Draft Programme 3rd International Conference on Aporophobia

This year the conference will be online. It will not charge fees for attending the sessions. But registration is necessary. For participants who wish to join the reading groups, registration should be immediate. For others, registration will be open till the 22nd 12 noon for the conference sessions. The conference will hold parallel sessions in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Plenary sessions will have simultaneous translation.

READING GROUPS starting on 22nd of September

1. "Stigma", by Imogen Tyler (in English)
2. "Aporofobia", by Adela Cortina (in Spanish)
3. “Hiperràbia”, by Ferran Grau (in Catalan)

Parallel Sessions

Session 1 "Conceptual Foundations of Aporophobia" (Thu 23, 10.00-11.30) [Spanish]

Chair: tba

• Paper 1: Aporofobia, ritualización de la pobreza y psicología como discurso del sujeto moderno, Catalina Paz Deramond Deramond and Manuel Ulloa Cortés, Universitat de Barcelona
• Paper 2: Pero… ¿y qué siente el pobre? Un enfoque bíblico, Pedro Jesús Pérez Zafrilla, Universitat de València
• Paper 3: La religión del calamar: la pobreza como espectáculo, Isaac Llopis Fusté, Escola Universitària Salesiana de Sarrià

Session 2 "Aporophobia and social policy" (Thu 23, 10.00-11.30) [English]

Chair: tba

• Paper 1: Exploring the Relationship Between Financial Exclusion, Digital Finance, and Aporophobia in China, Jundi Wang, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull
• Paper 2: The Inverse Care Law and Aporophobia: Evidence from the UK and Spain, Tadashi Hirai and Flavio Comim, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull
• Paper 3: Perceptions of Aporophobia among frontline civil servants in Nigeria: a case study of selected ministries in Abuja, Abubakar Salihu, Bayero University

Session 3 "The links between poverty and aporophobia" (Thu 23, 12.00-13.30) [Spanish]

Chair: tba

• Paper 1: Medición de la pobreza multidimensional en los estudiantes y egresados del programa de Apuesta de Futuro, Maria Teresa Herrera Rendon Nebel, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla
• Paper 2: De la medición de la pobreza a la opción por los pobres. El caso de Chile y los aportes de Alberto Hurtado, Cristián Hodge, Instituto de Éticas Aplicadas y Facultad de Teología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Paper 3: Aporofobia y Desconfianza: una relación de refuerzo mutuo, Facundo García Valverde, IICSAL FLACSO CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Session 4 "Measuring aporophobia" (Thu 23, 12.00-13.30) [English]

Chair: tba

• Paper 1: Measuring capabilities: qualitative evidence from a co-producing approach to understanding multidimensional thriving in financial hardship in Edinburgh, Julia Wdowin and Mark Fabian, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge & University of Warwick
• Paper 2: Measuring aporophobia, Flavio Comim and Mihály Borsi, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull
• Paper 3: Barriers to Healthcare: Agent-based Modeling to Mitigate Inequity, Alba Aguilera, Georgina Curto and Nardine Osman, United Nations University Institute in Macau and Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Barcelona

Session 5 "Aporophobia in Brazil: the role of institutions" (Thu 23, 15.00-16.30) [Portuguese]

Chair: tba

• Paper 1: Aporofobia institucionalizada: mecanismos de ataque, violencia y exclusión de la población pobre por parte del Ayuntamiento de São Paulo, Larissa Moraes Cardoso dos Santos, UNESP -FCHS
• Paper 2: Aporofobia no Brasil: introdução do conceito e seus efeitos normativos e institucionais para a população em situação de rua, Karla Greger, Universidade Católica de Brasília
• Paper 3: Aporophobia ranking of brazilian capitals: a study of budgets from 2013 to 2024, Marcos Leandro Cerveira and Izete Pengo Bagolin, Pontíficia Universidade Católica do RS

Session 6 "Applied aporophobia" (Thu 23, 15.00-16.30) [English]

Chair: tba

• Paper 1: Integrating Service-Learning and Data Analysis to Address Aporophobia: A Second-Year Replication with Business Students, Francesc Martori and Núria Agulló Chaler, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull
• Paper 2: The Aporophobic Brain: Intersectional Pathways Revealed by Decision Tree Modeling, Rallou Taratori and Flavio Comim, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull
• Paper 3: Decoding Hidden Poverty: Theoretical Foundations and Dimensions, María Nathalia Ramírez Chaparro, Franziska Gassman and Zina Nimeh, Andrea Correa, UNU Merit -Maastricht University

Session 7 "Aporophobia: new developments" (Fri 24, 10.00-11.30) [Spanish]

Chair:

• Paper 1: Cuando la pobreza entra en el aula: de la exclusión residencial a la exclusión educativa, la aporofobia y la vulneración de derechos, Miryam Navarro Rupérez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
• Paper 2: El pobre como chivo expiatorio: aporofobia, deseo mimético y violencia sacrificial. Una lectura desde René Girard, Xavier Casanovas, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull
• Paper 3: Aporòfobia i gestió política de l’espai públic a les ciutats. El cas de València durant els anys del boom immobiliari. Francesc Viadel Girbés, Blanquerna Universitat Ramon Llull

Session 8 "Aporofobia and intersectionality " (Fri 24, 10.00-11.30) [English]

Chair: tba

• Paper 1: Gendered Experiences of Racial Capitalism: Maids and Daylaborers in Barcelona’s Migrant Precariat, Camden Bowman and Zenia Hellgren, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Paper 2: Aporophobia at the Institutions: an exploratory analysis through in-depth interviews with homeless people in Barcelona, Juan Albacete, Francesc Martori and Núria Agulló, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull
• Paper 3: Aporophobia and the Infringement of Human Rights: A Social Work Perspective, Akhila K P and Shashi Kiran Shetty, Acharya Institute of Graduate Studies

Session 9 "Aporophobia: social interventions" (Fri 24, 12.00-14.00) [Spanish]

Chair: tba

• Paper 1: La naturalización de la desigualdad y el banquete de mendicidad como práctica biopolítica, José Ernesto Ramírez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Paper 2: No hay justicia sin agentes de justicia: una crítica de las narrativas adultocéntricas y aporofóbicas en las teorías liberales de la justicia, Pedro Hernando Maldonado-Castañeda, Universitat de Barcelona
• Paper 3: Aporofobia e inmigración: un análisis sobre los discursos de odio de la nueva derecha radical española, Karen Rojas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
• Paper 4: Aporofobia en las estructuras de Brasil a partir de La ciudad de São Paulo, Pablo Escobar, Universidade de Sao Paulo

Session 10 "Tools to fight against aporophobia " (Fri 24, 12.00-14.00) Portuguese]

Chair: tba

• Paper 1: Aporofobia Climática y el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Augusto César Leite de Resende and Carlos Augusto Alcântara Machado, Universidade Tiradentes (UNIT) and Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS)
• Paper 2: Technology as a Right: The CRC and Digital Citizenship in the Peripheries, Lucia Scalco and Joao Batista Schermann, Coletivo Autônomo Morro da Cruz / CRC
• Paper 3: From Invisibility to Justice: the public prosecutor's office as a tool to combat aporophobia, Rafael Osvaldo Machado, Moura Barbara Helena Hungaro Scandolera and Cauê Bueno Marques, Ministério Público do Paraná (MPPR)
• Paper 4: A Continuum Approach to the Theory of Aporophobia, Diego Santos, Pontificia Universidade Católica do RS

Session 11 " Frontiers of Aporophobia" (Fri 24, 15.30-17.00) [English]

Chair: Ralluca Budian, ESADE/URL

• Paper 1: Colonial Energies: Aporophobia, Energy Justice, and Territorial Occupation in Western Sahara and French Guiana, Roberto Cantoni, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull
• Paper 2: Hygiene and the concept of cleanliness: barriers to aporophilia, PB Anand, University of Bradford
• Paper 3: BTL-COP: Building Trust and Leadership to challenge Aporophobic Crime in a Police Community Of Practice, Jameson, J., Briones, A., Gregurić, P., Albuquerque, C., University of Greenwich and Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge; La Salle Barcelona; S STEMwise d.o.o.; Reitoria da Universidade de Coimbra
• Paper 4: Between the altar and the sidewalk: aporophobia in religious practices, Mirian Rejane Flores Cerveira, Pontíficia Universidade Católica do RS

Special Session A Conversation with Adela Cortina about her book Aporophobia (17.00-18.00) [Spanish]

Special Session A Conversation with Ferran Grau about his book Hiperràbia (18.30-19.30) [Catalan]