PROGRAMME CLOSING CONFERENCE OF THE ZIF RESEARCH GROUP
Understanding Southern Welfare - Social Policies in Brazil,
India, China and South Africa
Conveners:
Ulrike Davy (Bielefeld)
Lutz Leisering (Bielefeld)
Coordinator: Maria Virginia Lorena Ossio Bustillos
11 – 12 July 2019
THURSDAY – 11 JULY
08.30 – 09:00
Welcome Address by ZiF & the Conveners
China
09:00 – 10.00
Lecture
Kinglun Ngok (Guangzhou): 70 Years of Social Policy in China: Evolution, Achievements and Challenges
Discussion
10:00 – 10:45
Presentation
Albert Chen (Hong Kong): Law and Social Policy in China: From Communism to Marketization
Discussion
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee/Tea Break
11:15 – 12:00
Presentation
Shih-Jiunn Shi (Taipei): The Career of the Idea of Social Security: In the Shadow of Hierarchy
Discussion
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch in the ZiF cafeteria
India
13:30 – 14:30
Lecture
Ravi Ahuja (Göttingen): Workmen’s co
mpensation, employees’ health insurance and the making of the ‘formal sector worker’ in mid-twentieth century India Discussion
14:30 – 15:15
Presentation
Sarbani Sen (New Delhi/Toronto): From Growth-Based Welfare to Welfare Entitlements
Discussion
15:15 – 15:45
Coffee/Tea and Cake Break
15:45 – 16:30
Presentation
Sony Pellissery (Bengaluru): Social policy in last 100 years in India
Discussion
16:30 – 16:45
Break
South Africa
16:45 – 17:45
Lecture
Leila Patel (Johannesburg): Electoral politics and socio-economic rights implementation in South Africa
Discussion
18:00
Dinner at ZiF
FRIDAY – 12 JULY
09:00 – 09:45
Presentation
Letlhokwa George Mpedi (Johannesburg): From Untold Suffering and Injustice to a Future Based on Human Rights
Discussion
09:45 – 10:30
Presentation
Marianne Ulriksen (Odense): Ideas and Concepts of Social Security in Apartheid South Africa 1948-1990
Discussion
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee/Tea Break
Brazil
11:00 – 12:00
Lecture
Sonia Fleury (Rio de Janeiro): Authoritarian Governments and the Corrosion of the Social Protection Network in Brazil
Discussion
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch in the ZiF cafeteria
13:30 – 14:15
Presentation
Octavio Ferraz (London): From Fragmentation to Universalism
Discussion
14:15 – 15:00
Presentation
Lena Lavinas (Rio de Janeiro): The Anatomy of the Social Question in Brazil and its Links to the Brazilian Social Security System
Discussion
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee/Tea and Cake Break
Conclusions and Perspectives
15:30 – 16:00
Social Policies in Brazil, India, China and South Africa – Some Conclusions
Ulrike Davy (Bielefeld)
Lutz Leisering (Bielefeld)
Discussion
16:00 – 17:30
Round Table: Understanding Southern Welfare
Sarah Cook (Sydney), Eberhard Eichenhofer (Jena/Berlin) and
Göran Therborn (Cambridge)