Dear all,
At the FERA conference in Joensuu last week week had two interesting sessions within the
thematic group on Global Education. Thank you so much for participating and for the
interesting discussions!
I wrote a blog text on the conference, which you can read on the GERIF website:
https://gerif.home.blog/blog/ The abstracts to the papers presented in our thematic group
are found here:
http://www.uef.fi/documents/2093166/0/Globaalikasvatus_abstraktit.pdf/690bc…
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Changing spaces of education: notes on the FERA conference 2019 Having returned from the
two-day conference at University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, I want to share some of my
reflections parti…
All of you are also welcome to contribute with texts to the GERIF blog. The texts can
concern, for instance, your own research, ongoing debates within global education or
reflections on a lecture or publication. Instructions for writers are found here:
https://gerif.home.blog/instructions-for-writers/
For information about upcoming conferences related to global education, see the
descriptions below as well as the attachments.
Kindly,
Heidi Henriksson
Co-coordinator of the GERIF network
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CALL FOR PAPERS / PRESENTATIONS
Development Days 2020 Conference
Inequality Revisited: In Search of Novel Perspectives on an Enduring Problem
26–28 February, 2020
House of Science and Letters
Helsinki, Finland
www.kehitystutkimus.fi/conference<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.out…
The problematique of inequality – or, inequalities, to recognise the multidimensionality
and complexity of the problem – is re-emerging on the global agenda of development
research. In recent decades, development scholars have focused more on the question of
poverty. While poverty and inequality are interlinked, inequality is manifested also in
many other ways – in structural, material, relational, institutional, geographical and
technological terms, and through a variety of social, political, cultural, economic and
other phenomena.
Importantly, current debates are critically reflecting on the fact that global
inequalities are intimately connected to the history of slavery and Western colonialism,
and are continuously shaped, reconstructed, maintained and reinforced by their new,
neocolonial and neoliberal forms. There are, however, also some challenges. For instance,
analyses of inequality often tend to revolve around neoclassical development economics and
its variants, such as the human capability approach or ‘development as freedom’. While
postcolonial and feminist approaches have widened the scope, more remains to be done.
Further, the ‘economistic turn’ in inequality research has disproportionately focused on
the global North, and has not managed to link the question of inequality to the clarion
call for global justice. In turn, analyses of inequality have suffered from new forms of
stratification. Many studies are methodologically nationalist, although local and global
inequalities are increasingly intertwined and injustices are ever more widespread.
There is an urgent need to rethink inequalities in development research and practice. To
do so, it is necessary to utilise multi- and transdisciplinary approaches – that is, to
learn and share beyond disciplinary boundaries. The Finnish Society for Development
Research (FSDR) engages with these ongoing debates through the Development Days 2020
Conference.
We are very pleased to announce our keynote
speakers<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%…
for the conference:
* Sango
Mahanty<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%…amp;reserved=0>,
Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
* Dan
Brockington<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%…amp;reserved=0>,
Director of the Sheffield Institute for International Development, University of
Sheffield
The conference will also host a roundtable on inequalities in education. The roundtable
panelists include, for example:
* Edda Tandi
Lwoga<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F…amp;reserved=0>,
Associate Professor and Deputy Rector, College of Business Education in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania
* Tiina
Kontinen<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F…amp;reserved=0>,
Academy of Finland Research Fellow, University of Jyväskylä
* Irmeli
Mustalahti<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…amp;reserved=0>,
Professor, University of Eastern Finland
We invite paper proposals and presentations to the following panels:
Panel 1. Disabilities: Embodied
Inequalities<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A…
Panel 2. Contesting Racism, Decolonizing Media: Anti-Racism Media Activism Across the
North-South
Divide<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2F…
Panel 3. Unearthing
Extractivism<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A…
Panel 4. Beyond the Growth Narrative: Inequality, Sustainability and the Politics of
Poverty Management in the Global
South<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fw…
Panel 5. Land Grabbing in Latin America: Dynamics of Conflict and Large Scale
Acquisitions<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A…
Panel 6. Financialisation and Inequalities: Housing in the Global
South<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fw…
Panel 7. Questioning the Fiscal Inequality as an Obstacle to Social Cohesion: Cases from
North
Africa<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2F…
Panel 8. Inequalities, Civil Society and Citizenship: Intersectionality and
Complexity<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2…
Panel 9. ‘I Sing the Body Eclectic’ – Visions of Intersectional Futures for Universalism
in Human Rights Theory and
Practice<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%…
Panel 10. Development, Education and
Inequality<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2…
Panel 11. How We Could Foster Locally Responsive and Collaborative Natural Resources
Governance?<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%…
Panel 12. Quilting Experiences, Affects, and Knowledge: Collaborative and Co-production of
Research/Knowledge<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=h…
Panel 13. Decolonising Participatory Research through Arts-Based
Methods?<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%…
Panel 14. Bioeconomy, Justice and Development
Cooperation<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%…
Panel 15. UNU-WIDER’s Special Panel on Inequalities – Measurement, Implications, and
Influencing
Change<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2F…
Guidelines for submission
Please submit your paper proposals directly to the panel chairs by 30 November via email.
You will be notified of paper acceptance by 15 December.
Important dates and deadlines
17.10.2019 Call for papers and presentations (abstracts) opens
30.11.2019 Deadline for abstract submissions
15.12.2020 Notifications of accepted papers and presentations, by panel chairs
15.2.2020 Last day of registration
26.2.2020 Pre-conference workshops for Master’s and PhD students
26.2.2020 Civil Society Organisation event
27.–28.2.2020 Development Days 2020 Conference
Scientific/Organising Committee
Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Helsinki
Tiina Seppälä, University of Lapland
Bonn Juego, University of Jyväskylä
Anna Salmivaara, University of Helsinki
Johanna Götz, University of Helsinki
Ayonghe Akonwi Nebasifu, University of Lapland
Antti Autio, University of Helsinki
Anja Onali, UniPID/University of Jyväskylä
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Minority Seminar 2020: Curriculums for Social
Justice<http://blogs2.abo.fi/minorityseminar2020/>
May 6-8, 2020 at Åbo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland
http://blogs2.abo.fi/minorityseminar2020/
The minority research profile at Åbo Akademi University invites you to its fifth annual
seminar that will take place in Vaasa, Finland from May 6th to 8th, 2020. The 2020 theme
is “Curriculums for Social Justice” with the aim to collectively discuss how to develop
justice-oriented pedagogies. With permeating signs of racism, harassment and violence, as
well as increasing social inequalities both locally and globally, there is a need to
reflect on the role of education in relation to social justice.
Social justice is not restricted to questions of material deprivation or differences in
income, but also considers other aspects of social life, such as cultures, identities,
environments and epistemologies. There is a need for reflection on how we – as educators,
researchers, students, activists, and most importantly, human beings – can consider these
burning and often controversial topics.
Confirmed keynote speakers at the seminar are:
Vanessa Andreotti (University of British Columbia),
Audrey Bryan (Dublin City University),
Nancy Commins & Kara Viesca (University of Colorado, Denver & University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, joint keynote),
Pigga Keskitalo (University of Lapland),
Mariana Souto-Manning (Teachers College, Columbia University),
Greg Wiggan (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
The registration for the Minority Seminar 2020: Curriculums for Social Justice is now
open!!
Please register for the Minority Seminar 2020
here<https://shop.abo.fi/p/890-minority-seminar-2020-curriculums-for-social-justice-may-6-8-2020/>
(The registration is done through the Åbo Akademi University Webshop)
Registration Fees
Basic registration fee*: € 60,00
Student registration fee**: € 30,00
Optional seminar dinner: € 50,00
The seminar dinner will take place on Thursday, May 7th, 2020 at Strampen restaurant.
The registration fee covers lunch and coffee breaks each day of the seminar.
Please indicate in the comment section during the registration if you have any special
dietary needs or allergies.
* The basic registration fee is for researchers, PhD students as well as others in working
life. In case you are currently unemployed or without funding, please contact the
organizers for the possibility of a discount.
** “Student” refers to students at bachelor or master level.
Kindly note that the registration deadline for presenters is January 31, 2020 and for
participants is March 31, 2020.
If you experience any difficulties with payment or registration, or if you have a
question, please do not hesitate to contact us at
minorityseminar2020@abo.fi<mailto:minorityseminar2020@abo.fi>
We look forward to welcoming you in Vasa!