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  1. ALCADECA Conference – Submission Deadline Extended to March 17

    …ttee 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 (Un…

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

    …the relation between the family and the state, parental rights and duties under conditions of poverty, the ethical underpinnings of policy responses to family and child poverty, gender roles, patriarchy, intimate violence and poverty, or procreation in an radical unequal world and in times of severe poverty. The workshop will run over two days and each speaker will have 75 minutes (about 25 minutes for presentation and 50 minutes for discussion)….

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

    …anuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review…

  4. Conference- Absolute Poverty in Europe

    …Associate Director Chronic Poverty Research Centre (2005-2010), where he founded The Global Poverty Research Group. David recently published the book “Global Poverty: How Global Governance is Failing the Poor” (Routledge 2010). Robert Walker is Professor for Social Policy and currently Deputy Head of Department of Social Policy at Oxford University. He is a Research Affiliate of the National Poverty Centre, University of Michigan and a Fellow of t…

  5. Open Access Book: ‘Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries’

    …nd local experts, as well as any readers interested in the implementation of learning equity across the globe. The first volume Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid (LBOP1), may be obtained at: http://www.iiep.unesco.org/en/learning-bottom-pyramid-4608 This book is freely available to read and download in PDF and HTML formats at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1423….

  6. OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes

    …d cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes for students from low-income backgrounds whose experiences are strongly shaped by hardship. Based on capability theorising and student voices, the book proposes for policy and practice a set of contextual higher education capability domains and corresponding functionings orientated to more justice and more equality for each person to have the opportunities to be and to do what they have reason to value. The b…

  7. Call for Papers: Workshop on Gender and Poverty

    …olume on the workshop topic in the Springer Book Series Philosophy and Poverty. If you are interested in participating please submit an extended abstract of 750 words ready for blind review viathe submission form on the workshop website (https://www.workshop-poverty-philosophy.org/). Deadline for submissions is January 20, and decisions will be communicated within four weeks. It is expected that draft versions of the papers are shared two weeks be…

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