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========================== APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING ============================ You are warmly invited to the international conference: The Transformation of Latin American Social Policy: Dynamics, Institutions and Outcomes hosted by the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy (CASP) at the University of Bath. Our conference brings together leading scholars to discuss social and politico-economic dynamics, reform models, institutional architectures and major outcomes of Latin American social policy, and to discern the policy tools that appear to offer the stronger potential of combating poverty and inequality. Papers selected for presentation cover a wide range of policy areas, comparative and country case studies and diverse methodological approaches. Date: Friday 7th November, 2014 Time: 9.15 – 18.30 Venue: University of Bath The call for papers in now closed but registration is open for a limited number of places, on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please e-mail the IPR to register your place in the following address: [log in to unmask] Keynote speakers: - Professor Armando Barrientos (Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester) and Dr Juliana Martinez Franzoni (Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad de Costa Rica) Conference organisers: - Dr Theo Papadopoulos and Mr Ricardo Velazquez Leyer (Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath) For further details on the event, including the full programme and details on how to get to the University of Bath, please visit the official web page: http://www.bath.ac.uk/ipr/events/news-0111.html ----------------------------------------------- kind regards Theo Papadopoulos and Ricardo Velazquez Leyer --------------------------- Dr Theodoros Papadopoulos Director, MSc in International Public Policy Analysis Department of Social and Policy Sciences UNIVERSITY OF BATH Bath BA2 7AY, England Telephone: int +44 (0)1225 386831 Fax : int +44 (0)1225 386381 --------------------------- ** Recent publications ** Papadopoulos, T. and Roumpakis, A.(2013) The meta-regulation of European industrial relations : power shifts, institutional dynamics and the emergence of regulatory competition among EU Member States in International labour review. Vol. 152, no. 2 BOOK (now in paperback): 'Migration and Welfare in the New Europe', Policy Press (with Emma Carmel and Alfio Cerami)