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  1. Call for Papers: Journal of Global Ethics Special Issue on Education and Migration

    …ntributions from Meira Levinson (Harvard University), Krassimir Stojanov (KU-Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), Carola Suárez-Orozco (UCLA) and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco (UCLA). Publication is projected for issue 14:2 (2018). Length: 8000 words excluding tables, references, footnotes, and endnotes. Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title; abstract (200 words); keywords; main text; acknowledgments; references; appendices (if appropriate). Styl…

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

    …imate justice and ethical development, as well as means to achieve better futures for both near-term and distant generations. The aim of this special issue is to explore transformative possibilities at the intersection of climate justice and global development. Development in the form of economic growth, propelled by carbon-based energy and expanding land conversion, has been and remains the key driver of climate injustice. The expansion of produc…

  3. Webinar: Agency, Autonomy and Social Innovation

    …social innovation? The webinar will present preliminary results from the EU-research project CrESSI (Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation). Drawing from its extended social grid approach, CrESSI researchers operationalized agency in terms of autonomy and conducted an empirical survey with innovators and beneficiaries across three European social innovation cases (solidarity purchasing groups, interest communities for decentralized drinki…

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

    Montevideo, Uruguay May 30 – June 1, 2016 Hosted by Universidad de la República (Uruguay) Submissions due March 10 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 approach…

  5. Webinar on the Participatory Research Capability Cube

    …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…

  6. 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…

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

    …ges and difficult to reach? What role do age, gender, sexual orientation, cultural or ethnic identity or social status play in the context of poverty and health? This conference aims to bring together researchers and scholars from different disciplines, approaches, backgrounds and experiences working on the complex and manifold relation of health and poverty. Papers exploring normative issues of (social and global) justice, human rights or ethics…

  8. WEBINAR: Capability as informational basis for work and employment politics – a European re-search experience

    …capability theories and concepts in the field of employment and work. The upcoming webinar is an exercise in such stock-taking: three members of the TG will look back on a collaborative experience in a pivotal European integrated Project. In CAPRIGHT (Resources, Rights and Capabilities: In search of social foundations for Europe, 2007-2010) 24 partners from 13 European countries shared their work on capability–related concepts to inform European…

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