Programme

Conference “Dimensions of Poverty” June 7-9 2017 – Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Schedule

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	Wednesday, 7th of June
19.00	REGISTRATION Foyer Vortragssaal
19.30	Film screening @HKW: An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (Denis Tanovic) Room: Vortragssaal
	Thursday, 8th of June
9.00-9.30	REGISTRATION Foyer Vortragssaal
9.30-9.45	Plenary Session: Welcome & Introductory Remarks Bernd Scherer (HKW), Stefan Gosepath & Organizers (Valentin Beck, Henning Hahn, Robert Lepenies, all FU Berlin) Room: Vortragssaal
9.45-10.45	KEYNOTE Sabina Alkire (OPHI, Oxford): “Multidimensional Poverty Measures as Policy Tools” Chair: Stefan Gosepath Room: Vortragssaal
10.45- 11.15	COFFEE BREAK
11.15-13.00	PARALLEL SESSIONS I
	Panel 1 Categories of Poverty Measurement (I) Comments: Sabina Alkire Chair:  Stefan Gosepath Room: K1		Panel 2 Foundational Philosophical Questions (I) Comments: Jo Wolff Chair: Christian Schemmel Room: K3
	Franceso Burchi / Nicole Rippin / Claudio Montenegro (German Development Institute, Bonn): “From Income Poverty to Multidimensional Poverty – An International Comparison”		Gottfried Schweiger/ Helmut Gaisbauer (University of Salzburg): “Absolute Poverty in European Welfare States”
	Stephan Klasen/Rahul Lahoti (University of Göttingen): “How Serious is the Neglect of Intra-Household Inequality in Multi-dimensional Poverty Indices?”		Sharon Adetutu Omotoso (University of Ibadan): “Hairiness and Hairlessness – An African Feminist View of Poverty” (via Skype)
	Sylvia Meichsner (Sheffield): “Poverty measurement and definition in relationship to institutional childcare”		Daniel Putnam (Princeton University): “Poverty as a Social Relation”
	Discussion		Discussion
13.00- 14.00	LUNCH BREAK
14:00-15.45	PARALLEL SESSIONS II
	Panel 3 Categories of Poverty Measurement (II) Comments: Stephan Klasen Chair: Philipp Lepenies Room: K1			Panel 4 Foundational Philosophical Questions (II) Comments: Leif Wenar Chair: Sara Amighetti Room: K3
	Xavier Godinot (ATD Fourth World, Paris)/ Robert Walker (University of Oxford): “Poverty in All its Forms: Determining the Dimensions of Poverty and How to Measure Them”			Franziska Dübgen (University of Kassel): “Scientific Ghettos and Beyond. Epistemic Injustice in Academia and its Effects on Poverty Research”.
	Julio Linares/ Yu-hsuan Su (NCCU, Taipei): “Measuring Capabilities: Using Financial Diaries in Rural Bangladesh”			Jonathan Chimakonam Okeke (University of Calabar): “Is the Debate on Poverty a Global One?”
	Pasquale De Muro (Roma Tre University, Rome): “From incomes to outcomes”			Bettina Mahlert (RBTH Aachen University): “Deprivation, wealth, impoverishment: How should we talk about poverty?”
	Discussion			Discussion
15.45-16.15	COFFEE BREAK
16.15-18.00	KEYNOTES Stephan Klasen (University of Göttingen): “Relative Multidimensional Poverty” Sanjay Reddy (New School, N.Y.C.): “Poverty: Beyond Obscurantism” Room: Vortragssaal Introduction & Chair: Tamara Jugov
18.00-18.30	COFFEE BREAK
18.30- 20.30	PANEL DISCUSSION: POVERTY, PHILOSOPHY & ACTIVISM Room: Vortragssaal Introduction & Chair: Henning Hahn
	INTRODUCTORY KEYNOTES Mitu Sengupta (Ryerson, Toronto): “Poverty Research and Western Activism” Adriano Mannino (Bern University): “Effective Altruism”
	Friday, 9th of June
09.00-11.15	PARALLEL SESSIONS III
	Panel 5 Country Studies Comments: Varun Gauri Chair: Franziska Dübgen Room: K1	Panel 6 Alternative Approaches to Poverty Eradication Comments: Mitu Sengupta Chair: Caleb Yong Room: K3			Panel 7 INET Chair: Jenny Tue Anh Nguyen (Harvard) Room: K2
	Karina Colombo/Elisa Failache/ Federico González Etchebehere/Juan Pablo Labat: “Multidimensional Poverty – An exercise for Uruguay comparing different methodologies”	Angeles Mendoza Sammet (IHE Delft): “An Indigenous View on Poverty”			Amanda Simunovic (Global Development Institute, University of Manchester): “Normative Choices of Methodology: An Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty Discussant:  Jenny Tue Anh Nguyen (Harvard)
	Lucio Esposito (University of East Anglia)/ Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti (University of Pavia): “Eliciting, applying and exploring multidimensional welfare weights: evidence from the field”	David Barkin (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco): “Food Sovereignty – A strategy for confronting poverty and inequality”			Elizabeth Rivera (Brandeis University, Waltham): “A multidimensional time use and well-being index: a proposal for Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Uruguay” Discussant: Kevin Tang (Oxford)
	Shuxi Yin (Hefei University): “Effects of Poverty Alleviation Resettlement in China – Evidence from Two Provinces”	Charlotte Steinorth (Central European University): “Should geography matter ? Reflections on the Sociology of International Legal Scholarship on Development, Poverty, and Inequality”
	Eda Keskin (Halle-Wittenberg): “Rising Tide of Precariat and Denizens in Neoliberal Capitalism: The Case of Germany”	Zlata Božac (CEU) & Viktor Ivanković, (CEU): “Should We Nudge Charitable Giving? The Nudge Ethos”
	Discussion	Discussion			Discussion
11.15-11.30	COFFEE BREAK
11.30-13.15	Keynotes Leif Wenar (King’s College, London): “The Resource Course, Poverty and Power” Jonathan Wolff (Oxford): “Social Equality and Relative Poverty” Room: Vortragssaal Chair: Rainer Forst
13.15-14.15	LUNCH BREAK
14.15-16.00	PARALLEL SESSIONS IV
	Panel 8 Putting Metrics into Perspective (I) Comments: Sanjay Reddy Chair: Tully Rector Room: K1	Panel 9 Putting Metrics into Perspective (II) Comments: Nicole Hassoun Chair: Daniel Putnam Room: K3			INET YSI Workshop Room: K2
	Nicolás Brando (KU Leuven)/ Katarina Fragoso (UC Louvain): “Agency and the Relational Dimension of Child Poverty – Expanding Multidimensional Indexes”	Cristian Dimitriu (Justitia Amplificata): “The Irrelevance of Poverty Measurement for Reaching Normative Conclusions”			with Jenny Tue Anh Nguyen (Harvard)
	Judith Schleicher (UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge): “Poorer Without it? The Missing Role of the Natural Environment for Poverty”	Philipp Lepenies (FU Berlin): “Metrics, Politics and Definitions. How Poverty Lost its Social Context and What this Means for Current Debates”
	Géraldine Thiry (ICHEC Brussels Management School & UC Louvain)/ Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)/ Judith Schleicher (UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge): “Incorporating environmental and natural resources within analyses of multidimensional poverty”	Montserrat Culebro Juárez: “Resilience – a contribution to a new ethos in the fight against poverty”
	Discussion			Discussion
16.00-16.30	COFFEE BREAK
16.30- 18.15	Keynotes Varun Gauri (World Bank, Washington DC): “Cooperation as a Source of Distributive Justice” Nicole Hassoun (Cornell/Binghamton): “Human Rights and Hope: Commit, Imagine, Act” Room: Vortragssaal Chair: Robert Lepenies & Valentin Beck
18.15-18.45	Concluding Roundtable Room: Vortragssaal Chair: Organizers

 

Sections: 3×20 min. presentation & 45 min. joint discussion

Keynote sessions: 30 min presentation & 30/45 (double session) joint discussion

Panel Discussion: 2×20 min talk & 60 min plenary discussion