New: Welfare Futures seminar series
The seminar series ‘Welfare Futures’ will start in October. This series consists of lectures by ethnographers researching changes in welfare systems, both in Europe and beyond. The series asks: How are welfare futures remade in the search for new forms of welfare governance and provision against the background of growing precarity and spiraling needs? Who steps up when established welfare actors are unable to provide answers to human emergencies? And what welfare futures are made, and for who, in programs that claim to do welfare differently?
The Welfare Futures seminar series is hosted by the Prototyping Welfare and Crafting Resilience projects, led by Prof. Anouk de Koning and embedded in the Anthropology department of the University of Amsterdam. With talks every 4 to 6 weeks, it hopes to create a lively space for debate and bring together an interdisciplinary ethnographic community engaged in thinking about transforming welfare landscapes in Europe and beyond.
First seminar 21 October
The first seminar will take place on 21 October 2024. Dr Linda Haapajärvi (University of Tampere) holds a talk entitled 'Tactics of participation. Immigrant women and the pursuit of meaningful moral projects in the precarious welfare landscapes of Paris and Helsinki‘. After the lecture, there will be drinks in the CREA café.
Time: 15.30 -17.00
Location: REC B5.12, Common Room Anthropology, Roeterseiland Campus, University of Amsterdam, B-building, 5th floor
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