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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

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

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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

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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.

10th INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE: NATURE – HUMAN – CULTURE combined with the launch of the ASAP-Poland

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Cracow | Poland  | 13-16 June 2019

We are pleased to invite you to the 10th Interdisciplinary Conference on Nature–Human–Culture combined with the launch of the Polish Chapter of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), held in cooperation with Academics Stand Against Poverty and the support of the Pedagogical University of Cracow.

The event will be held in Cracow, Poland on June 13-16, 2019.

The launch of ASAP-Poland will be supported by the special panel Poverty and Development and a book publication

This Conference will bring together researchers from around the world who are engaged in a variety of different topics in a field of Humanities, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Social Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Health and Medical Sciences and Art

https://nck2019.up.krakow.pl/

Official language of the Conference is English.

https://nck2019.up.krakow.pl/

Sixth Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prize 2019

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This year, Global Financial Integrity and Academics Stand Against Poverty will be awarding the sixth annual Amartya Sen Prizes to the two best original essays on assessing the human, social, political and institutional impacts of illicit financial flows out of Latin America as well as measures to curtail them in order to positively transform states and societies. Entered essays should be about 7,000 to 9,000 words long. There is a first prize of $5,000 and a second prize of $3,000.

Illicit financial flows are generally defined as cross-border movements of funds that are illegally earned, transferred, or used. Examples are funds earned through illegal trafficking in persons, drugs or weapons; funds illegally transferred through mispriced exchanges (e.g., among affiliates of a multinational corporation seeking to shift profits to reduce taxes); funds moved to evade taxes; and funds used for corruption of or by public or corporate officials. Because many Latin American countries have large natural resource sectors with relatively weak administrative controls on officials and powerful enablers operating locally (global banks; global tax, law, auditing and consulting firms; fiscal havens, etc.), illicit financial flows out of these countries tend to be substantial relative to their GDP or overall
trade. And because structural poverty and inequality persist there, Latin
American societies cannot afford such losses of capital and tax revenues that greatly hamper their ability to mobilize domestic resources to provide services and policies needed toward sustainable development.

Mindful of the Sustainable Development Goals (esp. SDG target 16.4 with
indicator 16.4.1) and seeking to inspire effective political action toward reducing illicit financial flows out of Latin America, we are inviting essays that assess the human, political and institutional impact of such illicit outflows. Your entry may focus on one or more specific countries and on one or more specific kinds of illicit financial flows and strategies/policies to curtail, control or avoid them. It should then estimate the magnitude of these outflows as well as the damage they do to the institutions and to the affected populations – for example, through depressed investment and through reduced tax revenues leading to, inter alia, lower public spending on health, education, social security and development.

We welcome authors from diverse academic disciplines and from outside the academy. Please send your entry by email attachment on or before 31 August 2019 to Tom Cardamone at tcardamone@gfintegrity.org. While you email should identify you, your essay should be stripped of self-identifying references, formatted for blind review.

Welcome to ASAP

Established in 2010, Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is an international community of academics confronting the rules and practices that perpetuate global poverty. Our evidence-based approach provides:

• alternatives to conventional analysis by media and governmental organizations,
• proposals for reforming national and supranational rules and policies,
• public education encouraging citizens to understand and engage with critical issues.

Academics Stand Against Poverty is registered as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States (EIN #32-0324998)

Our Board

Our board includes leading academics from a variety of fields, all with a passionate interest in poverty alleviation.
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We seek the elimination of global poverty, as guided by rigorous evidence-based and normative scholarship.
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