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  1. JHDC Special Issue Call for Papers – Communities and Capabilities

    …rgentina Download the Call for Papers Deadline for Submissions: November 7, 2016. Theme The community is a totality which is meaningful to the people that form part of it. Community is more than a geographic concentration; it is a concept that implies the inclusion of diversities and their being allowed to share within it. It is related to social support, inter-subjectivity, participation, consensus, common beliefs, joint effort aiming at a major…

  2. Education TG webinar on: “Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice. The Capability Approach Re-examined” – implications for education

    …tem? Dial: 67.217.95.2##503579309 Cisco devices: 503579309@67.217.95.2 First GoToMeeting? Let’s do a quick system check:https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check The webinar is expected to last an hour. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) – a headset is recommended. If you have never used gotomeeting, you will be prompted to download the launcher file, which may take a minute or two. If you have any question, please let us know. We look forwar…

  3. Latin American Network: Introduction

    …es que han sido llevadas a cabo en diferentes ciudades de la región, tales como Ciudad de México (2006, Universidad Iberoamericana), Montevideo (2008, 2016, Universidad de la República), Porto Alegre (2010, Pontificia Universidad de Rio Grande do Sul), Buenos Aires (2012, Universidad Lomas de Zamora), Lima (2014, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) y Puebla (2019, Universidad de las Américas). Actualmente nos encontramos trabajando juntos de…

  4. EXTENDED DEADLINE: VII Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Association for Human Development and the Capabilities Approach (ALCADECA)

    …the event (under construction): www.udlap.mx/alcadeca2019 Organising Committee: • Oscar Garza (UDLAP, México) • Viviana Ramírez (UDLAP, México) • Teresa Herrera-Nebel (UPAEP) Academic Committee: • Javier Iguiñiz • Graciela Tonon • Andrea Vigorito • Izete Pengo Bagolin • Silvana Vargas • Séverine Deneulin…

  5. Extensión de Fecha Límite: VII CONFERENCIA ALCADECA

    …ar son las siguientes: – ¿Qué concepciones de libertad y bienestar son más adecuadas para orientar las políticas de desarrollo en el contexto latinoamericano? – ¿Cuál es la mejor forma de conceptualizar las nociones de capacidades y agencia para el diseño de políticas públicas que atiendan desigualdades (de ingreso, de bienes, de oportunidades, de trato, poder, participación social)? – ¿Desigualdad de qué? ¿Cuáles son las desigualdades relevantes…

  6. 2024 HDCA Conference – Kolkata, India

    September 24-26, 2024

    Hosted by Pratichi (India Trust), Institute for Development Studies Kolkata, 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.

     

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