The organisers of WCDC2018 are delighted to announce the inclusion of further keynote speakers
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Lynn Segal
Lynne Segal has been engaged in community activism and feminist politics since coming to London from Sydney in the early 1970s. She is currently Anniversary Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, in Psychosocial Studies. She has written many books on feminism, gender and politics, including Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men; Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure; Why Feminism? Gender, Psychology & Politics; Making Trouble: Life & Politics, Out of Time: The Pleasures & Perils of Ageing.Her latest book is Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy, addressing what remains after the commodification of happiness and well-being.
José Francisco Cali Tzay
José Francisco Cali Tzay is the Ambassador of Guatemala in Germany and concurrent Ambassador in Poland and Ukraine. He served s the Human Rights Head office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Consultant for Indigenous Issues.to the Vice President Office, as consultant and as President of the National Reparation Program for the Victims of the Internal Conflict in Guatemala. He was a member of the Presidential Commission against Racism and Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala and was the founder and coordinator of the Indigenous Rights Program of the Human Rights Legal Action Centre (CALDH).
Jim Ife
Professor Jim Ife is a well-known and internationally respected author, teacher and conference presenter on social work, community development and human rights. He was Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at The University of Western Australia andCurtinUniversity, before being appointed the inaugural Professor of Human Rights Education atCurtinUniversity, a position he held until his retirement in 2006. He now lives in Melbourne, where he has an honorary professorship at Victoria University, and is actively engaged with community development through Borderlands Cooperative. He is the author and editor of several other books including Human Rights from Below: Achieving Rights through Community Development (2010) and Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice 3rd Ed. (2012).
The World Community Development Conference 2018 is jointly organised by Community Work Ireland, Maynooth University Department of Applied Social Studies and the International Association for Community Development
