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  1. Call for Papers: Journal of Global Ethics special issue

    …ern Connecticut State University, USA), Tom Hilde (University of Maryland, USA), Krushil Watene (Massey University, NZ) Proposal submission deadline: September 1, 2022 The wellbeing of all life on our planet is under major threat and poses serious challenges for political systems and the geopolitical context at a global level. Climate change disrupts the social-ecological systems in which human communities are embedded and on which they are depend…

  2. 2024 HDCA Conference – Kolkata, India

    September 24-26, 2024

    Hosted by the Pratichi (India) Trust, the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), and Health Information Systems Program (HISP)

    “Crises, Capabilities and Commitment”

    The 2024 HDCA conference has special significance as 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of HDCA. The conference is being held in Kolkata, West Bengal, India – home of the first HDCA president, Professor Amartya Sen. The conference theme of Crises, Capabilities and Commitment has been chosen because the inter-linkages between these three ideas require in depth discussion.

    Many multi-faceted crises assail us. Some are global in scope, linked with the assault on our environment, violent conflicts, pandemics and humanitarian challenges. Some crises emerge from episodic events. Others emerge less dramatically linked with a backlash to transformations in social relations, or technologies. Crises, both episodic and cumulative, reveal deep inequalities in capabilities. Crises may be associated with both ‘loud’ and ‘silent’ capability deprivations, in areas such as education, health, disability, political participation and wellbeing. The immediate and visible fallout from crises may precipitate further inequalities in capabilities linked to loss of income and employment, inequity, food insecurity malnutrition, and polarization between groups. The conference will be a setting to discuss the forms of commitment needed to analyze and address many interlinked crises and their stress on capabilities.

     

  3. Participation, politics and place in the struggle for environmental justice

    …held intrinsic value, rooted in a common identity forged through years of shared struggle—an idea that resonates with Schlosberg’s (2012) work on recognition and people’s attachment to place. The delegates identified nearby abandoned lots suitable for housing construction and, following a large demonstration and blockade of the city center’s largest avenue, the city legislature approved a law declaring the identified lands of public interest and…

  4. In Memoriam – Stephan Klasen

    …Stephan will be missed inconsolably by his wife Christine, four children, Lukas, Nicolas, Sophia, and Jeremias, and by innumerable friends, students and colleagues, the world over. But the greatest loss is for the better world that he sought unrelentingly. – Sanjay G. Reddy        …

  5. 2015 HDCA Conference – Georgetown University

    …of the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD), World Bank Moderator: Susan F. Martin, Donald G. Herzberg Professor of International Migration, Georgetown University 6. 2015 Martha C. Nussbaum Lecture Saturday 9/12, 4-5 pm Seyla Benhabib, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy (Yale University) “Democratic Iterations and Cosmopolitan Human Rights: A New Paradigm for the Dialectic of Law and Politics” This lecture…

  6. In Memoriam – Professor Kenneth Joseph Arrow, Founding HDCA Fellow

    …can be made: voting, typically used to make “political” decisions, and the market mechanism, typically used to make “economic” decisions’. Roughly twenty years later, in his Nobel prize lecture, Kenneth Arrow argued: ‘If we want to rely on the virtues of the market but also to achieve a more just distribution, the theory suggests the strategy of changing the initial distribution rather than interfering with the allocation process at some later sta…

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