The program of the 8th Austrian Development Conference 2022
The program has gradually being worked out in the ARGE Development Conference. The concept is understood as a process in which various actors can contribute. The Paulo Freire Centre is responsible for coordinating and steering the process.
Friday evening, 11.11.2022:
17:00: Opening, welcome address
- Councillor Thomas Gegenhuber, representing the mayor of Linz Klaus Luger
- Member of the Landtag Helena Kirchmayr, representing the governor of Upper Austria Thomas Stelzer
17:30: Understanding: „Global Inequalities, COVID19, War and Violence“.
Opening polylogue with three speakers, using country examples to address forms of inequality that have been particularly evident in the COVID19 pandemic; these will be linked to structural violence, war and intersectionality.
- Paula Banerjee (International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), Kolkata/India)
- Ella Lamakh (Democracy Development Center, Kyiv/Ukraine)
- Nelly Busingye (Publish What You Pay (PWYP) International Secretariat, Kampala/Uganda)
Moderation: Karin Fischer, University of Linz and Mattersburg Circle
approx. 20:00: Three types of wraps from „Good Karma“– vegan & vegetarian, regional & organic
Saturday, 12.11.2022:
9.00-9.15 a.m.: morning introduction: ADA today and the crises of this world. Erwin Künzi, Head of ADA’s Department of Issues and Quality (representing ADA Managing Director Dr. Friedrich Stift), in conversation with Andreas Obrecht (appear/OeAD).
9.15 – 10.45 a.m.: Acting: „Embattled statehood and peacebuilding. Approaches to reduce the global imbalance“.
How do violent conflicts like Russia’s current war of aggression against Ukraine affect geopolitical relations? What are the consequences for inequality? What could a humanist-feminist foreign and security policy look like that reduces military conflicts because there is more equality?
Keynote, comments and plenary debate.
- Keynote: Victoria Scheyer (Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK) and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, WILPF)
- comments: Ulli Brand (Department of Political Science, University Vienna)
- plenary discussion
Moderation: Andreas Obrecht (appear/oead)
Break with coffee & co.
11.15 a.m. – 13.00 p.m.: The interactive workshops
Workshops last 1.45h each and work intensively interactive and participant-oriented, in small SE-rooms with max. 20 participants.
Lunch + break
14.30 p.m.: The parallel forums
The topics of the forums bring together regional and conceptual dimensions in their contradictory nature. The forums follow the common guiding questions of the development conference.
The forums will generate theses to answer these key questions. If possible, one speaker from the Global South (which also includes the European periphery!) should participate in each forum. A good mix of speakers from academia and NGOs is sought, as well as a gender balance. A maximum of 3 to 5 speakers should be involved.
Forums will last 4 hours, framing the afternoon break and will take place in manageable lecture halls and will work with a mix of short presentations & panel discussions. They are designed for 40-70 participants each.
Topics of the forums:
1. Inequality in the global agricultural and food system
2. Tax justice against inequality
3. Inequality in globalised production and sustainable industrial policy
4. Inequality as a consequence of the climate crisis: forced migration
5. Inequality in education, knowledge and social policy
6. Unequal statehood
7. Basic forum: What is Global Inequality?
16.00-17.00 (time slot): Break of 30min with coffee & co.
19:00: Dinner / buffet (for self-payment)
20:00 to approx. 23.00: Evening programme: music, joy and lots of communication – a concert by and with Christoph & Lolo
Sunday, 13.11.2022
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.: morning introduction: „Global Female Future“. 40 years of global feminist struggles in one book. This publication, produced on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Frauen* Solidarität, will be presented by co-editor Andreea Zelinka.
9.15 a.m. – 9.45 a.m.: Transformative-participative theatre with Susanna Stich-Bender
9:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.: Learning: „We already know the solution to the problem. Don’t we?“
Two plenary lectures on a relevant aspect of the question of global inequality, with perspective on strategies and solutions, taking into account the current geopolitical situation.
1) Ivo Lesbaupin (Brazil): Where do new approaches actually emerge? How to face social and environmental crisis? What are the alternatives to dominant economic and social paradigm?
2) Joy W. Ndubai (Doctoral Candidate (WU) and Research Associate at the Global Tax Policy Center, Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU/Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien): What could global tax justice achieve? The prospects of the AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area) and the challenges of a future single market – and how EU-Africa engagement could potentially support the cross-learning between authorities.
Moderation: Martina Neuwirth (VIDC/Mattersburger Kreis)
Break with coffee & co.
11.30 a.m. – 12.45 p.m.: Learning: confronting models – building alliances.
fishbowl with the speakers from the forums & more.
In the concluding fishbowl, options for action and political demands discussed in the forums will be compiled and contrasted in a critical-constructive dialogue. Finally, the role of the SDGs or alternative concepts for an effective reduction of global inequalities in their multiple dimensions (race, class, gender…) will be discussed.
Julia Günther (WIDE – Entwicklungspolitisches Netzwerk für Frauenrechte und feministische Perspektiven)
12.45 p.m.: Closing & Farewell
13.00 p.m.: End
Supporting programme:
- Information stands of the participating organisations
- Bookstall of the Mattersburg Circle
- Childcare
- …
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