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Human Development and Capability Association: Development as Freedom

http://www.capabilityapproach.com/Conference.php


2007 Conference of the HDCA: "Ideas Changing History"
September 17-20, 2007

Hosted by The Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School,
New York City - "A university born of dissent and democracy"
http://newschool.edu/history.html


Sponsored by Frederick S. Pardee and in collaboration with the Pardee
Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University


Keynote speakers will include:
Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen, Hilary Putnam, Anthony Appiah, Sir Richard
Jolly

Special conference theme: Ideas Changing History

The special theme of the conference will be on the spread of ideas and
their social impact.

‘The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are
right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly
understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.’ (Keynes)

As the famous quote by Keynes reflects, breakthrough ideas in economics
and political philosophy can change history, but what are the processes
that shape their spread? Ideas spread and have impact through three
channels: academia, government policy and social movements. What has been
the experience of progressive ideas in the past and what are the prospects
for human development and capability approach in shaping development
policy? What is the likely intellectual trajectory of capability and human
development?


Aims of the conference and program

The purpose of this conference is to promote high quality research and
innovations in policy and practice. The conference will bring together
researchers and practitioners engaged in leading work on human development
and capability approaches to development.

As in previous years, this conference program will include the key themes
of Human Development and Capability, including: (i) philosophical
foundations, (ii) measurement methods; (iii) conceptual and theoretical
issues; and (iv) policy applications. These should relate to the broad
range of basic concerns including poverty and inequality, democracy and
public action, freedom, justice, human rights, and the challenges of
globalization.

To address the special theme, the conference program will include diverse
studies in intellectual history and development policy that address issues
of: (i) intellectual freedom in academic institutions; (ii) economics in
universities; (iii) the recent trajectory of development economics; (iv)
human development and social movements; (v) democracy and social
movements; (vi) human development and development policy; and (vii)
institutions and ideas.


Organization

Programme Committee: Martha Nussbaum (Chair), Sabina Alkire, Jonathan
Bach, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Reiko Gotoh, Siddiq Osmani, Ingrid Robeyns,
Martin Van Hees.

Conference Director: Sakiko Fukuda_Parr
Conference Coordinators: Kathrin Koenitzer and MaryAnne Hoekstra
New School Committee Chair: Michael Cohen


For further information, please contact the Conference Coordinators,
Kathrin Koenitzer and MaryAnne Hoekstra at HDCA2007 at newschool.edu

http://www.capabilityapproach.com/Conference.php