Thursday 15.07.2021
       
       

09:30 - 10:15 Welcome ceremony

Annamaria Campanini (PhD) Ph.D. in Sociology, Theory and Methodology of Social Work (1997, University of Trieste), Specialisation in Family Therapy (1988, Milan), Degree in Sociology (1979, University of Urbino), Diploma in Social Work (1972, University of Parma).

Retired Professor in Social Work, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano Bicocca.
In 2009 she received an Honorary Doctorate from Loyola University Chicago for her leadership in the field of education. She has been involved in teacher exchanges, intensive programmes and curriculum development since the beginning of the Socrates/Erasmus projects and was coordinator of the EUSW (European Social Work) thematic network from 2002 to 2008. 

She was part of the management team of the European Association of Schools of Social Work, of which she was President (2007- 2011).
She is currently President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work, having been elected for a first term at the Seoul Congress 2016 and for a second term in July 2020.

She is frequently invited to give lectures and seminars at various Italian and international universities. She has published numerous books and scientific articles in different languages, has edited the New Dictionary of Social Work (Carocci 2013) and is the director of an editorial project of publications in Social Work with Carocci.She is also a member of several editorial boards of national and international journals.
 
10:15 - 11:15 Inaugural conference: Digital technology and neoliberalism: Leveraging digital technology for an emancipatory politics

Vishanthie Sewpaul (PhD) was a Professor in the College of Education, Zayed University, and a Senior Professor at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa (UKZN), where she remains an Emeritus Professor. She currently occupies a Professor position at University of Stavanger, Norway. She is a visiting professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim; Mid-Sweden University; University of Gondar, Ethiopia and ISCTE-IUL, Portugal. She was actively involved in several national structures on the cutting edge of policy and social work education in post-apartheid South Africa, and has occupied leadership positions at regional, national and global levels. 
   

Professor Sewpaul joined the Board of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) in 2000 where she chaired several committees, including the Global Standards for Social Work Education and Training Committee, the Global Social Work Definition Committee, and the Global Social Work Ethics Taskforce.  She was a Vice-President on IASSW and President of the Association of Schools of Social Work in Africa. She served two terms as the President of the National Association of Social Workers, South Africa, and as President of the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI) for two terms. She served on the board of the South African Council for Social Service Professions, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Global Alliance of the Social Welfare Workforce. She is currently the World Coordinator for the 2022 Joint Global Social Work Conference

She has extensive curricula development and teaching experience at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels; brought several Masters and PhD theses to successful completion; over 100 publications; and has served as the Chair of organizing committees for a number of national and international conferences. She serves as external examiner for several national and international institutions, delivered numerous special lectures, and keynote and plenary addresses in many countries, and does pro bono workshops and motivational talks for non-profit organizations. She was nominated as a Lead SA Hero for her contribution to student development, and to community development through direct interventions.  She was twice voted one of top 30 researchers at UKZN, and was given institutional, national and international awards for outstanding service. In 2013, the Ministry of Science and Technology acknowledged her, as the first runner up, with a Distinguished Women in Science Award for her “outstanding contribution to building South Africa’s scientific and research knowledge base.” She has received three honorary doctoral degrees – from Chile, Norway and Sweden. 

 

 

 

 

   Friday 16.07.2021
 
       

09:00 - 10:00 Plenary Session: Can Social Work be a Global Profession?

Mark Henrickson (he/him) is Professor of Social Work at Massey University, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand where he has been since 2003.  He worked for many years in HIV-related health and mental health care and has published on HIV prevention and care delivery. He has published extensively on gender and sexually diversity, and was the project leader on Lavender Islands: Portrait of the Whole Family (2004), a national study of sexual minorities in Aotearoa New Zealand.

He led the AfricaNZ Health study on HIV and Black African new settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand (2012-13). His recent major publications include the edited book Getting to Zero: Global Social Work Responds to HIV (2017, available free to download on the UNAIDS website) and a co-authored book Vulnerability and Marginality in Human Services (with Christa Fouché; Routledge, 2017). 
       

He has undertaken consultancies throughout the Pacific region, most recently producing a curriculum on gender and sexual diversity in Kiribati for Boutokaan Inaomataia ao Mauriia Binabinaine and Youth Voices Count (2020). His current research explores the ethics of intimacy and sexuality in residential aged care. He is working on a sole-authored book ‘The Origins of Social Care and Social Work: Towards a Global Future’, and an edited book, ‘HIV, Sex and Sexuality in Later Life’. Mark served for many years on the boards of the Asia Pacific Association for Social Work Education and the International Association of Schools of Social Work. He earned his doctorate from the University of California Los Angeles, and is a registered social worker in Aotearoa New Zealand.
 

 

 

      

16:45 - 17:45 Concluding conference

Tassé Abye (PhD) is currently chief of Mission at Expertise France for TELEMA project, Congo Brazzaville at the Ministry of Social and Humanitarian Affairs. He is also Associate Researcher at the « Institute des Mondes Africains » IMAF, Paris, France, Senior Associate Researcher at the department of SWCD university of Johannesburg, South Africa, Associate Researcher at UCB, UCLA, CA, USA. He served as social work and social development educator in Higher Education Institutions in different part of the world. Dr. Tassé Abye holds his PhD, from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris, France.

Abye has served as deputy director and director general of Institutes of social work education in France, Associate Vice President and Dean of School of Social Work at Addis Ababa University, Coordinator of the Observatory of Contemporary Mauritania. Moreover, for over 15 years, he served on secondment by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France as Advisor to Higher Education Institutions and or Education and Research Ministries in Ethiopia, Mauritania and Comoros.

As an active board member of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) since 1998, Dr. Abye was served in different capacity the Association, including as Elected President of IASSW 2004-2008, Coordinator on behalf of IASSW of the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development 2008-2016, World Conference Coordinator for the Joint Global Social Work and Social Development Conference of 2014 in Melbourne and presently is the Coordinator of the Joint Task Force for the Development of the Global Agenda 2020-2030 on behalf of IASSW, ICASW and IFSW 

Abye has published extensively on issues related to social work, migration, community development, transformation of higher education systems, social innovations etc… Abye has given lectures in seminars, conferences and talks in different countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and South America.

For his international contribution in social work and social work education Abye has received several awards:   

  • Medal of Citizen of Honnor City of Montpellier, 2002; 
  • Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite National by the Government of Mauritania, 2015;
  • Katherine Kendal Award by IASSW Board of Directors, 2016;
  • Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, decree of the French Prime Minister, 9 January 2018;
  • Honorary Doctorate Degree, VID, Oslo, Norway, 2018