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​Annual Conference in Interdisciplinary Poverty Research
​Annual Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty
​Tagung für Praktische Philosophie [Conference for Practical Philosophy]

16 &17 March 2021
Workshop: ​Ethical Perspectives on the Social and economic Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ethical Perspectives on the Social and Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic

An Online Workshop @ Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg

​Dates: 16 & 17 March 2021, 2pm-6pm (Central European Time)
Submission deadline: 1 November 2020

Call for Papers
The COVID 19 pandemic is mainly perceived as a health problem, but it also has severe social consequences. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the social consequences of the pandemic and the counter measures to contain it, in particular for poor and vulnerable populations. People in poverty are impacted more severely by the pandemic than more affluent groups; they have fewer resources to isolate themselves and isolation is more burdensome for them. For example, homeless people face the problem of either staying on the street or moving into shelters where they have to stay together in a confined space. People who are in need of psychosocial support have difficulty getting it during the contact restrictions. People who had little money before the pandemic have even less now. Children from disadvantaged families have greater difficulty with distance learning and lose important social contacts when schools, clubs and other institutions are closed. Women and children, who become victims of the increasing intra-family violence have even fewer opportunities to find help from outside. In addition, millions of people have lost their jobs or have gone bankrupt as a result of the pandemic and the containment measures. They experience stress and anxieties about the future.
The aim of this workshop is to analyse these phenomena from the perspective of justice and ethics and to explore newly created or amplified vulnerabilities and disadvantages. This research is fraught with several difficulties. Firstly, it is not possible to predict how the pandemic will develop. This applies both to developments within specific countries and globally. Secondly, it is not yet possible to predict precisely the long term social and economic consequences. It is also unclear how the political response will look like in different countries and what effects it will have. Thirdly, the data available on the social consequences of the pandemic is still thin and it will be a while before the first substantiated studies are published. These uncertainties and epistemic limits must be dealt with and taken seriously. Still, we believe it is necessary and feasible to explore the social consequences of the pandemic as early as possible and to discuss policies, which can help to alleviate them.
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If you are interested to present your paper at this workshop, please send an abstract of about 500 words to Gottfried Schweiger, Gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at.

The workshop will be held online only using WebEx. This will be a paper-based workshop and participants are asked to send their draft papers one week before the workshop. Draft papers should be between 4 and 6 thousand words, including references. Talks should not be longer than 20 minutes followed by 25 minutes q&a. It is planned to publish the papers of this workshop in a peer reveiwed volume.
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3 & 4 March 2020
Workshop: Recognition, Migration, and Critical Theory

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research of the University of Salzburg is organising a workshop on "Recognition, Migration, and Critical Theory" on 3-4 March 2020.

The aim of this workshop is to discuss to what extent the concept of recognition is suitable for the analysis and critique of current migration issues. David Ingram (Loyola University Chicago) will give the keynote talk at this workshop.

In recent years, the concept of recognition has found an astonishing resonance in social and political philosophy and ethics, but also in the social sciences. The claim is made that social relations and processes can be better understood through the reference to recognition and misrecognition, which opens up potentials for criticism and overcoming injustices and distortions in modern, capitalist societies. Critics, on the other hand, often argue that the focus on recognition is misguided and obscures the view of the actual social problems and their causes and is therefore not suited to pointing the way out. Central to many discussions is always the application of a critical theory of recognition and the extent to which it is able to understand and analyse emerging social phenomena and developments. Migration movements and the associated tensions are phenomena that have become the focus of scientific, political and public debate in recent years. Migration in all its forms and its causes is by no means a new phenomenon, but it has become more intense in some parts of the world and, especially in Europe, its perception by politics and the population has changed. So what contribution can a critical theory of recognition make here? Is the concept of recognition appropriate to answer the political, social, ethical and socio-theoretical questions posed by migration, flight and integration? To what extent can global migration movements and their causation through displacement, war, poverty, hunger or climate change be analyzed in terms of recognition theory, or is there a need for other conceptual approaches and theories? And finally, the question what distinguishes the perspective of recognition from the many other theories and normative concepts in social and political philosophy that deal with migration, and what additional insights or critique it has to offer.

There is no attendance fee but places are limited. Please send an e-mail to cepr@sbg.ac.at before February 15 if you wish to attend. Précis' of the papers are shared in advance among all participants.

Program:

Tuesday
10.00-11.00 David Ingram (Loyola Chicago): What Recognition Theory Can Add to an Ethics of Migration

11.15-12.15 Drew Thompson (Loyola Chicago): Migration, Recognition, and Autonomy: Some Challenges

13.30-14.30 Martin Huth (Vienna): Migration and the (selective) recognition of vulnerability. Reflections on solidarity between Judith Butler and the Critical Theory

14.45-15.45 Simon L Joergensen (Aalborg): Naturalization policies as practices of recognition

16.00-17.00 Onni Hirvonen (Jyväskylä,) Recognition and Civic Selection

17.15-18.15 Kevin A. Escudero (Brown University): A Comparative Social Movement Approach to the Politics of Recognition in the U.S. Immigrant Rights Movement

Wednesday
09.00-10.00 Sabine Hirschauer (New Mexico): German and U.S. Borderlands – Recognition and the Copenhagen School in the Era of Hybrid Identities

10.15-11.15 Rizza Kaye C. Cases (U of the Philippines): Claims-Making and Recognition through Care Work:  Narratives of Belonging and Exclusion of Filipinos in New York and London

11.30-12.30  Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag  (Nord University) & Gabriela Mezzanotti (University of South-Eastern Norway): A quest for justice: A case study on recognition in migrant interactions with Child Welfare Services in Norway

13.30-14.30 Hilkje Hänel (Berlin): Epistemic Injustice, Recognition and Refugees

14.45-15.45 Heiko Berner (Salzburg): Asylum and Reification

​16.00-17.00 Gonçalo Marcelo: Transnationalizing recognition: a new grammar for an old problem

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12 March 2020
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Methodologische Fragen in der Praktischen Philosophie

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Methodologische Fragen in der Praktischen Philosophie
Workshop an der Universität Salzburg, 12. März 2020, 13.00 – 17.30 Uhr

​Ort: Seminarraum, 2. Stock, Zentrum für Ethik und Armutsforschung
Mönchsberg 2a, 5020 Salzburg
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Organisation: Norbert Paulo (Graz/Salzburg) und Gottfried Schweiger (Salzburg)

Anders als in der Theoretischen Philosophie scheint es in der Praktischen Philosophie keine Einigkeit über die dem Gegenstandsbereich angemessenen Methoden zu geben. Nach Jussi Suikkanen gibt es gegenwärtig eigentlich nur zwei einigermaßen verbreitete methodische Zugänge: Viele Philosophinnen würden mehr oder weniger der Rawls‘schen Idee des Überlegungsgleichgewichts folgen. Die anderen wären in loser Anlehnung an Feyerabends „anything goes“ der Meinung, es gebe gar keine Methode. Vor diesem Hintergrund will sich dieser Workshop mit der Frage beschäftigen, was Philosophinnen eigentlich tun, wenn sie Praktische Philosophie betreiben. Wir wollen diskutieren, wie sie vorgehen und welche Erkenntnismethoden sie nutzen.
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Konkreter geht es um diese und ähnliche Fragen: Wie verhalten sich ideale und nicht-ideale Theorie zueinander? Inwiefern ist die Diskussion von Utopien oder Gedankenexperimenten relevant? Was genau ist das Überlegungsgleichgewicht, und wie hilfreich ist es? Welche Alternativen dazu werden heutzutage genutzt? Wie greift man in der Philosophie richtig auf Erkenntnisse der empirischen Wissenschaften zu, die oft komplex, ungenau oder auch widersprüchlich sind? Mit welchen Methoden und nach welchen Standards kann die praktische Philosophie Empfehlungen und Politikvorschläge formulieren? Welche Rolle können fiktionale Repräsentationen der Welt wie Film und Literatur in der praktische Philosophie spielen? Können empirische Erkenntnisse neben der Anwendung abstrakter philosophischer Theorien auch für die philosophische Theoriebildung selbst relevant sein, wie es die Experimentelle Philosophie behauptet?
 
Programm
13.00: Norbert Paulo (Graz/Salzburg) und Gottfried Schweiger (Salzburg): Begrüßung
13.15: Nora Heinzelmann (München): Die praktische Relevanz empirischer Moralpsychologie
14.30: Pause
14.45: Herwig Grimm und Svenja Springer (Wien): Empirisch informierte (veterinärmedizinische) Ethik – Potenziale und Grenzen empirischer Erkenntnisse in ethischen Debatten
16.00: Pause
16.15: Stefan Gosepath (Berlin): Praktische Philosophie und Problemlösungen
17.30: Ende
18.00: Abendessen
 
Format
30 Minuten Vortrag, 45 Minuten Diskussion.

Gäste sind herzlich willkommen! Bitte vorab anmelden unter: gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at

7 May 2020
​Ethik der Kindheit und Familie in Philosophie und Theologie

Ethik der Kindheit und Familie in Philosophie und Theologie – Ein Workshop für DoktorandInnen

​7. Mai 2020, Universität Salzburg

Organisation: Gottfried Schweiger (Philosophie) und Angelika Walser (Theologie)

Impulsvorträge: Johannes Drerup (TU Dortmund) & Hartmut Kreß (Bonn)

​In den letzten Jahren sind ethische Fragen der Kindheit und Familie verstärkt ins Interesse von Philosophie und Theologie gerückt. Auf der einen Seite sind das „klassische“ Fragen der Begründung und inhaltlichen Ausgestaltung der besonderen (moralischen) Rechte und Pflichten von Kindern, Geschwistern und Eltern sowie Fragen des Verhältnisses von Staat und Familie. Auf der anderen Seite haben technologische Entwicklungen (etwa im Bereich der Neuen Medien oder der Reproduktionstechnologien) und gesellschaftliche Veränderungen (etwa die Zunahme von Patch-Work-Familien, die rechtliche Anerkennung gleichgeschlechtlicher Partnerschaften oder zunehmende kulturelle Diversität) neue ethische Fragen hervorgebracht, die in Philosophie und Theologie reflektiert werden müssen. Dabei ist festzustellen, dass der interdisziplinäre Austausch zwischen philosophischer und theologischer Theoriebildung, die beide für sich beanspruchen, rationale und intersubjektiv nachvollziehbare Antworten auf diese ethischen Fragen zu geben, oft nicht stattfindet. Dieser Workshop verfolgt vor diesem Hintergrund drei Ziele: Erstens will dieser Workshop aktuelle philosophische und theologische Forschungen im Bereich der Ethik der Kindheit und Familie diskutieren. Zweitens will er explizit DoktorandInnen zusammenbringen und ihnen die Möglichkeit geben, ihre Forschungen vorzustellen und zu diskutieren. Drittens schließlich soll ein Beitrag zur Vernetzung zwischen den beiden Disziplinen der Theologie und Philosophie geleistet werden.

Wir laden alle interessierten DoktorandInnen aus der Theologie und Philosophie und nahe verwandter Disziplinen (z.B. Medizinethik, Rechtsphilosophie)ein, Vorschläge für einen Vortrag einzuschicken. Bitte schicken Sie dafür eine kurze Zusammenfassung des geplantes Vortrags (im Umfang von ca. 350 Wörter) und eine Information zu Ihrer Biographie (im Umfang von ca. 150 Wörtern) an gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at Einreichschluss ist der 31. Januar 2020. Die Teilnahme an diesem Workshop wird für Vortragende bei Bedarf finanziell unterstützt (Reisekostenzuschuss bis zu 300€ pro Person).
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2 & 3 July 2020
Call for Papers: Health and Poverty

Call for Papers:

​Health and Poverty
2020 Salzburg Conference in interdisciplinary poverty research

2 & 3 July 2020, University of Salzburg

​Submission deadline: 31 January 2020

Conference Website: https://www.poverty-conference.org/

Keynote Speakers:
Monica Magadi (Hull)
Melissa Parker (LSHTM)

The Organizing Committee 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 health and poverty.
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