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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 sub-themes:

Business management in a changing environment
Economics
Climate change and sustainable development
Population, urban slums and poverty
Role of agribusiness in poverty alleviation
ICT and future development

(Registration details and deadlines are in the attached flyer)

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.

International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, April 9 – 12, 2019, Moscow

The National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) with the support of the World Bank will be holding the 20th April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. The Conference’s Programme Committee is chaired by Professor Evgeny Yasin, HSE’s Academic Supervisor.

The Conference features a diverse agenda concerning social and economic development in Russia. The list of topics is available at

https://conf.hse.ru/en/2019/sections.

Participants are invited to submit extended abstracts of their papers for presentation at the Conference’s sessions. Proposals must be submitted through HSE’s online system at https://conf.hse.ru/en/ until November 12, 2018.

The Programme Committee will then send notifications on the acceptance of proposals (by January 25, 2019), after considering the results of reviews carried out by independent experts.

Papers included in the programme will have the opportunity of being published in leading Russian journals dedicated to economics, sociology, management, public administration, etc. (subject to additional reviews by the editorial board of a given journal). These journals are either cited in the Scopus and WoS databases or are included in the list published by the Russian Higher Attestation Commission.

The Conference’s working languages are Russian and English.

Online registration to attend the Conference will be open until March 25, 2019.    Information about previous conferences can be viewed here https://conf.hse.ru/en/2019/.

Should you have further questions feel free to contact the Organizing Committee at interconf@hse.ru.

Additionally If you interested in gender or queer theory please also write to me and Valeriya Utkina UtkinaVV@hse.ru . There is another session being hosted.

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.

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for debate over some key issues (poverty, access, dispute resolution and terrorism) ranging between particular case studies to their  global impact, and including analysis of political, sociological, legal, policy, and everyday conceptualizations. The conference will provide a forum to analyse developments, and seek to discern underlying social, legal and political processes to address them.

We will have BSL (British Sign Language) interpreters to support the event.

Free event ticket (please book in advance for this event since there is limited availability). Select the first choice from the drop down menu:

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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 East, the ongoing Israel-Palestine difference, the Ukrainian Crisis and Russia’s foray into Crimea, the socio-political crisis in Venezuela, the European Union facing Brexit are a few examples of domestic, regional and international multi-layered crisis .

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for debate over some key issues (poverty, access, dispute resolution and terrorism) ranging between particular case studies to their  global impact, and including analysis of political, sociological, legal, policy, and everyday conceptualizations. The conference will provide a forum to analyze developments, and seek to discern underlying social, legal and political processes to address them.

The conference papers will have the following objectives:

1. To produce a lexical, syntactic, and semantic description of the language being used by different disciplines when using the terms such as “poverty”, “access”, “dispute”, “conflict”, “sovereignty”, “terrorism” and variation between speakers and groups of speakers—i.e. that of politicians, academics, and public in general.
2. To evaluate whether we need to redefine “conflict” to reflect the complexity of current conflicts and the difficulty of fitting them into existing categorizations (inter-state, intra-state, domestic, regional, global).
3. Conflict is usually viewed entirely in negative terms. To reflect on how conflict may be a positive mechanism for social change and what can be learnt/taken from situations of conflict to be applied in other contexts.

The conference papers will have test the following hypotheses:

1. Politicians, academics, and public in general will display different linguistic features when referring to “poverty”, “access”, “dispute”, “conflict”, “sovereignty”, “terrorism” depending on country of origin and historical involvement in the conflict as well as personal and/or national agenda.
2. Conflicts are defined by legal science, political science, international relations and many other sciences but also by non-rational factors such as emotion and passion.
3. By neutralizing non-rational factors that cause bias in assessing conflicts, these conflicts may be resolved through a joint approach.

Key areas of discussion include:

• Poverty
• Access (to health, education, justice)
• Dispute resolution
• Terrorism

It is intended that papers from the conference will be collected for publication.

CALL for PAPERS

We look for contributions that will deepen and broaden understanding of how conflict may me a positive force for change (key areas: poverty, access, dispute resolution and terrorism).

We hope to attract contributions from different disciplinary approaches and backgrounds, including those outside of the mainstream of theories of global justice.

If you would like to participate, please send an abstract (no more than 500 words long and written in English). If email your abstract to Dr Jorge E. Núñez j.nunez@mmu.ac.uk.

Deadline for submission: Friday 31^st August 2018

General Enquiries: Dr Jorge E. Núñez j.nunez@mmu.ac.uk