Opening speech of the Conference Chairs: Pepka Boyadjieva and Petya Ilieva-Trichkova
HDCA Conference 2023Opening Speech of the Conference Chairs
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Plenary 1: Presidential Address: Of History, Futures and a Repair Praxis in Knowledge and Education Spaces
Keynote speaker: Melanie Walker, HDCA President
Higher Education & Human Development, University of the Free State, South Africa
Chair: Jay Drydyk, Professor of Philosophy Carleton University, Canada
Plenary 2: War and Types of Pacifism
Keynote speaker: Martha C. Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor
University of Chicago
Chair: Sarah Perrine
Trust For Social Achievement
Plenary 3: Panel Discussion: Sustainable Development through Evidence-Based and Collaborative Policymaking: The Case of Removing Financial Barriers to Early Education in Bulgaria Discussion
Keynote Speaker: Joost De Laat
Professor of Economics and Director, Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges, The Netherlands
Chair: Eugenia Volen
Director, Early Learning and Care Program, Trust for Social Achievement
Discussants:
Denitsa Sacheva, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Labour, Social and Demographic Policy, National Assembly of Republic of Bulgaria
Deyan Kolev, Chairman, AMALIPE Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance
Plenary 4: Ul Haq Lecture: Measurement Is Not Everything, But It Does Make A Difference
Keynote speaker: S. Subramanian
Independent researcher
Formerly Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies Chennai, India
Chair: Petya Kabakchieva
Sofia University
Plenary 6: Sen Lecture: Global Income Inequality: Recent Changes and their Political Implications
Keynote speaker: Branko MILANOVIĆ
City University of New York, United States
Chair: Shailaja FENNELL
Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Respondent: Enrica CHIAPPERO-MARTINETTI
Professor of economic policy, University of Pavia, Italy
Plenary 7: Digital Technologies for Inclusive Development?
Keynote speaker: Vassil Kirov
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at BAS, Bulgaria
Chair: Alejandra Boni
Ingenio (CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València), Spain
Plenary 8: Panel Discussion: Old and New Vulnerabilities at Work: Workplace Inclusion and Innovation on Whose Terms?
Chair panelist: Ursula Holtgrewe
Head of the Work and Equal Opportunities Unit, Centre for Social Innovation GmbH (ZSI), Vienna, Austria
Panelists:
Steven Dhondt, Researcher at TNO and visiting professor at KU Leuven Belgium
Karina Angelieva, Head of the Political Cabinet, Ministry of Energy, Bulgaria
Zaakhir Asmal, Research Officer at the Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Engaging with decolonisation to value Indigenous people’s self-determination as a key human capability: Some reflections
Presenter: Dr. Vinathe Sharma-Brymer, Lecturer in Social Work
University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Brief Bio: Vinathe Sharma-Brymer is a lecturer in Social Work at University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. She is an interdisciplinary academic researcher applying cross-continental approaches and perspectives in her qualitative research on human development. Her current academic research is on the benefits of nature-relatedness for better human health and wellbeing. Vinathe also focuses on working with individual (human) agency while engaging with intersecting issues in the experiences of equality and equity to enjoy the quality of life. This focus broadens her personal and professional engagement to examine decolonisation and self-determination using a migrant’s lens to explore the impact of colonisation on the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia.
HDCA Webinar Indigenous Peoples Asia-Pacific Region Network HDCA VideosImproving how we understand and measure sexual wellbeing to capture human flourishing and social justice
Presentation by Dr Karen Lorimer
Co-Coordinator, HDCA Thematic Group on Gender and Sexuality
Dr Karen Lorimer (BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD, PGCAP, FHEA) is a Reader in Social Science and Health, in the School of Health & Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. She is a sociologist, interested in sexual health, sexual wellbeing, capability approach and gender-based violence. She currently leads a British Academy/Leverhulme project on working class women and sexual violence.
Karen is an active member of the Gender Research and Equalities Network at GCU. She is a member of the Scottish Parliament Cross-Party Group on Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses, and is a member of the Scottish Government’s National Monitoring and Research Group (NMRG).
HDCA Webinar 2023 Gender and Sexuality Health and Disability HDCA Videos