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

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.

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

The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) of the University of Salzburg is happy to announce the call for papers for its 2019 Salzburg Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty. The workshop will be held at the University of Salzburg on 27 & 28 June 2019 and focus on the topic of “Gender and Poverty”. You can find more information on the website of the workshop: https://www.workshop-poverty-philosophy.org/
 
The invited speaker for this workshop is Serene J. Khader (Brooklyn College & CUNY Graduate Center).

​We invite scholars at all career stages to submit papers related to the workshop topic of "Gender and Poverty". Possible topics for papers are, among others, the "feminization" of (global) poverty; gender roles, norms and practices and how they relate to poverty; the intersection of disadvantages based, among others, on race, gender, sex, health, age, and disability; the nexus of education, gender and poverty; the relation of (sexual) violence and poverty; patriarchy and poverty; sexuality, procreation and poverty; anti-poverty policies and gender; the blaming and shaming of poor mothers as "bad" mothers; the "black box" of the household in poverty concepts and research; gender-sensitive poverty research and measurement; gender and the socio-spatiality of poverty (e.g. rural, urban).

The workshop will run over two days and each speaker will be given a slot of 75 minutes (about 25 minutes for presentation and 50 minutes for discussion). Draft papers are shared in advance and speakers can focus on the key points of their papers in the oral presentation.

​Selected papers will be published a volume on the workshop topic in the Springer Book Series Philosophy and Poverty.

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.
 
If you are interested in participating please submit an extended abstract of 750 words ready for blind review via the submission form on the website of the workshop. Deadline for submissions is 15 December 2018, and decisions will be communicated within four weeks. It is expected that draft versions of the papers are shared two weeks before the workshop. If you have any quetsions please contact Gottfried Schweiger at gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at

Workshop Website