Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC19 Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy

Program Coordinator: Daniel KUENZLER (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Bringing Back Large Families
Session Organizers: Stephan KÖPPE and Megan CURRAN

Contradictions of Social Policies in the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Tania GARCIA-RAMOS
Chair: Julian LABOY

11:00-12:45

Transformations of the Welfare State in the Context of New Risks: National and Regional Strategies
Session Organizers: Olga BORODKINA and Mira ANTONYAN
Chair: Olga BORODKINA

13:00-14:45

Subsidies Vs. Cash Transfers? Nonlinear Paths of Welfare Reform and Counter-Conducts
Session Organizer: Marie VANNETZEL
Chair: Assia BOUTALEB

15:00-16:45

Welfare State Developments between Old and New Social Cleavages - Global Perspectives
Session Organizers: Ingela NAUMANN, Catarina SEGATTO SEGATTO and Luis ARANGUIZ KAHN

19:00-20:30

Reflections on Global Social Policy at 25
Session Organizers: Alexandra KAASCH, Sarah COOK and Tuba AGARTAN
Chair: Sarah COOK

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Ethnographing Access to Rights in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Lauriane DOS SANTOS and Leila DRIF

11:00-12:45

RC19 Open Session with a Special Focus on Migration and Social Policies
Session Organizers: Daniel KUENZLER and Hildegard THEOBALD
Chair: Daniel KUENZLER

13:00-14:45

Advances on Adaptive Social Protection
Session Organizer: Enrique DELAMONICA
Chair: Luis Renato VEDOVATO

15:00-16:45

Family Policy, Gender and Intersecting Inequalities (Part I)
Session Organizers: Ivana DOBROTIC and Margarita LEÓN BORJA

New Authoritarianism and Social Policies across the Globe: Converges and Divergences
Session Organizer: Juliana MARTINEZ FRANZONI
Chair: Tuba AGARTAN

19:00-20:30

Book Launch Panel: Handbook on Politics and Society
Session Organizer: Daniel KUENZLER

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Family Policy, Gender and Intersecting Inequalities (Part II)
Session Organizers: Ivana DOBROTIC and Margarita LEÓN BORJA

11:00-12:45

RC 19 Open Session with a Special Focus on Poverty
Session Organizer: Rianne MAHON
Chair: Daniel KUENZLER

13:00-14:45

Sociologie De La Pauvreté Chez Serge Paugam : Une Étude Sur La Possibilité De Généralisation
Session Organizers: Moussaoui SAID, Ezzaari YOUSSRA and Meryem MELHAOUI

Universalism in an Age of Financialisation
Session Organizers: Tuba AGARTAN and Sarah COOK
Chair: Sarah COOK

15:00-16:45

Integrating Social Policy across Sub-Nation, National, and Supra-National Levels
Session Organizer: Enrique DELAMONICA
Chair: Luis Renato VEDOVATO

19:00-20:30

RC19 Business Meeting

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Social Protection and Child Wellbeing
Session Organizer: Enrique DELAMONICA
Chair: Miguel ALMANZAR

11:00-12:45

Mobilising Care Workers in Global Care Labour Markets
Session Organizers: Isabel SHUTES and Ito PENG
Chair: Laura MERLA

Seeing like a Welfare State in Times of Crisis
Session Organizers: John BERTEN and Alexandra KAASCH
Chair: Alexandra KAASCH

13:00-14:45

RC 19 Open Session on Social Policy
Session Organizer: Rianne MAHON
Chair: Daniel KUENZLER

19:00-20:30

Authors Meet Their Critics: Ideas, Interests and Institutions in Health Care Policy
Session Organizers: Daniel BELAND and Tuba AGARTAN

Friday, 11 July 2025

11:00-12:45

RC19 Open Session with a Special Focus on Social Services
Session Organizer: Rianne MAHON
Chair: Rianne MAHON

13:00-14:45

Family Policy, Gender and Intersecting Inequalities (Part III)
Session Organizers: Ivana DOBROTIC and Margarita LEÓN BORJA

Welfare Politics in East Asian Welfare States
Session Organizer: Shih-Jiunn SHI
Chair: Shih-Jiunn SHI

15:00-16:45

Public Health, Migration, and Climate Change
Session Organizer: Claus WENDT