General Newsletter no. 18 September 2011
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ISS Newsletter no. 18 September-October 2011 |
We are happy to send you the latest ISS newsletter. In it you will find a list of events taking place at ISS over the coming two months as well as ISS news and publications. We are very open to receive your suggestions and comment. Please also feel free to forward the newsletter to anyone you feel may be interested in finding out more about ISS. |
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What's going on at ISS in September and October | |||
September | |||
5 | Martha Nussbaum - Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach Pre-conference public lecture | ||
8 | Opening Academic Year with Keynote Address by Mr Hans van Baalen, Member of the European Parliament | ||
13 | Sonia Corrêa & Wendy Harcourt - Sexuality and (geo)politics: erotic justice and inclusive development Seminar & Public Debate | ||
15 | Karin Astrid Siegmann - Populous, poor - protected? Social Protection for South Asian Agricultural Workers Research in Progress Seminar | ||
16 | Pedro Veiga Vas de Silva Goulart - Essays on Schooling and Child Labour in Portugal PhD Public Defence | ||
21 | Symposium on climate change, conflict and migration | ||
22 | Mansoob Murshed - 5th Anniversary Chair in the Economics of Conflict and Peace | ||
22 | Joanna Tyrowicz - Wage Formation Patterns: Transition and Business Cycles. The Case of Poland Research in Progress Seminar | ||
29 | Susann Handke - Russia’s and China’s policies on energy issues – legal perspective Research in Progress Seminar | ||
October | |||
7 | World Day for Decent Work - Development Research Special Seminar | ||
13 | Dies Natalis Valedictory lecture by Ben White - Who Will Own the Countryside? Dispossession, Rural Youth and the Future of Farming | ||
20 | Stasja Koot - Community-based ecotourism in Namibia Research in Progress Seminar | ||
24 | Alessandra Mezzadri - ‘Bonded Capital’ and the Organization of Home-Working in India Development Research Seminar | ||
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New ISS Publications | |||
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ISS Working Paper 521.: One is not enough! Understanding world trade collapses. P. van Bergeijk. Full text available here. | |||
ISS Working Paper 523: Local economic development and migrant remittances in rural Zimbabwe: building on sand or solid ground? Ncome G., Gomez, G.M. Full text available here. | |||
Religion and Development: Ways of Transforming the World edited by Gerrie ter Haar | |||
Children as ethnographers: reflections on the importance of participatory research in assessing orphans’ needs by Kristen Chaney | |||
Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status: Evidence from North Indian villages by Bhattacharyya, M.,Bedi, A.S.and Chhachhi, A | |||
The PRS approach and the Paris agenda: Experiences in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua by Dijkstra, A.G.and Komives, K. | |||
"Ein bisschen weniger arm": Die Logik der Subsistenzunternehmer by Berner, G.E., Gomez, G.M. and Knorringa, P. | |||
21 jaar VN-verdrag voor de Rechten van het Kind : een volwassen bijdrage aan kinderrechten in de wereld? by Arts, C.J.M. | |||
Strengthening Whom? the role of international migration for women and men in Northwest Pakistan by Siegmann, K.A. | |||
Beware the Fallacy of Productivity Reductionism, European Journal of Development Research 23: 521-526 by Fischer, A. M. | |||
Resilience in an Unequal Capitalist World, by Andrew M. Fischer and Uma Kothari Introduction to special virtual issue of Journal of International Development, co-edited with Uma Kothari, in preparation for the upcoming DSA-EADI conference from 19-22 September 2011, in York, UK | |||
A Challenge for Research in Development Studies on Values, Ethics and Morals, by Andrew M. Fischer and Uma Kothari | |||
Reconceiving Social Exclusion, by Fischer, A.M. BWPI Working Paper no 146 | |||
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Video interviews - new publicationsAuthors talk about their new books
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ISS News | |||
Passing away Karel Jansen | |||
Veni subsidy for dr. Bram Buscher The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded the prestigious Veni grant to Dr. Bram Büscher, lecturer in Environment and Sustainable Development at ISS. Büscher receives this grant for his project 'Nature 2.0: the political economy of conservation in online and Southern African environments'. | |||
ISS alumnus honoured
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New set-up ISS Masters programmeISS has decided to cluster the existing specializations into five new Majors. This creates greater coherence in the programme and provides more scope for attuning the programme to students' specific interests and needs. Applicants for the 2012-13 MA Programme in Development Studies will now be able to select one of the following Majors:
More information about the Majors and the MA programme in general is available from the on the Teaching pages of the ISS website | |||
Annual Report The latest ISS annual report - ISS at a Glance - is now available. It includes details of the many events which took place at ISS last year and highlights some of our research and teaching achievements. | |||
Alumni meeting in Tehran, Iran
On 21 September, Dr. Mahmood Messkoub will host an ISS alumni meeting in Tehran, Iran. More details of the meeting, including how to register, are available on the Alumni pages of the ISS website | |||
Peace Diplomacy, Global Justice and International Agency: Rethinking Human Security and Ethics in the Spirit of Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) | |||
The ISS is one of the founding organizations of The Hague Academic Coalition and is actively involved in this conference. The conference is not only meant as a tribute to Dag Hammarskjöld: because of Dag Hammarskjöld’s important role in the early decolonization processes and in making the UN truly independent, the conference aims to critically analyse the relationship between justice, peace, democracy and development. The conference will be opened with a keynote speech by Louis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. On Day 2, 10 November, panel sessions will be held on the basis of papers to be presented by professionals from a wide range of disciplines and countries. We kindly invite expressions of interest, with a title and abstract of a paper (300 words maximum) dealing with one or more of the above questions, to be presented at the meeting of day two to be sent to secretariat@haguecoalition.org. More details of the conference and the call for papers is available from the conference website | |||
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The ISS libarary maintains a depository of publications by ISS staff and current and former students. The library also highlights ISS publications on its webpages.
Karel Jansen, Associate Professor in Macro Economics at ISS, unexpectedly passed away in April 2011. The news arrived at ISS when staff was in the midst of preparing for Karel's festive farewell from the Institute on the occasion of his impending retirement. Both as a professional and as a person, he was a man with outstanding qualities, always with an open ear for his students and colleagues and always prepared to give his own, highly original views. And always with a good sense of humour. We will all miss him sorely and our thoughts are with his wife and family. 
Dr. Vasant Moharir, ISS alumnus and former staff member was honoured recently at the annual conference of the 
On a regular basis, ISS organizes alumni meetings around the world. Hosted by an ISS staff member, the meetings are open to all former ISS students living and/or working in that area.
