18-24, 2015.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Keynote Speech, Welfare States and Varieties of Undeclared Work, International Conference, School of Law, University of Sheffield, June 24-26, 2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Invited Lecture, Rekonzeptualisierung informeller Arbeit in europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten, Lunch Talk, Institut für Zukunft von Arbeit und Technik, Berlin, June 8, 2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Erosion of the Borders between Formal and Informal Work in European Welfare States, Invited Speech, Institut Zukunft der Arbeit und Technik (IZT), Berlin, 8 June, 2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Women’s Labour Market Integration in Cultural and Institutional Context, Invited Speech,Research Colloquium of the Graduate School BIGSSS, University of Bremen, 22 April, 2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The contribution of cultural change to institutional change in family policy - historical analysis with process tracing, Invited Speech, Research Colloquium, Dept. of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, 9 April, 2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Reconciliation of Employment and Family in Cultural and Institutional Context (Vereinbarkeit von Erwerbstätigkeit und Familie im kulturellen und familienpolitischen Kontext), Keynote Speech, First National Expert Conference of Childhood and Family Sciences, Hamburg, February 9-10, 2015
- Birgit Pfau-Effinger, The gender arrangement approach - theorising women’s employment behavior, Invited Lecture, CRC 882, Bielefeld University, December 3, 2014
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Interaction of Cultural and Institutional Processes in Changing Welfare States, Invited Lecture, Colloquium of the Institute for Sociology, University of Göttingen, November 26, 2014
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Concluding Comments, International Workshop Transnationality and Social Protection: Changing Patterns of Inequalities, Invited Lecture, University of Bielefeld, Collaborative Research Program (SFB) 882, December, 12, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The theoretical Approach of the Gender Arrangement, Women’s Employment and Care, Keynote Speech, 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 Speech, International PhD Conference ‘Local Welfare Systems and Social Cohesion’ of the EU Projects COPE, FLOWS, Localise, and Wilco, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, June 10-12, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Wie viele Rechte dürfen Tiere haben? (The Issue of Animal Rights), Vortrag zum Evangelischen Kirchentag, (Invited Lecture at the Annual Conference of the Lutherian Church, Day of Science), May 4, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Women’s employment and LTC policies in Germany, Invited Speech, International Conference ‘Long-term Care systems in Denmark, Finland, Germany and what we can learn in Taiwan’, Medical School, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 28, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, How to conduct cross 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 Taiwan 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, Vielfalt der Geschlechter-Arrangements in Europa (Varieties of Gender Arrangements in Europe), Plenums-Vortrag zum 36. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie) (Plenary Speech at the 36th German Congress for Sociology, Ruhr University of Bochum and TU Dortmund), October 2, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Culture and Welfare State Change, Keynote Speech, NordWell and REASSESS International Conference Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare States, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 15, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare and culture, Invited Lecture, Research seminar and Ph.D. workshop: Social justice and the good life? Centre of Comparative Welfare State Studies (CCWS), University of Aalborg, March 9, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The role of migrant carers in different types of gender arrangement, Invited Lecture, Hilary Term 2012 Seminar Series, Family, Gender and the Welfare State, Oxford University, February 2, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Kulturelle Grundlagen des Wandels von Wohlfahrtsstaaten (Cultural Basis of Welfare State Change), Invited Lecture, 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, SOCLIFE Seminar, University of Cologne and Max-Planck-Institute for Societal Research, January 18, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Marketization, Consumer Priciple and 'Free Choice' (Vermarktlichung, Konsumentenprinzip und freie Wahl - Lösung der Probleme von 'Care'?), Institute for the Science of Menkind, University of Vienna, December 6, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare state reforms and active citizenship in Europe, Keynote Speech, Annual Conference of the Chinese Association for Industrial Relations, Secion in Zhuhai, November 19-20, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The relationship of culture and welfare state development –theoretical reflections and empirical research, Lecture at the Renmin University of Bejing, November 17, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The link between religion and family policies in Europe. Keynote Speech, Conference Lo Spiriti del Welfare, Le matrici religiose die welfares in Europa, Università di Bologna, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, November 11, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The relation of culture and welfare state devlopment - theoretical reflections and empirical evidence,I nvited Lecture, PhD Seminar, Università di Bologna, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, November 10, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, formal and informal care, de-familization and marketization of care, Invited Lecture, ESPAnet Italia Summer School 'Family and Care Policies in Changing Societies', Milan (Italy), September 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare Culture in the Care for Senior Citizens in West and East Germany (Wohlfahrtskultur in der Pflege in West- und Ostdeutschland), Invited Lecture, Federal German Centre for Issues of Ageing, Berlin, March 31, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Parental Leave in European Welfare States (Elternzeit in Europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten), Invited Lecture, Expert Conference 'Perspectives for Returning after Childbirth', Scientific Centre Berlin (WZB), Berlin, September 22-23, 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The contribution of cultural change to welfare state change, Keynote Speech, International PhD Conference of ESPAnet Israel, Tel Hai College, July 27, 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Geschlechterkultur im Wandel, Keynote Speech, Annual Conference of the Association of Municipal Referees for Gender Equality, Wuppertal, April 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Lifelong Learning and Active Ageing, Introductory Talk, 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, Guest Lecture, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, November 23, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Work Life Balance – Change in the Meaning of Work and Family in Europe (Work-Life Balance – Veränderungen im Arbeits- und Familienverständnis im europäischen Kontext), Invited Lecture, Federal Congress for Political Eduation ‘Entgrenzungen – Gesellschaftlicher Wandel in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart’ (Erosion of boderlines – social change in past and future) of the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Government Institute for Political Education), Halle, March 12-13, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare Cultures from a European Perspective, Keynote Speech at the Annual Conference of the Section Social Policies of the Italian Sociological Association ‘Nuovi welfare, politiche e servizi per la famiglie’, Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Milano, February 5-6, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Brauchen Tiere mehr Rechte? (Do Animals need more rights?) Lecture at the Children’s University Hamburg, October, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Social rights to care, new forms of care work and social integration in European societies, Invited Lecture, Conference internationale, Université de Genève, September 4-5, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Erosion of the boundaries between formal and informal work in Europe, Keynote Speech, International Conference ‘Transforming Care’ of the Sektion Alterssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaften für Soziologie and the SFI, Copenhagen, June 26-28, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Cross-national differences in the organization of childcare: Welfare regimes as indicator? (Internationale Differenzen in der Organisation der Kinderbetreuung - Wohlfahrtsregime als Indikatoren?), Invited Lecture, 3rd European Congress for Family Research, Vienna, June 12-14, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Career Chances of Women in Nanoscience - Conditions for International Diversity, Keynote Speech, Final Workshop of the EU-Project 'Career Chances of Women in Nanoschience', Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, March, 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, 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, Erosion of the boundaries of formal and informal work in Europe, Keynote Speech 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 Speech, Final Conference of the WELLCHI Network, Barcelona, February 8-10, 2007
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Development of informal work in the work-welfare arrangements of European societies, Keynote Speech, PhD seminar ‘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 Speech, HBS Conference ‘Explaining Welfare State Transformation – Rivalling Perspectives on Social Change’, University of Osnabrück, November, 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The hidden work regime - formal and informal work in Europe, Keynote Speech at the International Conference ‘Work and Welfare’, Helsinki, September 8-10, 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Active citizenship: The new face of welfare, Keynote Speech, International Conference on Welfare State Change, Centre for Comparative Welfare (CCW), University of Aalborg / National Danish Institute for Social Studies (SFI) Copenhagen, Aalborg University, January 13-15, 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare state policies and the role of informal work in the new work society, Keynote Speech, International EU-Conference ' Social Significance of Informal Work in Europe', Final Conference of the EU-Project FIWE, Brussels, October 27, 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 model of ‘active citizenship’), Invited Lecture, Institut für Soziologie Universität Rostock, June 16, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The role of religious values in European welfare states (Zur Bedeutung religiöser Werte in europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten), Invited Lecture, Lecture Series 'God for the world?', Jena, December 1, 2004
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Zukunft der Arbeit und Geschlecht (Future of work and gender), Keynote Speech, Conference ‘Politik und ihre Auswirkungen auf Lebensentwürfe und Leitbilder von Frauen im europäischen Vergleich’, Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus (Parliament of Berlin), October 18, 2004
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Care Arrangements in the context of labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship – trends, concepts and policies, Plenary Speech, Final conference of COST A13 ‘New Challenges to Welfare: Trends, Concepts and Policies’, Oslo, October 9-11, 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Development of informal work in Europe- causal factors, problems, approaches to solutions, Keynote Speech, 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, May 21, 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Plädoyer für die Weiterentwicklung der sozialen Rechte für die Familie (Towards a further development of social rights for the family), Keynote Speech, Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Bavaria ’Die Familie gewinnt‘, Augsburg, March 28, 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Social Services and the future of Work, Keynote Speech, International conference for the opening of the Danish National Graduate School for Social Sciences, Universität Aalborg, January, 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Path dependent development of European welfare states (Pfadabhängigkeit europäischer Wohlfahrtsstaatsentwicklung), Invited Lecture, Kolloquium ‘Sozialpolitik in Europa’ des Hellmuth-Loening-Zentrums für Staatswissenschaften Jena, December 13, 2002
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Convergence? The development of labour markets in the EU (Konvergenz? Die Entwicklung von Arbeitsmärkten in der EU), Invited Lecture, Institute for Political Science, Jena, December 12, 2002
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Segmentation theory – an outdated concept or an important analytical instrument (Das Segmentationskonzept – ein alter Hut (aus Gründertagen) oder ein wichtiges analytisches Instrument mit Praxisrelevanz?), Keynote Speech, Annual Conference of SAMF – German Association of Social Scientific Labour Market Research, Düsseldorf, December 5-6, 2002
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Labour Market Exclusion in the Cultural and Institutional Framework of European Societies, Keynote Speech, EURESCO Conference 'Labour Market Change, Unemployment and Citizenship in Europe: A Euro Conference’, Helsinki, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, New Patterns of Social Integration, Keynote Speech at the European COST A13 Conference ’Social Policy, Marginalisation, and Citizenship', University of Aalborg, November 2-4, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Restructuring of the Social Care Sector in European Welfare States, Keynote Speech, International Conference on Changing Work and Life Patterns in Western Industrial Society, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, September, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Path dependence of modernization: cultural and social construction of full employment (Pfadabhängigkeit gesellschaftlicher Modernisierung: kulturelle und soziale Konstruktion von Vollbeschäftigung), Invited Lecture, Lecture Series on ' Sociology of Work - Aspects of Post Fordism', Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Cultural basis of cross-national social policy analyses (Kulturelle Grundlagen der international vergleichenden Sozialpolitikanalyse), Invited Lecture, Post Graduate Colloquium, Berlin, 2000
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Labour Market Transformations and Human Welfare, Keynote Speech, International Conference of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), European Seminar, Helsinki/Petersburg, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Wertewandel der Arbeit und soziale Dienstleistungen, Plenarvortrag zur Tagung ‘Wertewandel der Arbeit‘ der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Universität Rostock, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Flexible Labour Markets and Flexible Work Arrangements, Keynote Speech, 18th EUCEN (European Universities Continuing Education Network) European Conference 'Changing Work and Educational Needs', Universität Joensuu, Finnland, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Women's Eployment and Related Cultural Codes in Europe (Frauenerwerbstätigkeit und ihre kulturellen Codes im europäischen Vergleich), Invited Lecture, Lecture Series 'Das Ende der Arbeitsgesellschaft und die Zukunft der Arbeit', TU Dresden, 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, Defizite der Theoriebildung zu den Grenzen wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Geschlechterpolitik (Deficits of theory building about the borderlines of gender policies of welfare states), Plenary Speech, Annual Conference of the German, Austrian and Swiss Sociological Associations, Plenum I ‘Grenzen des Wohlfahrtsstaates’, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität 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, Institute of 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, 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 Lecture, 28. Annual Sociology Congress of the German Sociological Association, Plenum IV ‘Subjektivität, Bewegungen, Machtverhältnisse’, Universität Dresden, 1996
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Women between family and profession in a comparative European perspective (Frauen zwischen Familie und Beruf im europäischen Vergleich - theoretischer Rahmen und empirische Wrgebnisse), Invited Lecture, Lecture Series 'Frauenforschung in den Geschichts-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften', Stuttgart, 1996
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Labour force participation and gender arrangements in a cross-national comparison (Erwerbsbeteiligung und Geschlechter-Arrangement im internationalen Vergleich), Invited Lecture, 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 Speech, Annual Conference on Social Policy, Tampere (Finland), 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Modernisation and the Change of Employment Structures, Invited Lecture, Department 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, Dept. of Sociology, University of Helsinki, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Women’s Work and New Forms of Employment in Germany, Invited Lecture, Dept. of Social Policy, University of Jyväskylä, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Women and the German Unification Process, Invited Lecture, 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
Presentations and Lectures (all)
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Eggers, Thurid, Grages, Christopher, The interaction of culture, institutions and actors in explaining cross-national differences in care policy marketization', paper presented at the 22th annual CES conference 'The role of social actors and ideas in the context of marketization and contra trends', Council of Europeanists (CES), Sciences Po, Paris, July 8-10, 2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Podiums-Diskussion der SPD Eimsbüttel-Süd, Zukunft der Familienpolitik - Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf vs. Schutz von Familie' (Roundtable of the Social Democratic Party for Area Eimsbüttel-Süd in Hamburg, Future of Family and Employment versus Protection of the Family), May 2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Reimer, Thordis & Zochert, Andrea, Was Frauen wollen? Erwerbsbeteiligung und Erwerbswünsche von Müttern vor und nach der Einführung des Elterngeldes (What Women Want? Mother's labour market participation and their work hour preferences before and after the introduction of a new family policy scheme) - Frühjahrstagung der Familiensektion der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Bielefeld, February 24-25, 2015
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Keynote Speech, Reconciliation of Employment and Family in Cultural and Institutional Context (Vereinbarkeit von Erwerbstätigkeit und Familie im kulturellen und familienpolitischen Kontext), First National Expert Conference of Childhood and Family Sciences, Hamburg, February 9-10, 2015
- Birgit Pfau-Effinger, The gender arrangement approach - theorising women’s employment behavior, Gastvortrag im Kolloquium des Sonderforschungsbereichs 882, Universität Bielefeld, December 03, 2014
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Interaction of Cultural and Institutional Processes in Changing Welfare States, Invited Lecture, Colloquium of the Institute for Sociology, University of Göttingen, November 26, 2014
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, How do family policy and culture interact in the explanation of cross-national differences in the employment of mothers of small children? ESPAnet Conference Oslo, September 2-5, 2014
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit , Diversity of Gender Arrangements and the Work-Family Relationship of Women with Small Children in Europe, International Sociological Association, RC 32, World Congress for Sociology, Yokohama/Japan, July, 2014
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Erosion of Boundaries between Public and Private – New Forms of Care Work in European Welfare States, International Sociological Association, RC19, World Congress for Sociology, Yokohama/Japan, July 2014
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Concluding Comments, International Workshop Transnationality and Social Protection: Changing Patterns of Inequalities, Invited Lecture, University of Bielefeld, Collaborative Research Program (SFB) 882, December, 12, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The theoretical Approach of the Gender Arrangement, Women’s Employment and Care, Keynote Speech, 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
- Och, Ralf & Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The contribution of local welfare cultures to the explanation of differences in local social policies. 11th Annual ESPAnet Conference ‘Social Policy and Economic Development, Stream 9 ‘The Local Welfare State”, 5-7 September, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Saxonberg, Steve, Varieties of Parental Leave in European Welfare States, Conference of Europeanists, Council of European Studies, Erasmus University of Amsterdam, June 24-28, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Local Welfare Systems and Welfare Culture, Keynote Speech, International PhD Conference ‘Local Welfare Systems and Social Cohesion’ of the EU Projects COPE, FLOWS, Localise, and Wilco, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, June 10-12, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Wie viele Rechte dürfen Tiere haben? (The Issue of Animal Rights), Vortrag zum Evangelischen Kirchentag, (Invited Lecture at the Annual Conference of the Lutherian Church, Day of Science), May 4, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Women’s employment and LTC policies in Germany, Invited Speech, International Conference ‘Long-term Care systems in Denmark, Finland, Germany and what we can learn in Taiwan’, Medical School, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 28, 2013
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, How to conduct cross 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 Taiwan 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, The Society-Animal Relationship in a Sociological Perspective, Public Lecture in the Studium Generale, University of Hamburg, January 7, 2013
- Frericks, Patricia, Och, Ralf & Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Internationaler Vergleich und Klassifikation lokaler Wohlfahrtssysteme (International Comparison and Classification of Local Welfare Systems), 36. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (36th German Congress for Sociology) an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum/TU Dortmund, October 5, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Vielfalt der Geschlechter-Arrangements in Europa (Varieties of Gender Arrangements in Europe), Plenums-Vortrag zum 36. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie) (Plenary Speech at the 36th German Congress for Sociology, Ruhr University of Bochum and TU Dortmund), October 2, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Family care regimes – the institutional framework of family care in European welfare states, ESPAnet Conference 2012, Edinburgh, September 8, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Jensen, Per H. & Patricia Frericks, Social citizenship in family care in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, REASSESS Conference ‘Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model - Final International Conference’, Oslo August 21-22, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Culture and Welfare State Change, Keynote Speech, NordWell and REASSESS International Conference Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare States, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 15, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Culture, Family policy reforms and Women’s Employment in Europe, International Symposium ‘Welfare State Reform and Consequences’, Centre for Globalisation and Governance / University of Southern Denmark, University of Hamburg, June 12-13, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The role of migrants’ care work in different types of gender arrangement, Changing Patterns of Migration – Changing Patterns of Social Inequalities? International Workshop ‘Borders and Boundaries in the Enlarged Europe”, SFB 882 (DFG Collaborative Research Program 882), University of Bielefeld, April 13, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Institutional incomplementarities as a consequence of the marketization in care policies, A Europe of Diversities, 19th International Conference of Europeanists, Panel title ‘Institutional change in care policies in EU countries’, Boston, Massachusetts, March 22-24, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare and culture, Invited Lecture, Research seminar and Ph.D. workshop: Social justice and the good life? Centre of Comparative Welfare State Studies (CCWS), University of Aalborg, March 9, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The role of migrant carers in different types of gender arrangement, Invited Lecture, Hilary Term 2012 Seminar Series, Family, Gender and the Welfare State, Oxford University, February 2, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Kulturelle Grundlagen des Wandels von Wohlfahrtsstaaten (Cultural Basis of Welfare State Change), Invited Lecture, Jour Fixe of the Centre for Social Policy, University of Bremen, January 25, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The role of migrants’ care work in different types of the gender arrangement, International Conference Transforming Gender Orders ‘Intersections of Care, Family and Migration’, Goethe University Frankfurt, January 18-20, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Cultural and institutional foundations of gender arrangements in international comparison, Invited Lecture, SOCLIFE Seminar, University of Cologne and Max-Planck-Institute for Societal Research, January 18, 2012
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Vermarktlichung, Konsumentenprinzip und freie Wahl - Lösung der Probleme von ‘Care‘? Vortragsreihe ‚Sorge - Arbeit am guten Leben, Institut für die Wissenschaft vom Menschen‘, Universität Wien, December 6, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare state reforms and active citizenship in Europe, Keynote Speech, Annual Conference of the Chinese Association for Industrial Relations, Secion in Zhuhai, November 19-20, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The relationship of culture and welfare state development –theoretical reflections and empirical research, Lecture at the Renmin University of Bejing, November 17, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The link between religion and family policies in Europe. Keynote Speech, Conference Lo Spiriti del Welfare, Le matrici religiose die welfares in Europa, Università di Bologna, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, November 11, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The relationship of culture and welfare state development – theoretical reflections and empirical evidence. PhD Seminar, Università di Bologna, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche November 10, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Formal and informal care, de-familization and marketization of care, ESPAnet Italia Summer School ‘Family and Care Policies in Changing Societies’, Milan (Italy), September, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Rostgaard, Tine, Presentation of the Book ‘Care between Work and Welfare in European Societies by Palgrave Macmillan, Book presentation Session at the ESPAnet Annual Conference ‘Sustainability and Transformation in European Social Policy’, Valencia, September 9-11, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Comparing path dependence and path departure in family policy development – the example of Germany and Finland, ESPAnet Annual Conference ‘Sustainability and Transformation in European Social Policy’, Valencia, September 9-11, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Frericks, Patricia, Carers at Home. Varieties of family care in European welfare states, paper presented at the ESPAnet Annual Conference ‘Sustainability and Transformation in European Social Policy’, Valencia, September 9-11, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Rostgaard, Tine, Welfare State Change, the Strengthening of Economic Principles and New Tensions in Relation to Care, presentation of a Special Issue of the Nordic Journal of Social Research, Final Conference of the 6th FP EU Network of Excellence ‘Reconciling Work and Welfare in European Welfare States’ (RECWOWE), June 15-18, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Jensen, Per H., Tensions between ‘Consumerism’ in Elder Care and the Social Rights of Family Carers: a German-Danish Comparison, Final Conference of the 6th FP EU Network of Excellence ‘Reconciling Work and Welfare in European Welfare States’ (RECWOWE), June 15-18, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Family Childcare in the Cultural and Institutional Context of European Societies, Final Conference of the 6th FP EU Network of Excellence ‘Reconciling Work and Welfare in European Welfare States’ (RECWOWE), June 15-18, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The hidden work regime. Employment beyond social citizenship, International Conference‚ Reforming Activation by DFG and RECWOWE, March 24-25, 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), Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (DZA) (Federal German Centre for Issues of Ageing), Berlin, March 3, 2011
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Eichler, Melanie & Och, Ralf, Erklärung von Differenzen in der lokalen Sozialpolitik in West- und Ostdeutschland, (Explaining Differences in local social policies between West and East Germany), Soziologiekongress (Congress of Sociology) Sektion Sozialpolitik, Frankfurt, 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Elternzeit in Europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten (Parental Leave in European Welfare States), Fachtagung ‘Perspektive Wiedereinstieg‘ (Expert Conference ‘Perspectives for Returning after Childbirth‘), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, September 22-23, 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Family policies and the departure from the male breadwinner family model – different development paths in European welfare states, ESPAnet (European Social Policy Research Network) Annual Conference 2010, Budapest, September 2-4, 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The contribution of cultural change to welfare state change, Keynote Speech at the International PhD Conference of ESPAnet Israel, Tel Hai College, July 27, 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Flaquer, Lluis & Jensen Per H., Migration, Gender and Childcare in a cross-national Perspective, World Congress for Sociology, Göteborg, July 11-17, 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Eichler, Melanie & Och, Ralf, Explaining differences in local social policies – the case of local policies towards long-term care in West and East Germany, International Conference ‘Transforming Care’, Copenhagen, June 22, 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Eichler, Melanie & Och, Ralf, Regional differences in Germany – Designing Local Social Policies, Fulbright German Studies Seminar, June 17, 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Tensions related to formal and informal work, Annual Integration Week of the EU Network of Excellence ‘Reconciling Work and Welfare in European Societies” RECWOWE, Nantes, June 9, 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Geschlechterkultur im Wandel, Keynote Speech of the Annual Conference of the Association of Municipal Referees for Gender Equality, Wuppertal, April 2010
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Lifelong Learning and Active Ageing, Introductory Talk for 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, Jensen, Per H. & Flaquer, Lluis, Patterns of parental employment and childcare in the cultural and political context of European societies, Annual Conference of the European Consortium of Social Research (ECSR), Paris, December 11-12, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Conceptualising gender, employment and social cohesion in European gender arrangements, Guest Lecture, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, November 23, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The cultural dimension of welfare state change, ESPAnet Conference, Stream 7 ‘The Role of Welfare Attitudes in Welfare State Change’, University of Urbino, September, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Demand to Future Family Policies, Discussion Conference on ‘Future of Family Research – Old Values, New Family Policies?’ (Anforderungen an die zukünftige Familienpolitik. Vortrag Beitrag zur Diskussionsveranstaltung ‘Zukunfts- und Familienforschung – Alte Werte, neue Familienpolitik?‘) by Marcus Weinberg, Member of the German Parliament (Mitglied des Bundestages), Hamburg, August 25, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The concept of tensions, 3rd Annual Integration Week of the EU Network of Excellence RECWOWE ‘Work in Progress’, Utrecht, Netherlands, June, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Tensions related to formal and informal care work, 3rd Annual Integration Week of the EU Network of Excellence RECWOWE ‘Work in Progress’, Utrecht, Netherlands, June, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Eichler, Melanie & Och, Ralf, Explaining differences in local social policies towards elderly care in West and East Germany, International DFG Conference ‘Local Social Policies’, Centre for Globalisation and Governance, Hamburg University, April, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Work-Life Balance – Veränderungen im Arbeits- und Familienverständnis im europäischen Kontext, (Work Life Balance – Change in the Meaning of Work and Family in Europe), Lecture at the Federal Congress for Political Eduation ‘Entgrenzungen – Gesellschaftlicher Wandel in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart’ (Erosion of boderlines – social change in past and future) of the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Government Institute for Political Education), Halle, March 12-13, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Tensions related to care work, Cross-Strand Workshop on ‘Tensions’, Network of Excellence ‘Reconciling Work and Welfare in European Societies’, Nantes, February 25-26, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare Cultures from a European Perspective, Keynote Speech at the Annual Conference of the Section Social Policies of the Italian Sociological Association ‘Nuovi welfare, politiche e servizi per la famiglie’, Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Milano, February 5-6, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Autonomy of elderly people in spite of care? Lecture in the Framework of a General Lecture Series at the University of Hamburg on ‘Active Ageing’, January 13, 2009
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Brauchen Tiere mehr Rechte? (Do Animals need more rights?) Lecture at the Children’s University Hamburg, October, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Och, Ralf, Governance Structures in Local Social Policy: Analytical framework and comparative analysis of two German cities on the example of elderly care policy, Paper presented at the ESPAnet Conference ‘Cross-Border Influences in Social Policy’, Helsinki, September 18-20, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The introduction of parental leave schemes in different historical development paths – the example of Germany and Finland, ESPAnet Conference ‘Cross-Border Influences in Social Policy’, Helsinki, September 18-20, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Social rights to care, new forms of care work and social integration in European societies, Conférence internationale, Université de Genève ’Face à la dépendence. Etats sociaux, citoyenneté et action publique en Europe’, September 4-5, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Erosion of the boundaries between formal and informal work in Europe, Keynote Speech at the International Conference ‘Transforming Care’ of the Sektion Alterssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaften fuer Soziologie and the SFI, Copenhagen, June 26-28, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Tensions within care arrangements by undeclared care work of immigrants, 2nd Annual Integration Week of the EU Network of Excellence ‚Reconciling Work and Welfare in European Societies’ (RECWOWE), Oslo, Norway, June 10-14, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Internationale Differenzen in der Organisation der Kinderbetreuung – Wohlfahrtsregime als Indikatoren? 3. Europäischer Kongress für Familienforschung, Wien, June 12-14, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Eichler, Melanie & Och, Ralf, Tensions between marketisation of care and care quality – the example of Germany, 2nd Annual Integration Week of the EU Network of Excellence ’Reconciling Work and Welfare in European Societies’ (RECWOWE), Oslo, Norway, June 10-14, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Informalität von Erwerbsarbeit im europäischen Vergleich. ForStar - Kolloquium, Universität 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, Final Workshop of the EU Project ‘Career Chances of Women in Nanoscience”, Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, March, 2008
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Career Chances of Women in Nanoscience – Conditions for International Diversity, 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, Erosion of the boundaries of formal and informal work in Europe, Keynote Speech 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 & Eichler, Melanie, Payment for care in the context of new semi-formal forms of care work in European societies, paper presented at the Annual ESPAnet Conference, Vienna, September 22-24, 2007
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Eichler, Melanie & Och, Ralf, Local Governance in a comparative perspective: Analytical framework and two examples from municipal elderly care policy in Germany, Annual ESPAnet Conference, Vienna, September 22-24, 2007
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Culture and elderly care: On the impact of culture on the role of family care, Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) ‘Changing political economies: macro trends and micro experiments’, Copenhagen, June 28-30, 2007
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Eichler, Melanie, Change of the structures of care: The impact of regional context and actors, Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) ‘Changing political economies: macro trends and micro experiments’, Copenhagen, June 28-30, 2007
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Eichler, Melanie & Och, Ralf, Change of the cultural basis of care arrangements in European societies, International Conference of the Network of Excellence ‘Reconciling Work and Welfare in European Societies’ in the 6th EU Framework Programme, Stream 2, Warschau, June 12-16, 2007
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The relationship between family and employment and the well-being of children, Keynote Speech, Final Conference of the WELLCHI Network, Barcelona, February 8-10, 2007
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Development of informal work in the work-welfare arrangements of European societies, Keynote Speech, PhD seminar ‘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 Speech, HBS Conference ‘Explaining Welfare State Transformation – Rivalling Perspectives on Social Change’, University of Osnabrück, November, 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Dallinger, Ursula, Eichler, Melanie & Och, Ralf, Ökonomisierung und die widersprüchlichen Dynamiken im gesellschaftlichen Arrangement der Altenpflege (Economisation and the contradictory dynamics in the societal arrangement on long-term care), Annual Congress of Sociology, Kassel, October 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, How is it possible to analyse path-departure in family policies in a comparative perspective?, ESPAnet Conference, University of Bremen, September 21-23, 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The hidden work regime - formal and informal work in Europe, Keynote Speech at the International Conference ‘Work and Welfare’, Helsinki, September 8-10, 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Dallinger, Ursula, Eichler, Melanie & Och, Ralf, Governance und Wohlfahrtskultur – Überlegungen zu einem Vergleich lokaler Governance-Strukturen am Beispiel der Altenpflegepolitik (Governance and welfare culture – reflections on a comparison of local governance structure in the field of long-term care), Workshop ‘Governance-Strategien und lokale Sozialpolitik’ des Deutschen Jugendinstitutes (German Youth Institute) Halle/Saale, May 23, 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Active citizenship: The new face of welfare, Keynote Speech, International Conference on Welfare State Change, Centre for Comparative Welfare (CCW), University of Aalborg / National Danish Institute for Social Studies (SFI) Copenhagen, Aalborg University, January 13-15, 2006
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Eichler, Melanie, Neue semi-formelle Formen der Pflegearbeit und ihre Bedingungen in den privaten Pflege-Arrangements, (New semi-formal forms of long-term care and the conditions in the private care arrangement), Herbsttagung der Sektion ‘Alter(n) und Gesellschaft’ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bremen, (Conference of the German Sociology Association), Universität Bremen, November 18-19, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, A Common Framework for Culture and Welfare State Analysis, International Symposium ‘Culture and Welfare State. Values of Social Policy from a Comparative Perspective’, Centrum für Globalisierung und Governance, Universität Hamburg, November 4-5, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Culture and Path Dependency of Welfare Provision in Europe, International Symposium ‘Culture and Welfare State. Values of Social Policy from a Comparative Perspective’, Centrum für Globalisierung und Governance, Universität Hamburg, November 4-5, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Schüttpelz, Anne & Sakac-Magdalenic, Sladana, Entwicklung informeller Arbeit in Privathaushalten, (Development of informal work in private households), Tagung der DGS-Sektion Arbeits- und Industriesoziologie (Conference of the German Sociology Association), Universität Mannheim, November 3-4, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare state policies and the role of informal work in the new work society, International Conference ‘Social Significance of informal work in Europe’ of the EU, Final Conference of the 5th EU Framework Programme Research Project (FIWE), Brussels, October 27, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Formal and informal work in Europe – the theoretical, conceptual and empirical dimension, International Conference ‘Social Significance of informal work in Europe’ of the EU, Final Conference of the 5th EU Framework Programme Research Project (FIWE), Brussels, October 27, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Eichler, Melanie, Provision of elderly care in old age and social capital, European conference ‘Long-term care of elderly people’, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, October 17-18, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Das deutsche Work Life Balance Regime im europäischen Kontext, (The German work-life balance regime in the European context), International Conference ‘Femme Globale’, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, September 10, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Wandel des wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Solidaritätsmodells in Bezug auf gender und care – ein Vergleich des deutschen Wohlfahrtsstaats mit dem der Schweiz (Change of solidarity models on gender and care in the German and Swiss welfare state), Internationales Kolloquium der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Sozialpolitik und der Sektion Sozialpolitik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, (International Colloquium of the Swiss Social Policy Association and the German Sociological Association), Universität Basel, September 1-2, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Culture and Path Dependence of Welfare State Development, Annual Conference Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economic Studies (SASE) ‘What counts? Calculation, Representation, Association’, Central European University / Corvinus University of Budapest, June 30 - July 2, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Culture and the work-family relationship in a comparative perspective, Annual Conference Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economic Studies: (SASE) ‘What counts? Calculation, Representation, Association’, Central European University / Corvinus University of Budapest, June 30 - July 2, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare State and ‚Active Citizenship’, Lecture at the Summer School ‘Contemporary Topics in the Study of Europe: Citizenship, the Welfare State, and Policy Convergence’, Centre for Globalisation and Governance, Universität Hamburg, June 16-18, 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 model of ‘active citizenship’), Invited Lecture, Institut für Soziologie Universität Rostock, June 16, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Development of informal work in the work-welfare arrangements of European societies, International Workshop ‘The hidden work regime”, Universität Hamburg, May 27-28, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Informal employment and social integration in European societies, International Workshop ‘The hidden work regime”, Universität Hamburg, May 27-28, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Wandel der Geschlechterkultur und Familienpolitiken in konservativen Wohlfahrtsstaaten – Deutschland, Österreich und Schweiz (Change of gender culture and family policies in conservative welfare states – Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Tagung ‘Kulturelle Hegemonie und Geschlecht als Herausforderung im europäischen Einigungsprozess’, FU Berlin, May 5-8, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare states and ‘active citizenship, International Conference on ‘Justice’ of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, March 10-12, 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Cultures of Childhood and Care in European Welfare States, Conference ‘Challenges and opportunities faced by European Welfare States: The changing context for child welfare’, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford January 7-8 2005
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Zur Bedeutung religiöser Werte in europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten (The role of religious values in European welfare states), Ringvorlesung ‘Gott für die Welt?’, Collegium Europaeum Jenense ‚Asien und Europa im empirischen Vergleich‘, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, December 12, 2004
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Zukunft der Arbeit und Geschlecht (Future of work and gender), Keynote Speech, Conference ‘Politik und ihre Auswirkungen auf Lebensentwürfe und Leitbilder von Frauen im europäischen Vergleich’, Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus (Parliament of Berlin), October 18, 2004
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Meyer, Traute, Restrukturierung der Alterssicherung und Geschlechter-Arrangements in europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten (Restructuring of pensions and gender arrangements in European welfare states), 32. Soziologiekongress, Universität München, October 04-08, 2004
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Culture and Path Dependence of Welfare State Development, 2nd ESPANET Annual Conference ‘European Social Policy: Meeting the Needs of a New Europe’, University of Oxford, September 9-11, 2004
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Meyer, Traute, Arrangements on old age and gender in the restructuring of European welfare states - Pension modernisation in Britain and Germany, 2nd ESPAnet Conference ‘European Social Policy: Meeting the Needs of a New Europe’, University of Oxford, September 9-11 2004
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Meyer, Traute, Gender in the Discourse on Old Age – Old Age in the Discourse on Gender, Annual conference of the ISA Research Committee RC11 'Sociology of Ageing' on ‘Ageing Societies and Ageing Sociology: Diversity and Change in a Globalised World’ at the University of Surrey, UK, September 7-9, 2004
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Aktivierte ‚Citizens‘, Arbeitsgesellschaft und Globalisierung (Active citizens, work society and globalisation), Vortrag zur Eröffnung des Centrums für Globalisierung und Governance der Universität Hamburg (Lecture for the opening of the Centre for Globalisation and Governance of the University of Hamburg), February 12, 2004
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Gender and Undeclared Work in Europe, Conference ‘The Status of Undeclared Labour in Current and Future Members of the European Union‘ hosted by INREGIA and REGIOPLAN in Malmö, November 20-21, 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Development Paths of Care Arrangements and New Forms of Social Integration – Theoretical Approach and Cross-National Comparison, ESPAnet Conference on ‘Changing European Societies. The Role for Social Policy’, Copenhagen, 13-15 November, 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Care Arrangements in the context of labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship – trends, concepts and policies, Plenary Speech, Final conference of COST A13 ‘New Challenges to Welfare: Trends, Concepts and Policies’, Oslo, October 9-11, 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Development of informal work in Europe- causal factors, problems, approaches to solutions, Keynote Speech, 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, May 21, 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Plädoyer für die Weiterentwicklung der sozialen Rechte für die Familie (Towards a further development of social rights for the family), Keynote Speech, Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Bavaria ’Die Familie gewinnt‘, Augsburg, March 28, 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Social Services and the future of Work, Keynote Speech, International conference for the opening of the Danish National Graduate School for Social Sciences, Universität Aalborg, January, 2003
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Pfadabhängigkeit europäischer Wohlfahrtsstaatsentwicklung (Path dependent development of European welfare states), Kolloquium ‘Sozialpolitik in Europa’ des Hellmuth-Loening-Zentrums für Staatswissenschaften Jena, December 13, 2002
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Konvergenz? Die Entwicklung von Arbeitsmärkten in der EU (Convergence? The development of labour markets in the EU), Kolloquium ‘Entwicklung der Europäischen Integration’ des Instituts für Politikwissenschaften der FSU Jena, December 12, 2002
- 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), Annual Conference of SAMF – German Association of Social Scientific Labour Market Research, Düsseldorf, December 5-6, 2002
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Theoretische Grundlagen des internationalen Vergleichs von Wohlfahrtskulturen (Theoretical framework for comparative analyses of welfare cultures), Research Kolloquium, Center for European Welfare Research ‚Kulturelle Grundlagen europäischer Wohlfahrtsstaaten im Wandel‘, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, November 27, 2002
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare state policies and change of European care arrangements – theoretical reflections and empirical evidence, Workshop, COST A 13 Action Programme der EU ‘Change of Labour Markets, Welfare States and Citizenship’, Hamburg, November, 15-16, 2002
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Culture and Welfare State – Theoretical Framework and Cross-National Comparison, Annual Conference European Policy Research Network of the European Sociological Association ’Social Values, Social Policies‘, Tilburg University, Niederlande, August 29-31, 2002
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Zur Pfadabhängigkeit in der Entwicklung europäischer Wohlfahrtsstaaten (Path dependence of the development of European welfare states), Forschungskolloquiums 'Nachrangigkeit des Sozialen in Europa?‘, Center for European Welfare Research, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, April 24, 2002
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Pfadabhängigkeit der Entwicklung oder Angleichung europäischer Wohlfahrtsregime? Die Entwicklung der sozialen Rechte in Bezug auf 'care', Forschungskolloquium 'Nachrangigkeit des Sozialen in Europa?‘ Center for European Welfare Research Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, January 16, 2002
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Kultur, Institutionen, Akteure – zum theoretischen Vergleich europäischer Geschlechter-Arrangements (Culture, institutions, social actors – theoretical framework for cross-national analyses of gender arrangements), Workshop ‘Geschlechterforschung in Europa’ der Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt, December 6-7, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Labour Market Exclusion in the Cultural and Institutional Framework of European Societies, Keynote Speech, EURESCO Conference 'Labour Market Change, Unemployment and Citizenship in Europe: A Euro Conference’, Helsinki, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, New Patterns of Social Integration, Keynote Speech at the European COST A13 Conference ’Social Policy, Marginalisation, and Citizenship', University of Aalborg, November 2-4, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Restructuring of the Social Care Sector in European Welfare States, Keynote Speech, International Conference on Changing Work and Life Patterns in Western Industrial Society, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, September, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Old and New Divisions - Change of Gender Arrangements in Western European and Transforming Societies, 5th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association, Helsinki, August 27 - September 1, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Bürgerschaftliches Engagement aus der Gender-Perspektive (Voluntary work in a gender perspective), Workshop der Enquetekommission ‘Zukunft des Bürgerschaftlichen Engagements’ des Deutschen Bundestags (Enquete Commission of the German Parliament), Halle/Saale, June 12-13, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Pfadabhängigkeit gesellschaftlicher Modernisierung: kulturelle und soziale Konstruktion von Vollbeschäftigung (Path dependence of modernisation: cultural and social construction of full employment), Kolloquium zur Soziologie der Arbeit ‘Aspekte des Postfordismus‘, Fakultät für Soziologie Universität Bielefeld, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Der Ansatz der Geschlechter-Arrangements für den europäischen Vergleich (The theory of the ‘gender arrangement‘ for cross-national comparison), Workshop ‘Theorien der Geschlechterforschung‘ der Humboldt-Universität Berlin, February 1, 2001
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Analyse der Entwicklungspfade von ‘care‘-Arrangements im europäischen Vergleich (Analyses of development paths of care arrangements in Europe in a comparative perspective), Workshop 'European Integration and Gender‘ des Wissenschaftlichen Netzwerks ‘Wohlfahrtsstaat, Arbeitsmarkt und Geschlecht im internationalen Vergleich‘, Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft, Berlin, 2000
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Zum theoretischen Rahmen für den internationalen Vergleich von intergenerativen familialen Beziehungen, Jahrestagung der Sektion Familiensoziologie der DGS ‘Interkulturelle Familienforschung’ (Annual Conference of the German Sociology Association) der DGS in Oldenburg, 2000
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Kulturelle Grundlagen der international vergleichenden Sozialpolitikanalyse, Postgraduierten-Kolloquium ‘Methoden der Komparatistik am Beispiel der Sozialpolitik’, Otto-Suhr-Institut, FU Berlin, 2000
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Analyses of gender policies of welfare states in their cultural context, Workshop ‘Labour Market Marginalisation/Exclusion and Caring’ der ‘Gender Issues’ Group des COST A 13 Action Program der EU , Berlin, 2000
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The cultural foundations of the parent-child relations in Europe, Conference ‘Quality of child care in European countries’, 2000
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Analysing Transformations of European Gender Arrangements, British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Glasgow, April 6-9, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Labour Market Transformations and Human Welfare, Keynote Speech, International Conference of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), European Seminar, Helsinki/Petersburg, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Gender Arrangements and the Welfare State in European Societies, Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Roehampton Institute, London, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Development paths of divisions of labour in European societies - reflections on a theoretical framework for cross-national analyses, 4th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association, Amsterdam, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Development paths of European labour markets - theoretical framework and empirical analyses, 21. Conference of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, Bremen, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Frauenerwerbstätigkeit und ihre kulturellen Codes im europäischen Vergleich, Ringvorlesung ‘Das Ende der Arbeitsgesellschaft und die Zukunft der Arbeit‘ der Technischen Universität Dresden, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Development paths of European labour markets - theoretical framework and empirical analyses, Conference ’Changing Labour Markets, Welfare Policies and Citizenship' des COST A13 Action Programme der EU, Brussels, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Wertewandel der Arbeit und soziale Dienstleistungen, Plenarvortrag zur Tagung ‘Wertewandel der Arbeit‘ der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Universität Rostock, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Flexible Labour Markets and Flexible Work Arrangements, Keynote Speech, 18th EUCEN (European Universities Continuing Education Network) European Conference 'Changing Work and Educational Needs', Universität Joensuu, Finland, 1999
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The role of 'culture' for cross-national analyses on labour market transformations, World Conference of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, Arco/Trento/Italien, 1998
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Conceptualising parenting and paid work in international perspective, ESRC Seminar series - Parenting, Motherhood and Paid Work, Dept. of Applied Social Studies, University of Bradford, 1998
- 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 Speech, Annual Conference of the German, Austrian and Swiss Sociological Associations, Plenum I ‘Grenzen des Wohlfahrtsstaates’, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 1998
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Der soziologische Mythos von der Hausfrauenehe (The sociological myth of the housewife marriage), Annual Conference of the German, Austrian and Swiss Sociological Associations, Session of the Family Sociology Sections, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 1998
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Geissler, Birgit, Geschützte Teilzeitarbeit für Eltern (Protected part-time work for parents), Vortragsreihe ‘Teilzeit - Lebensqualität trotz Beschäftigungskrise‘ der Angestelltenkammer Bremen, 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, Institute of 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, Geschlechterarrangements im europäischen Vergleich (Gender arrangements in European societies in a comparative perspective), Workshop ‘Feministische Sozialstrukturanalyse‘ des Instituts ‘Frau und Gesellschaft‘, Hannover, 1997
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The contradictory modernisation of motherhood in Western Europe in cross-national perspective, International Workshop "The Restructuring of Gender Relations and Employment: a Cross-national Perspective", University of Bergen/Norwegen, 1997
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Modernisation of gender arrangements in Western Europe, European Sociological Association Annual Conference ’20th Century Europe: Inclusions/Exclusions’,University of Essex, 1997
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Pfäfflin, Ursula, Frauenräume – Lebensräume, zum 27. Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentag in Leipzig, 1997
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Teilzeitarbeit und Geschlechter-Arrangements in Europa, zur Jahrestagung des Loccumer Kreises ‘Weniger Arbeit - weniger Demokratie?‘ Arbeitslosigkeit, Demokratiegefährdung und Neuverteilung von Arbeit in Springe, 1997
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Duncan, Simon, Theoretical Perspectives, Workshop ’Gender Inequality, Culture and Space’, Scientific network ‘Gender Inequality and the European Regions’, European Science Foundation, Berlin, 1997
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Aufhauser, Elisabeth & Jensen, Per H., Social and Political Citizenship, Workshop ’Gender Inequality, Culture and Space’ of the European Science Foundation in Berlin, 1997
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Modernisierung der Arbeitsmärkte in der EU (Modernisation of Labour Markets in the EU), 51. Geographentag (Annual Conference of Geography), Leitthema IV: Europa zwischen Integration und Regionalismus, Bonn, 1997
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Gender cultures and the gender arrangement - a theoretical framework for cross-national comparisons on gender, International Workshop ’Analysing European Gender Systems and Household/Family’, European Sciences Foundation Network ‘Gender Inequality in European Regions’, University of Barcelona, 1996
- 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) Vortrag im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe ‘Frauenforschung in den Geschichts-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften‘ der Fakultät für Geschichts-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Stuttgart, 1996
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Theorising cross-national differences in the labour force participation of women, Seminar on Gender Relations, Employment, and occupational segregation: a cross-national study, University of Leicester, 1996
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Wohlfahrtsstaatliche Regelungen zum Elternurlaub und zur Eltern-Teilzeit in skandinavischen Ländern (Welfare state regulation on parental leave and part-time work in the Nordic countries), Workshop Erwerbschancen für Frauen in den neuen Bundesländern - Chancen zum Abbau der Frauenarbeitslosigkeit" des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft, Berlin, 1996
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Welfare Regimes and the Gendered Division of Labour in Cross-National Perspective - Theoretical Framework and Empirical Results, 18. World Conference of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation ’European Employment Systems and the Welfare State’, University of Tampere/Finland, 1996
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Part-time work between family and employment in cross-national perspective, International Seminar ’Part time Paradoxes/Prospects’, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 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 Lecture, 28. Annual Sociology Congress of the German Sociological Association, Plenum IV ‘Subjektivität, Bewegungen, Machtverhältnisse’, Universität Dresden, 1996
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Different Avenues of Modernisation of the Gender Arrangement in Western Europe, International Conference ’Globalization and the new Inequality’, Universiteit Utrecht, 1996
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, European Gender Arrangements in Transition - a Cross-National Analysis, International Conference ’Gender Troubles: Families and Parent-Child-Relations in Processes of Social and Cultural Change’, CIF, Universität Bielefeld, 1996
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Theoretical conceptualisation of social change in the gendered division of labour - a cross-cultural approach, Internationale Tagung des Arbeitskreises Sozialwissenschaftliche Arbeitsmarktforschung ‘Der Beitrag der Frauenforschung zur Sozio-ökonomischen Theorieentwicklung‘, Bremen, 1995
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Convergence or divergence? Modernisation of the gender arrangement and the employment of women in Western Europe, Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association, Budapest, 1995
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Erosion der sozialen Konstruktion der ‘Hausfrau‘, Workshop ‘Regionale Entwicklung in Bremen‘ der ZWE Arbeit und Region, Universität Bremen, 1995
- 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, Familienmodell und Arbeitsmarkt-Integration von Frauen im europäischen Vergleich (Family model and labour market integration of women in a comparative perspective), Conference of the German Sociological Association ’Familie der Zukunft. Lebensbedingungen und Lebensformen’, Bonn, 1994
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Theoretical Concepts for the Explanation of International Differences in Women's Labour Force Participation, XVI. Weltkonferenz der International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation in Strasbourg, 1994
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Part-time employment and modernisation of the gender contract in comparison of European countries (Teilzeitarbeit und Modernisierung des Geschlechterkontrakts im europäischen Vergleich), Conference ’Private Households and new types of work‘ of the Foundation 'The private household', Bonn, 1994
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Socio-cultural conditions of the development of part-time work in comparative European perspective (Sozio-kulturelle Bedingungen der Entwicklung der Teilzeitarbeit im europäischen Vergleich), Workshop ‘Frauenerwerbsarbeit im regionalen und internationalen Vergleich‘, Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (KWI) in Essen, 1993
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Employment behaviour in socio cultural context of different industrial societies, Workshop ’Employment behaviour and labour market situation of women in cross-national comparison’, German Association for Social Scientific Labour Market Research (SAMF), Frankfurt, 1993
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Patriarchy or Gender Contract?, International Conference ’Future of European Cities. Urban Change in Europe: Influences from the Single Market and of East European Transformations’, Reihe der European Research Conferences in San Feliu de Guixols, Spanien, 1993
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Geschützte Teilzeitarbeit für Eltern - Anforderungen an die arbeits- und sozialpolitische Gestaltung eines elternfreundlichen Arbeitszeitmodells (Protected part-time employment for parents – demand towards a parent-friendly working time model), 13th International Conference of the catholic workers association (IKAT), Castle of Seggau/Steiermark, Österreich, 1993
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Modernisierung des Geschlechterkontrakts und Frauenarbeit in europäischen Ländern im Vergleich (Modernisation of the Gender Contract and Women’s Work in European Societies), Annual Congress of Sociology of the Austrian Sociological Association, University of Klagenfurt, 1993
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Institutional and socio cultural conditions for the decision of women for part-time employment, Workshop ’Erwerbsorientierung von Frauen’ German Association for Social Scientific Labour Market Research (SAMF), Berlin, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Socio-cultural conditions of the employment behaviour of women in Europe, Keynote Speech, Annual Conference on Social Policy, Tampere/Finland, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Modernisation, Culture and Part-time Work, XIV. World Conference of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, University of Cambridge, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Modernisation, Culture and Part-time Work, First European Conference of Sociology, Working Group Gender and Employment, Wien, 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, Dept. of Sociology, University of Helsinki, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Women’s Work and New Forms of Employment in Germany, Invited Lecture, Dept. of Social Policy, University of Jyväskylä, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Women and the German Unification Process, Invited Lecture, Centre of Women's Studies, University of Tampere, 1992
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The societal, family sociological and economic change as background for the establishment of full-time schools, Colloquium of the Pedagogic Institute Schwerte, 1991
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Social Change and New Forms of Employment, XIII. World Conference der International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, Bremen, 1991
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Institutionelle Bedingungen der Entscheidung von Frauen für Teilzeitarbeit (Institutional conditions of the decision of women for part-time work), Workshop, German Association for Social Scientific Labour Market Research (SAMF), Berlin, 1991
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Protected Part-Time Work and Political Framework, Conference ‘Family – His Matter, Her Matter? Ways to a new partnership of women and men in the division of household work‘, Conference of the Evangelische Akademie Iserlohn, 1990
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Atypische Beschäftigung - betrieblicher Einsatz und Arbeitnehmerinteressen, Tagung ‘Flexibilisierung des Arbeitsmarktes - Interessen, Wirkungen, Optionen‘, German Association for Social Scientific Labour Market Research (SAMF) in München, 1990
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The Change of the Gendered Structures of the Labour Market, Finnish-German Seminar ’Position of Women in the labour markets’ in Mäkrijärvi/Finnland, 1990
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Structural Change and Women’s Labour Market in Germany, Open University for Women, University of Kassel, 1990
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Das rechtliche Umfeld betrieblicher Arbeitsvertragsgestaltung (The context of work contracts in firms), Workshop ’Worker’s Rights and Employment Policies of Firms’ of the German Association for Social Scientific Labour Market Research (SAMF), Dortmund, 1989
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Geissler, Birgit, New Life Patterns of Women and the Right to Protected Part-time Employment, Conference ’Times of Women in the Labour Market‘, Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 1989
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Geschlechtsspezifische Ungleichverteilung von Arbeitsmarktchancen - Grenzen segmentationstheoretischer Erklärung (Gender inequality at the labour market – the limits of explanation on the basis of segmentation theory), Workshop ‘Erklärungsansätze zur geschlechtsspezifischen Strukturierung des Arbeitsmarktes‘ des Arbeitsausschusses ‘Arbeitsmarkt und Frauenerwerbsarbeit‘, German Association for Social Scientific Labour Market Research (SAMF), Bremen, 1989
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Hidden Unemployment of Women (Arbeitslosigkeit und Stille Reserve von Frauen), Conference on Employment Biography and Family Development of the Max-Planck-Institute for Educational Research, Ringberg, 1989
- 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
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, How Firms use Employment in the Grey Zone (Betriebliche Nutzung von Grauzonenbeschäftigung), Conference of the German Association for Social Scientific Labour Market Research (SAMF)‚ Market Economy and Form Policies, Hannover, 1988
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The Use of Non-Standard Employment by Employers, 10th World Conference of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, Porto/Portugal, 1988
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Atypical Employment of Women (Atypische Beschäftigung von Frauen), Workshop ’Arbeitsmarkt und Frauenerwerbstätigkeit’ of the German Association for Social Scientific Labour Market Research (SAMF) in Nürnberg, 1988
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, The Impact of the Employment Crisis on the Individual`s Employment History, 9th World Conference of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, Turin/Italien, 1987
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Frauen - eine Randgruppe des Arbeitsmarktes? Aspekte der geschlechtsspezifischen Arbeitsmarktspaltung (Women – a marginal group on the labour market? Aspects of the gender division of labour), Conference ‘Arbeit, Bildung und Beruf von Frauen‘, University of Kassel, 1986
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Dombois, Rainer, Betriebliche Beschäftigungspolitik und Destabilisierung von Erwerbsverläufen in der Beschäftigungskrise (Firm policies and the destabilisation of employment histories in the labour market crisis), 23. Annual Congress of Sociology of the German Sociological Association (DGS), University of Hamburg, 1984
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Frauen - die Opfer des Arbeitsmarktes in der Krise? (Women, the victims of the labour market crisis?), Conference of the German Association for Social Scientific Labour Market Research (SAMF), München, 1984