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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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).

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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Health and poverty are interrelated in both rich and poor countries: poverty worsens the subjective health status and leading to a range of diseases and developmental disorders; people with health problems and disabilities are more often poor and socially excluded than the rest of the population. In addition to the search for causal links between poverty and health at the local and global levels, other research questions arise, some of which should be mentioned here as examples: What influence does poverty have on the subjective and objective state of health; how is this experienced and coped with by people in poverty? How can effective and adequate health care be ensured for poor people; which groups of the population are particularly confronted with challenges and difficult to reach? What role do age, gender, sexual orientation, cultural or ethnic identity or social status play in the context of poverty and health?

This conference aims to bring together researchers and scholars from different disciplines, approaches, backgrounds and experiences working on the complex and manifold relation of health and poverty. Papers exploring normative issues of (social and global) justice, human rights or ethics in relation to health and poverty are welcomed. Scholars working in the global south are particularly encouraged to apply.

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€.

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.

If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract of 300-500 words (ready for blind review, in WORD format) to Gottfried Schweiger at gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at by 15 November 2019.

​The Centre is able to subsidise travel and accommodation expenses for speakers up to 250€. It is planned to publish the contributions in a peer reviewed volume with Springer and the speakers are asked to agree to a publication. The submitted contributions should therefore be unpublished. All presenters are asked to provide a Précis of 1500-2000 words two weeks before the workshop to be shared among all participants.

The book "Philosophy and Child Poverty. Reflections on the Ethics and Politics of Poor Children and their Families" was edited by Nicolás Brando and Gottfried Schweiger and published by Springer in the Book Series "Philosophy and Poverty". This book offers a broad and diverse reflection of the ways in which child poverty could be conceptualised, and the ways in which it is intertwined with childhood as a specific social condition. Furthermore, the responsibilities towards children and the possible mechanisms required for dealing with this condition will be analysed and clarified.

This is the first volume on philosophy and child poverty. Despite the increasing number of publications on poverty, the particular phenomenon of poverty during childhood has not received much philosophical attention. This is surprising, given the severity and depth of child poverty around the globe.

This volume brings together various philosophical approaches and how they understand and tackle child poverty. This is an important addition to the philosophical literature, which is also of wider interest to scholars working in the social sciences and with an interest in child poverty.

​Please order a copy for your library @Springer.com

Reviews:

“Child poverty is both important and urgent. The book edited by Brando and Schweiger addresses key-questions: what child poverty is, what causes it, what is wrong with it, and who should do what in order to eradicate or mitigate it. This is pioneering work - indeed, the volume is one of the very few existing philosophical treatments of the problems raised by child poverty.” (Anca Gheaus, Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

“Surprisingly this is the first book explicitly devoted to a topic that demands our urgent attention. Much of the literature on children’s rights has been rather abstract. Yet the problem of how poverty affects children in particular is a vitally important one and also of international scope. This book is thus most welcome and its international roster of contributing authors promises a rich, wide ranging and vitally relevant discussion.” (David Archard, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast)

“The philosophy of childhood is one of the most fertile areas of philosophical research at present, but little has been done on the pressing topical issue of poverty. By collecting a wide variety of theoretical approaches to this topic, this excellent anthology both sets the agenda for and kick starts philosophical research on child poverty.” (Lars Lindblom, Linköping University, Denmark)

“The volume covers an immense variety of interesting topics from different societal and cultural contexts (such as Bangladesh, Ireland, Iran, UK, USA) and provides an excellent overview on contemporary philosophical debates on child poverty.” (Prof. Dr. Johannes Drerup, Free University of Amsterdam/University of Koblenz-Landau)

Book Launch Event: "Absolute Poverty in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Hidden Phenomenon" (Policy Press 2019)

20. September 2019, 14.30-15.40
Universty of Salzburg, Universtätsplatz 1, Room HS 122

This book launch is part of the conference "Migration and Poverty"

This Round Table discusses the new publication „Absolute Poverty in Europe“ (Policy Press 2019). The discussants are Ides Nicaise, Patricia Kennedy and Rebecca O‘Connell, three of the authors of chapters in this book, and they will discuss issues of absolute poverty in Europe. About the book: Engaging systematically with severe forms of poverty in Europe, this important book stimulates academic, public and policy debate by shedding light on aspects of deprivation and exclusion of people in absolute poverty in affluent societies. It examines issues such as access to health care, housing and nutrition, poverty related shame, and violence. The book investigates different policy and civic responses to extreme poverty, ranging from food donations to penalisation and “social cleansing” of highly visible poor and how it is related to concerns of ethics, justice and human dignity.

Conference website: https://www.poverty-conference.org/panel-program.html

SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE £20!

Use the discount code POAPE19 on https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/absolute-poverty-in-europe

Gottfried Schweiger published the article "Should states prioritize child refugees?" in the open access journal Ethics and Global Politics. The article can be accessed here: doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2019.1649958

Abstract:
In this paper I am interested in the question of whether and why states should prioritize child refugees over adult refugees in cases where they are not able to grant refuge to all those who are entitled to it. In particular I discuss three grounds on which such a prioritization could be based: (a) vulnerability, (b) efficiency and (c) life phase and life span. As can be shown, these grounds also apply, to some extent, to particular groups of adults such as women, the elderly, or people with special needs. Based on this I conclude that states should invest significant resources into filtering out those who are the most needy and vulnerable although there are several limitations to doing that. Only if such a selection process were impossible, or so costly and time-consuming that it would result in significantly fewer refugees being admitted, would states have good moral reasons to prioritize children without further screening.