RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (oldest first)

International Conference for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Geneva September 2005

In September 2005, I was a speaker on a panel on 'Beyond Lessons Learned' at a Conference organised on the Future of Bosnia-Herzegovina Ten Years After Dayton. Download the texts of the panelists here.

New Frontiers of Social Policy, Arusha December 2005

In December 2005, I was a panellist at a conference organised by the World Bank in Tanzania. More about the conference can be found here. The broad sense of what I said in my contribution to the panel on 'The Role of International Organizations in Global Social Policy' is in this file.

International Sociological Association Conference, Durban July 2006

Here is a first draft of a paper by Siniša Zrinščak and myself "International Actors, 'Drivers of Change' and the Reform of Social Protection in Croatia" presented as part of a panel on 'International organisations' prescriptions for, and influence upon, national social policy', convened by Bob Deacon and Nicola Yeates

European Association for Comparative Economic Studies Conference, Brighton September 2006

Here is a draft paper by Denis Redžepagić and myself 'Rethinking Clusters and Social Capital in Croatia' presented at the EACES Conference. More details of the conference can be found here. The text represents a first attempt to sketch a research agenda on the relationship between micro-economic phenomena, development policies and social capital. Comments and suggestions for improvements more than welcome.

Social Policy and Regional Development Conference, Zagreb 30 November 2006

This is a draft paper by Vesna Bošnjak and myself entitled 'Just Welfare?: social services reform in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia' accepted to be presented at this conference organised by the Institute of Economics, Zagreb and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Croatia. The paper is our attempt to sketch a systems approach to deinstitutionalisation seeking to link it with decentralisation and meso-level planning. Comments welcome.

CINEFOGO CONFERENCE, 'Citizen Participation in Policy Making', Bristol, UK 14-15 February 2007

This paper by Nenad Starc and myself is entitled 'Too Much Ado About Too Little: participation in island development programmes in Croatia'. Comments welcome. More about the conference and more papers to download can be found on the conference's website

ENTERPRISE IN TRANSITION CONFERENCE, Split, Croatia, 24-26 May 2007

Stubbs Tafra Redzepagic Split.pdf This paper by myself, Majda Tafra-Vlahović and Denis Redžepagić is on Sustainability Reporting in Croatia. Comments welcome.

SOCIAL POLICY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD CONFERENCE, Florence, Italy, 6-8 September 2007

This paper florencelendvaistubbs.pdf by Noemi Lendvai and myself seeks to critique the realist epistemology of mainstream 'Global Social Policy' studies and offer, both in a structural and discursive sense, an alternative approach based in post-colonial theory. This is a very tentative first draft and comments are more than welcome. It will be discussed at an International Sociological Association workshop (group on Poverty and Social Welfare) see website http://www3.unifi.it/confsp/index.html

GLOBAL SOCIAL POLICY - WISHFUL THINKING OR REALITY? Kassel, Germany 1-2 February 2008.

In the session 'Concepts of Global Social Policy' I presented a paper 'The Antinomies of Global Social Policy: theories, methods, politics'. The power point presentation is here: Stubbs Kassel.pdf. More details on the workshop and other speakers can be accessed here: http://www.social-globalization.uni-kassel.de/pdf/Workshop_Global-Social-Policy.pdf

INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION IN EUROPE COURSE IUC Dubrovnik 13 - 20 April 2008

I gave a lecture 'Do you have a word for it in your language? transnationalism, translation, transformation featuring Youtube excerpts from Monty Python and Bulgarian pop idol, sadly not shown in this http://www.inclusionexclusion.nl/site/?download=Paul%20dubrovnik%2008%20final.pdf pdf version of my presentation.

EMERGENT PUBLICS SEMINAR SERIES Milton Keynes, UK

SEMINAR 2: MOBILISING PUBLICS 16 October 2008

Operation:City Zagreb 4-6 December 2008

A shorter version of the same paper, combined with some remarks about Marxist theories of neo-liberalism, can be heard here:

http://boo.mi2.hr/~domes/OpGr2008-audio/5.12.UrbanStruggles.mp3

I was a panellist in the conference 'The Neo-Liberal Frontline' on 'Urban Struggles and Popular Imagination'

Faces of Social Inclusion. Conference on Social Exclusion in South East Europe, UNDP, Zagreb November 2008

I provided an overview on social exclusion in SEE ... my power point presentation is available http://www.undp.hr/upload/file/202/101187/FILENAME/Stubbs_SEE_Forum_SI_Zagreb_11_2008.ppt here