Multidisciplinary Research Workshops 2010-2011

The workshops are organized by MWP in the 1st term and each Academic Practice Group will be responsible for one MRW during the 2nd and 3rd term. The sessions are based on input from an outside speaker, fellow or EUI faculty. The aim is to enhance multidisciplinary understanding between the disciplines present in the programme. These normally two-hour sessions are open to the EUI community.

MRWs are hold on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 11.00-13.00, Villa la Fonte, Conference Room

Multidisciplinary Research Workshops 2010-2011: 

• 6 October 2010, 11.00-13.00
  Uncertainty or incommensurability? Ideas, production structures and the problems securing a new and stable regime of accumulation
  Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia
• 10 November 2010, 11.15-12.45
  Weighing Rights
  Robert Alexy, University of Kiel
• 1 December 2010
  Intellectual Property Rights
  David Levine, ECO Department
  Organized by the ECO Academic Practice Group
• 2 February 2011
  Gender and Academic Careers
  Natalia Zinovyeva, Spanish National Research Council
  Organized by the HEC Academic Practice Group
• 18 March 2011, 09.00-17.00
  Treaty Reform beyond Lisbon?
  Joint workshop by European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO), RSCAS, Center for Studies on Federalism, Sant'Anna Legal Studies, and Max Weber Programme, EUI 
  Organized by Bruno de Witte, RSCAS, and Giuseppe Martinico, MW Fellow
• 23 March 2011, 11.00-12.45
  Path-dependence in Welfare State Reforms (Paper available in Moodle)
  Presentation (ppp)
  Kent Weaver, SPS Department
  Igor Guardiancich, MWP
  
  
• 6 April 2011, 09.30-13.15
  Institutional Independence in an Inter-regional Perspective: A Multidisciplinary and Comparative Workshop
  Joint workshop by the Max Weber Programme and the Global Governance Programme (RSCAS)
  Organized by the LAW Academic Practice Group including Aneta Jurska-Gawrysiak, Giuseppe Martinico, and Yane Svetiev, MW Fellows
  
  
• 4 May 2011, 11.00-13.00
  Multidsciplinary Research Workshop 
  Causality in the Social Sciences
  Dominik Hangartner, University of Bern
  SPS Academic Practice Group
  Contact: Alexey Bessudnov, MW Fellow
• 25 May 2011, 11.00-12.45
  The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills: Evidence from Parental Deaths
  Jérome Adda, ECO Department, EUI
  Organized by the ECO Academic Practice Group 
• 22 June 2011, 14.00-15.30
  Social Norms and the explanation of behavior
  Jon Elster, Columbia University
  Organized by Stephanie Novak and Giulia Andrighetto, MW Fellows