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  1. News and Events from the Early Career Researchers and Practitioners Network (ECRPN)

    …ST (UTC +1) 16.45-18.00 Geneva, Switzerland, CEST (UTC+2) 17.45-19.00 Veracruz, Mexico CST (UTC -6) 09.45-11.00 Oranjestad, Aruba AST (UTC -4) 11.45-13.00 Istanbul, Turkey TRT (UTC +3) 18.45 – 20.00 All are welcome to join for an informal discussion on Clementia’s work. The Work-in-progress online session is the network’s new initiative to share work-in-progress, facilitate developmental improvements together with senior and established scholars a…

  2. Latest news from the TG Education coordinators

    …cal overview of HDCA research in the area of education to a non-specialist readership. This could focus on human capital vs capability discourse, quality education or education beyond the millennium development goals. Anyone interested in submitting a proposal should contact the series editor, Khanam Virjee at Khanam.Virjee@tandf.co.uk 3. HDCA CfP: The upcoming HDCA conference 2015 will be held in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. and the Ca…

  3. 2022 HDCA Conference – Antwerp, Belgium

    The HDCA annual conference will take place from 19-22 September 2022.

    “Capabilities and Transformative Institutions”

    How can we organize today for the world of tomorrow? Covid-19 has taught us that we are not ready. We have re-discovered our common vulnerability – not only to a virus, but also to problems and difficulties arising from policy mismatch, institutional hiccups, authoritarian backlash and the effects of increasing national and international inequality. Divided we have stood, unable to act well  in concert. How can we improve the structures of living together and face the challenges ahead to build a more just and sustainable world? The HDCA Conference 2022 puts this question center stage.

    Institutions, social arrangements, or the structures which emerge from our social ways of living, have been considered from many perspectives through the range of disciplines that engage with the capability approach. The conference will provide an opportunity to let these various understandings speak to and learn from each other.

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  5. HD&C Debate Series – Technology and Human Development

    …a technology. The book examines whether technology is merely a neutral instrument that expands what people can do and be in life, or whether technology transfers may also impose certain views of what it means to lead a good life. The final chapter examines the capability approach in relation to contemporary debates about ‘ICT for Development’ (ICT4D), as the technology domain where the approach has been most extensively applied so far. This book i…

  6. APPLY NOW: Master Class “Social Justice and Fair Limits to Wealth” with Prof. Ingrid Robeyns

    …olution that works for all of us. Practical Information: Dates: Monday, February 17th 2020 – 14.00 till Wednesday, February 19th 2020 – 9.00 – Departure Fees/Costs: The participation fee is 58,- EUR. This includes snacks during breaks, dinner on 17 th lunch and dinner on the 18 th of February. For overnight stay and breakfast the Akademie offers rooms at a reduced price of 50,- EUR per night. Please indicate in your application whether and for how…

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