Theory and practice of the Welfare State in Europe in 20 th century Ways to the Welfare State

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1 Theory and practice of the Welfare State in Europe in 20 th century Ways to the Welfare State (International scientific conference, Prague 14 th 16 th November 2011) A. Monday 14 Nov 2011: Conference Programme (preliminary programme - current status of II.) Press conference The Head Office of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Národní 3, Prague 1, 1st floor Opening ceremony Congress Hall Hotel DUO Prague Teplická 492/19, Prague 9 Svatava RAKOVÁ (director of the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Yefim Y. PIVOVAR (Rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities Moscow, chairman of the Russian section of the Russia-Czech commission of historians and archivists) László ANDOR (Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion European Commission headquarters in Brussels) Jan MICHAL (Head of European Commission Representation in the Czech Republic, Jan NĚMEČEK (deputy director of the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, chairman of the Czech section of the Czech-Russian commission of historians and archivists)

2 15.00 Views of the Welfare State A historian on Welfare State Christoph BOYER (Department of History, University of Salzburg) Long-term trends in development of European social policy in 20 th century. Efforts to implement the Welfare State in Europe in 20 th century. Wolfgang MERKEL (Science Center, Berlin) Social-Democratic governments of Western Europe and their achievements in development of the welfare model (working title; under negotiation). Vitaly J. AFIANI (Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Between democracy and dictatorship. Scholar and thinker V. I. Vernadsky on the theory and practice of the welfare state in the USSR. A sociologist on Welfare State Martin POTŮČEK, (Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in "Public Discourse on the Welfare State". A political scientist on Welfare State Milan ZNOJ (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Charles University in Welfare State as a third road. An economist on Welfare State Pavel MERTLÍK (Raiffeisenbank Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Economic functions of the Welfare State and its prospects under the present changing economic conditions. A historiography and the Welfare State Jakub RÁKOSNÍK (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Charles University in Theory of the Welfare State and historiography Buffet dinner Theory and practice of the Welfare State in Europe in 20 th century Ways to the Welfare State

3 B. Tuesday 15 Nov 2011: Set 1 Theory of the Welfare State, origins and genesis of the concept, characteristics, development of the discussion up to the present-time views of the Welfare State. Connection of the Welfare State and democracy. Director and co-ordinator of the section: Basic presentation: Thomas MEYER (Berlin) Social Democracy (under negotiation) Vratislav DOUBEK (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Charles University in T. G. Masaryk and his Social issue in the context of the turn of 20 th century. Pavel MAREK (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Palacky University in Olomouc) The concept of the welfare state in the understanding of the Czech Christian Social. Stanislav VEJVAR (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Charles University in Receiving and application of the social doctrine of the catholic church in theczech territory in the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century. Marie L. NEUDORFLOVÁ (Masaryk`s Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Philosophy - Religious roots of social thought and their adoption in the Czech environment 19th century. Luboš BLAHA (Institute of Political Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava) Theories of the Welfare State: benefit, freedom, solidarity or class interest? Martin POLÁŠEK (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Charles University in Turns and changes of views of the role and sense of social policy in the Czech social-democratic setting of the 19 th and early 20 th century. Antonie DOLEŢALOVÁ (Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Social reconciliation or welfare state?

4 Set 2 Efforts to implement the Welfare State in Europe between the World Wars and critical political anylytic discourse. Reflexion of social thought in European authoritarian and dictator regimes (German Nazi state, Italian Fascist state, Soviet Socialism) Director and co-ordinator of the section: Basic presentations: The Popular Front in France (under negotiation) Presentations and short talks: Zdeněk KÁRNÍK (University of Hradec Králové) Take-up of the Social Democracy complex (and its splitting) in collaboration in leadership of Czechoslovak state seen as pre-history of the Welfare State. Sergej V. MIRONENKO (State Archive of Russian Federation, Moscow) The policy of the Czechoslovak state to support the social status of the Russian emigration in the years 1920-s Josef HARNA (The Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ideas and concepts of the Welfare State in the programmes and practical activities of political parties in the first Czechoslovak Republic. František ČAPKA (Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno) The Role of Trade Unions in the Struggle for the Welfare State. Eva IRMANOVÁ (The Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Hungarian democratic exile in Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and their ideas of the Welfare State. Jaroslav ŠEBEK (The Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Estates state democratic and anti-democratic departure points for solution of social issues.

5 Michal PEHR (Masaryk`s Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Welfare State in the programmes of Czechoslovak political Catholicism in the first Czechoslovak Republic. Drahomír JANČÍK (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Charles University in, For the public welfare. Social policy in declarations of government of interwar Czechoslovakia. Xénia ŠUCHOVÁ, Juraj BENKO (Institute of History Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava) Searching for Ways to the Welfare State in Czechoslovakia in the First Half of the 20th Century, with Regard to Slovakia. Yelena SERAPIONOVA (Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Social Institute in Prague and its activity in the years Ľubica HARBUĽOVÁ (Institute of History Faculty of Arts University of Presov in Presov) Social Aspects of Development in the USSR during and Their Reflection in Czechoslovakia. Miroslav ŠEPTÁK, (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Charles University in The Welfare State and Austria between 1918 and 1938.

6 C. Wednesday 16 Nov 2011 Set 3 The Welfare State road to its implementation in the post-war Europe. Continuity and discontinuity of thought. Director and co-ordinator of the section: Basic presentation: Jan DRAHOKOUPIL (Mannheim Center for European Social Research, University of Mannheim) Martin MYANT (University of Paisley, Paisley Great Britain) The Welfare State road to its implementation in the post-war Europe. Continuity and discontinuity of thought. Christoph BOYER (Department of History, University of Salzburg) Genesis and Heritage of the socialist government Welfare State in East Central Europe. Stein RINGEN (Green Templeton College, University of Oxford) History and problems of the Scandinavian model of Welfare State. Jakub RÁKOSNÍK (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Charles University in Czechoslovak Welfare State : Continuity and discontinuity in tradition of the Czech social policy. Presentations and short talks: Ľudovít HALLON (Institute of History Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava) Visions and reality of the social state in the Slovak republic in the years 1939 to Tomáš JELÍNEK (Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Prague; externe) View economist at the Social Policy of the Protectorate. Stanislav KOKOŠKA (Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Visions of the Czech domestic resistance to the modern welfare state.

7 Jan NĚMEČEK (Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Jan KUKLÍK (Faculty of Law of Charles University in Ideas of the Czechoslovak exile on social transformation of the Czechoslovak state. Zlatica ZUDOVÁ-LEŠKOVÁ (Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Slovak exile political representation of the second war of the modern welfare state restoration (perceptions and reality). Jindřich DEJMEK (Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, West-European socialist parties at the onset of Cold War: the case of the British Labour Party. Vladimír ŠPIDLA W. H. Beveridge s ideas in British social political thought after World War 2. Jörg ROESLER (Berlin) The two German Welfare States after History and Comparison. Radek SOBĚHART (Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Germany's economic miracle and welfare state as a necessary symbiosis? : Irena KOZMANOVÁ (Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, The welfare state as an argument in the ideological confrontation of the Cold War. Pre-school education in Germany and East Germany in the fifties of the 20th century.

8 Set 4 Crisis of the Welfare State in 1990s. Challenges of transformations and the modern Welfare State. Director and co-ordinator of the section: Basic presentation: Presentations and short talks: Milan ŠIKULA (Institute of Economic Research Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava) Global Crisis - Call for knowledge of social modernization of the State. Martin POTŮČEK (Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Social dimension of the Czech transformation Julia A. SCHERBAKOVA (The Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Science, Moskva) The experience of social reforms in the modern Czech and Slovak states. Dieter SEGERT ( Institute of political science, University of Vienna) Eastern Europe after 1989 a laboratory for the sustainability of Western democracy? Jacques RUPNIK (Centre for International Studies and Research, Paris) Comparative views/perceptions of the Welfare State in East Europe/EU. Ella G. ZADOROŢNJUK (Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Model of the Welfare State in programs of Central European Social-Democratic parties at the end of XX century. Vladimír ŠPIDLA European Union and its role in the process of transformations of the Welfare State. Marek HRUBEC (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Charles University in Modern Welfare State: transnational and global prospects.

9 Set 5 The concluding panel discussion on the topic: Past and future of the European Welfare State. Director and co-ordinator: Contributors: Vitaly J. AFIANI Christoph BOYER Jakub RÁKOSNÍK Jacques RUPNIK Milan ŠIKULA Vladimír ŠPIDLA (proposal) (proposal) Prague, 1 July 2011