“Global poverty: What do we know? Where do we go from here?” Yale conference April 12th and 13th
Academics Stand Against Poverty: One Year Anniversary Conference
“Global poverty: What do we know? Where do we go from here?” at Yale University
April 12-13, 2012
Speakers include:
Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University
Paul Slovic, Founder and Director of Decision Research, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
Branko Milanovic, Lead Economist in the World Bank’s Research Department Gustav Ranis, Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics, Yale University
Hugh Evans, Co-Founder and CEO of the Global Poverty Project
Judith Lichtenberg, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University Nicole Hassoun, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and International Relations, Carnegie Mellon University
Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is an international network helping scholars, teachers and students enhance their impact on global poverty. It does so by promoting collaboration amongst poverty-focused academics, by helping them reach out to broader audiences on issues of poverty, and by helping them turn their expertise into impact through specific intervention projects.
Learn more at: www.academicsstand.org.
The first day of the conference will bring together leading experts in development, aid, and global justice to discuss the future of global poverty alleviation after the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015.
Speakers will examine the record of increasing global inequality, innovations in development such as large-scale microfinance projects, and poverty measurement and trends. On the second day, experts in ethics and psychology will discuss how cognitive science and moral psychology can help us to more effectively motivate individuals to fulfill their moral obligations to alleviate global poverty.
You can read the full description of the conference on our website:
http://academicsstand.org/events/event/asap-anniversary-workshop-yale-university/
To register for the conference please email Katie Lewis at Katie@academicsstand.org
