本研究於6/19舉辦一場全球福利體制系列講座，介紹俄羅斯及日本的社會救助體系及相關重要研究成果，歡迎有興趣者共同參與交流。詳細活動如下：
（一）時間：2023/06/19（二）20:00－21:30
（二）地點：活動線上進行，無需報名，歡迎直接加入
活動連結：https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4418163238?pwd=WDZ4NzF4aUZZZFJvU0wzbjVDcE11Zz09
Zoom Meeting ID：441 816 3238
Passcode：LYV9xB
〔第一部分〕
(1) Introduction to Social Assistance Systems in Russia
(2) Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary
講者：Dr. Linda J. Cook (Professor Emerita, Political Science and Slavic Studies Department, Brown University) and Dr. Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova (Professor, International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, HSE University)
主持：臺大社工系 汪書華 副教授
講者介紹：
Dr. Linda J. Cook is Professor Emerita of Political Science and Slavic Studies at Brown University; Academic Supervisor, International Laboratory for Social Integration Research National Research University/Higher School of Economics, Moscow; and an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. Her research interests include welfare regimes in the Russian Federation and East-Central European Postcommunist states as well as globally. Cook is author of The Soviet Social Contract and Why it Failed (Harvard, 1993) Postcommunist Welfare States (Cornell, 2007, 2013) and articles in Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Post-Soviet Affairs, Voluntas, Europe-Asia Studies and other publications. She is currently completing a book manuscript, “Welfare Nationalism in Russia and Europe: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion.” (under contract with Cambridge University Press). Her faculty profile can be found at: http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Linda_Cook
Dr. Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova is a Head of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research and Professor in Sociology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Her research interests include inclusive education, family and child protection policy. Elena is the author of Class and gender in Russian welfare policies: Soviet legacies and contemporary challenges, University of Gothenburg, 2011 and articles in Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of European Social Work, Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies and other publications. She is teaching Sociology of Public Sphere, Gender and Work, Research Seminar. Her faculty profile can be found at: https://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/4013457
演講內容：
During the early 2000s governments in Russia, Poland and Hungary declared demographic crises and adopted pro-natalist programmes to increase fertility, as well as policies to support families with children. Our article compares their ‘flagship’ pro-natalist programmes: Russia’s Maternity Capital, Poland’s Family 500+, and Hungary’s enhanced earned income tax credit, all framed by governments’ neo-familialist discourses. We confirm these policies had limited impacts on fertility, finding that their most significant and disparate effects were instead on childhood poverty. Provision of preschool public childcare and parental leaves with levels of mothers’ employment across the cases were compared. We find no relationship between coverage of childcare institutions and employment rates of mothers with young children. Data show a weak relationship between length and compensation for parental leaves and maternal employment. We conclude that post-communist governments’ flagship pro-natalist incentives, family policies and traditionalist rhetoric have had limited effects in reversing demographic decline or in re-traditionalising contemporary women’s lives.
〔第二部分〕
(1) Introduction to Social Assistance Systems in Japan
(2) Constructing All-Japan Child Poverty Database
講者：Dr. Aya Abe (Professor, Department of Human and Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
主持：臺大社工系 汪書華 副教授
講者介紹：
Dr. Aya Abe holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. After working at the United Nations in India and a Japanese aid agency, and spent 16 years at the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, she is now a professorship at the Tokyo Metropolitan University and established the Center for Research on Child and Adolescent Poverty at the University.
演講內容：
Devised soon after the World War II, Japan’s public assistance program is the oldest among the all the social security and welfare programs in Japan. Being almost 70 years old, it is under a strenuous pressure to meet the demands of “new poverty issues” which are becoming increasingly problematic. Some of these issues will be discussed as well as a new research project on child poverty.
※注意事項：本演講以英文進行。
※本講座由國家科學及技術委員會經費贊助(111-2628-H-002-020-)。
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