April - June 2019
Guest Talks Summer 2019

6. June 2019
Panel Discussion (in German) on Child Basic Income and Child Poverty

Podiumsdiskussion: "Kindergrundsicherung und Kinderarmut"

Nikolaus Dimmel (Universität Salzburg)
Erich Fenninger (Volkshilfe)
Barbara Erblehner-Swann (kija)
Elisabeth Kocher (Salzburger Armutskonferenz)
Walter Pfeil (Universität Salzburg)

Anmeldung bitte bis 1. Juni unter zea@sbg.ac.at

In Österreich leben über 320.000 Kinder und Jugendliche in armutsgefährdeten Haushalten, 2016 waren rund 84.000 Kinder im System der Bedarfsorientierte Mindestsicherung. Diese Zahlen zeigen deutlich, dass Armut und eine Reihe an Entbehrungen zur Lebenswirklichkeit von vielen Kindern und Jugendlichen gehören. Ein Aufwachsen in Armut geht mit einer ganzen Reihe an negativen Auswirkungen auf das körperliche, seelische und soziale Wohlergehen einher. Die Lebenschancen von Kindern und Jugendlichen sind in Österreich stark ungleich verteilt. Zwar gibt es auch großen vorhandenen Reichtum, dieser ist in den letzten Jahren aber immer stärker auf eine kleine Gruppe konzentriert.

Die Idee der Kindergrundsicherung, wie sie jüngst von der Volkshilfe vorgeschlagenen wurde, will hier gegensteuern und allen Kindern und Jugendlichen ein gutes Leben mit gleichen Chancen und ohne Armut und ermöglichen. Angesichts der jüngsten Debatten um Kürzungen im Sozialsystem, die Kinder und Jugendliche besonders treffen werden, fordert die Kindergrundsicherung eine radikale sozialpolitische Neuorientierung.

Diese Podiumsdiskussion wird veranstaltet vom Zentrum für Ethik und Armutsforschung der Universität Salzburg in Kooperation mit der Volkhilfe, der Kinder- und Jugendanwaltschaft Salzburg, der Salzburger Armutskonferenz und dem Fachbereichsteil Arbeits- und Sozialrecht.

9. & 10. May 2019
​Children on the Move – Philosophical Issues in Child Migration

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) of the University of Salzburg will host a workshop on child migration, which will take place on 9 & 10 May 2019. This workshop is organized by Gottfried Schweiger (Salzburg) and Johannes Drerup (Koblenz-Landau). The program including all abstracts can be found below.

If you want to attend the workshop please send an e-mail to: cepr@sbg.ac.at. Attendance is free but places are limited.

Workshop website: ​https://www.povertyresearch.org/children-on-the-move.html

27. & 28. June 2019
2019 Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty: Gender and Poverty 

The 2019 Salzburg Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty will be held at the University of Salzburg on 27 & 28 June 2019 and focus on the topic of "Gender and Poverty". The invited speaker for this workshop is Serene J. Khader (Brooklyn College & CUNY Graduate Center). The program can be found below.

Workshop website: www.workshop-poverty-philosophy.org/

If you want to attend the workshop please send an e-mail to: cepr@sbg.ac.at. Attendance is free but places are limited.

19 & 20 September 2019
2019 Salzburg Conference in Interdisciplinary Poverty Research
​Migration and Poverty 

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR), University of Salzburg, invites the submission of proposals for single papers, thematic panels (2, 4 or 6 papers), and roundtable sessions (3-5 discussants plus 1 chair) in all areas of poverty research but special attention will be given to those concerned with the focus theme of migration and poverty.
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This conference aims to bring together researchers and scholars from different disciplines, approaches, backgrounds and experiences working on the complex and manifold relation of migration and poverty. Much migration within states and across borders is driven by poverty and the hope for a better well-being and improved living standard but migration is also risky and opens new vulnerabilities. Once migrants reach their chosen destination – if they reach it all – they face new difficulties and are often among the poorest and most disadvantaged in their new home society. On the one hand migration can be a tool to escape poverty, on the other hand it can lead to poverty and social exclusion.
 
This conference has no disciplinary or geographical focus and welcomes papers on intra- and transnational migration in all its forms (voluntary, forced, impelled, seasonal etc.) and its relation to (relative, absolute, monetary, multidimensional etc.) poverty, inequality and social exclusion. Papers exploring normative issues of (social and global) justice, human rights or ethics in relation to migration and poverty are welcomed.
 
The Salzburg Conference in Interdisciplinary Poverty Research aims at bringing together established as well as young scholars and academics from diverse backgrounds. Submissions of scholars working in the Global South are particularly encouraged and support by a lower conference fee.
 
The registration fee for participants is 100€ and covers the conference folder, a guided city tour on Friday, coffe breaks, two lunch snacks and the conference dinner on Thursday. Students as well as particpiants from countries classified as low-income or lower-middle income economies by the World Bank pay a subsidized fee of 75€.
 
Child care is available at the conference venue.
 
The time allocated for each paper presentation is 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
 
Paper givers may also participate as discussants or chairs in roundtable sessions.
 
For more information please visit the conference website: www.poverty-conference.org