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Friday, October 16, 13:00 pm (BST) To mark International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2020 (Saturday 17th October) ASAP Irish Network, in partnership with the Civil Society Study Group of DSA Ireland, are hosting an event that will bring together an esteemed panel of development practitioners and scholars to explore linkages between health, food and poverty using evidence-based research, and possible strategies to eradicate such poverty. Speakers include: Paul Ginnell &...

We are a global community of academics dedicated to confronting and transforming rules and practices that perpetuate and aggravate poverty and inequality. At a time of unprecedented challenge and uncertainty, our mission of supporting the most impoverished, marginalised and discriminated, while fighting for a fairer and more just world has never been more critical. ASAP Global channels its funding through our network of national Chapters who, being at the forefront of the academia-policy...

Friday, October 16, 10:00am Caracas time (-5hrs BST). Poverty hits women harder than men. Globally, women are paid on average 24% less than men, work longer hours and do twice as much unpaid work within the home (Oxfam). COVID-19 has worsened this situation, and by 2030 poverty levels are expected to increase by 12.6% among women, twice as much as among men (6.6%) (UN Women). Focusing on Latin America, we find that over 51% of poor people are women and one in three women have no income of...

Wednesday, August 26, 2020 – 11:00 (-4 GMT) Venezuela’s institutional structures are facing a continuous deterioration that is leading the majority of the population into severe poverty, brought on by high levels of corruption. Yet, the problems Venezuela faces are not exclusive to this nation but are part of a wider, global problem. For instance, the country\’s natural resources arouse attention from greedy foreign governments and corporations hoping to profit from...

“Build Back Better: Reducing Vulnerabilities, Strengthening Justice\” On the 12th – 15th November 2020 ASAP Global, ASAP Brazil, Quinnipiac Albert Schweitzer Institute and the Global Justice Program at Yale University will be jointly hosting this years Annual Justice Conference, which will be taking place online. The aim of the Conference is to gather national and international specialists in order to extend the academic studies concerning the battle against poverty, misery and...

Paula Casal, Chapter Lead for ASAP Spain connected with colleagues in Colombia during the Summer of 2019. Having spoken to colleagues in both the Universidad EAFIT and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, the group of over 30 academics convened by Antonio Barboza, Constitutional Law Professor at Universidad EAFIT, have decided to convene a follow-up meeting later this year. This event will include academics from different universities across Colombia to discuss how their respective...

The programme was part of a graduate-level course for an interdisciplinary international program on \”Ethics, Economics, Law and Politics\” at Ruhr University\’s Institute of Philosophy in Bochum held in July 2019.ASAP Board member and ASAP Cambodia chapter lead, Pahlaj Moolio of the Paññasastra University of Cambodia, ran an exploratory workshop, to supplement the knowledge to students of their fields of study. The event included 5 speakers from universities in...

The conference, led by Yale Global Justice Program, the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University, and ASAP will bring together academics, policymakers and NGO leaders for practice-oriented presentations and discussion. We plan to host a total of nine sessions: three longer morning panels, and six shorter afternoon sessions. For the morning panels, keynote speakers include Branko Milanovic, Bridget Conley, and Alex de Waal. Branko Milanovic...

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...

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...

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 StatesAgainst Collective ResponsibilityFertility and collective...

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,...

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...

A collaborative workshop between the Development Studies Association Ireland (Civil Society Working Group), Academics Stand Against Poverty-Irish Network, Basic Income Ireland. Hosted at Trinity College Dublin (10am-2pm), on 5th March 2019. All are welcome. For more information email nitsamishra@yahoo.com

The \’Connected Sociologies\’ conference is being hosted at NUI Galway (Ireland) on the 10th and 11th May. Nita Mishra (ASAP Ireland) will be hosting a panel. https://www.sociology.ie/annual-conference-2019.html Studies on how poverty is perceived would particularly be of interest – either theoretical studies or studies from the field. Please can contact ASAP Global if you are interesting in contributing.

We would like ASAP members to host panel sessions for this upcoming conference. If you are planning on proposing a panel please do contact the DSA directly but please do also let me know so we can co-ordinate efforts to publicise and support you.  There will be a later call for papers which will be shared in due course. DEADLINE for panel proposals: 14TH NOV 2018 DSA Call The annual conference of the Development Studies Association will take place from 19-21 June 2019 at The Open University...

The Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari campus is organising an international conference on ‘Sustainability in the Changing Environment: Ways for Future Development’ on 12-13 November 2018. Call for papers: Deadline 31st October We are delighted to invite you to the ICSCE & 2nd SRC 2018 fore submission of the theoretical and empirical papers in the related disciplines of sustainability. Submissions are invited on, but not limited to the following...

We have a fantastic opportunity to hold an ASAP panel session in April at the Economic and Social Development Conference at HSE (Moscow). Information about the conference is below. Can potential participants submit an abstract here: https://conf.hse.ru/en/  first and after that write to dtolkachev@hse.ru to notify the organisers that application have been submitted before 1st November. We have a short time before the official deadline to apply for our session for ASAP. Thank you.  ...

An event jointly organised by Yale\’s ASAP (Academics Stand Against Poverty) and Juris North. Please find the provisional programme attached, Global Justice and Crisis Conference Programme. We have representatives of 10+ countries. This conference will bring together academics (law, political sciences, philosophy, sociology, etc.), non-governmental organisations and activists to present, explore, and discuss ways in which we may address worldwide current issues by means of global justice....

      Conference organizers: Academics Stand Against Poverty and Juris North This conference will bring together academics, non-governmental organizations and activists to present, explore, and discuss ways in which we may address worldwide current issues by means of global justice. The conference takes place at a key moment for global justice. Contemporary events such as the rise of Islamic State and state failure/potential dismemberment from the caucus regions to the Middle...