​Ingrid Krammer (Leiterin des Amtes für Jugend und Familie der Stadt Graz)
Kinder- und Jugendhilfe in der Pandemie. Herausforderungen, Lernprozesse, Perspektiven

Ingrid Krammer ist Leiterin des Amtes für Jugend und Familie der Stadt Graz.

​Vortrag vom 15. Juni 2021 im Rahmen der Online Vortragsreihe "Sozial benachteiligte Kinder und Jugendliche in der Pandemie". Weitere Termine im Oktober und November 2021.

Rückfragen an gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at

Die Vortragsreihe wird organisiert von Nikolaus Dimmel und Gottfried Schweiger.
Eine Kooperation des Zentrums für Ethik und Armutsforschung mit InnoSozial.

Vortrag

Judith Ranftler (Volkshilfe)
Kinder in pandemischer Gesellschaft. Wie armutsgefährdete Kinder die Pandemie erlebten

Termin: 1. Juni 2021, 17.00-18.30 Uhr

Judith Ranftler ist Bereichsleiterin für Asyl und Migration, Kinder und Jugend bei der Volkshilfe Österreich und leitet dort das Projekt Kinderarmut abschaffen.

Im Rahmen der Online Vortragsreihe "Sozial benachteiligte Kinder und Jugendliche in der Pandemie".

Der Vortrag findet über Webex statt.

Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.
Link zum Vortrag: https://uni-salzburg.webex.com/uni-salzburg/j.php?MTID=m52ba8a61097629d684fb95b7d9dfc569

Rückfragen an gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at

Die Vortragsreihe wird organisiert von Nikolaus Dimmel und Gottfried Schweiger.
Eine Kooperation des Zentrums für Ethik und Armutsforschung mit InnoSozial.

Call for Papers:
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Ethics, children, education and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Organizers: Jeff Frank (St. Lawrence University) and Gottfried Schweiger (University of Salzburg)

Dates: 28 and 29 September 2021, 3pm-7pm (Central European Time) / 9am-1pm (Eastern Standard Time)

Submission deadline for abstracts of 500 words: 30 June 2021

Please submit your proposal to both organizers: jfrank@stlawu.edu and Gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at

While children and adolescents have a much lower risk of becoming severely ill from COVID-19, the pandemic still has a serious impact on their lives. These include the closures of schools and childcare facilities and the switch to home schooling, which not all children and adolescents can manage equally well because they lack support, space, or technical equipment. The family again became the central physical and social space for children and youth. Families that are socially disadvantaged, live in crowded conditions, or experience stress, poverty, and violence face particular hardships during the pandemic. Social inequalities among children and youth are exacerbated as a result. The impact on the pandemic and the restrictions to contain it are mostly seen and judged from an adult perspective. The world of children and adolescents is often not recognized and possible losses, restrictions and disadvantages are minimized or not taken seriously. However, the life phase of childhood and adolescence is different from the life phase of adulthood. This is already expressed in the fact that educational losses caused by closed schools often cannot be made up for because there is no time to do so. In many respects, adolescent life has been curtailed, spaces outside the family and thus also opportunities for independence have become fewer, and contact with friends and also romantic partners has been reduced. However, it can also be assumed that the pandemic will have medium- and long-term consequences; above all, the social and economic consequences will negatively shape the opportunities for education, income and prosperity for some social groups for years to come. Attention should also be paid to the public, media, political discourse, how children and adolescents, their interests, rights and needs are talked about during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and to what extent they have their own say in this discourse. It is to be feared that children and adolescents will not be taken seriously in this context, but will be dismissed with the reference to the fact that they have suffered no or only very minor damage to their health as a result of COVID-19. In this context, it would be important to consider not only the direct dangers of the pandemic in terms of death, illness and possible long-term consequences, but also the short-term, medium-term and long-term psychological, social and educational consequences. The social and political powerlessness of children is also reflected in this.

This workshop is dedicated to childhood and adolescence during and after the COVID pandemic from a specifically ethical perspective. Thus, it addresses questions not only of how the pandemic has changed childhood and adolescence and what consequences can be expected for children and adolescents, but also: what are the ethical and philosophical issues involved; what are the rights of children and adolescents in the face of the pandemic and have they been adequately addressed; understanding how to achieve a good childhood during and after the pandemic (also to be prepared for the next pandemic); how to address the losses of education and social opportunities that children and young people have suffered as a result of the pandemic and what practices and policies can be adopted to prevent wider social gaps and inequalities from arising; how should children and young people be talked about and how should they themselves be involved so that their experiences can also be heard socially, in the media and politically.

This will be a paper-based workshop and participants are asked to send their draft papers one week before the workshop to be shared among all participants. 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. We plan to publish the papers of this workshop.

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)

If you are interested to participate in this workshop, please send an email to Gottfried Schweiger (gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at)
 
Program:
16 March 2021
2-2.15 Introduction
2.15-3: COVID-19: Injustice or Misfortune? By Vittorio Bufacchi
3-3.15 Break
3.15-4 The rights of children of prisoners during a pandemic. By William Bülow O'Nils
4-4.45 So close, so far: Vulnerability and sexual and reproductive rights in the COVID-19 era. By Ester Massó Guijarro & Rosana Triviño Caballero
4.45-5 Break
5-5.45 Using virtue ethics as a framework for COVID-19 policy interventions. By Sarah B. Garlington & Mary E Collins
5.45-6.30 Pandemic, democracy, and freedom. By Onni Hirvonen
 
17 March 2021
2-2.45 Power, vulnerability and the effects of COVID-19 on migrants held by the detention industry in the United States. By Gabriela Mezzanotti & Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
2.45-3.30: The Moral and Political Implications of the Covid19 Pandemic on Undocumented Migrants. By Noemi Magnani & Rachelle Bascara
3.30-3.45 Break
3.45-4.30 The Ethics of Bilateral Labor Agreements for Global Nurses in the time of Pandemic. By Klein Fernandez
4.30-5.15 What I talk about when I talk about care: Covid-19 and variation in values. By Teresa Baron
5.15-5.30 Break
5.30-6.15 Social Invisibility and the Production of Precarity: Reflections on the Vulnerability of the Informal Workforce in India in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. By Urmi Bhattacharyya

Due to Covid-19, Salzburg Conference in Interdsiciplinary Poverty Research 2020 on Health & Poverty, which was scheduled for July 2-3, 2020 had to be cancelled. We aim to hold the event in summer 2021 (most likely online); final decision has yet to be made though. Further information will be communicated by January 31, 2021 on the conference website: www.poverty-conference.org 

This book provides an interdisciplinary insight into how crises are addressed within art and literature. Crisis - in its various manifestations and effects, shown as suffering, loss, challenge, as knowledge and overcoming, experienced as an impulse for self-development and artistic creation. Crisis - an open topic, a multifaceted phenomenon. In this book, authors from philosophy and cultural studies as well as experts from inclusive cultural work and from literature and art therapy are involved. Contributions by CEPR-members Clemens Sedmak and Elisabeth Kapferer specifically discuss expressions of poverty-related crises.
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M. Bogaczyk-Vormayr/E. Kapferer (Eds.): Krisenerfahrungen und die Künste. Wien: LIT Verlag 2019. Website: https://www.lit-verlag.de/publikationen/reihen/kunst-und-inklusion/ 

News from “Alpine Space Transnational Governance of Active and Healthy Ageing”: the reports focus on (i) Classification of Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) Stakeholders, AHA Initiatives and Governance Models; as well as (ii) AHA Impact Evaluation Metrics, AHA Innovation Metrics and AHA Governance Assessment Methodology – (soon) available on the project website.