*CALL FOR PAPERS*
"All Well in the Welfare State? Mental wellbeing and the politics of
happiness"
Workshop organised by the Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic
Welfare State – Historical Foundations and Future Challenges (NordWel)
Helsinki, October 24.–25. 2011(Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki)
The aim of the workshop is to bring historians, social scientists and
health professionals together to discuss the various economical and
non-economical factors connected to “(mental) wellbeing”, “life
quality”,“happiness”, “stress”, “self-actualization”,
“self-help”,“therapeutic society” and related issues. Our aim is to
discuss, what is new about the recent articulation of wellbeing and
happiness, if anything at all, and why does it emerge now?
They keynote speeches will be given by Professor Jonathan Bradshaw
(Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York),
Dr. Katarina Piuva Department of Social Work, University of
Stockholm) and Professor Pekka Sulkunen (Department of Social studies
[Sociology], University of Helsinki; Senior Research Fellow, Helsinki
Collegium for Advanced Studies).
If you are interested in presenting a paper in the workshop, please
send an abstract to Carl Marklund ([log in to unmask]), no
later than 1st August, 2011.
For more information about the workshop, please see the attachment.
Please do not hesitate to distribute this message.
Anna Alanko, M. Soc. Sc.
Doctoral Student
University of Helsinki
Department of Social Research
P.O.Box 16 (Snellmaninkatu 12)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
tel: + 358-9-191 24285
gsm: +358-41-5116994
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