Apologies for cross-posting - Call for papers: 3rd ESPAnet annual conference 22-24 September 2005 University of Fribourg, Switzerland The third ESPAnet annual conference will take place at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland on the 22-24 September 2005. The annual ESPAnet conferences seek to encourage exchange between scholars doing innovative research in the field of comparative social policy. The conference is open to anyone active in social policy research, and welcomes contributions from all relevant disciplines. The theme of the 2005 conference will be: "Making social policy in the postindustrial age" The focus of the conference will on the process of welfare state transformation. It will provide a forum for discussing different visions of the future of the welfare state, for comparing national trajectories, and for dealing with questions of legitimacy and political feasibility of welfare reform. Paper submission, registration and additional information on: www.unifr.ch/espanet05 <http://www.unifr.ch/espanet05> Organisers: Department of social work and social policy, University of Fribourg; and ESPAnet, European Social Policy Analysis Network ********************************** Minna van Gerven Secretariat of ESPAnet - The Network for European Social Policy Analysis http://www.espanet.org Tilburg University PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands Tel. +31 13 4662071 Fax. +31 13 4668068 E-mail: [log in to unmask]