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15 & 16 November 2018
2018 Workshop on Recognition and Poverty

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) of the University of Salzburg is happy to announce the program of the workshop on "Recognition and Poverty". The workshop will be held at the University of Salzburg on 15 and 16 November 2018.

The invited speaker for this workshop is David Ingram (Loyola University Chicago), who will give a talk on "Misrecognition and Divided Agency: Does Micro-Finance Empower Women?".

The overall aim of this workshop is to bring together papers that explore the relation of recognition and poverty, and how (critical) theories of recognition can be utilized to enhance our understanding, evaluation and critique of poverty and social inequalities. This also includes issues of recognition in the production of poverty knowledge and in poverty research. Another possible topic is the relation of recognition to other critical normative concepts such as reification, alienation or invisibility in respect to issues of poverty. Furthermore, papers can explore anti-poverty policies, development aid and duties towards the (global) poor. Critical examinations of reflections on poverty and related issues in the work of past and present thinkers of recognition (e.g. Fichte, Hegel, Kojeve, Fanon, Taylor, Fraser, Honneth) are welcomed.

David Ingram is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He has authored eight books and edited three anthologies, and has published almost seventy journal articles and book chapters. His primary research interests range over social and political philosophy and philosophy of law, with a special focus on the Frankfurt School (Juergen Habermas and Critical Theory). He has also written extensively on French, German, and Anglo-American social philosophy, with application to race, disability, immigration, and human rights. His latest book "World Crisis and Underdevelopment: A Critical Theory of Poverty, Agency, and Coercion" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.

This workshop is supported by the Austrian Research Association.

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October 2018 - January 2019
Guest Lectures Winter 2018/2019

All guest lectures are in German!

8.11.2018, 15.30-17.00, HS 211 (Juridische Fakultät, Churfürststraße 1)
Bettina Mahlert (Aachen)
Verarmung und Bereicherung: Eine soziologische Perspektive

29.11.2018, 15.30-17.00, HS 103 (Theologische Fakultät, Universitätsplatz 1)
Christine Stelzer-Orthofer (Linz)
Paradigmenwechsel in der österreichischen Armutspolitik? Sozialstaatliche Sicherung zwischen Inklusion und Exklusion

10.1.2019, 15.30-17.00, HS 103 (Theologische Fakultät, Universitätsplatz 1)
Marianne Heimbach-Steins (Münster)
Migration und Armut. Sozialethische Perspektiven auf einen komplexen Zusammenhang
Kommentar: Josef Mautner (KA Salzburg)
Dieser Gastvortrag wird in Kooperation mit dem FB Praktische Theologie veranstaltet.​

31.1.2019, 15.30-17.00, HS 103 (Theologische Fakultät, Universitätsplatz 1)
Nadine Marquardt (Bonn)
Armut und Strafe. Kritische Perspektiven auf den Zusammenhang von Verschuldung und Freiheitsentzug


Abstracts und Biographien:

Verarmung und Bereicherung: Eine soziologische Perspektive 
 Der Vortrag befasst sich aus einer soziologischen Perspektive mit Basiskategorien von Armutsdiskursen wie Mangel, Deprivation, und Knappheit und bezieht dabei auch das Gegenteil von Armut, Reichtum, ein, mit seinen Kategorien von Fülle und Überfluss. Wie müssen wir diese Kategorien verwenden, um die für unsere Erkenntnisinteressen wichtigen Aspekte der Realität zu erkennen? Ausgehend von einem multidimensionalen Armutsverständnis und unter Rückgriff auf Georg Simmels Beitrag „Der Arme“ (1908) plädiere ich für zwei konzeptionelle Entscheidungen: (a) Die genannten Basiskategorien sollten zur Beschreibung individueller Charakteristika, nicht aber zur umfassenden Klassifikation ganzer Personen verwendet werden; (b) die (Un)Fähigkeit zur bereichernden Ressourcenmobilisierung sollte neben dem (fehlenden) Ressourcenzugang in die Definition von Armut bzw. Reichtum einbezogen werden. Dies führt zu einer dynamischen Perspektive auf Prozesse der Bereicherung und Verarmung. Die empirische Relevanz dieser Perspektive wird am Beispiel von Interventionsprogrammen und/oder biographischen Analysen von Armut betroffener Personen verdeutlicht.

Bettina Mahlert ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Soziologischen Institut der RWTH Aachen und von März 2018 bis Februar 2019 als Research Fellow im Forschungsbereich „Pfade und Mechanismen globaler Kooperation“ am Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Soziologische Theorie, Entwicklungspolitik und -zusammenarbeit, (Globale) Soziale Ungleichheiten sowie Politische Soziologie.

​Paradigmenwechsel in der österreichischen Armutspolitik? Sozialstaatliche Sicherung zwischen Inklusion und Exklusion
Mit den ersten sozialstaatlichen Maßnahmen wurde der Grundstein für die Organisation und die Prinzipien der sozialen Sicherheit in Österreich gelegt: Erwerbsarbeit als primärer Zugang für soziale Leistungen.  Ziel war es insbesondere ab den 1950er einen „Sozialstaat für alle“ zu etablieren, d.h. Inklusion durch sozialstaatliche Absicherung zu erreichen. Veränderte Rahmenbedingungen ab den 1980er Jahren haben dazu geführt, sozialstaatliche Sicherung per se in Frage zu stellen. Der Rückbau von Sozialtransfers wird thematisiert und auch umgesetzt. Die sozialpolitische Entwicklung in Österreich in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten kann daher als durchaus ambivalent beschrieben werden. Einerseits haben neue Maßnahmen und Leistungen (z.B. Pflegegeld, Kinderbetreuungsgeld) mit dazu beigetragen, Inklusion zu erreichen. Andererseits wurde ein restriktiverer Kurs umgesetzt (z.B. Verschärfung des Zugangs, Leistungskürzungen), der Armutsgefährdung erhöht und Exklusion fördert. Sozialstaatliches Handeln spiegelt in der Regel immer beides wider: Mechanismen der Inklusion, aber auch solche des Ausschlusses.

Christine Stelzer-Orthofer ist Assistenzprofessorin am Institut für Gesellschafts- und Sozialpolitik der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz. Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind u.a. Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik sowie Armutsforschung.

Migration und Armut. Sozialethische Perspektiven auf einen komplexen Zusammenhang
 „Armut“ und „Migration“ stehen in einem komplexen Zusammenhang.  Armut kann Ursache und Folge von Migration sein. Sie spielt sowohl im Hinblick auf Herkunfts- als auch auf Zielländer eine Rolle, wenn Migration problematisiert wird. Sozialwissenschaftlich und -ethisch muss präzisiert werden, auf welche Armutsverständnisse Bezug genommen wird. Eine theologisch-ethische Reflexion wird zudem nach den Konsequenzen der christlichen „Option für die Armen“ im Kontext der Migrationsherausforderungen fragen."

Marianne Heimbach-Steins ist Professorin für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften an der der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, und leitet dort das Institut für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Politische Ethik, Menschenrechtsethik (aktuelle Schwerpunkte: Recht auf Religionsfreiheit; Recht auf Bildung, Rechte von Migranten), Sozialethik der Bildung, Genderfragen im Horizont christlicher Sozialethik sowie sozialethische Fragen im Horizont von Familien- und Sozialpolitik.

Armut und Strafe. Kritische Perspektiven auf den Zusammenhang von Verschuldung und Freiheitsentzug
Armut ist nicht strafbar. Ein Blick in deutsche Justizvollzugsanstalten zeigt gleichwohl schnell, dass Menschen aus einkommensarmen Schichten in Gefängnissen überrepräsentiert sind. Zwischen der staatlichen Strafvollzugspraxis und der sozialen wie ökonomischen Lage der Gefangenen besteht offenbar ein Zusammenhang. Ein Großteil der Studien, die diesen Zusammenhang in den Blick nehmen und die Relationen zwischen Armut, sozialer Benachteiligung und Kriminalisierung nachzeichnen, kommt gegenwärtig aus dem US-amerikanischen Kontext. Im Zentrum dieser Studien steht nicht nur die Frage, was gesellschaftlich kriminalisiert und staatlich sanktioniert wird, sondern vor allem auch, wer hierbei aus welchen Gründen Zielscheibe und Objekt eines sozial voraussetzungsreichen und hochselektiven Prozesses der Kriminalisierung wird. Der Vortrag greift Erkenntnisse der kritischen Gefängnisforschung auf und geht dem Zusammenhang von Armut und Haft im deutschen Kontext nach. Dabei fokussiert er insbesondere auf das Phänomen der sogenannten Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe. Die Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe, die bei nicht bezahlten Geldstrafen verhängt wird, ist Ausdruck einer gesellschaftlichen Verkettungsdynamik von Schuld und Schulden, die sich in den letzten Jahren massiv verschärft hat. Der Vortrag diskutiert am Beispiel der Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe sowohl die strafverschärfende Wirkung von Armut, als auch die armutsverschärfende Wirkung der Haft.

Nadine Marquardt ist Professorin für Sozialgeographie am Geographischen Institut der Universität Bonn. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Sozialgeographie und Stadtforschung; Exklusion, soziale Ungleichheit, urbane Marginalität; Gouvernementalität, urbane Bio- und Technopolitik; Poststrukturalistische und kritische Theorien sowie Feministische Geographie.


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13. & 14. September 2018
​2018 Salzburg Conference in Interdisciplinary Poverty Research - Focus Theme: Space and Poverty

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) of the University of Salzburg is happy to announce the program for the conference "Space and Poverty". The workshop will be held at the University of Salzburg on 13 and 14 September 2018. The program includes 66 talks in parallel panels and four keynote talks:

Sylvia Chant (LSE): The ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ in an Era of Multiple ‘Feminisations’: The Space of the Household and Why it Matters in Gendered Poverty Analysis and Policy
Eveline Dürr (Munich): Slum Touring: Fashioning Poverty and Branding Place
Suzanne Fitzpatrick (Heriot-Watt): Controlling Homeless People?: Exploring the Ethics of Enforcement in Street Homelessness Policies
Mark Shucksmith (Newcastle): Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rural Areas

A first preliminary version of the panel program including all abstracts can be downloaded or viewed on the conference website. The program will be updated regularly based on late registrations or cancellations. Registration is open and guests are welcomed! Please reguster via the registration tool on the conference webiste.

Conference Website: www.poverty-conference.org

17 & 18 May 2018
2018 Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty: Poverty and the Family

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) of the University of Salzburg organizes an annual Salzburg Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty. In 2018 the workshop will focus on the topic of "Poverty and the Family". The invited speaker for this workshop is Jonathan Wolff (Oxford), who will give a talk on "Poverty, Social Expectations, and the Family". The workshop will run over two days and the program will include nine papers.

​Guests are welcomed but need to register via e-mail until 1 May 2018 at gottfried.schweiger[a]sbg.ac.at

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11 January 2018
GUest Talk: Anna Goppel on Voting Rights of MIgrants (in German)

Anna Goppel, Assistant Professor for Practical Philosophy at the University of Berne, will visit the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research. She will give a talk on Voting Rights of Migrants on 11 January 2018 at the CEPR from 15.30-17.00. The talk will be held in German - details below.

Migration und politische Beteiligung: Ethische Überlegungen zum Wahlrecht von MigrantInnen

Dieser Vortrag  geht der Frage nach, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen MigrantInnen  im Einwanderungsland das Recht haben sollten zu wählen. Ausgehend von Überlegungen zum moralischen Anspruch auf Wahlrecht werden die moralische Bedeutung dieses politischen Mitspracherechts diskutiert und verschiedene Bedingungen, an die es heute in der Regel geknüpft wird, kritisch hinterfragt.

Anna Goppel hat Geschichte, Politikwissenschaften, Rechtswissenschaften und Philosophie in Berlin und London studiert. Die Doktorin der Philosophie war von 2009 bis 2014 Oberassistentin am Ethik-Zentrum der Universität Zürich. Seit 2015 ist sie Assistenzprofessorin für Praktische Philosophie mit Schwerpunkt Politischer Philosophie an der Universität Bern. Sie hat zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zu den Themen Migration und Integration vorgelegt.

16 & 17 November 2017
V. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) of the University of Salzburg and the Department for Philosophy organize together an annual Tagung für Praktische Philosophie [Conference for Practical Philosophy]. Papers in all areas of practical philosophy are welcomed. The fifth installment will take place at the University of Salzburg on 16 and 17 November 2017 with keynote lectures by Thomas Schramme (Liverpool) and Véronique Zanetti (Bielefeld). The conference language is German but presentations can also be given in English.

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16 October 2017
Info Meeting for the Social Engagement Course

At the meeting you get information and can register for the Social Engagement Course.

Within the Course, you work 20 hours at a social organisation, share your experiences in reflections and get to know people at the margins of our society. The course draws from the concept of Community Based Learning (CBL) which emphasises active learning and engagement in the own social environment.

When: 16 October 2017, 18.00
Where:  Katholische Hochschulgemeinde (KHG), Wiener-Philharmoniker-Gasse 2
Course supervisors: Dr. Helmut P. Gaisbauer and MMag. Günther Jäger

 

21. & 22. September 2017
​2017 Salzburg Conference in Interdisciplinary Poverty Research - Focus Theme: Religion and Poverty

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) of the University of Salzburg organizes an annual conference since 2013. These conferences are interdisciplinary and open to all interested researchers, practitioners and policy makers. They aim to bring together current research on poverty, inequality and social exclusion and to discuss policies and other measures of poverty alleviation. All abstracts that are submitted to be included in the conference program will be reviewed.

The Keynote Speakers in 2017 will be Paul Cloke, ​Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter, Adam Dinham, Professor of Faith & Public Policy and Director of the Faiths and Civil Society Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Emma Tomalin, Professor of Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds, where she is director of the Centre for Religion and Public Life.

The Organizing Committee invites submissions of proposals for single papers and thematic panels in all areas of poverty research but special attention will be given to those concerned with the 2017 focus theme of religion and poverty.

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13. & 14. July 2017
​Conference Philosophy and Childhood

While neglected for a long time, the moral and political status of children has aroused considerable attention in the last years. Philosophers are increasingly interested in the challenges children and childhood pose for ethical theories and the normative concepts suitable for grasping the special situation of children. Children’s rights, the well-being of children, the place of children in theories of justice and the value of childhood have been discussed extensively and there is a vivid debate on issues like educational justice and the family as the central institution for childrearing. Still, there are many controversies going on which need further examination, e.g. regarding the vulnerability of children, their agency, the nature of childhood and the implications different phases of childhood have for the normative status of the child, e.g. when considering the autonomy and rights of teenagers. In addition there is the question on what ethical theories can contribute to the evaluation and improvement of dangers children are facing currently, like child poverty, obesity or the economization of childhood.
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This conference wants to bring together philosophers working on these and related subjects. It aims to be a forum for the most recent developments in philosophy and childhood. Submissions are welcome from all fields of philosophy where the moral and political status of children is discussed: social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, medical ethics, philosophy of education, applied ethics etc.

This conference is organized as part of the research project "Social Justice and Child Poverty", funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P26480

This conference is organized jointly by the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg, and the Chair of Philosophy V, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich.

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20. June 2017
Public Lecture “International Financial Domination”

On 20th of June 2017, Professor Lisa Herzog (Bavarian School of Public Policy) will give a public lecture on “International Financial Domination". The lecture is organized by the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) together with the AG Social Geography. It will take place in HS 422 at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Hellbrunner Straße 34, 5020 Salzburg.

​The lecture will be given in German and is followed by a discussion.

Please register at zea@sbg.ac.at

Abstract:
This paper suggests a way of conceptualization the global financial system by developing the notion of “international financial domination.” Drawing on notions of structural justice and republican freedom, it suggests that the structures of global finance can distort the position of countries in various ways, thereby also impacting on the interactions between them. Two interactional mechanisms – sovereign debt and capital flows – and two structural mechanisms – reserve currencies and representation in international financial institutions – are discussed; the latter have not received much attention in the philosophical debate so far. The structures of the global financial system, and in particular the role of the US dollar and the Euro as reserve currencies and the role of the FED as “dealer of last resort” (Mehrling 2011) show that it is wrong to conceptualize global justice as justice between relatively independent states, as Rawls (1999) had done.

About the speaker:
Lisa Herzog works at the intersection of political philosophy and economics. She focuses on the history of political and economic ideas, normative questions around markets (especially financial markets) and ethics in organizations.
Herzog studied philosophy, economics, political science and modern history at the universities of Munich (LMU) and Oxford. Between 2008 and 2011 she wrote her doctoral thesis entitled “Inventing the Market. Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory” as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Since then she has worked at the universities of Munich (TUM), St. Gallen, Leuven, Frankfurt and Stanford. In summer 2016 she took up the position of professor of political philosophy and theory at TUM’s Bavarian School of Public Policy.

1. & 2 June 2017​
2017 Salzburg Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty
Focus Theme: Poverty and Human Dignity​

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) of the University of Salzburg is happy to announce the call for papers for its 2017 Salzburg Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty. The workshop will be held at the University of Salzburg on 1 & 2 June 2017.

We invite scholars to submit papers on any topic of philosophical inquiry into poverty. Possible topics include poverty as an issue of global or social justice, human rights and poverty, the ethical obligation of poverty alleviation and the design of poverty alleviation measures or philosophical issues in poverty measurement, the conception of poverty and poverty research.

Preference will be given to scholars in the earlier stages of their careers and to papers that are related to the topic of the talk of the invited speaker. In 2017 H.P.P. [Hennie] Lötter will be the invited speaker with a paper on: Poverty and Human Dignity.

The workshop will run over two days and each speaker will have 75 minutes (about 25 minutes for presentation and 50 minutes for discussion). Drafts are shared in advance and speakers can focus on the key points of their paper in the oral presentation. A peer-reviewed publication of selected papers is envisaged in an edited volume on the workshop topic in the Springer Book Series Philosophy and Poverty. We hope that particpiants will consider this option to publish their paper presented at the Workshop.

There is no conference fee. Coffee breaks and two lunches will be covered by the CEPR. Unfortunately we cannot offer any subsidy for travel and accommodation costs, but accommodation at a hotel next to the venue can be offered at a reduced rate.

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5. April 2017
Book Presentation and Public Lecture “Persistent Poverty and the Limitations of the Welfare State”

On 5th of April 2017, Prof. Christian Neuhäuser (TU Dortmund) will give a public lecture on “Persistent Poverty and the Limitations of the Welfare State” at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research.

Prof. Neuhäusers’ talk takes place within the book presentation of “Ethical Issues in Poverty Alleviation" (Publisher: Springer 2016) edited by Helmut P. Gaisbauer, Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak.

Date: Wednesday, 5th of April 20017, 5-7 pm
Place: CEPR, Mönchsberg 2a, 5020 Salzburg

Please register at: zea@sbg.ac.at
 
About the speaker:
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Since April 2014, Prof. Christian Neuhäuser is junior professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Political Science at the TU Dortmund. He studied in Göttingen, Berlin and Hongkong, and did his doctorate in Potsdam. He was a research fellow at University of Potsdam and Academic Counsellor at Ruhr-University Bochum. Most recently he was Director of Studies for the Master Program Philosophy and Management, and Philosophy and Medicine. Neuhäuser is co-editor of the reference book for Justice (Metzler 2016) and Applied Ethics (Metzler 2011), he is author of Introduction to Amartya Sen (Junius 2013) and Companies as Moral Agents (Suhrkamp stw. 2011).

25 & 26 August 2016
Conference "Child Poverty in Times of Crisis

The aim of this conference is threefold: (1) to discuss how different crises (like the recent economic downturn, political instability, natural disasters or (civil) war) affect child poverty; (2) to reveal the consequences such crises have on children living in poverty and their familiesas well as to show how they respond; and, finally, (3) to provide suggestions for international, national and local policy designs for the reaction to such crises. We are interested in bringing together empirical and theoretical papers and in discussing the normative and ethical issues attached to child poverty and related policy making. The Keynote speakers are Mario Biggeri (Florence) & Lucinda Platt (LSE).

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​12 & 13 May 2016
​2016 Workshop on Philosophy and Poverty

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) at the University of Salzburg and the Austrian chapter of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) are happy to announce the call for papers (PDF of the cfp) for their 2016 Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty. The workshop will be held at the University of Salzburg on May 12 and 13, 2016. Monique Deveaux (U of Guelph) is the invited speaker for this workshop. We invite scholars to submit papers on any topic within the realm of philosophical inquiry into poverty. Possible topics include poverty as an issue of global or social justice, human rights and poverty, the ethical obligation of poverty alleviation and the design of poverty alleviation measures or philosophical issues in poverty measurement, the conception of poverty and poverty research. Preference will be given to scholars in the earlier stages of their careers and to papers that are related to the topic of the talk of the invited speaker. In 2016 Monique Deveaux (University of Guelph) will be the invited speaker with a paper on: "Global Justice from Below?: The Value of Social Movement Approaches to Poverty Reduction".

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