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October 15, 2010 at 1:17 pm | Posted in conference | Leave a commentMarch 10-11, 2011. The University of Chicago will host a conference on organizational interventions in urban poverty for the 21st century. Organizers are lining up a stellar set of speakers. More to come soon….
Welfare States in Transition Symposium – May 15, 2009
April 25, 2009 at 10:22 am | Posted in conference, non-profits, welfare offices | Leave a commentREGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
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https://ssanet.uchicago.edu/rsvp/centennial/event.cfm?eventid=090515
Registration is required for attendance.
The University of Chicago -School of Social Service Administration Centennial Welfare States in Transition: Social Policy Transformation in Organizational Practice
Friday, May 15, 2009
9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. with reception to follow
The School of Social Service Administration
969 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Organized by: Evelyn Brodkin, Associate Professor
Recent decades have witnessed a transformation in social policies and practices in the U.S. and internationally. Some of the most dramatic changes are occurring in policies that are reshaping the relationship between welfare and work. This symposium will examine this transformation, not only as enacted in law, but as enacted in practice. It will feature a series of papers and discussion that offer organizations-eye views of ways in which the changing relationship between welfare and work is being translated into practice in different states, cities, and in other countries.
The papers and discussion will consider shifts in both policy and practice, advancing new ways of thinking about the role of organizations in social policy transformation. As welfare and work policies have changed, so have the administrative arrangements under which they are implemented, arrangements increasingly constructed around new public management strategies of devolution, contracting, and performance measurement. How are these changes in policy and practice redefining the relationship between disadvantaged citizens, the state, and the market?
This symposium brings together researchers examining welfare-to-work as a global policy trend and new public management as a global administrative trend. It provides a forum for a discussion of the effects of these trends and their implications for future efforts to address poverty, inequality, and marginalization.
Confirmed Speakers:
Michael Adler
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh – Scotland
Martin Brussig
University of Duisburg-Essen, Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation (Institute for Work, Skills and Training) – Germany
Joel Handler
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Law and School of Public Affairs – USA
Yeheskel Hasenfeld
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Public Affairs, Department of Social Welfare – USA
Henning Jorgenson
Aalborg University, Centre for Labour Market Research (CARMA) – Denmark
Petra Kaps
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Social Science Research Center Berlin), Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung (Institute for Labor Market Policy and Employment) – Germany
Matthias Knuth
University of Duisburg-Essen,Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation (Institute for Work, Skills and Training) – Germany
Susan Lambert
University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration – USA
Flemming Larsen
Aalborg University, Centre for Labour Market Research (CARMA) – Denmark
Michael Lipsky
Demos, Center for the Public Sector, and Georgetown University, Public Policy Institute – USA
Gregory Marston
University of Queensland, School of Social Work and Human Services – Australia
Jennifer Mosley
University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration – USA
William Sites
University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration – USA
C.C.A.M. (Els) Sol
University of Amsterdam, Hugo Sinzheimer Institute – Netherlands
Joe Soss
University of Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs – USA
Ludo Struyven
Catholic University of Leuven, Higher Institute of Labour Studies – Belgium
H.H.A. (Rik) van Berkel
Utrecht University, School of Governance – Netherlands
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Northwestern University, Departments of Sociology and African-American Studies – USA
This Symposium is sponsored in part by the Danish Social Science Research Council and RESq – an international research network studying reform of employment services and social welfare policy.
Contact 001.773.702.1166 or centennial@ssa.uchicago.edu with
questions.
http://ssacentennial.uchicago.edu/events/symposium-brodkin.shtml
Work on scenes goes international
February 18, 2009 at 11:46 am | Posted in conference, scenes | Leave a commentWork by Terry Nichols Clark and colleagues on scenes is going international! “Scenes” are specific elements of urban or neighborhood life that encompass physical structures such as libraries, shopping malls, and theaters; demographics such as race, class, gender, and education; and activities such as attending a concert. Clark is moderating a panel at this year’s Urban Affairs Association meetings on Saturday, March 7, 2009 in Chicago featuring scholars from around the world who will describe new developments in this fascinating field of research.
Session 107 Neighborhood Cultural Scenes: How Do They Work? What Are Their Impacts? (Colloquy Session)
Renaissance Chicago Hotel
1 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Saturday, 8:45 AM–10:10 AM, Gold Coast (3rd Floor)
Moderator: Terry Clark (University of Chicago)
- Stephen Sawyer (University of Paris)
- Clemente Navarro (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
- Filipe Carreira da Silva (University of Lisbon)
For more on this conference, seee http://www.udel.edu/uaa/annual_meeting/index.html.
Check out the blog http://www.tnc-newsletter.blogspot.com/ for more information on scenes.
Urban Affairs Association Meetings – Panel of Interest
February 18, 2009 at 10:29 am | Posted in conference, non-profits | Leave a commentWe are pleased to announce that several urbanorgs members will be featured on a panel at this year’s Urban Affairs Association meetings on Saturday, March 7, 2009 in Chicago. Organized and moderated by Heather MacIndoe, these talks represent exciting new directions in the study of nonprofit institutions in urban contexts.
Renaissance Chicago Hotel
1 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Panel 123 New Roles for Urban Nonprofits
Saturday, 10:35 AM–12:00 PM, Bucktown A and B (3rd Floor)
Moderator: Heather MacIndoe (University of Massachusetts Boston)
- Nonprofits and the City Bureaucracy: Opportunities for Immigrant Political Incorporation, Els de Graauw, Harvard University
- Civic Engagement by Local Community Nonprofits: Bringing New Voices into Urban Governance? Susan Ostrander, Tufts University
- Charter Schools, Urban Nonprofits and Neighborhood Revitalization: A Comparison of New York City and New Orleans, Charisse Gulosino, Brown University
- Sector Mobilization: Public Policy Initiatives of Nonprofit Membership Associations, Heather MacIndoe, University of Massachusetts – Boston & Sarah Hogue, University of Massachusetts – Boston
- Scenes, Nonprofits, and Urban Development, Terry Nichols Clark, University of Chicago & Eric Rogers, University of Chicago
For more on this conference, visit http://www.udel.edu/uaa/annual_meeting/index.html.
ASA 2009 session on organizations and urban inequality
November 13, 2008 at 2:17 pm | Posted in ASA, conference | Leave a commentThe 2009 ASA conference in San Francisco, CA will hold a session on “Formal Organizations and Urban Transformations,” organized by UrbanOrgs.org network members Nicole Marwell and Michael McQuarrie. Session description:
In recent years, there has been a resurgence in urban sociologists’ interest in the role of formal organizations in cities.In contrast to William Julius Wilson’s much-cited thesis that cities, especially their poor neighborhoods, have become characterized by a vast lack of formal organizational resources, in the last ten years a growing number of urban sociologists has produced empirical work that takes formal organizations as their central object of inquiry.This work has included ethnographic studies of organizations in urban environments (e.g., McRoberts 2004, Marwell 2007), quantitative analyses of the variations in organizational density across neighborhoods (e.g., Rankin & Quane 2000, Small 2006), and historical discussions of urban organizational environments (e.g., McQuarrie 2007). Organizations are key holders and distributors of resources to individuals, families, and communities. Organizations also participate in the structuring of opportunity at the meso and macro levels, through their interactions with other organizations in neighborhoods, cities, and beyond. For both these reasons, urban scholars are increasingly documenting the role that organizations play in urban economic, political, and social realms. This session aims at bringing together a set of papers by scholars doing cutting-edge research on the intersection of organizations and various urban issues and transformations.
Two upcoming sessions at ISA RC-21, Tokyo, Dec ’08
July 7, 2008 at 7:26 pm | Posted in conference, RC-21 | Leave a commentThe sessions, titled “Stratification by Place: The Spatial Distribution of Organizational Amenities across Urban Neighborhoods,” are being organized by Joe Galasciewicz. See the ISA-RC21 Tokyo conference website for details.
Session I:
- Guadalupe Margarita Gonzalez Hernandez & Jose Roberto Gonzalez Hernandez. “Unequal income distribution and urban structure: Mexican case study.”
- Naoko Takeda. “Urban space and amenities for female workers in Tokyo 1: The Case of an Urban Commercial District”
- Noriko Tateyama. “Urban space and amentities for female workers in Tokyo 2: The case of residential district in the suburban area”
- Mario L. Small. “Are the poor worse off in the suburbs? Organizational density and neighborhood poverty in metropolitan areas.”
- Mayu Nakamura. “Polarizing child care services in suburbs of Tokyo: Struggles of existence among kindergartens.”
Session II:
- Jose Vargas-Hernandez. “Environmental and Economic Development Shrinkage of Atenquique”
- Zhu Qian and Bing Sheng Wu. “Urban spatial distribution without zoning: The case of three neighbourhoods in Houston”
- Haruna Miyagawa Fukui. “Developing outskirts of rapidly growing cities in the U.S. southwest.”
- Yanmei Li. “Neighborhood amenities, perception, and satisfaction of theforeign-born population in the U.S.”
- Kong Chong Ho. “The sociable amenity.”
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