This workshop will bring together renowned scholars to explore transformative ideas across economics, education, and interdisciplinary social sciences. Topics include the history of economic thought, socio-economic disparities in childcare enrolment, legal institutionalism, institutional reforms and gender, and the role of neoclassical economics in education.
This workshop will bring together nationally and internationally renowned scholars to explore transformative ideas across economics, education, and interdisciplinary social sciences. Speakers include Luigino Bruni (LUMSA University, Italy), Heinz Kurz (University of Graz, Austria), and Philipp Lergetporer (Technical University of Munich), who will address themes ranging from the history of economic thought to socio-economic disparities in childcare enrolment.
Robert John Aumann, a Nobel-Prize-winning economist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will offer essential insights in his keynote lecture on 'The Evolution of Economic Behavior'. In-person presentations include Geoffrey Hodgson (Loughborough University, UK) on legal institutionalism, and Anna Daelen (Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany) on institutional reforms and gender.
The workshop is designed to foster high-level academic dialogue and knowledge exchange across disciplines and national contexts. It provides an inclusive platform for advancing theoretical and applied research in economics, education, and interdisciplinary social sciences and offers an opportunity for academics, researchers, and students to engage with pioneering thinkers in a collaborative setting. The workshop aims to challenge conventional paradigms and open new avenues for research and dialogue.
The workshop is co-organised by Fazıl Kayıkçı, Professor of Economics at Yıldız Technical University (Turkey), who is a Senior Fellow at the College, and Nina Hogrebe, Professor of Education and Early Childhood at the Institute for Social Pedagogy, Adult Education, and Early Childhood Education at TU Dortmund University.
Welcome address
College for Social Sciences and Humanities
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Prof. Luigino Bruni, Lumsa University Roma (Italy)
The Wealth of Nations at (almost) 250. Will it Withstand the Revenge of "Underling Tradesmen" (Mercantilism)?
Prof. Heinz Kurz, Graz University (Austria) – online
Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Childcare Enrolment
Prof. Philipp Lergetporer, Technical University of Munich (Germany) – online
Lunch break
KEYNOTE LECTURE
The Evolution of Economic Behavior
Prof. Robert John Aumann, Hebrew University (Israel) – speaker connected digitally
Legal Institutionalism: A multi-disciplinary approach to the analysis of economic institutions
Prof. Geoffrey Hodgson, Loughborough University, London (UK)
Coffee break
The (Gender-Specific) Effects of Selected Legal and Institutional Reforms on Educational and Career Trajectories
Dr Anna Daelen, Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden (Germany)
Closing remarks
Prof. Fazıl Kayıkçı
Yıldız Technical University (Turkey) | Socioeconomics
E-mail: fazil.kayikci@college-uaruhr.de
Fazıl Kayıkçı is a Professor of Economics at Yıldız Technical University, Turkey. He has served as a chair of this department for three years. He formerly was a visiting researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen and has published several articles in high-impact journals about development studies, socioeconomics, macroeconomics, and energy economics. He also published books about current account deficit, wage determination, finance and institutions.
Fazıl Kayıkçı completed projects about human development, demographic transformation, and labour force participation. He is the coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Design Measures project in a partnership with Zurich University, Rome Tre University, Minho University, WSB University, WSGE University and University of Integrado. He is a member of the COST actions ‘Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe’, ‘Making Young Researchers' Voices Heard for Gender Equality’ and ‘Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity’.
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Prof. Nina Hogrebe
TU Dortmund University | Education and Early Childhood
E-mail: nina.hogrebe@tu-dortmund.de
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© Hesham Elsherif
Prof. Nina Hogrebe
TU Dortmund University | Education and Early Childhood
E-mail: nina.hogrebe@tu-dortmund.de
Nina Hogrebe is Professor of Education and Early Childhood at the Institute for Social Pedagogy, Adult Education, and Early Childhood Education at TU Dortmund University. Previously, she held the position of Professor of Educational Science with a focus on childhood at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (2019–2023) and was a research associate at the University of Münster (2007–2019). Hogrebe earned her PhD from the University of Münster in 2013 and completed her habilitation in educational science, specialising in empirical educational research and early childhood education, in 2018.
Her research focuses on empirical educational research and early childhood education, with a particular emphasis on social and ethnic inequalities in early education, such as segregation. She is currently exploring home-based childcare as part of her broader focus on early childhood education systems. Additionally, she recently published on parent initiatives in the context of social and ethnic inequality and the role of providers in addressing educational disparities. She also conducts internationally comparative studies to examine the effects of institutional and family-based educational practices on child development and the resulting inequalities.
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https://isep.ep.tu-dortmund.de/en/institute/people/nina-hogrebe/