The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
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Josef Baumgartner has been an economist at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) in Vienna, Austria since April 1996. He is a senior economist in WIFO's Macroeconomics and European Policy Research Group. In 2009 (Feb. to Nov.) he was acting desk economist for Austria at DG Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission in Brussels. From 2003 to 2005 he was a member of the Eurosystem Inflation Persistence Network (IPN) organized by the European Central Bank (ECB). Before he joined WIFO, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the Technical University Vienna (Dec. 1994 to March 1996). Next to his research positions he held various affiliations as (part-time) lecturer in economics at the University of Linz, Technical University Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University of Applied Sciences of the Chamber of Commerce in Vienna.
He studied economics and econometrics at the University of Linz (MA in Economics, July 1993), the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna (Sept. 1992 to Nov. 1994), the University of Copenhagen (August 2009) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (PhD in Econometrics and Economics, Aug. 2010).
In his current research (jointly work with G. Ruenstler, WIFO) he analyses macroeconomic divergences within the euro area and with the world economy within an analytical framework of a global cointegrated vector autoregressive model.
Josef's publication list can be found on the back of his attached Curriculum Vitae.
This seminar will sketch the transition of Austria's gender relations between the 1960s and the firts decade of the 20th century. Departing from a "(Strong) Male Breadwinner/ Female Home Carer Model," the gender relations in Austria have changed significantly, yet Austria has not adopted a more egalitarien system such as the "Dual Breadwinner/ Marketized Female Carer Model" established in the USA, or the "Dual Breadwinner/ State Carer Model" established in Scandinavian Countries. Instead, Austria has (like Germany and the Netherlands) converted into a "(Weak) Male Breadwinner/ Female Parttime Carer Model".
The seminar will track the significant changes of gender relations - the "emancipatory" processes of rising female partipation in education and wage labor, and the loosening of ties of traditional marriage and family, but also the processes of reproduction of gender inequality in education, work and family. Finally, the seminar will address how social, family and gender policies have contributed to these contradictory developments.
Professor Max Preglau (Sociology, University of Innsbruck) is the 2010-11 Visiting Austrian Chair at The Europe Center.
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Max Preglau is a professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, School of Political Science and Sociology of the University of Innsbruck in Austria. His work focuses on Critical Social Theory and on the comparative Study of Contemporary Societies, Social Inequalities, Welfare Regimes and Social Policies (Austria and EU-Memberstates).
In 2006-07 Preglau was
a Joseph Schumpeter Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University. Until 1991 he was associate professor, until 1986 assistant
professor at the Department of Sociology at the School of Economic and Social
Sciences of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Preglau received his doctoral
degree in the Social and Economic Sciences from the Vienna Business School, a
post-graduate Diploma in Sociology from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna
and his qualification for university teaching (Habilitation) of Sociology from
the University of Innsbruck.
Professor Preglau's current research projects include "Comparative Analysis of Social Structures: Austria, Europe and the USA," and "Comparative Analysis of Welfare States and Social Policies: Austria, Europe and the USA."
Courses:
SOC 252: Current Social Change: Austria, Europe and the US
Term: Winter, 3-5 units
Tue/Thur 3:15 - 5:05 PM, 160-127
SOC 253: Rise, Current Challenges and Transformations of the Welfare State
Term: Spring, 3-5 units
Tue/Thur: 3:15 - 5:05 PM, 160-127
Students and researchers who are interested in a stay in Austria will find a wide variety of scholarships and grants with the Austrian Agency for International Mobility and Cooperating in Education, Science and Research (OeAD). Programs range from broader geographical – and theme- oriented scholarships like the Ernst Mach programme, to more specific programs for individual fields of study (Franz Werfel for students of German language and literature; Richard Plaschka for historians), also including programs with a regional focus. These programs are designed for a worldwide application, except the Ernst Mach Grant for Austrian Universities of Applied Sciences, which is only aimed at non-European countries. All three programmes are funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF).
To access information on grant programs and scholarship opportunities, please consult the OeAD's online database: www.grants.at.
The Europe Center
Encina Hall E103
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Max Preglau is a professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, School of Political Science and Sociology of the University of Innsbruck in Austria. His work focuses on Critical Social Theory and on the comparative Study of Contemporary Societies, Social Inequalities, Welfare Regimes and Social Policies (Austria and EU-Memberstates).
In 2006-07 Preglau was
a Joseph Schumpeter Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University. Until 1991 he was associate professor, until 1986 assistant
professor at the Department of Sociology at the School of Economic and Social
Sciences of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Preglau received his doctoral
degree in the Social and Economic Sciences from the Vienna Business School, a
post-graduate Diploma in Sociology from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna
and his qualification for university teaching (Habilitation) of Sociology from
the University of Innsbruck.
Professor Preglau's current research projects include "Comparative Analysis of Social Structures: Austria, Europe and the USA," and "Comparative Analysis of Welfare States and Social Policies: Austria, Europe and the USA."
Courses:
SOC 252: Current Social Change: Austria, Europe and the US
Term: Winter, 3-5 units
Tue/Thur 3:15 - 5:05 PM, 160-127
SOC 253: Rise, Current Challenges and Transformations of the Welfare State
Term: Spring, 3-5 units
Tue/Thur: 3:15 - 5:05 PM, 160-127
The 21st century has been branded the century of the worldwide return of ethnonationalisms. Conflicts based on cultural differences are boiling up in many regions, leading to civil wars and to the breakup of states. Many of these conflicts are direct and indirect consequences of modernization and transnationalization; and they are usually as complex as they are enduring and difficult to settle, because rooted in the "deep“ dimensions of culture and religion. The result is in many cases a conflict pattern where political solutions are often only of temporary value, because the far deeper rooted ethnic and cultural dimensions sooner or later undermine them and spiral the conflict up again. As a consequence, there is a new debate today about the advantages of partition and separation, and an increasing number of scholars and politicians seems to believe that the still most humane lasting solution for ethno-cultural conflicts is to institutionally divide ethnic groups once and for all, accepting to a certain extent (non-recurring) ethnic cleansing and new flows of refugees. Answering such approaches (like the one of Jerry Z. Muller propagated paradigmatically in Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008), Roland Benedikter presents a functioning and long-term proven model from Central Europe, where different ethnic groups have managed it to find a unique institutional arrangement that permits them to live together without territorial and political partition. In presenting core features of the model of autonomy of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol, a border region between Northern Italy and Austria where three ethnic groups coexist and have made the area formerly ridden by civil wars (until 1972) now one of the wealthiest regions of Europe, Roland Benedikter shows how cornerstones of this model may be successfully applied also to other ethnic conflict regions.
Roland Benedikter, Dott. Dr. Dr. Dr., is European Foundation Fellow
2009-2013, in residence at the Orfalea Center for Global and
International Studies of the University of California at Santa Barbara,
with duties as the European Foundations Research Professor of Political
Sociology. His main field of interest is the multidimensional analysis
of what he calls the current "Global Systemic Shift", which he tries to
understand by bringing together the six typological discourses (and
systemic order patterns) of Politics, Economy, Culture, Religion,
Technology and Demography. Roland is currently working on two major book
projects: One about the "Global Systemic Shift", and one about the
"Contemporary Cultural Psychology of the West", the latter comparing
culturo-political trends in the European and American hemispheres. With
both projects he is also involved in European Policy Advice.
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The study on the role of multinational companies and supply chains in innovation will summarize patterns of internationalisation of the knowledge-creating and knowledge-sourcing activities of multinational enterprises and provide new evidence on the complementarity or substitutability between the R&D activities of the headquarters and its foreign affiliates.
Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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Yvonne Wolfmayr is a research fellow at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) in Vienna, which is one of the leading institutes for empirical and policy oriented research. She holds a masters degree in economics from the University of Vienna and completed her doctorate program at the University of Innsbruck with a major in International Economics in May 2010. In 1998 she was a visiting scholar at the UCLA.
Her main research interests are in the field of foreign direct investments and the theory of the multinational firm as well as trade in services and linkages between services and manufacturing trade. Most of her work focuses on questions related to the integration of Central and East European Countries and the impact of international outsourcing and FDI on employment in home countries, in specific. She has been involved in or has led several projects (both national and international (EU and OECD)) in the areas noted. Her publications in journals include: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Empirica and several book chapters. In addition, she is an expert to and part of the organizing team at the Research Centre in International Economics (FIW) which provides support to the Austrian scientific community in the field of International Economics and offers expert analysis on a number of current policy related issues in International Economics. She has also been an expert to the Austrian Advisory Council for foreign trade policy and is a member of the Advisory Board on foreign trade statistics at the national statistical office (Statistics Austria).
Dr. Wolfmayr was a visiting scholar with the Forum on Contemporary Europe from June-August, 2010.