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Prof. Karen Shire (Ph. D.)
Professor of Comparative Sociology and Japanese Society

Conferences

 

Recent Conference Organisation

 

  • Restricting the Commodification of Labor. Organiser and Chair.  RC02 Economy and Society, XVII International Sociological Association World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17July 2010.

  • Risk and East Asia, Organiser, Annual Meetings of the Verein für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung, Berlin: Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, November 19 – 22, 2009.

  • Strukturwandel zu Metropolen? Organisation – Kultur – Produktion, Program Committee Member, First Regional Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Bochum, September 28 – 30, 2009.

  • Welfare and Gender Regimes in Comparative Capitalisms (Session 8) and Varieties of Capitalist Gender Regimes (Session 3), Panel Organiser and Chair, RC02 Economy and Society, ISA Forum of Research, International Sociological Association, Barcelona, 5 – 8 September 2008.

  • Varieties of temporary staffing: evidence from beyond ‘neo-liberal capitalism’ Panel Organiser (with Kevin Ward, Manchester University), Sloan Industry Studies Conference, Boston, MA, May 1-2, 2008.

 

Conference Presentations

 

2009

  • Gender and Skill Specificity in the Varieties of Capitalism (with Karin Gottschall), International Symposium of the Excellence Cluster - Gender Inequality - at the University of Tokyo, Japan -- Faces of Social Exclusion from a Gender Perspective, 28. February 2009, and ISA Forum, RC02 Economy and Society, Barcelona, Semptember5-8, 2008

  • Cross-Border Labor Markets in East Asia, Open University of the DFG Research Training Group Transnational Social Support, Hildesheim University, June 6, 2009.
     
  • Gender Dimensions of Temporary Work in Comparison, Research Meeting of the JSPS Project on Faces of Social Exclusion in Coordinated Market Economies, Sept. 21, 2009.
     
  • The Middle Class in Japan and China, (with David Chiavacci and Flemming Christiansen), Podium “Verlust der Mitte (Decline of the Middle)”, Regional Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bochum, Sept. 29, 2009.


2008

  • Gender and Skill Specificity in the Varieties of Capitalism (with Karin Gottschall), International Symposium of the Excellence Cluster – Gender Inequality –  ISA Forum, RC02 Economy and Society, Barcelona, September 5 – 8, 2008.
     
  • The Temporary Staffing Industry in Protected Employment Economies: Germany, Japan and the Netherlands (with Danielle van Jaarsveld), Sloan Industry Studies Conference, Boston, May 1-3, 2008. 
  • Women in the Social Sciences: A Cross-National Perspective, Women Scientists Surpassing Boundaries: Gender Equality in Academia for Promotion of Sciences, International Symposium Celebrating 130th Anniversary of the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, March 28 – 29, 2008. 

  • Gender Inequalities, Skills and Service Occupations (with Karin Gottschall). Workshop on Inequalities in Japan, Europe and the US, Organiser: Magarita Estevez_Abe, March 1-2, 2008, Harvard University, Cambrige, MA.

 

2007

  • Area Studies and Sociology, 12. April 2007, European Workshop on “Area Studies and Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Challenges, Empirical Findings and the Road Ahead”, GIGA: German Institute of Global and Area Studies/Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien.
  • The Adoption of Precarious Employment Forms in Protected Employment Economies: The Case of Call Centers in Austria, Germany and Spain (with Annika Schönauer and Mireia Valverde), 19th Annual Meetings of the Society for Socio-Economics (SASE), 28-30 June, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen.
  • Temporal and Spatial Dimensions of New Employment Practices in Project-Based Organisational Networks (with Markus Tünte and Birgit Apitsch), July 5-7, 2007, 28th Meeting of the International Working Party on Labor Market Segmentation, LEST, Aix-en-Provence.
  • Asset Specificity in Services (with Karin Gottschall), November 10, 2007, at the Workshop on Asset Specificity and Skill Regimes: Concepts and Implications, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

 

2006

  • Institutions and Organisations in the Adoption of Non-Standard Employment Forms in Services: A Comparison of Call Centers in Austria, Germany and Spain (with Annika Schönhauer, Vienna and Mireia Valverde, Barcelona), November 15, 2006, at the Workshop of the Global Call Center Project, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Gender and Inequality in Comparative Research, talk delivered to the Gender Workshop of the German Association of Social Science Research on Japan, November 10, 2006, Hamburg, Germany
  • Gendered Temporalities emerging through the global and national re-regulation of employment institutions, paper presented at the RC 02 Economy and Society, International Sociological Association, July 26, 2006, Durbin, South Africa.
  • Gender and Employment Security in the German Knowledge Based Economy," July 2006, paper presented to the workshop Globalisation, Gender and Work Transformation,August 11, 2006, Montreal, Canada.
  • Comparative Employment Theory from a Gender Perspective, (with K. Gottschall, Bremen University), July 2006, paper presented to the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 13, 2006, Montreal, Canada.
  • "Work, Employment and Institutional Change in the Knowledge-Based Economy", opening address to the European Union 2nd European Summer School of Work (ESUDA), August 13, 2006, Duisburg
  • Globalisation of the Temporary Help Industry, final comment to the workshop, Manchester University, September 6, 2006, Manchester, England
  • The Transformation of Employment Institutions in Japan: Changing Societal, Organisational and Workplace Relations, International Research Workshop on 'The Modern Turn in Governance: Understanding Institutions, Actors and Cognitive Patterns in East Asia', Thyssen Krupp Foundation and IN-EAST, 3-5 April 2006, University Duisburg-Essen.
  • Gender and employment contracts in the German knowledge economy. British ESRC Workshop on Gendering the Knowledge Economy, 16-17 March 2006, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University.

 

2005

  • Call Center Management and Worker Outcomes in the European Union: The 'Labour Mediated' Cases of the Netherlands and Germany Compared, in the Panel: Comparative International Studies of the Global Call Center Industry, at the Meetings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Philadelphia, PA (with Danielle van Jaarsveld, Univ. of British Columbia u.a.), 8. January 2005.
  • Post-Crisis Settlement from a Gender Perspective, Comment at the 19th International Symposium of the Institute of Social Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 19. February 2005.
  • Concluding Comment to the Workshop Grenzen der Entgrenzung von Arbeit, SOFI (Sociological Research Institute at the University Göttingen), Göttingen, 8. April 2005.
  • Call Centers in Poland, Global Call Center Workshop, Science Center Berlin for Social Research, Berlin, 23. June 2005.
  • What can engineers and social scientists learn from each other?, DAAD Summer Academy Guidance and Control of Autonomous Systems, Duisburg, 22. July 2005.
  • Gender and Employment in the New Economy in Comparison (with Sylvia Walby, Lancaster University) at the 2005 GLOW Workshop, Comparing Gender Regimes in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Lake Windemere, UK, 31. August 2005.
  • Gesellschaft Japans: Sozialstruktur und Neue Arbeitswelt, International Summer School Conference -- Japan in the 21st Century, Duisburg, 8. September 2005.
  • Auswirkungen der Liberalisierung auf die Unternehmenskultur -- Ein Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und Japan, Konrad-Adenauer Symposium, Leitbild Unternehmer, Düsseldorf, 2. May 2005.

 

2004

  • Gender Perspectives on the Welfare State and Employment, Panel Introduction and Moderation, Annual meetings of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan, Berlin (21. November 2004)
  • Gender and the Re-regulation of Temporary Agency Employment in Liberal and Non-Liberal Economies, Bi-annual meetings of the German Sociological Association, Munich (7. October 2004)
  • The New Economy and Gender in International Comparison: Concepts, Comparisons and Preliminary Findings, Symposium on Gender and the New Economy at the Institute of Social Sciences, March 2004, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Measuring the New Economy: Implications for a Gender Analysis, Meeting of the Globalisation, Gender and Work Transformation Network (GLOW) March 2004, in Yugawara, Japan
  • Change in Japanese Employment Institutions: The Case of Temporary Work, DIJ Forum, March 2004, Tokyo, Japan
  • Kundenorientierung und Arbeitsbeziehungen in wissensintensive Dienstleistungen, Workshop at the Sozialforschungs-Stelle Dortmund (SfS) Der Kunde in der Dienstleistung, February 2004.
  • Change in Japanese Employment Institutions, Seminar in the Rotterdam Institute of East Asian Studies (RIAS), May 2004, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  • Keine Zeit? Arbeiten und Leben in Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten, Lecture in the Ringvorlesung, Endstation Amerika?, May 2004, Duisburger Akzente
  • Frauen und die New Economy: Endlich die Gleichberechtigung oder wachsende Ungleichheiten unter Frauen?, Lecture in the Ringvorlesung Gender and Social Inequality, June 2004, Essener Geschlechterkolleg
  • Mainstreaming gender into the conceptualisation and measurement of the new economy, ESRC Seminar on Gender Mainstreaming ‘Gender mainstreaming, the new economy and new employment forms’ September 2004, Leeds University, UK
  • Comparative Institutionalism and Divergence in Gender Regimes, Meeting of the Globalisation, Gender and Work Transformation Network (GLOW), September 2004, Lake Windemere, UK

 

2003

  • Soziale Institutionen und Beschäftigungswandel in Japan, Kolloquium, Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen, February 2003.
  • Gender and the re-regulation of temporary employment in Germany and Japan, SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) Panel: Gender, Institutions and Comparison in Advanced Economies, Aix-en-Provence, 26-28 June 2003, and in revised form at the Workshop Gender, Globalisation and Work Transformation, 27-30. September 2003, Bremen, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg.
  • Gender and the New Economy in Comparison: Germany, Japan, Great Britain and the US, Workshop Gender, Globalisation and Work Transformation, 27.-30. September 2003, Bremen, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg.

 

2002

  • The Transformation of Work Organisation, Skill Formation and Employment Relations in Knowledge-Intensive Work, RIETI (Research Institute of the Japanese Ministry of Economy and Trade), October 2002, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Comparing the Transition to a Public Gender Regime in Germany and Japan, Staff Seminar, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, November 2002, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Knowledge Intensive Work and the Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe, 4th St. Gobain Conference on Work and Work Skills in a Changing Economy, Paris, France, June 20-21, 2002
  • Kommentar zu Beiträgen des Workshops “Childcare and Female Employment in Japan“, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 22. Juli 2002.
  • Gender, Employment and Work Relations in Knowledge-Intensive Service Work: The German Case. Tokyo Workshop: Globalization, Gender and Work Transformation. Institute for Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, August 31, 2002.