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  1. March 4th, 2015 – Special Issue on “Indigenous Education”

    The Creative Education (CE, Google-based Impact Factor: 0.98), a peer-reviewed open-access journal, is seeking papers for the upcoming special issue on “Indigenous Education”. We would like to invite you to submit or recommend original research papers to this issue through our Paper Submission System. Aims & Scope (not limited to the following fields) Indigenous education and its role in individual transformation Indigenous higher education units…

  2. 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        …

  3. 2015 HDCA Conference – Georgetown University

    …irector, Lead economist and Manager of the Migration and Remittances Unit, World Bank. Founder and Head 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 Itera…

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

    …ge. All these endeavours would probably not have happened without the path-breaking 1951 monograph. There are many other areas for which academic economists were and are in Professor Arrow’s intellectual debt. Just to name a few, his work on uncertainty, incomplete information and moral hazard became the basis for modern theories of insurance, financial investment and asset pricing. The moral hazard problem is also central in Arrow’s contributions…

  5. 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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