The Third Rethinking Social Democracy Conference University of Sheffield, UK, 28-30 June 2006
Social Democracy in the Post-Bipolar World: Challenges in the Developed World, Opportunities in the Developing World
Programme
Wednesday 28th June
12.00 Lunch
13.30-15.45 Session 1
Plenary The Future of Social Democracy
Rainer Zoll (Bremen) 'Rethinking socialism: 7 Theses'
Gerassimos Moschonas (Panteion, Athens) 'Social Democracy from without: identity change, European Union and the future'
Discussant, John Callaghan (Wolverhampton)
16.00-17.45 Session 2
Panel
David Purdy (Stirling) 'Personal autonomy and balanced development'
David McKnight (Sydney, Australia) 'Family, globalisation, and social cohesion'
Richard Weiner (Rhode Island, US) 'The governance of autonomous social law'
Panel
Social Europe Panel 'The future of Social Europe'
Chair: Henning Meyer (European Research Forum), Detlev Albers (SDP, Germany), Andreas Helle (PES, European Parliament), Stephen Haseler (European Research Forum)
19.00 Wine reception (Hosted by Social Europe)
19.30 Dinner
Thursday 29th June
09.30-10.45 Session 3
Panel
Ashley Lavelle (Griffith, Australia) 'Structural constraints on social democracy: comparative evidence from Germany and Sweden'
Craig Phelan (Wales) 'The global future of organised labour: historiographical assessment'
Adrian Zimmerman (Lausanne) 'Rethinking industrial democracy'
Panel
Eric Shaw (Stirling) 'Developed Social Democracy in the UK - is what works what counts?'
Rajiv Prabhakar (LSE) 'The Child Trust Fund: evidence of popular reactions to "progressive universalism"'
Andy Pearmain (East Anglia) 'Labour must die'
Panel
Sue Branford 'PT in Brazil: obstacles to delivering social justice'
Valeria Guarneros-Meza (De Montfort) 'Multi-level governance and participation in Mexico'
Guy Burton (ISA London) 'Third ways in the third world: social democracy and education policy in the Ceará and Rio Grande do Sul State governments, Brazil'
10.45 Break
11.00 - 12.45 Session 4
Panel
Jonathan Perraton (Sheffield) 'Alternative economic strategies in the South'
Debashish Bhattacherjee (Calcutta) 'The new left, globalisation and trade unions in West Bengal'
Hugh Compston (Cardiff) 'Long-term policy pressures on social democratic governments'
Panel
Geraldine Lievesley (Manchester Metropolitan) 'Is Latin America moving leftwards? Problems and prospects for radical social democracy'
Julia Buxton (Bradford) 'Venezuela: Bolivarianism and democracy'
Sara Motta-Mera (LSE) 'Venezuela: Reinventing social democracy in the 21st Century?'
Panel
Nina Fishman (Westminster) 'Post-industrial social democracy'
Ben Jackson (Oxford) 'The Rhetoric of Redistribution'
Martin McIvor (Catalyst) 'The relevance of left intellectual traditions'
13.00 Lunch
14.15-15.45 Session 5
Plenary The Struggle for Social Justice in Latin America Today
Rene Mujica Cantelar, Ambassador, and Silvia Blanca, First Secretary and Head of the Scientific and Cultural Office, Embassy of the Republic of Cuba
15.45 Break
16.00-17.45 Session 6
Panel
Anneke Ribberink (Amsterdam) 'An egalitarian Prime Minister: Gro Harlem Brundtland (1981, 1986-1989, 1990-1996)'
Robert Taylor (Nuffield) 'The direction of Swedish social democracy'
Dimitris Tsarouhas (Ankara) 'Ideas, Institutions and Interests: the Swedish Model revisited'
Panel
Francisco Dominguez (Middlesex) 'The latinamericanisation of the politics of emancipation'
Teresa Orosa Fraiz (Havana) 'Third Age social justice in Cuba'
Steve Ludlam (Sheffield) 'Cuba: post-bipolar Marti'an social democracy?'
Panel
Lawrence Black (Durham) 'Post-industrial Labour politics: some historical origins of New Labour's creative economy'
Kevin Hickson (Liverpool) 'New Labour, the third way, and the egalitarian tradition'
Jeremy Nuttall (Kingston) 'Social democracy through intelligence'
18.30 Depart for Conference Dinner, Monsal Head Hotel
After dinner speaker, Richard Corbett MEP
Friday 30th June
09.30-11.15 Session 7
Panel
Compass Panel 'The future of social democracy in the UK: issues, agents, narratives'
Chair Ed Miliband MP, Hetan Shah (Compass ) 'Issues', Martin McIvor (Catalyst) 'Agents', Stephen Hale (DEFRA Special Advisor) 'Narratives'.
Panel
Hartwig Pautz (Glasgow Caledonian) 'The modernisation of German social democracy: third way, Neue Mitte and Agenda 2010'
Simon Sweeney (Leeds) 'Soft Power and the European Social Model'
Oleksandr Svyetlov (Ukraine) 'Redefining social democracy: The case study of Ukraine's Social Democratic United Party (SDPU(o)): party programme vs. reality'
11.30 Session 8
Final plenary Ed Miliband MP
13.00 Lunch
For information and registration see:
[url]http://www.rethinkingsocialdemocracy.net[/url]
Jana Tillotson
RSD Series Administrator