Academic seminar

On Tuesday 8 October 2024, the School of Social Sciences is organising an academic seminar on the theme: Gender (in)equality, social reproduction and changing dynamics in the regulation of work and welfare.

Don't miss this opportunity to engage in debate with national and international experts.

Prof. dr. Ines Wagner, University of Oslo
Ines Wagner has a double PhD degree in Political Science and Economics and Business. Her research is situated at the nexus between labour migration, transnationalism, EU integration and the changing nature of political economies.
"Egalitarian but not Equal: Sectoral Wage Formation and Gendered Wage Differentials"

Prof. dr. Petra Foubert, Hasselt University
Petra Foubert works at the Centre for Government and the Law (Hasselt University). She specialises in labour law and is the author of several reports for the European institutions, mainly in the field of equality and non-discrimination law.
"The potential of the Pay Transparency Directive in the fight against systemic pay discrimination"

Prof. dr. Ania Plomien, London School of Economics
Ania Plomien is Associate Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics & Political Science. Her research concerns social reproduction theory and analysis of the paid and unpaid work nexus, employment, care, and labour migration in the context of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Poland and Ukraine.
"Producing Subjectivities: Social Mobilisation of Labour and Mediations of Gender, Class and Migration"

Prof. dr. Emanuele Ferragina, Sciences Po Paris
Emanuele Ferragina is a Professor of Sociology at the Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at Sciences Po. Prior to Sciences Po, he was a Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford where he also received his DPhil. His fields of interest include international political economy, comparative social policy, labour market and family policy, the political economy of care and social reproduction, and the political economy of Italy.
"Family policy in the longue durée: Comparing and understanding changes over 125 years in the Western world and Latin America"