January 29, 2020: Kurt Pärli speaks about “Working social assistance beneficiaires: also but not only health aspects” within the event series “Medjus à la carte” at the asim.

november 21, 2019 : Kurt Pärli and Melanie Studer present and discuss results and recommendations of the project with the Advisory Commission of the Conference of Cantonal Directors of Social Affairs (SODK/CDAS) in Lausanne.

September 12, 2019: Melanie Studer together with Eva Nadai (FHNW) and Peter Streckeisen (ZHAW) organized a panel at the Congress of the Swiss Society of Sociology in Neuchâtel on the topic “Valuation and exploitation of work(ers) at the bottom and the margins of labour markets”. In this context Gesine Fuchs and Melanie Studer presented some results of the research project. Presentation

September 4-8, 2019: Gesine Fuchs participated in the General Conference of the ECPR at the University of Wrocław and presented a paper on “Judicial Activism and Policy Impacts of the Courts.”

July 7-13 2019: Melanie Studer participates at the world concress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy in Lucerne and presents a paper on “Dignity through workfare?” in the workshop “In Search for a Social Minimum: Human Dignity, Poverty and Human Rights“. Presentation

May 13 2019: Gesine Fuchs and Melaie Studer present and dicsuss some research results at the internet café Planet 13 in Basel (Uni von Unten)

April 30, 2019: The research team presents and discusses its results and recommendations with specialised professionals at an information event in Bern. Invitation / Präsentation auf Detusch / Présentation en français

April 24, 2019: Gesine Fuchs presents a paper on „Challenging ‚work‘ for welfare recipients in Swiss Courts”, ILPC 2019 Conference “Fragmenations and Solidarities”, Vienna

February 8, 2019: Gesine Fuchs gives a conference on the theme „Legal regulation of work relationsships in social assistance“ at the Sozial-BeratungsZentrum Hochdorf/Surse

January 17, 2019: Anne Meier gives a conference on the theme „Work in the context of social assistance“ at an event of the “Ligue Suisse des droits de l’homme” on the subject of “Regards croisés sur les droits sociaux“

September 13 – 15, 2018: Abschaffung des Rechts? 4. Tagung der deutschsprachigen rechtssoziologischen Vereinigungen, Universität Basel (Abolition of the law? 4th conference of the German-speaking associations on sociology of law)

 Gesine Fuchs was a member of the programming Commission and „track-chair“ for the theme Rechtsmobilisierung (legal mobilisation) (with Alexander Graser, Universität Regensburg). Among other activities, she organized the panel «Zugang zum Recht in der Sozialhilfe» (Access to justice in the area of social assistance) with the Unabhängigen Fachstelle für Sozialhilfeberatung of Zurich, the Legal Literacy Project Wien, Ulrike A. C. Müller and Sabine Berghahn, Berlin

Melanie Studer organised a panel regarding the challenges posed to human rights by the activating welfare state and presented her thoughts on the topic.

Kurt Pärli was a member of the programming Commission and was engaged as chair for various panels on social law and labour law.

August 22 – 26, 2018: Gesine Fuchs presented a paper on “Legal Mobilization of welfare recipients in Switzerland and implicit policy making of the courts” at the “General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research” in Hamburg.

June 13 – 15, 2018: Melanie Studer participated in the “Welfare Conditionality Conference” in York, where she presented hers and Kurt Pärli’s contribution to an international and interdisciplinary book (publication planned for 2019)

April 18 – 20, 2018: Gesine Fuchs presented a paper concerning “Legal mobilization by welfare recipients in Switzerland” at the 8^th European Conference for Social Work Research in Edinburgh.

March – June 2018: Melanie Studer was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for social law and social policy (department of Foreign and International Social Law) in Munich.

November 21, 2017 : Kurt Pärli and Melanie Studer speak about working under the conditions of social welfare within a event of the « Unabhängige Fachstelle für Sozialhilferecht (UFS) » in Zurich

November 2, 2017 : Melanie Studer speaks at an event of the association « Demokratische JuristInnen » in Bern on the topic of social assistance (Flyer of the event)

October 2, 2017 : Gesine Fuchs and Melanie Studer present early research results within the events series « Uni von Unten » at the internet café Planet 13 in Basel (Presentation).

September 28 – 29, 2017 : Melanie Studer participates in the conference of the EISS (European Institute of Social Security) in Amsterdam and presents a paper on the notion “reasonable work” in the cantonal social assistance laws (Draft Paper / Presentation)

June 25–27 2017: Participation in the Labour Law Research Network conference in Toronto (LLRN3). Presentation of three papers and organization of a panel with international colleagues on the topic ‘Working under the conditions of social welfare’.

• Gesine Fuchs: Constructing the needy and working welfare recipient in paternalist neoliberalism: the case of Switzerland. Draft Paper Presentation
• Anne Meier: Are Welfare Beneficiaries in Workfare Programs Workers in the eyes of ILO Conventions and Human Rights? Draft Paper  Presentation
• Melanie Studer: Suitable, Reasonable and Decent Work in the Activating Welfare Sate. Draft Paper Presentation

November 4 2016: Seminar ‘Normative perspectives on working social-welfare recipients’. Melanie Studer presented a paper on the principle of subsidiarity according to art. 12 Cst. and its implications on welfare-to-work programs.