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  1. Call for Papers – 6th Meeting of ALCADECA (Latin American and the Caribbean Association for the Study of Human Capabilities)

    …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), Po…

  2. Webinar on the Participatory Research Capability Cube

    …ch 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 contempora…

  3. ALCADECA Conference – Submission Deadline Extended to March 17

    …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), Po…

  4. Call for Papers: Health and Poverty – 2020 Salzburg Conference

    …with the focus theme of health and poverty. ​ Health and poverty are interrelated in both rich and poor countries: poverty worsens the subjective health status and leading to a range of diseases and developmental disorders; people with health problems and disabilities are more often poor and socially excluded than the rest of the population. In addition to the search for causal links between poverty and health at the local and global levels, other…

  5. Call for Papers: 2018 Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty

    …ch. Preference will be given to scholars in the earlier stages of their career and to papers that are related to the workshop topic of “Poverty and the Family”. Possible topics for papers are, among others, the intergenerational transmission of poverty, inequalities between and within families, responsibilities towards poor families, parents and children, the relation between the family and the state, parental rights and duties under conditions of…

  6. Call for Papers: Special Issue, Philosophies: “The Philosophy of Human Rights Obligations and Omissions”

    …ged on the existence of obligations; thus, the two should be discussed in relation to each other. We welcome papers from a wide variety of philosophical and multi-disciplinary perspectives (philosophy, law, political science, economy, theology, etc.) that address these topics and the relationships between them. Despite the many formal political achievements in the form of declarations, bills and treaties, actual human rights implementation remains…

  7. Conference- Absolute Poverty in Europe

    …(Manchester) Robert Walker (Oxford) We invite papers that contribute to an elaborated understanding of severe, extreme or absolute poverty in Europe. Papers should address the specific situations and challenges of groups endangered by absolute poverty such as undocumented refugees, migrant beggars, homeless people, street children or discuss evils related to severe poverty (malnutrition, physical and mental illness, stigma, isolation, etc.). We en…

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