Bastian Becker and Dean Dulay will give a presentation at the EPSA 2022 in Prague which takes place at the Prague Congress Centre.

Carina Schmitt and Amanda Shriwise are presenting on "The Constitution of European Welfare States During Colonial Times: A North-South Story" at the NCCR Conference on "Welfare and Human Mobility in Europe: Past and Present Challenges" in Basel. They are part of the panel "The (Post)Colonial Legacy and Its Impact on Welfare Regimes (In Europe)".

Seminar with Carina Schmitt and Bastian Becker from the University of Bremen on the "License to Educate: The Role of National Networks in Colonial Empires".

Bastian Becker gives a presentation on the role of Christian Missions in Colonial Africa.

Carina Schmitt and Amanda Shriwise are presenting on "The Warfare-Welfare Nexus in British and French West African Colonies in the Course of the First and Second World Wars" at the WarfareWelfare2021 in Berlin. They are part of the panel "Warfare and Welfare on a Global and Transnational Scale (WWI and II)".

Carina Schmitt and Amanda Shriwise are presenting on "The Warfare-Welfare Nexus in British and French West African Colonies in the Course of the First World War" at the Annual Conference of RC19, taking place online. They are part of the panel "Trajectories of Social Policies".

Bastian Becker and Carina Schmitt are organizing panel sessions on Political Economy of Colonialism for the SASE 2021 Conference titled "After Covid? Critical Conjunctures and Contingent Pathways of Contemporary Capitalism".

Bastian Becker is presenting on "State-Church Synergies in Colonial Empires: Longitudinal Evidence on Missionary Expansion in Africa" at the 11th Annual Meeting of the European Political Science Association, taking place online. He is part of the panel "Historical Origins of Contemporary Politics 2".

Bastian Becker and Carina Schmitt are presenting on "Christian Missionaries and Social Protection in Colonial Africa" at the 11th Annual Meeting of the European Political Science Association, taking place online. They are part of the panel "Historical Origins of Contemporary Politics 1".

Carina Schmitt gave a talk on "Colonialism and the Emergence of Social Policy in the Global South: A North-South Story" at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, Germany.

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Carina Schmitt presented a paper entitled "Colonialism and the Rise of Social Assistance in the Global South" at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). She was a part of a panel on "Globalization, Economic Volatility, and Social Protection".

Bastian Becker presented a paper entitled "The Colonial Labour Question: Trade and Social Policy in Interwar Africa" at the Annual Conference of the Council for European Studies (online, self-organized due to Covid-19 cancellation).

Carina Schmitt and Bastian Becker presented a paper entitled "The Colonial Labour Question: Trade and Social Policy in Interwar Africa" at the Political Economy Workshop, at the University of Bremen, Germany.

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Bastian Becker gave a talk on “Social Policy and Welfare in the Global South: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges” at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany.

Bastian Becker presented a paper entitled "The Colonial Struggle over Polygamy: Consequences for Education and Equality in Contemporary Africa" at the Political Economy Workshop, at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Bastian Becker and Carina Schmitt gave a talk on “Continuity and Change in Social Policy Priorities throughout 20th-century Africa” at the Institute of Political Science Colloquium at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Amanda Shriwise gave a talk on "The Legacy of Colonialism: Origins and Outcomes of Social Protection" at Department of Sociology, University of Kansas.

Amanda Shriwise presented a paper entitled "Warfare and Welfare in Colonial South Africa", at the International Sociological Association Research Committee 19 Annual Conference on "Global Crises and Social Policy: Coping with Conflict, Migration and Climate Change" in Mannheim, Germany.