Dear All I am forwarding this on behalf of Claudine Sauvain-Dugerdil and Barbara Lucas of the University of Geneva. If you would like to know more, please contact the following address: [log in to unmask] With best wishes, Bernard. Université de Genève 04.09.2008 - 05.09.2008 | Uni Mail, Genève Face à la dépendance: Etats sociaux, citoyenneté et action publique en Europe (Dependancy and Care policy: Welfare States, Citizenship and Policy Instruments in Europe) Programme http://www.unige.ch/ses/resop/ accueil > agenda/conférences This conference intend to foster an analysis of caring regimes impact on life choices and life styles in Europe in a comparative perspective. It will take under scrutiny all together the three populations in need for care (small children, disabeld and elderly). European Welfare States and caring policies will be discussed in regards to life courses (session I), social citizenship and the insertion of the individual into collective groups (session II) and policy instruments and agency (session III). Informations et inscriptions: [log in to unmask] -- Barbara Lucas Resop -Département de science politique; Coordinatrice Ecole doctorale Lémanique en Etudes genre; Formatrice - Unité Médiation, Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion adresse: Uni Mail 40, bd Pont d'Arve 1211 Genève 4, Suisse Tél. ++41.22.379.89.52 bureau: 5364 [log in to unmask]