IDD Guest Seminar Series In 'IDD Guest Seminar Series' IDD Guest Seminar SeriesIDD Seminar Series Videos Back to 'Events' The International Development Department hosts a number of public seminars, talks and lectures throughout the year which focus on a range of different topics. 21Jan State-Building: popular critiques in five African countries DatesTuesday 21 January 2025 (12:00-13:30)LocationRoom 415 Muirhead TowerDescriptionThe event is part of IDD Guest seminar series for spring term 2025. The speaker is Professor Julia Gallager, Reader in International Development at UCL UK. 28Jan Where next for volunteering and sustainable development? DatesTuesday 28 January 2025 (12:00-13:30)Location118 Muirhead TowerDescriptionCliff's talk explores the current role of volunteers in sustainable development, taking into account the relatively higher profile given to volunteering in the UN system 5Feb One man's terrorist? Mishake Muyongo and the Caprivi African Nationalist Union DatesWednesday 5 February 2025 (12:00-13:30)LocationMuirhead Tower, Room 417DescriptionOne man's terrorist? Mishake Muyongo and the Caprivi African Nationalist Union 25Feb Why culture matters DatesTuesday 25 February 2025 (12:00-13:30)LocationRoom 429 Muirhead TowerDescriptionA revised approach to political settlements analysis and institutional change 4Mar Investigating how civil wars end DatesTuesday 4 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)Location118 Muirhead TowerDescriptionIn this session, Dr. Miranda Melcher will present findings from her recently published book Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique 2Apr Refugee Cities DatesWednesday 2 April 2025 (12:00-14:00)Location420 Muirhead TowerDescriptionHow Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan Archive 2022 10th May - Performing Independence in Puducherry: Commemorative Public Holidays and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Former French India26th April - Contesting Collapse: The socially organised inevitability of climate breakdown in the UK24th March - Lessons for post-pandemic governance and institutional strengthening8th March - Mission Driven Bureaucrats24th February - Book Launch: African Peacekeeping15th February - Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean25th January - Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Ecologies of Settler Colonialism in Kenya 2021 23rd November - "Chinese Development Cooperation in the New Era" and its impact in the Global South (A Panel Debate)16th November - 'Where There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland' with Dr Sarah Philips (University of Sydney)27th October - Small Island Developing States and COP 2613th October - States, Markets and Foreign Aid with Dr Simone Dietrich (University of Geneva)29th September - Contested Sustainability: The Political Economy of Conservation and Development in Tanzania16th June - New Directions in Conservation26th May - How can parliamentarians support inclusive change? (with Dr Rebecca Gordon, IDD)5th May - Does dual citizenship reproduce inequalities? (with Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey)21st April - Cosmopolitanism and branding international development in UK higher education (with Dr Kamna Patel) 2020 2nd December - A Potent Fuel? Faith identity, Religion and Development Impact11th November - "Acting in Good Faith": Reproductive Governance and Population Policies in India21st October - What is the Evidence Telling Us so far of COVID's Impact on Governance and Conflict?30th September - "How to Steal a Trillion Dollars", The Inner Workings of Kleptocracy and What we can do about it
21Jan State-Building: popular critiques in five African countries DatesTuesday 21 January 2025 (12:00-13:30)LocationRoom 415 Muirhead TowerDescriptionThe event is part of IDD Guest seminar series for spring term 2025. The speaker is Professor Julia Gallager, Reader in International Development at UCL UK.
28Jan Where next for volunteering and sustainable development? DatesTuesday 28 January 2025 (12:00-13:30)Location118 Muirhead TowerDescriptionCliff's talk explores the current role of volunteers in sustainable development, taking into account the relatively higher profile given to volunteering in the UN system
5Feb One man's terrorist? Mishake Muyongo and the Caprivi African Nationalist Union DatesWednesday 5 February 2025 (12:00-13:30)LocationMuirhead Tower, Room 417DescriptionOne man's terrorist? Mishake Muyongo and the Caprivi African Nationalist Union
25Feb Why culture matters DatesTuesday 25 February 2025 (12:00-13:30)LocationRoom 429 Muirhead TowerDescriptionA revised approach to political settlements analysis and institutional change
4Mar Investigating how civil wars end DatesTuesday 4 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)Location118 Muirhead TowerDescriptionIn this session, Dr. Miranda Melcher will present findings from her recently published book Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique
2Apr Refugee Cities DatesWednesday 2 April 2025 (12:00-14:00)Location420 Muirhead TowerDescriptionHow Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan