Plenary 1: Amartya Sen Lecture
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“HDCA at 20: Building a Community through Conferences”
Chair: Elaine Unterhalter
Speakers: Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, Des Gasper, Flavio Comim, Ingrid Robeyns, Mario Biggeri, Sandra Boni
“Recognising Individual Capabilities and Building Collective Action for Public Good”
Speakers: Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey
Chair: Melanie Walker
“To improve wellbeing globally, we need more outcome data on children”
Speaker: Mamta Murthi
Chair: Achin Chakraborty
Keynote speaker: S. Subramanian
Independent researcher
Formerly Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies Chennai, India
Chair: Petya Kabakchieva
Sofia University
Opening speech of the Conference Chairs: Pepka Boyadjieva and Petya Ilieva-Trichkova
HDCA Conference 2023Keynote speaker: Melanie Walker, HDCA President
Higher Education & Human Development, University of the Free State, South Africa
Chair: Jay Drydyk, Professor of Philosophy Carleton University, Canada
Keynote speaker: Martha C. Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor
University of Chicago
Chair: Sarah Perrine
Trust For Social Achievement
Keynote Speaker: Joost De Laat
Professor of Economics and Director, Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges, The Netherlands
Chair: Eugenia Volen
Director, Early Learning and Care Program, Trust for Social Achievement
Discussants:
Denitsa Sacheva, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Labour, Social and Demographic Policy, National Assembly of Republic of Bulgaria
Deyan Kolev, Chairman, AMALIPE Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance