CROP Events 2012
Revolution and Social Transformation in Egypt
10-12 December 2012 | Cairo, Egypt
PUBLIC EVENT: Round table session held at the "Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South" workshop.
The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South
10-12 December 2012 | Cairo, Egypt
WORKSHOP: This cross-continental and interdisciplinary workshop will approach social change toward poverty eradication and prevention in an interdisciplinary and critical way taking current politics as the point of reference.
Call for Nominations CROP Scientific Committee 2013-14
Deadline: 1 December 2012
Ideal candidates are distinguished members of the international Science and Humanities community with an outstanding track record in poverty and development research. The call is open to potential candidates from all parts of the world. We particularly encourage nominations of researchers based in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Poverty and Politics in Middle Income Countries
22-24 November 2012 | Cape Town, South Africa
WORKSHOP organised by CROP and the Institute for Social Development at the University of the Western Cape, aims to enhance comparative and critical views of poverty politics; to consolidate the recently formed Working Group on Poverty Politics and Social Policy, and to prepare the publication of an anthology based on selected contributions.
The Politics of Poverty Research and Poverty Reduction
21 November 2012 (11:00-13:00) | University of Western Cape, South Africa
PANEL DEBATE: Growing poor population in Middle Income Countries necessitates a re-thinking of poverty reduction policies, how these are developed, the role played by politics and how social development policies are shaped.
5th World Congress for the Rights of Children and Adolescents
15-19 October 2012 | San Juan, Argentina
ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTION: CROP Scientific Director Alberto D. Cimadamore will participate in the panel "Política y Programación Social" (Politics and Social Programmes).
The MDGs and Poverty Reduction in the 21st Century: A Critical Assessment
22 August 2012 | Bergen Resource Center for International Development, Norway
PUBLIC EVENT with participants from CROP's Scientific Committee
The MDGs and the Political Economy of Development: A critical assessment
23 August 2012 | Bergen Resource Center for International Development, Norway
PUBLIC EVENT with participants from CROP's Scientific Committee
Social Justice and Democratisation
1-4 August 2012 | Buenos Aires, Argentina
ACADEMIC PANELS at the 2nd ISA Forum of Sociology. CROP Fellow and co-editor of the CROP-Zed Books series, Juliana Martinez-Franzoni, will organise and chair two sessions hosted by the Research Committee on the Sociology of Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19).
Integrated science for sustainable development - The role of social science
26 June 2012 (09:30-11:00) | CROP/UiB Global, Bergen, Norway
LECTURE by John Crowley, editor of the International Social Science Journal, UNESCO
Poverty and Human Rights from Below - An alternative history and approach
19 June 2012 (14:00) | UiB Global, Bergen, Norway
LECTURE by CROP Fellow Camilo Perez-Bustillo, Research Professor Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM), Mexico.
Poverty Studies Training Course for Young Researchers from Central America and The Caribbean
28 May - 1 June 2012 | San Jose, Costa Rica
CALL FOR APPLICATION: Applications are invited from young social scienctists from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haití, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.
Basic Universalism and Poverty Eradication in Latin America: Lights and Shadows
23-26 May 2012 | San Francisco, USA
ACADEMIC PANEL sponsored by CROP at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2012 congress: "Toward a Third Century of Independence in Latin America."
World Social Science Fellows Programme
May 2012
ANNOUNCEMENT: CROP is pleased to announce that it will collaborate with ISSC and IHDP to organise the first series of World Social Science (WSS) Seminars.
Poverty, Religion and Social Justice: The Latin American contributions
17 April 2012 | CROP/UiB Global, Bergen, Norway
LECTURE: CROP-University of Bergen Poverty Lecture by Enrique Dussel, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Poverty and Peasant Persistence in the Contemporary World
13-15 March 2012 | Mexico DF, Mexico
SEMINAR organised by CROP and El Colegio de México to be broadcast using live stream
Poverty and Peasant Persistence in the Contemporary World
13-15 March 2012 | Mexico DF, Mexico
WORKSHOP: An interdisciplinary workshop co-organised by CROP and El Colegio de México to examine sound policies for eradicating poverty among peasants.
