NEWSLETTER
Aug - Sept 2023

THE NEWS
2nd International Summer School: “Innovative Social Work
Research in Southeast Europe: Integrating Justice, HumanRights, and Civic Engagement”
3– 7 September 2023, University of Sarajevo
The second edition of the Summer School “Innovative Social
Work Research in Southeast Europe: Integrating Justice,
Human Rights, and Civic Engagement”, an endeavor of the anundertaking of the Southeast Women’s Academic Leadership
Network, comprised of social work scholars and educatorsfrom Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Slovenia, and the US,
hosted by the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina,co-chaired by Prof. Sanela Bašić, Prof. Vjollca Krasniqi, andProf. Barbara W. Shank took place 3-7 September 2023 at theFaculty of Political Science, University of Sarajevo.
The summer school is envisioned as an alternative space of exchange of knowledge and ideas amongsocial work scholars, social work students and practitioners in the region of Southeast Europe whichshall provide more meaningful learning opportunities on a new or suppressed knowledge andexpertise and improve the quality of social work education in the region.
Prof. Annamaria Campanini, President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work,
Prof. Darja Zaviršek, President of the East European Sub-Regional Association of Schools of Social Work
along with social work educators’ members of the Southeast Women’s Academic Leadership Network
provided lectures demonstrating the ways in which social work research community is extending
existing and developing new epistemologies and pedagogies in social work education for equitable
access to welfare, social development, and an actively engaged citizenry.
During the summer school the book “Human Rights in this Age of Uncertainty – Social WorkApproaches and Practices from Southeast Europe” (Springer, 2022), co -edited by prof. Vjollca Krasniqi
and prof. Jane McPherson, members of Women’s Academic Leadership Network, was officiallylaunched.

Its relevance for international social work education – according to prof. emerita Julia Watkins and prof.
emerita Barbara Shank – lies in ‘engaging in the discourse around human rights, social justice, and rights –based approaches, and for connecting interpersonal practices (micro – perspectives) with community
work, policy development, advocacy, and social action (micro – perspectives)’ (p.vi). The summer school
was closed with the workshop on enhancement of leadership skills.
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Prof. dr. Sanela Bašić
University of Sarajevo, Department of Social WorkFirst Brazilian school to join IASSW

A very productive week at the Universityof Juiz de Fora, first Brazilian school tojoin IASSW! President Annamaria
Campanini participated in a meeting withthe group of research “Pesquisa en redsobre O Serviço Social na História:questão social e movimentos sociais América Latina e Europa" that includes
38 academic institutions of 8 countries:
Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia,Uruguay, Portugal, Spain and UK
We hope that the Brazilian schools will be
active member with IASSW and will be anenriching experience for the school aswell.

IASSW & PowerUs joint webinars 2023.
“Critical Perspectives on Service
User Participation and Experiential Knowledge”
Participatory Methodologies: A Pedagogy inKnowledge-Justice and People-CenteredSocial Innovation
Participation and empowerment are considered to be the key
drivers for social innovation and social change. It helps elicit
the experiences, views, aspirations and struggles ofcommunities at the grassroots. This presentation criticallyunpacks the same, especially in the context of poor andmarginalized communities in India.
The eighth session of the IASSW and Power Us series washosted live on 8th September, 2023 on Zoom. The session
was led by Prof. Swati Banerjee, School of social work, TISS,Mumbai. The enriching session was participated by morethan 50 participants from the social work fraternity. The 90
mins session was concluded with insightful discussions andqueries from around the world.

Identifying the Missing Hero: Service User
participation in housing first
The aim of this webinar is to discuss challenges andpossibilities of co‐producing change in social work, morespecifically work with homelessness.
The ninth session of the IASSW and Power Us series washosted live on 21st September, 2023 on Zoom. The session
was led by Marcus Knutagård, School of Social Work, Lund
University and Arne Kristiansen, School of Social Work,Lund University. The enriching session was participated bymore than 25 participants from the social work fraternity.
The 90 mins session was concluded with insightful sharingof their experiences from around the world.

Call for Abstracts:

Global South Solutions to Global Social Problems
Editors: Erick da Luz Scherf, BA, MS, PhD student (The University of Alabama School ofSocial Work); Dr. Rajendra Baikady, PhD (Central University of Kerala).

Tentative Description: The world is faced with severe crises such as climate change, food insecurity, pandemics,inequality, the increased cost of living, terrorism, and war that often intersect at complex levels: social, economic,environmental, and political. Many if not all the challenges we are facing today affect us all, albeit in different ways,
and are not constricted to geopolitical borders. Yet, the Global South has been historically marginalized in the global
knowledge society, which means that our contributions to solving the fundamental problems that humanity isfacing are more often than not disregarded in Western academia and world politics. This book is a modest attempt at
flipping this mindset and positioning Southern knowledge and our often-marginalized epistemologies at the centreof the debate on global social problems.
Global South Solutions to Global Social Problems will bring together authors from different parts of the world todiscuss their views of old and new societal challenges and possible solutions to them. This book will cover the mostpressing social issues of our time from an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together authors from different
backgrounds and disciplines, to provide solutions and alternatives to the current state of emergency we are living in.

Ideally, this book would be divided into five thematic areas: (I). Global Inequality and Social Justice; (II).
Climate Change and Environmental Problems; (III). Unsafe and Irregular Migration; (IV). Peace,conflict and Violence; (V). Negative Impacts of Technology.
We are now accepting submissions of ideas for chapters. Abstracts should be limited to 250 words, with a descriptive
title (please try to keep it short), and 5 keywords. Pending approval of the abstract and tentative title, full manuscript
submissions will vary from a minimum of 6000 words to 8000 maximum (including references).
Important: Abstracts should be emailed to both editors at erickscherf@gmail.com andrajendra.baikady@mail.huji.ac.il; please do try to identify which of the 5 thematic areas described above
your work would fit better in. In the email subject, you can write “Abstract submission to Global SouthSolutions book”. Please provide us with a short biography (100 words max.), your current institutional
affiliation, and contact information.
Disclaimer: We accept submissions from authors in the Global North as long as they were born in or spent a considerable amount of timein the Global South and their research is related to the social issues in the Global South societies. We also encourage authors to collaborate
from Global South and Global North. We will give preference to authors currently based in institutions in the Global South. Authors areencouraged to cite knowledges and practices in/from the South, if you are not sure what that would look like, kindly refer to this definition:
https://southernperspectives.net/south-ways/southern-theory.

Deadline for abstracts: 25/November /2023.
Deadline for full manuscripts: 25/June/2024.

Social Work and Social Policy in Times of Global Crises

During 19-22 of September 2023 in Ohrid, North
Macedonia, the Institute of Social Work andSocial Policy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyriland Methodius University in Skopje organised aninternational conference “Social Work and Social
Policy in Times of Global Crises”. The conference
was attended by more than 130 participants who
presented research, practices and policies onsocial policy and social work responses to crises.
Annamaria Campanini, the President of theInternational Association of the School of Social
Work was one of the keynote speakers and she
delivered a speech on Contribution of Social Work
Education to the SDGs in the Context of Multiple
Crises.
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