The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies invites to its 6th annual conference in June 2018 in Regensburg (Germany). The conference is entitled „Social Policy in East and Southeast Europe in Past and Present. Demographic Challenges and Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion“. Scholars from history, economics and related fields of the humanities and social sciences will present their work to the public.
The two main fields in focus of the annual conference are the following. First, these are the social policies in response to the demographic dynamics and such challenges as aging, decreasing fertility and migration. The second topic of concern are the patterns of social exclusion and inclusion and related social policies.
The conference will gather an interdisciplinary group of scholars to address, among all, the following domains: family policy; pension policy; income maintenance programmes; poverty reduction; redistribution policies in housing, education and healthcare policies; political, institutional and ideological continuities and transformations.
The conference aims to facilitate a multi-disciplinary dialogue between scholars from history, economics and related fields of the humanities and social sciences. The geographic focus lies on East and Southeast Europe.
