Inequalities and Social Policy

International conference "Inequalities and Social Policy: New Approaches to Researching Exclusion and Disability".

Program

4:00–5:30pm Disability Studies: History, Current Policies and Their Actors. Chair—Sarah Phillips (Indiana University, USA)

Oksana Sinyavskaya (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) "Russian Social Policy Responses to Challenges of Poverty and Inequality: Case Studies of Old Age, Disability and Care Needs"
Bernhard Weicht (University of Innsbruck, Austria) "A Dignified End? Euthanasia Discourses and the Fear of Old Age and Dependency"
Maria Cristina Galmarini-Kabala (College of William and Mary, USA) "Ambassadors of Social Progress or Obstacles to Integration? The Paradox of Russian Blind Activism in the Global Arena of the 1960s and 1970s"

5:30–6:00pm Break

6:00–7:00pm Disability Studies: History, Current Policies and Their Actors. Chair— Anna Klepikova (EUSP)

Kassandra Hartblay, Gyuzel Kamalova (University of Toronto, Canada) "Is There a Soviet Concept of Disability Access? Tracing Lexicons of Mobility and Convenience from the Late Soviet Period to the 2010s"
Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova, Olga Verbilovitch (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) "Disability Mediatization: New Actors and Challenges in Digital Age"

12:00–1:30pm Vulnerable Children: Political and Cultural Factors of Exclusion. Chair—Anna Altukhova (EUSP)

Charlie Walker (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) "Gendering Resilience: Masculinities, Care Leavers and Social Inclusion in Russia"
Svetlana Yaroshenko (SPbU), Astrid Schorn (Free University of Berlin, Germany) "Regimes of Exclusion Through the Prism of Children from Families with Downward Mobility in Russia"
Galina Markova (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria) "Participatory Action Research as a Tool to Alleviate the Inequalities in Deinstitutionalization in Bulgaria"

1:30–2:00pm Break

2:00–4:00pm Vulnerable Children: Political and Cultural Factors of Exclusion. Chair—Zhanna Chernova (SPbU)

Meri Kulmala, Anna Fomina (Helsinki University, Finland) "Planning for the Future: Future Orientation, Agency and Self-Efficacy of Young Adults Leaving Care in the Russian Arctic"
Larisa Shpakovskaya (Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; University of Helsinki, Finland) "Up the Down Staircase: The Ideology of Opportunities and the Limitations of Educational Choice of Care Leavers in Russia"

4:00–4:30pm Final discussion