The Next Wave: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Policy
The Next Wave: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Policy in the Coming Decade
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Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School
1 Devonshire Place Toronto, ON M5S 3K7 CanadaRefund Policy
About this event
This year the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and Queen’s University Policy Studies will host the 26th annual International Institute on Social Policy: Next Wave: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Policy in the Coming Decade.
For over two years, the COVID-19 pandemic high-jacked the policy agenda and necessarily focused attention on responses to the emergency. Meanwhile, new and enduring social, political, and economic challenges have been gathering force. The Munk School and Queen’s University are joining forces to bring together leading international and Canadian experts to consider whether and how we need to reform, or even transform, Canadian social policy for a more resilient and successful future.
• October 31, 2022 in-person: Launch conference at the Munk School on meta challenges and policy choices facing Canada and other OECD countries.
• November 2 to 18, 2022 virtual: Online policy seminars on major areas of social policy most in flux and ripe for rethinking.
Keynote: What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract
Speaker: Baroness Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics and author of What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract
What does society owe each of us? And what do we owe in return? Our answer to these inescapable questions - known as the social contract - shapes our politics, economic systems and every stage of life, from raising children and going to school to finding work and growing old. Yet today, many believe that this contract is not working for them. Economist Minouche Shafik examines societies across the world and demonstrates that the urgent challenges of technology, demography and climate require a major shift in priorities. This address, based on her vision-changing book of the same title, shows us the way to a new model that provides mutual security and opportunity - a social contract fit for the twenty-first century.
Featured Speakers:
- Stefano Scarpetta, Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD
- Debra Thompson, Canada Research Chair at McGill University in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies
- Kevin Milligan, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia
- Gina Gustavvson, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Government, Uppsala University
- Naheed Nenshi, former Mayor of Calgary
The full conference program can be found here
Free registration for online policy seminars:
Friday, November 4, 2022: Session 2 - Income Protection
Monday, November 7, 2022: Session 3 – Immigration
Wednesday, November 9, 2022: Session 4 - The Care Economy
Friday, November 10, 2022: Session 5 - Community and Housing
Monday, November 14, 2022: Session 6 - Health care: Systemic issues and solutions
Wednesday, November 16, 2022: Session 7 – Falling through the cracks