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This is meant for events that have permission to use the HDCA logo in their promotion. In practice, this will be limited to either the HDCA conference, or events organized by one of the HDCA’s thematic groups or regional networks.

Webinar: Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in Africa: levels, trends and puzzles

HDCA’s Thematic Group Network and the Graduate Student Network invite you to a webinar on:

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in Africa: levels, trends and puzzles.

By Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford, U.K.

Tuesday November 15th, 2016

2:30 to 3:30pm GMT

8:00 to 9:00pm India time

9:30 to 10:30am Eastern Standard Time

Participants must register to participate in this webinar. To register please use this link here. Details on how to join the webinar will be sent to you after you register.

Speaker’s Bio: Sabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), a research centre within the Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Her research interests and publications include multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis, welfare economics, Amartya Sen’s capability approach, the measurement of freedoms, and human development. She holds a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.

The webinar will be moderated by Sophie Mitra and Marcelo Mosaner.

Webinar- Engineering education for sustainable human development: a capabilities approach

The education thematic panel invites you to take part in the following webinar on 6 April from 14:00 to 15:30 GMT:

Title: Engineering education for sustainable human development: a capabilities approach

Presenter: Mikateko Höppener (Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development, University of the Free State, South Africa)

Please see the attached document for details and the paper abstract.

Also please note that you have to register to participate in the webinar through sending me an email at lootss@ufs.ac.za

ALCADECA Conference – Submission Deadline Extended to March 17

Montevideo, Uruguay

May 30 – June 1, 2016

Hosted by Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Submissions deadline extended March 17

The organizers of the 2016 Conference of ALCADECA  are  pleased to announce the call for papers for its 6th  biennial meeting, to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on June 1-3, 2016. These meetings bring together researchers from different disciplines and fields interested in human development, the capabilities approach and other approaches to normative and development issues, with particular focus in Latin America.  Previous conferences have taken place in Mexico (2006), Montevideo (2008), Porto Alegre (2010), Buenos Aires (2012) and Lima (2014).

The rapid economic growth recently experienced in most Latin American countries has generated a significant increase in household income that has not necessarily been translated into proportionate achievements in terms of human development and freedoms. Social interactions can promote different life styles and, specifically, consumption patterns, that might strengthen or erode functionings and capabilities, both in terms of individuals and of social justice perspective. For instance, conspicuous, emulative or positional consumption might result in high indebtedness in the case of some households, leisure time reductions in other cases, or changes in preferences for redistribution, among individuals struggling to achieve certain standards promoted by the media or through peer groups. Institutions, markets and public policies can foster, mitigate or redirect these behaviours. Specifically, we are interested in discussing around questions such as: To which extent these phenomena are observerd in Latin America? If so: Do they foster or weaken achievements in terms of agency or capabilities?; Should institutions and public policies promote certain life styles or would that be an unacceptable form of paternalism?; Which policies and institutional designs need to be implemented in order to avoid the (potentially) deletereous effect of these behaviours? The conference aims at estimulating academic interchange on these topics.

The hosts of the 2016 HDCA Conference cordially welcome submissions of papers and thematic panel sessions.  In addition to proposals on the conference theme, papers on topics related to normative issues, human development, inequalities and poverty are welcome. The deadline for submissions is March 10, 2016.

More information about the conference will be available on the conference webpage: www.iecon.ccee.edu.uy. Questions can be addressed to the conference organizers at: alcadeca2016@iecon.ccee.edu.uy

Paper Submission

a) Individual academic papers. An abstract of up to 500 words in English, Spanish or Portuguese must be submitted for consideration for presentation at the meeting. The cover page should include the title of the paper, institutional affiliation, including address, phone and email of each author and an abstract with 3-5 keywords.

b) Proposals for thematic panel sessions should be proposed as such, under a single theme. The sessions will be 90 minutes long, and so will accommodate 3 or 4 component papers. Each panel should have a coordinator who submits an abstract  for the panel  of up to 500 words in English, Spanish or Portuguese with 3-5 keywords. In addition, an abstract of similar characteristics should accompany each of the component papers of the proposed panel.

Please send your submission to alcadeca2016@iecon.ccee.edu.uy

 Important Dates

Deadline for abstract and thematic panel proposals submission:  EXTENDED to March 17, 2016

Notification of acceptance:  March 31, 2016

Deadline for full papers submission:  May 10, 2016

 Language

The official language of the conference is Spanish, but panel proposals, papers and presentations in English or Portuguese are welcome. There will be a simultaneous translation service for keynote speechs.

For more information about ALCADECA 2016 see www.iecon.ccee.edu.uy

Scientific Committee

Izete Bagolin (Pontificia Universidad de Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)
Flavio Comim (Universidad Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil y Universidad de Cambridge)
Javier Iguñiz (Pontificia Universidad del Perú, Perú)
Gustavo Pereira (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Andrés Rius (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Graciela Tonon (Universidad de Lomas de Zamora y Universidad de Palermo, Argentina)

Local organizing committee

Ana Fascioli (Universidad de la República)
Martín Leites (Universidad de la República)
Agustín Reyes (Universidad de la República)
Gonzalo Salas (Universidad de la República)
Andrea Vigorito (Universidad de la República)

Webinar on the Participatory Research Capability Cube

The HDCA Education and Participatory Methods Thematic Groups invite you to a joint webinar on:
The Participatory Research Capability Cube
By Prof Alejandra Boni, Universitat Politécnica de València, Spain
Thursday November 5th, 2015
3:00 to 4:00pm in Dublin + London (GMT)
4:00 to 5:00pm in Spain + Bloemfontein (GMT+1)
7:30 to 8:30pm in New Delhi (GMT +4.5)
10:00 to 11:00am in New York (GMT – 5)
Participants must register to participate in this webinar. Details on how to participate will be sent to you a few days before the webinar. To register, receive access to a copy of the text and for any question about the webinar, please contact Veronica Crosbie at veronica.crosbie@dcu.ie by Thursday 29th October 2015

The Webinar: The Participatory Research Capability Cube
In this chapter (of a forthcoming book co-written with Melanie Walker) we want to focus on Participatory Action Research (PAR) to explore its potential as a knowledge-generating process, but also as a way to generate some shared principles or ideas that could be common to all research activity, which is concerned with advancing human development and the public-good function of the university. We will locate PAR in our contemporary university and, after that, we will outline the main characteristics of an emancipatory vision of PAR. Then, we will explore the relations between PAR and participatory approaches of human development and the capability approach and develop our own theoretical framework to analyze and inform PAR processes from a human development and capability perspective. We have named it the ‘participatory research capability cube’ due to its tri-dimensional perspective: 1) the expansion of the capabilities and agency of co-researchers; 2) the characteristics of the knowledge produced; and, 3) the democratic processes that PAR could enable during and beyond the research process. We then apply this framework to understand a PAR process in Spain in 2014. We have selected this example because it combines research and teaching and demonstrates an innovative approach to PAR methods based on participatory digital technologies. Also, because different participants from all across Europe took part in an interesting and multicultural exchange. Our aim is not to conduct an exhaustive evaluation of the research process; rather, we want to explore the different potentialities that this understanding of PAR could bring.

Speaker’s Bio: Alejandra Boni is Associate Professor at the Universitat Politécnica de València (www.upv.es) since 2009 and recently she joined as a research fellow the INGENIO Institute (www.ingenio.upv.es), an international institute devoted to innovation and knowledge management studies. She has been visiting professor and invited lecture in several prestigious universities and research centre In Europe, North and Latina America. She has been appointed recently as Honorary Professor of the University of the Free State in South Africa. In the last 15 years, Prof. Boni has co-authored more than 30 referred papers in the field of development studies and higher education. She is also co-editor of the book Universities and Human Development. A New Imaginary for the University of the XXI Century (Routledge, 2013). She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities and co-convenor of the thematic Education Group of the HDCA.

The webinar will be moderated by Veronica Crosbie, Sonja Loots, and Andrea Ferrannini

Webinar: A social grid for analyzing social innovation in municipal housing in Vienna – from grass roots-movement to social transformation

Webinar: A social grid for analyzing social innovation in municipal housing in Vienna – from grass roots-movement to social transformation.

Tuesday, 6.10. 2015, 16:00 -18:00 Central European Time, 19:30-21:30 Delhi Time, 12:00 – 14:00 Eastern Standard Time

The municipal housing case in the city of Vienna is an example of 100 years social innovation leading to social transformation. After World War I, a grass-root movement, the settler’s movement, started to construct their own housing and agriculture in order to escape from severe homelessness, poverty and starvation, which were afflicting many people at that time.

With the construction of superblocks in the “Red Vienna” of the inter-war period that initiative was institutionalized in a radically innovative way. The presentation analyzes this transformation with a focus on the social grid of networks, institutions and cognitive frames, and the role of agency in this social process.

The case will be presented by Dr. Susanne Giesecke (AIT Vienna), followed by an initial round of comments by Dr. Ilse Oosterlaken (VU Amsterdam) and Dr. Alex Frediani (UCL) and open discussion with all participants. The webinar is hosted by Dr. Rafael Ziegler (GETIDOS) as a joint event of the HDCA Thematic Group Technology, Innovation and Design and the EU-project CrESSI (Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation) that explores the economic underpinnings of social innovation, drawing inter alia on long-term studies of social innovations such as social housing and freshwater supply. Further information: http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/faculty-research/research-projects/cressi.

Dr Susanne Giesecke is a political scientist and joined AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Department of Innovations Systems in 2005 as a Senior Scientist. She leads the research area “Foresight” and is engaged in publicly funded research as well as in consulting projects. For CrESSI she works on social housing and the interplay of social innovation and technological innovation.

Participants must register in advance: To register please send a brief email to getidos@uni-greifswald.de. Once you have registered, you will received further instructions on how to participate in the webinar.

 

Webinar: “Different Interpretations of the Capability Approach in a Health Care Context: Why have approaches differed and what should be the focus of future research?”

“Different Interpretations of the Capability Approach in a Health Care Context: Why have approaches differed and what should be the focus of future research?”

 

By Philip Kinghorn

University of Birmingham, U.K.

Wednesday April 29th, 2015

2:00 to 3:00pm in London

6:30 to 7:30pm in Delhi

9:00 to 10:00am Eastern Daylight Time

 

Please click here to download slides for this webinar.

To get the recorded webinar, please contact Hoolda Kim at hkim71@fordham.edu 

 

The Webinar: In comparing four interpretations of the capability approach this webinar identifies two distinct motivations: facilitating agreement on a core concept of health with which to drive policy reform; and the adoption of capability as an alternative to utilitarian health maximisation, in the context of resource allocation.  The difference is between the protection and promotion of health as the objective of policy reform and of health as a means to the enhancement of a broader capability set.

Speaker’s Bio: Philip is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit of the University of Birmingham. His research interests relate to the measurement and valuation of outcomes in economic evaluation. In particular, Philip is interested in the use of the capability approach within health economics in order to capture the broader benefits of health and social care.

 

 

Webinar: Different Interpretations of the Capability Approach in a Health Care Context: Why have approaches differed and what should be the focus of future research?

HDCA’s Health & Disability Thematic group invites you to a webinar on:
Different Interpretations of the Capability Approach in a Health Care Context: Why have approaches differed and what should be the focus of future research?
By Philip Kinghorn, University of Birmingham, U.K.
Wednesday April 29th, 2015. 2:00 to 3:00pm in London, 6:30 to 7:30pm in Delhi, 9:00 to 10:00am Eastern Daylight Time

Speaker’s Bio: Philip is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit of the University of Birmingham. His research interests relate to the measurement and valuation of outcomes in economic evaluation. In particular, Philip is interested in the use of the capability approach within health economics in order to capture the broader benefits of health and social care.

Participants must register to participate in this webinar. Details on how to participate will be sent to you a few days before the webinar. To register and for any question about the webinar, please contact Hoolda Kim at hkim71@fordham.edu

Webinar: Horizontal inequalities and intersectionality

The Horizontal Inequalities Thematic Group of the Human Development and Capability Association invites you to a webinar discussing:

Horizontal inequalities and intersectionality:
Current debates and emerging work

Monday March 23rd, 2015
11:00am-12:30pm (GMT)

Speakers Include:

Prof. Frances Stewart, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford; Adviser, Horizontal Inequalities Thematic Group.
Dr. Chiara Mariotti, co-author of the recent ODI report on Intersecting Inequalities

Following a brief introduction, Frances and Chiara will present findings from their latest research on Horizontal and Intersecting Inequalities. After the panel presentation there will be a question and answer session open to all online participants. The last 20 minutes of the webinar will be reserved for an open discussion on participants’ current work on these themes and an opportunity to exchange with other people working in this area.

To register to attend this online event please contact Amanda Lenhardt (a.lenhardt@odi.org.uk).

With our best regards, Dr. Paola Ballon and Amanda Lenhardt, Co-coordinators, Horizontal inequalities Thematic Group, Human Development and Capability Association.

Rethinking Development Research Workshop – Call for Papers

The post-2015 development agenda and sustainable development goals

EADI/DSA Multidimensional Poverty Working Group, EADI Disasters and Development Working Group and HDCA Sustainable Human Development Thematic Group

25 - 26 June 2015, University Square Stratford, Centre for Social Justice and Change, University of East London, UK

 

Download the Call for Papers

Deadlines:

Deadline for abstracts (500 words): Monday 16th March

Notification of acceptance: Friday 17th April

Deadline for papers: Monday June 1st

Costs: The Workshop will be free, but participants have to pay for their meals and accommodation.

Abstract to:

EADI/DSA Multidimensional Poverty Working Group:

Dr Laura Camfield, Senior Lecturer in International Development, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, L.Camfield@uea.ac.uk  

EADI Disasters and Development Working Group and HDCA Sustainable Human Development Thematic Group:

Andrew Crabtree, Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School, Porcelænshaven 18A, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark

ac.ikl@cbs.dk

Pre-conference Health & Disability Workshop

HDCA Annual Conference, Athens, Greece 2014
Pre-conference Health & Disability Workshop
Tuesday September 2nd 2014, from 2:00 to 4:30pmThe Health & Disability Thematic Group of the Human Development and
Capability Association (HDCA) announces a pre-conference workshop
that will take place immediately prior to the Annual conference of HDCA in Athens, on September 3-5, 2014.

This workshop will bring together scholars and practitioners who have been working on health and disability issues related to the human development and capability approach.   This workshop will be a unique opportunity for participants to discuss their works in progress or planned work on health and disability.

The workshop will start with an introduction that will briefly review past work on health and disability related to capability theory (from 2:00 to 2:30pm).

It will then move on to a discussion among participants of their works in progress and planned work related to human development and the capability approach (2:30 to 4:00 pm).

It will conclude with a discussion that tries to identify critical issues or debates on health and disability and capabilities (4 to 4:30pm).

The workshop will be co-directed by Sophie Mitra and Jennifer Prah Ruger. In order to register for the workshop, please email Sophie Mitra at mitra@fordham.edu
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