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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.

You can also view our most recent newsletters to learn what the ASAP network has been delivering. Links to the most recent editions are listed below:

Autumn 2019: https://mailchi.mp/0ef0ea89fd51/academics-stand-against-poverty-october-newsletter-2019

Winter 2018: https://mailchi.mp/137b832448ff/asap-winter-533471

Summer 2018: https://mailchi.mp/1b82db01d89d/asap-update-board-additions-brazil-conference-chapter-news

Conference 2017: https://mailchi.mp/a2f1b3eb7cc4/2017-asap-global-justice-conference-with-ralph-nader-27-29-october-302363

Sen Prize call 2017: https://mailchi.mp/622303a588cf/reminder-fourth-annual-amartya-sen-essay-prize-submissions

Summer 2017: https://mailchi.mp/429fa17a21c8/exciting-news-from-asap

Spring 2017: https://mailchi.mp/eb2d2266fe25/relaunching-the-asap-uk-newsletter-151167

Summer 2015: https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=098b142792357c7a0d980ed67&id=b8

Redefining Migration Discourse

2019-10-03 By ASAP Global

The June event hosted at King’s College London in partnership with World Leaders Forum, Club de Madrid and Global Justice Now aimed to critically analyse the structural shifts and reorientation in attitudes and rhetoric that need to be taken regarding migration-related policy decision making.

The symposium bought together interdisciplinary specialists from academia, policy, and NGOs to explore and outline the challenges and recommendations on methods to tackle some of the structural challenges associated with the current framing of migration.

(Photograph courtesy of Dorothy Guerrero. L – R: Laura Hammond, SOAS; Yva Alexandrova-Meadway, Consonant; Frances Webber, Institute of Race Relations; Jimi Thinley, WLA-CdM; Kinga Göncz, WLA-Cdm and Myles Wickstead, King’s College London)

The output report of this event was used to help inform the framing of migration discussions by World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid members at the UN General Assembly this September 2019.

A short report on the outputs of the event can be found here.

Juris North Autumn discussion series

2019-08-29 By ASAP Global

Our colleagues at Juris North (based at Manchester Metropolitan University UK) will be running the following discussion series through the Autumn of 2019.

Please find the list of Juris North discussions next term:

Week 1. Wednesday 25th September, at 1pm, “A Legal Pluralist World” … Or the Black Hole for Modern Legal Positivism, Dr Mauro Zamboni, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, hosted by Manchester Law School.

Week 2. Wednesday 09th October, at 3pm, Duress is No Excuse, and it Isn’t Much of a Justification Either, Dr Benjamin Sachs, Department of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, hosted by Durham Law School.

Week 3. Wednesday 23rd October, at 3pm, Trust and the Built Environment, Dr David Jenkins, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, hosted by Manchester Law School.

Week 4. Wednesday 06th November, at 3pm, Non-violence and Civil Disobedience: Insights from Criminal Law, Andreas Marcou, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, hosted by Manchester Law School.

Week 5. Wednesday 20th November, at 3pm, Predictive Evidence and Unpredictable Freedom, Dr Amit Pundik, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, hosted by Manchester Law School.

Week 6. Wednesday 11th December, at 3pm, Legal Positivism and Indigenous Rights, Dr Dwight Newman, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, hosted by Liverpool Law School.

Free Eventbrite ticket:

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Launch of ASAP-Nepal at the Conference on Collective Responsibility

2019-08-29 By ASAP Global

Hosted by Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu in March 2019 colleagues from ASAP Spain supported the launch of our new chapter ASAP Nepal at the Conference on Collective Responsibility

Dr Hari Timalsina of Tribhuvan University was joined by colleagues from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) and the University of Oxford (UK) to discuss issues of collective responsibility including:

Sea Access for Landlocked States
Against Collective Responsibility
Fertility and collective Responsibility
Collective Responsibility, Population and Health

Workshop on Collective Responsibility Download

Paula Casal (ASAP Spain) is a Professor in the Law Department of Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Jeff McMahan is White’s Professor of Moral PhilosophyProfessorial Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Andrew Williams, Research Professor at ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University

A Better Future for our Planet. International Panel on Social Progress, Academics Stand Against Poverty & Planetary Wellbeing: A Triple Encounter.

2019-06-12 By ASAP Global

IPSP-ASAP Spain will be hosting an event in Barcelona on the 17th June 2019 hosted by UPF Planetary Wellbeing.

Planetary Wellbeing is a new project or rather a project of projects at Pompeu Fabra University to encourage researchers at UPF to focus on research that can improve the state of the planet and all those who live in it, and to facilitate collaboration between those already channeling their energy in this direction. It contains institutions inside UPF like IS Global (Institute for Global Health (https://www.isglobal.org/en ) and externally funded projects such as my own “Justice, Legitimacy and Global Institutions”.

The International Panel on Social Progress https://www.ipsp.org/ is a very large scale enterprise conceived (with the IPCC in mind) to gather information from hundreds of scientists on what is social progress, and what are the best ways to promote it and monitor it.

Sala Polivalent, Mercé Rodoreda Building, Carrer Wellington, Campus de la Ciutadella, UPF, Barcelona.

9.30-11.00: Panel – Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University, IPSP) presents the IPSP, Nicole Selamé (Valparaiso University, ASAP) presents ASAP and Josep M. Antó (UPF, ISGlobal, PW) presents Planetary Wellbeing. Chair: Jose Luís Martí (UPF, ASAP, PW).

Coffee & Fruit

11.30-13.00: Session on Social Progress. Do we Have a Compass? with Henry Richardson (Georgetown University-IPSP), Peter Wagner (University of Barcelona, IPSP) and Ted Lechterman (Frankfurt University, ASAP). Chair: Serena Olsaretti (UPF, ASAP, PW).

Lunch at UPF (lunch tickets provided for speakers and chairs).

14.00-15.30: Session on Global Health with Gustaf Arrhenius (Institute for Future Studies, IPSP), Julia Mosquera (Institute for Future Studies, ASAP) and Rafael Vilasanjuan (UPF, ISGlobal, PW) Chair: Anca Gheaus (UPF, ASAP, PW).

Coffee & fruit

16.30-17.30: Session on Planetary Resources with Chris Armstrong (University of Southampton, ASAP), Paula Casal (UPF, IPSP, ASAP, PW), and Paul Bou-Habib (University of Essex, PW). Chair: Andrew Williams (UPF, ASAP, PW).

17.30-19.00: Film on the IPSP A New Society and Q&A session with the film’s director, Sophie Wolthers (IPSP).

19.00-19.20: Performance by Dada Dance.

20.30 :Dinner by the beach at Xiroi Cala Nuri (14 min. walk from Hotel Marina H10, where the participants stay).

Redefining migration discourse: Learning from the past to create an inclusive economy at King’s College London on the 14th June

2019-05-10 By ASAP Global

The symposium convened by ASAP, Global Justice Now and Club de Madrid aims to critically analyse the structural shifts and reorientation in attitudes and rhetoric that need to be taken regarding migration related policy decision making. The debate will use evidenced based research to challenge the underpinning assumptions currently driving migration related decision making processes.

Registrations to attend the event can be made through this link

Convening thought leaders in policy, research and civil society this discussion series challenges the wider framing of austerity politics and asks the question, where do we go from here?

This colloquium will be the first in a series and will explore the ways in which policy makers and other influential actors can shift negative attitudes towards migrants and migration, and identify what positive citizenship looks like in this context. The colloquium will be convened to determine what effective inclusive economy, migration policy and processes should look like in a shared societies context. We define an inclusive economy as one which there is better systems and opportunities for more broadly shared prosperity especially for those facing the greatest barriers to advancing their well-being.

Academics Stand Against Poverty and Global Justice Now are pleased to welcome members of World Leadership Alliance, Club de Madrid, Jigmi Thinley, Prime Minister of Bhutan from April 2008 to April 2013 and WLA-CdM NetPLUSS Member Kinga Göncz, Foreign Minister of Hungary from 2006 to 2009, and subsequently a member of the European Parliament to lead a discussion on what different countries can learn from each other about how to build a more inclusive society.

They will be joined on the panel by:

Laura Hammond, Professor of Development Studies at SOAS
Frances Webber, Vice-chair of the Institute of Race Relations Council of Management and prosecutor at the Permanent Peoples Tribunal of the London Hearing “Putting the Hostile Environment on Trial”
Yva Alexandrova-Meadway, Policy and Campaigns Manager with Consonant

The morning panel will be chaired by Myles Wickstead, Visiting Professor (International Relations) at King’s College London and Associate Professor at the University of Exeter.

The afternoon panel will be chaired by Helen Yanacopulos, Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.

News

Redefining Migration Discourse

Juris North Autumn discussion series

Launch of ASAP-Nepal at the Conference on Collective Responsibility

A Better Future for our Planet. International Panel on Social Progress, Academics Stand Against Poverty & Planetary Wellbeing: A Triple Encounter.

Redefining migration discourse: Learning from the past to create an inclusive economy at King’s College London on the 14th June

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