On Friday, 27^th of November at 10 (CET), the Romanian Group for Studying Social Values organizes the webinar “Value changes in pandemic times”.

The webinar brings together scholars from the community studying social values, and contributes to understanding the changes that Covid19 brought to the social fabric.

Four academic presentations are proposed:

• Tim Reeskens¹⁰, Quita Muis¹⁰, Inge Sieben¹⁰, Leen Vandecasteele¹¹, Ruud Luijkx¹⁰ & Loek Halman¹⁰ Stability or change of public opinion and values during the coronavirus crisis? Exploring Dutch longitudinal panel data (Full paper here)
• Malina Voicu¹ & Delia Bădoi¹, Fertility and the COVID-19 crisis: do gender roles really matter? (Full paper here)
• Francesco Molteni¹², Riccardo Ladini¹², Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi¹², Antonio M. Chiesi¹², Giulia Maria Dotti Sani¹², Simona Guglielmi¹², Marco Maraffi¹², Andrea Pedrazzani¹², Paolo Segatti¹² & Cristiano Vezzoni¹². Searching for comfort in religion: insecurity and religious behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy (Full paper here)
• Bogdan Voicu^1,2, Edurne Bartolomé Peral³, Horațiu Rusu^2,1, Gergely Rosta^4,5, Mircea Comșa⁶, Octavian-Marian Vasile^1,7, Lluís Coromina ⁸, Claudiu D. Tufis⁹_. COVID-19 and orientations towards solidarity. The cases of Spain, Hungary, and Romania (Full paper available soon)

All presentations are based on accepted papers in a special issue of European Societies.

There are allotted 20 minutes for presentation, followed by 15 minutes for questions, comments, and answers. A final discussion of common messages in the papers will be delivered by Vera Lomazzi¹³.

Attending the webinar is free, but registration is necessary.

The event is supported by the Romanian Quantitative Studies Association and the Research Institute
for Quality of Life  (Grant GAR-UM-2019-XI-5.3-9).

Affiliations of the authors:
¹Romanian Academy, Research Institute for Quality of Life; ²Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Department of Sociology; ³University of Deusto – Bilbao, Department of International Relations and Humanities; ⁴Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Institute of Sociology; ⁵University of Münster; ⁶Babeș-Bolyai University, Department of Sociology; ⁷ University of Bucharest, Department of Sociology; ⁸ University of Girona, Department of Economics; ⁹ University of Bucharest, Department of Political Science; ¹⁰ Tilburg University, Department of Sociology; ¹¹ Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne; ¹² University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Science;¹³ GESIS Leibniz-Institute for Social Sciences