Below we list all ASAP news updates. If you want, you can also choose to see only the specific news updates concerning our upcoming events or our Impact Interviews.
GCCW Open Letter Calls on World Leaders to Implement and Strengthen Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Global Climate Change Week (GCCW) has published an open letter urging world leaders to ratify, implement, and strengthen the measures of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We call on all our supporters to sign the letter and help put pressure on leaders to take greater action. Global Climate Change Week is an initiative led […]
Global Climate Change Week 2016
Global Climate Change Week (GCCW) aims to encourage academic communities – including academics, students, and non-academic staff at universities – to engage with each other, their communities, and policy makers on climate change. What could you do for GCCW 2016 (Oct 10-16)? Some activities are very simple and require little preparation. For example, you can […]
Effective Altruism Conference Recap
Academics Stand Against Poverty co-hosted the conference “The New Philanthropy: Effective Altruism and Beyond” held at Yale University on May 6 and 7. The event featured a keynote address by Angus Deaton, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, in which he presented a critical analysis of effective altruism. Renowned philosopher Peter Singer […]
Job Opening: ASAP UK Seeks Coordinator
Are you passionate about rigorous, context-sensitive and nuanced information reaching the public discourse to inform political decision-making? Do you enjoy a solid project management challenge and can you hit the ground running? Then we’d love to hear from you! Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) UK are recruiting a short-term, full-time coordinator to help us make […]
Call for Papers: ASAP Brazil Conference on Poverty and Hunger
ASAP Brazil and Mackenzie University Law School will host the II ASAP-Brazil International Conference on Poverty and Hunger and are accepting abstract submissions. The Conference will take place on August 25-26 at the Mackenzie University Law School in São Paulo. Local and international experts on the subject will gather to foster academic discussion on the fight against […]
Intern with ASAP Global Colleagues
Global Colleagues is looking for an organized and motivated Coordination and Internal Communications Intern. Responsibilities will include day-to-day correspondence with academics in the program, providing updates to the GC management team on partnerships, and drafting emails and other documents for distribution to program participants. More details about this opportunity and application instructions are available on the […]
ASAP to Co-Host Effective Altruism Conference May 6 & 7
Academics Stand Against Poverty will be co-hosting the conference “Effective Altruism and Beyond” on May 6th and 7th at Yale University. The conference will explore the philanthropic movement known as effective altruism with talks from several prominent academics including Angus Deaton and Peter Singer. The full conference description is available on the Yale Global Justice […]
Save the Date: The Night Before Taxes, April 14, 2016
If you are in DC on the evening of April 14 and are interested in Tax Justice, here’s an event you might want to attend: Thursday, April 14, 2016 5:30 – 8:30 PM Harry Harding Auditorium, 2nd Floor Elliott School of International Affairs 1957 E Street NW, Washington, D.C. The Institute for International Economic Policy at the George Washington […]
Global Colleagues Wins Fulbright Award
Global Colleagues, one of ASAP’s flagship programs headed by Robert Lepenies, won this year’s German Fulbright Association Jürgen Mulert Award on Mutual Understanding. The Mulert Award is an annual award given to volunteers, artists, professionals, and researchers whose work reflects and advances discourse and peace through mutual understanding. Since its inception in the spring of […]
What We Achieved in 2015
2015 was another productive year for ASAP, in which we made further strides in our mission leveraging the unique resources of academia to effect change in the realm of global justice. We brought together like-minded academics from around the world to offer urgently needed alternative analyses on the roots of global poverty, propose concrete policy […]
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