Guest lectures and seminars
Seminar: Minerva - Laboratory on Diversity and Gender Inequality
Sapienza University of Rome (online seminar), 23 April 2026
Veronika Lemeire
Title: "Negotiating the economic and social value of care work: a feminist social reproduction perspective on social dialogue"
Guest lecture: Yonsei University
Co-organized by Yonsei University and Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 30 March 2026
Ines Wagner
Lecture: "Technology, Gender and the Politics of Value: Institutions and the Gendered Organization of Work"
Guest lecture: ISUA-VOSEB
University of Antwerp (Belgium), 6 March 2026
Veronika Lemeire
Presented: “Sociaal overleg in tijden van oorlog en vrede: De omgang van vakbonden met migratie- en vrouwenarbeid aan de hand van haar geschiedenis in het interprofessioneel sociaal overleg” (Social dialogue in times of war and peace: Trade unions’ trajectory regarding migrant and women’s labour in intersectoral social dialogue)
Guest lecture: Sociologie II
Hasselt University (Belgium), 6 March 2026 -10 March 2026
Veronika Lemeire
Title: “Zorgarbeid, genderongelijkheid en arbeidsmigratie: De evolutie van de Belgische welvaartsstaat vanuit sociale reproductieperspectief” (Care work, gender inequality and labour migration: The evolution of the Belgian welfare state from a social reproduction perspective)
Conference participation
Caring Feminisms Across Borders, The Open University Business School, Podgorica
3 September 2026
Eli Ramsvik Melby
Paper presentation: "The Norwegian Nursing Organization's struggle for equal pay for work of equal value: an alternative economic history"
SASE 2026 Conference, Bordeaux
1- 4 July 2026
Veronika Lemeire
Panel organization: "Gender inequalities in comparative political economy”. Paper by Veronika Lemeire and Ines Wagner: "The gender mechanisms and outcomes of wage moderation policies in collective bargaining: a comparison of Germany, Norway and Belgium"
Ines Wagner
Discussant in: Book Salon: Women in turbulent times: Crises, transitions, and challenges for gender equality edited by Jill Rubery, Núria Sánchez-Mira and Valeria Insarauto
European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG), Newcastle University
15 – 17 June 2026
Ines Wagner
Panel : Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Policy When Implementation Stalls: The Uphill Battle for Equal Pay (OUP, 2026)
Ines Wagner
Panel on Feminist Political Economy of the EU, paper title: "Wage Adequacy and Pay Equality: Analysing the EU Adequate Minimum Wages Directive and the Pay Transparency Directive as Interconnected Wage Governance",
Discussant on POLICY WHEN IMPLEMENTATION STALLS from an Academic Perspective: Collective Bargaining and Equal Pay Policy in Norway and Iceland
ILERA Conference, Durham
10-12 September 2025
Ines Wagner
30 years of studying Europe - ARENA’s anniversary conference
21 November 2024
Ines Wagner
Presented the wage project.
Other events and activites
Summer school:Towards a Social Europe: The Birth of the Pillar of Social Rights
23 - 26 June 2026, University of Bologna, Forlì Campus, Department of Sociology and Business Law
Veronika Lemeire (participant)
Roundtable: RECET History and Social Sciences Festival 2026 "Transformations of Labor”
9 June - 11 June 2026, Campus of the University of Vienna
Ines Wagner
Roundtable Discussion: "Gendered Labor Transformed", with Dorothy Sue Cobble (Rutgers University) and Ines Wagner (University of Oslo), moderated by Alexandra Ghiţ (GWZO Leipzig)
Expert meeting: Korean Women’s Development Institute
Seoul, South Korea, March 2026
Ines Wagner
EU Clustering Event: Gender and Intersectionality in Research
Brussels
Ines Wagner
Attended the first clustering event on Gender Equality and Intersectionality, bringing together EU-funded projects, policymakers, and civil society organisations to advance diversity, equality, and inclusiveness in the European Research Area (ERA).