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Insurance and Social Theory: An Interdisciplinary Workshop

University of Bologna / University of Tampere

University of Bologna, 14-15 December 2023

This interdisciplinary workshop addressed head-on the relation between social theory and insurance. To discuss the conceptual presuppositions of the research in the field being foregrounded, articulated and developed, we brought together sociologists, historians, law scholars and actuarial mathematicians whose recent and current work touches upon these issues: Tom Baker (Pennsylvania), Laurence Barry (Paris), Stephen J. Collier (Berkeley), Alberto Cevolini (Bologna), Elena Esposito (Bielefeld), Pierre François (Paris), Geoffrey W. Clark (New York), Niels Viggo-Haueter (Zürich), Ine Van Hoyweghen (Leuven), Rebecca Elliott (London), Liz McFall (Edinburgh), Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen (Tampere), Vera Linke (Hamburg), Maiju Tanninen (Tampere), Gert Meyers (Leuven), Giancarlo Corsi (Bologna), Jonas Mieke (Bielefeld)


The Future of Insurance

How Does Algorithmic Prediction Affect Insurance Practices?

November 2021 | Bologna

The written record of the workshop can be found here.


The traditional business model of insurance is going through a disruptive change. InsurTech and predictive analytics are raising high expectations because they can offer personalized policy premiums adapted to the individual level of risk. Whereas the personalization of premium setting represents an opportunity, however, it could also become a threat because it can question the principle of risk pooling and spreading on which the whole insurance mechanism is based. This international interdisciplinary workshop involved actuaries, practitioners and sociologists, and addressed the possible socio-economic, ethical and political consequences of algorithmic techniques in the field of insurance. The program can be found here.


Internal Workshops

Actionability in insurance, medicine, and policing

19-20 January 2024 - Bielefeld University

Score in Algorithmic Prediction - Insurance, Medicine, and Policing

June 30 – July 1, 2023 - Bielefeld University

Prevention and prediction in insurance, medicine, and policing

24-25 February 2022 - Bielefeld University


Machine Learning in insurance, medicine, and policing

21-22 October 2022 - Bielefeld University


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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 833749).


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