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. The conference will hold parallel sessions in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Plenary sessions will be held in the language of the speakers. Please note that all times are Barcelona time (CET).

Thursday, 23 October 

    
Friday, 24 October 

 
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Parallel Sessions

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

Chair: Juan Albacete, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull

• 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: Elva Ramos-Monge, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull

• 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: Llorenç Puig, IQS/Universitat Ramon Llull

• 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: 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: 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: Marina Ferraz, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull

• 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: David Lorenzo, Institut Borja de Bioètica, Universitat Ramon Llull

• Paper 1: 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 
• 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: 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

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

Chair: Mihály Borsi, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull

• Paper 1: Gendered Experiences of Racial Capitalism: Maids and Daylaborers in Barcelona’s Migrant Precariat, Camden Bowman and Zenia Hellgren, Univrsitat Pompeu Fabra
• Paper 2: Between the altar and the sidewalk: aporophobia in religious practices, Mirian Rejane Flores Cerveira, Pontíficia Universidade Católica do RS
• 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: Andrea Vigorito, Universidad de la República de Uruguay

• 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: Flavio Comim, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull

• 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: Raluca Budian, ESADE Universitat Ramon Llull

• Paper 1: 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 2: Hygiene and the concept of cleanliness: barriers to aporophilia, PB Anand, University of Bradford
• Paper 3: Colonial Energies: Aporophobia, Energy Justice, and Territorial Occupation in Western Sahara and French Guiana, Roberto Cantoni, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull

Session 12 “Aixopluc: gent del carrer” (Fri 24, 15.30 – 16.30) [Catalan]

Chair: Pere Navalles, IQS Universitat Ramon Llull

Special Session A Conversation with Adela Cortina about her book Aporophobia (17.00-18.00) [Spanish]. Chair: David Lorenzo, Instituto Borja de Bioética, Universitat Ramon Llull