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Workshop on Gender and Poverty
Date: 27 & 28 June 2019 Venue: University of Salzburg Extended submission deadline: 20 January 2019 Website: https://www.workshop-poverty-philosophy.org/ 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". There is no conference fee. Coffee breaks and two lunches will be covered by the CEPR. Due to additional external funding the CEPR can now offer to pay for two nights of accomodation in Salzburg. Unfortunately we cannot offer any subsidy for travel costs. 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. If you are interested in participating please submit an extended abstract of 750 words ready for blind review viathe submission form on the workshop website (https://www.workshop-poverty-philosophy.org/). Deadline for submissions is 20 January 20, and decisions will be communicated within four weeks. It is expected that draft versions of the papers are shared two weeks before the workshop. Postdoc-Stelle am Zentrum für Ethik und Armutsforschung!
GZ A 0008/1-2019 Am Fachbereich Geographie und Geologie bzw. Zentrum für Ethik und Armutsforschung gelangt die Stelle eines wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters*(m/w/d) im Forschungs- und Lehrbetrieb gemäß UG und Angestelltengesetz mit einem Senior Scientist*(m/w/d) gem. § 26 Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer*(m/w/d) der Universitäten zur Besetzung. (Verwendungsgruppe B1; das monatliche Entgelt für diese Verwendung beträgt € 3.711,10 brutto (14× jährlich)).
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Neue Bewerbungsfrist ist der 6. Februar 2019 Call for Papers: "In Search for a Social Minimum: Human Dignity, Poverty and Human Rights"10/5/2018
 Special Workshop at the IVR World Congress “Dignity, Democracy, Diversity”
July 7-13, 2019, University of Lucerne, Switzerland Conference website: www.ivr2019.org/special-workshops Convenors: Elena Pribytkova (New York University School of Law) & Gottfried Schweiger (University of Salzburg) This workshop is aimed at discussing a social minimum as a set of human rights guarantees aimed at protecting individuals from poverty and enabling them to lead a dignified life. From theoretical and practical perspectives, the special workshop will analyze the interrelation of dignity, poverty and human rights and, in particular, the role of the concept of human dignity in justifying the social minimum principle and the right to a dignified existence. The concept of dignity is widely used in philosophical and legal theories to criticize the injustice of poverty, to underpin human rights of the poor as well as to develop social and global justice programs. At the same time, there are some valid doubts as to the capacity of contemporary broad and vague interpretations of human dignity to serve as a basis for human rights in general and the human right to a dignified existence in particular. Against this backdrop this workshop is interested in discussing, among others, the following questions: • How can the concept of human dignity be used to criticize poverty? • Does poverty always constitute a violation of human dignity and human rights? • What does a dignity-based protection against poverty entail? • What is the relation between human dignity and the (human) rights of particular groups (e.g. children, persons with disabilities)? • Can human dignity sufficiently justify and specify human rights guarantees of a social minimum? • How should the content and scope of the human right to a dignified existence be defined? • How a social minimum is determined in international and domestic human rights law? • To what extent the concept of human dignity is used in contemporary human rights practice, in particular for protecting human rights of the poor in international, regional and national courts and quasi-judicial bodies? The special workshop will continue discussions initiated in special workshops on the theme of poverty, social justice and human rights organized at the IVR World Congresses in Belo Horizonte (2013), Washington, D.C. (2015), and Lisbon (2017). The special workshop is open to all interested participants. If you would like to take part, please, contact the organizers of the special workshop as soon as possible. Abstracts (750 words) should be submitted to the organizers by December 15, 2018. The deadline for submission of full papers is May 31, 2019. Submissions should be sent to: Gottfried Schweiger (gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at) and Elena Pribytkova (ep2665@columbia.edu)  Migration and Poverty
Dates: 19 and 20 September 2019 Submission deadline: 31 January 2019 Conference Website: www.poverty-conference.org Keynote speakers: Ilse Derluyn (Ghent), Cathy McIlwaine (King's College London), Corinna Mieth (Bochum), Julia O‘Connell-Davidson (Bristol), Annelies Zoomers (Utrecht) 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. 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  The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) of the University of Salzburg is happy to announce the call for papers for 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).
Workshop website: www.povertyresearch.org/children-on-the-move The so-called “refugee crisis” made migration the No. 1 political topic in many countries across the globe. This is mirrored by an unprecedented height in scholarly attention, also in philosophy (to name a few of the latest: Miller 2016; Parekh 2017; Fine and Ypi 2016; Sager 2016; Mendoza 2017; Duarte et al. 2018). Surprisingly children are largely absent in the philosophical debate – a few exceptions exist (for example Lister 2018) – and also the brand new “Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children” (Gheaus, Calder, and De Wispelaere 2018) includes no chapter on migration. Although it could be argued that some arguments and thoughts in the philosophical literature concerned with migration in general are also applicable to children, this is a significant gap in the current research because of the particular nature and (political, moral, social, legal) status of children. This lacuna in philosophy is surprising for at least three reasons: Firstly, outside of philosophy the situation of child migration receives significant attention (for example: Sedmak, Sauer, and Gornik 2018; Sonnert and Holton 2010; Ensor and Goździak 2016; Hunner-Kreisel and Bohne 2016; Kanics et al. 2010). Secondly, children receive as much attention as never before in philosophy, in particular in political philosophy (Bagattini and Macleod 2014; Gheaus, Calder, and De Wispelaere 2018). Thirdly, the moral and political status of migrating children appears to be of obvious interest both to many areas of philosophy – since it involves among others question of justice, rights and citizenship – and to the wider public (cf. the debate about the treatment of children at the borders of the states of the European Union or between the United States and Mexico) This workshop aims to investigate a few of the most pressing philosophical questions surrounding child migration, in relation and contrast to adult migration. Six directions of inquiry can be distinguished here: (a) Different types of child migration pose different questions. Children migrate voluntary and involuntary, are forced to flee their countries, and they are often victims of trafficking. Besides conceptual questions these different forms of migration also come with different challenges, risks and harms for the children. They demand differentiated solutions to protect children’s rights and needs. (b) Children migrate alone, and in company together with other family members. The dependency of (young) children on their care-givers and guardians and the particular value of and right to family unity are another area of interest. For example, what particular rights should unaccompanied and separated minors have? How should they be treated in the context of border controls? (c) Children are different to adults in some important aspects, although the normative relevance of these differences is in debate. Talking about child migration is not possible without reflecting on the child as a particular agent. In what respect are then theories and claims about adult migration applicable to children? What makes child migration special and does this justify special treatment? Are children always, as the UNICEF claims, the most vulnerable group? (d) Child migration is an issue on the state and the global level (and also on the regional and local level). What particular obligations do individual states have towards migrating children – for example in regard to integration, citizenship or access to education and health care? Or should we better think about child migration as a problem of global justice, which demands coordinated actions of several states? (e) Child migration is not an isolated phenomenon but closely connected to a vast range of injustices: war, poverty, exploitation, desertification, expulsion. It is also important to note that many children are not able to migrate (alone) and that they are stuck in their deprivation. And many children are left behind, most often with another family member or friends. (f) Child migration, and the issues named so far, can be tackled from various normative perspectives. It can be positioned in a moral, political or legal framework, all of which can mobilize certain normative tools. To what extent are the existing political and legal tools adequate, for example the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Geneva Convention and the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees? Confirmed speakers:
Call for papers: 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. The organizers plan to publish the papers of this workshop in a peer-reviewed Special Issue (journal to be decided at a later stage). 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. Deadline for submissions is 1 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. Submissions should be send to Gottfried Schweiger at gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at  All guest lectures are in German!
8.11.2018, 15.30-17.00, HS 211 (Juridische Fakultät, Churfürststraße 1) Bettina Mahlert (Aachen) Verarmung und Bereicherung: Eine soziologische Perspektive 29.11.2018, 15.30-17.00, HS 103 (Theologische Fakultät, Universitätsplatz 1) Christine Stelzer-Orthofer (Linz) Paradigmenwechsel in der österreichischen Armutspolitik? Sozialstaatliche Sicherung zwischen Inklusion und Exklusion 10.1.2019, 15.30-17.00, HS 103 (Theologische Fakultät, Universitätsplatz 1) Marianne Heimbach-Steins (Münster) Migration und Armut. Sozialethische Perspektiven auf einen komplexen Zusammenhang Kommentar: Josef Mautner (KA Salzburg) Dieser Gastvortrag wird in Kooperation mit dem FB Praktische Theologie veranstaltet. 31.1.2019, 15.30-17.00, HS 103 (Theologische Fakultät, Universitätsplatz 1) Nadine Marquardt (Bonn) Armut und Strafe. Kritische Perspektiven auf den Zusammenhang von Verschuldung und Freiheitsentzug Abstracts und Biographien: Verarmung und Bereicherung: Eine soziologische Perspektive Der Vortrag befasst sich aus einer soziologischen Perspektive mit Basiskategorien von Armutsdiskursen wie Mangel, Deprivation, und Knappheit und bezieht dabei auch das Gegenteil von Armut, Reichtum, ein, mit seinen Kategorien von Fülle und Überfluss. Wie müssen wir diese Kategorien verwenden, um die für unsere Erkenntnisinteressen wichtigen Aspekte der Realität zu erkennen? Ausgehend von einem multidimensionalen Armutsverständnis und unter Rückgriff auf Georg Simmels Beitrag „Der Arme“ (1908) plädiere ich für zwei konzeptionelle Entscheidungen: (a) Die genannten Basiskategorien sollten zur Beschreibung individueller Charakteristika, nicht aber zur umfassenden Klassifikation ganzer Personen verwendet werden; (b) die (Un)Fähigkeit zur bereichernden Ressourcenmobilisierung sollte neben dem (fehlenden) Ressourcenzugang in die Definition von Armut bzw. Reichtum einbezogen werden. Dies führt zu einer dynamischen Perspektive auf Prozesse der Bereicherung und Verarmung. Die empirische Relevanz dieser Perspektive wird am Beispiel von Interventionsprogrammen und/oder biographischen Analysen von Armut betroffener Personen verdeutlicht. Bettina Mahlert ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Soziologischen Institut der RWTH Aachen und von März 2018 bis Februar 2019 als Research Fellow im Forschungsbereich „Pfade und Mechanismen globaler Kooperation“ am Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Soziologische Theorie, Entwicklungspolitik und -zusammenarbeit, (Globale) Soziale Ungleichheiten sowie Politische Soziologie. Paradigmenwechsel in der österreichischen Armutspolitik? Sozialstaatliche Sicherung zwischen Inklusion und Exklusion Mit den ersten sozialstaatlichen Maßnahmen wurde der Grundstein für die Organisation und die Prinzipien der sozialen Sicherheit in Österreich gelegt: Erwerbsarbeit als primärer Zugang für soziale Leistungen. Ziel war es insbesondere ab den 1950er einen „Sozialstaat für alle“ zu etablieren, d.h. Inklusion durch sozialstaatliche Absicherung zu erreichen. Veränderte Rahmenbedingungen ab den 1980er Jahren haben dazu geführt, sozialstaatliche Sicherung per se in Frage zu stellen. Der Rückbau von Sozialtransfers wird thematisiert und auch umgesetzt. Die sozialpolitische Entwicklung in Österreich in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten kann daher als durchaus ambivalent beschrieben werden. Einerseits haben neue Maßnahmen und Leistungen (z.B. Pflegegeld, Kinderbetreuungsgeld) mit dazu beigetragen, Inklusion zu erreichen. Andererseits wurde ein restriktiverer Kurs umgesetzt (z.B. Verschärfung des Zugangs, Leistungskürzungen), der Armutsgefährdung erhöht und Exklusion fördert. Sozialstaatliches Handeln spiegelt in der Regel immer beides wider: Mechanismen der Inklusion, aber auch solche des Ausschlusses. Christine Stelzer-Orthofer ist Assistenzprofessorin am Institut für Gesellschafts- und Sozialpolitik der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz. Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind u.a. Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik sowie Armutsforschung. Migration und Armut. Sozialethische Perspektiven auf einen komplexen Zusammenhang „Armut“ und „Migration“ stehen in einem komplexen Zusammenhang. Armut kann Ursache und Folge von Migration sein. Sie spielt sowohl im Hinblick auf Herkunfts- als auch auf Zielländer eine Rolle, wenn Migration problematisiert wird. Sozialwissenschaftlich und -ethisch muss präzisiert werden, auf welche Armutsverständnisse Bezug genommen wird. Eine theologisch-ethische Reflexion wird zudem nach den Konsequenzen der christlichen „Option für die Armen“ im Kontext der Migrationsherausforderungen fragen." Marianne Heimbach-Steins ist Professorin für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften an der der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, und leitet dort das Institut für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Politische Ethik, Menschenrechtsethik (aktuelle Schwerpunkte: Recht auf Religionsfreiheit; Recht auf Bildung, Rechte von Migranten), Sozialethik der Bildung, Genderfragen im Horizont christlicher Sozialethik sowie sozialethische Fragen im Horizont von Familien- und Sozialpolitik. Armut und Strafe. Kritische Perspektiven auf den Zusammenhang von Verschuldung und Freiheitsentzug Armut ist nicht strafbar. Ein Blick in deutsche Justizvollzugsanstalten zeigt gleichwohl schnell, dass Menschen aus einkommensarmen Schichten in Gefängnissen überrepräsentiert sind. Zwischen der staatlichen Strafvollzugspraxis und der sozialen wie ökonomischen Lage der Gefangenen besteht offenbar ein Zusammenhang. Ein Großteil der Studien, die diesen Zusammenhang in den Blick nehmen und die Relationen zwischen Armut, sozialer Benachteiligung und Kriminalisierung nachzeichnen, kommt gegenwärtig aus dem US-amerikanischen Kontext. Im Zentrum dieser Studien steht nicht nur die Frage, was gesellschaftlich kriminalisiert und staatlich sanktioniert wird, sondern vor allem auch, wer hierbei aus welchen Gründen Zielscheibe und Objekt eines sozial voraussetzungsreichen und hochselektiven Prozesses der Kriminalisierung wird. Der Vortrag greift Erkenntnisse der kritischen Gefängnisforschung auf und geht dem Zusammenhang von Armut und Haft im deutschen Kontext nach. Dabei fokussiert er insbesondere auf das Phänomen der sogenannten Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe. Die Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe, die bei nicht bezahlten Geldstrafen verhängt wird, ist Ausdruck einer gesellschaftlichen Verkettungsdynamik von Schuld und Schulden, die sich in den letzten Jahren massiv verschärft hat. Der Vortrag diskutiert am Beispiel der Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe sowohl die strafverschärfende Wirkung von Armut, als auch die armutsverschärfende Wirkung der Haft. Nadine Marquardt ist Professorin für Sozialgeographie am Geographischen Institut der Universität Bonn. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Sozialgeographie und Stadtforschung; Exklusion, soziale Ungleichheit, urbane Marginalität; Gouvernementalität, urbane Bio- und Technopolitik; Poststrukturalistische und kritische Theorien sowie Feministische Geographie.  What are the obstacles that hinder Roma children from poor neighbourhoods to even start a promising school career? How to support such children on their way through primary school? How to lift school attendance? Obviously such questions do not have one clear cut and easy going answer. They instead lead straight into the painful reality of multidimensional poverty and social exclusion in contemporary Europe. CEPR validates efforts of an anti-poverty after school programme in Dumbraveni/Romania by way of closely and long-term monitoring and accompanying and by researching into the structural obstacles and dilemmas. Some results or insights are more lessons in hopelessness than sources for smart advice. On the other hand it is really fascinating to experience the vibrant day-to-day work and to see how the programme offers the children a kind of supplementary home with resonance and recognition.   The new annual report of the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) for the year 2017 has been published. Find out about the past work of the CEPR, our events and the publications of our members. The report can be downloaded in English or German.
PDF CPER Annual Report 2017 (English Version) PDF CEPR Annual Report 2017 (German Version) Program online: 2018 Salzburg Conference in Interdisciplinary Poverty Research on Space and Poverty7/12/2018
 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 |
