Assoc ProfessorDorota Szelewa

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Participation in organization of the European Conference for Politics & Gender, ECPR Standing Group Politics & Gender, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

I was appointed an Editorial Board Member of the Journal fo European Social Policy (JESP) in 2022

I was appointed an Expert Board Member of the European Fem Institute. The European Fem Institute is a platform for cooperation between European experts who share the view that the foundation of modern society, state, and economy is the democratic rule of law, equality, and social solidarity. My role is to provide expertise and advice on the Institute's initiatives and programs.

Served as an invited expert during the Citizen's Panel on the topic of social security, provided input and answered questions from the citizens.

I had this unique opportunity to speak to the EU citizens during the citizens’ panel last Saturday in the plenary room of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. I talked about the challenges the EU faces, mentioned the issue of East-West migration, quality of jobs, post-Covid recovery, work-life balance and generally spoke about social justice and equality. The session took place in the Plenary Room, European Parliament, Strasbourg, France.

I was one of the speakers during the plenary session dedicated to the Journal of European Social Policy, representing the group of researchers awarded the JESP/ESPAnet Doctoral Researcher Award that I, together with Michał Polakowski, received in 2007 for our paper comparing childcare policies in Central and Eastern Europe.

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I gave a talk during the panel on "Gender, Religion & Identity Conundrums & The Rise Of Populism & Nationalism In Central & Eastern Europe And Latin America" during the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S 2021). The presentation was another, updated version of my talk: ‘Gender, Right-Wing Populism and Family Policy Discourses in Hungary and in Poland’

As a result of two collaborations, I had the chance to present two papers during the recent Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Conference, After Covid? Critical Conjunctures and Contingent Pathways of Contemporary Capitalism, 1-5 July 2021.

I participated in one of the plenary sessions of Foundation for European Progressive Studies's conference "The Ones to Watch 2". Together with Zita GURMAI, President of PES Women and Vice-President of MSZP Vilija BLINKEVICIUTE, Head of Delegation, MEP, Lithuania (tbc) Dasa SILOVIC, Chair of the CEE Network, Croatia Moderated by Mojca KLEVA KEKUS, President of Progressiva we discussed the future of gender equality post-Covid.

Together with Joanna Mishtal from University of Florida, we gave an invited talk at Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health.

I gave an invited talk at the University of Bremen, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), within the Lecture Series.

I was one of the panelist during a debate organized by the

I am a member of an expert team on social services at the Batory Foundation – a leading national and cross-national think-tank on democracy, civic engagement and social affairs. I provide my expertise on family policies and childcare services in meetings with policy makers and other experts, as well as providing a paper presenting evidence about investing in childcare and early education services.

I was invited to participate in the workshop on social and political participation that took place in Cracow, Poland, Jagiellonian University, on December 3rd, 2019. Together with Clémence Ledoux from the University of Nantes and Katharina Zimmermann from the University of Hamburg, we presented the main issues related to social and political polarization to the group of international students in our three countries (France, Germany and Poland) and then prepared the students’ ambassadors for asking questions to the three panelists invited for an evening plenary session.

Together with Michal Polakowski, we had the pleasure to participate in a seminar that gathered a group of East and Central European scholars working on various dimensions of welfare state transformation. The seminar took place at Warsaw University, organized by the editors of the journal Social Policy Issues. The title of our paper was: The politics (and policies) of social investment in the Visegrad countries: the cases of childcare and active labour market policies and is our contribution to the book (and a project) World Politics of Social Investment (WOPSI).

Together with scholars and women’s organizations’ activists from Central and Eastern Europe we spent two days meeting various stakeholders discussing on gender politics in the EU (3-5 November, 2019). It is really difficult to give a balanced and accurate view on what’s happening in our countries. On one hand radical right wing parties finally deliver social support seemingly breaking down with market fundamentalism, on the other – women’s rights are threatened and working conditions do not improve.

SESSION ORGANIZATION: With Guðný Björk Eydal from University of Iceland and Lenka Formankova from the Czech Academy of Sciences we co-organized a double research session: Migrant and transnational families’ access to formal and informal welfare, during the 17th annual ESPAnet conference in Stockholm.

PAPER PRESENTATION: "EU home-run against all odds: the case of the work-life balance Directive", with Caroline De la Porte (Copenhagen Business School) and Trine Larsen (Copenhagen University); during the 17th annual ESPAnet conference in Stockholm.

PAPER PRESENTATION: "Intergenerational obligations in France and Ireland: Inheritance and politics of long-term care", with Stephan Köppe (UCD), Clémence Ledoux and Sophie Garnier (University of Nantes).Paper presentation during ESPAnet Conference in Stockholm.

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