IDD Guest Seminar Series 2016/17 Back to 'IDD Guest Seminar Series' The International Development Department hosts a number of seminars throughout the Spring term which focuses on a number of different topics. The seminars are open to everyone. The full list of seminars is below. For more information about the seminar series contact:Dr Martin Ottmann (m.ottmann@bham.ac.uk) Podcasts IDD Guest seminar podcast: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict DescriptionDr Harry Verhoeven of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Presented his new book (with Philip Roessler) about the outbreak of the Congo War: "Why Comrades go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict" (Hurst and OUP: 2016).Date:Wednesday 24th May 2017 IDD Guest seminar podcast: Responsibility and Its Avoidance: Essays in Public Management and Governance DescriptionSpeaker: Dr Donald Curtis, University of Birmingham.Date:Tuesday 2nd May 2017 IDD Guest seminar podcast: The Authoritarian Origins of Well-Organised Opposition Parties: The Rise of Chadema in Tanzania DescriptionSpeaker: Dan Paget, University of Oxford.Date:Thursday 27th April 2017 IDD Guest seminar podcast: From Becoming 'saso' to Becoming MSM? Queer Subjectivities and HIV Discourse in Accra, Ghana DescriptionSpeaker: Ellie Gore, University of Birmingham.Date:Thursday 9th March 2017 IDD Guest seminar podcast: The Micro-Dynamics Of Diamonds in the Revolutionary United Front DescriptionSpeaker: Dr Zoe Marks, University of Edinburgh.Date:Wednesday 8th February 2017 IDD Guest seminar podcast: Politically Smart Support to Economic Development DescriptionSpeaker: Dr David Booth, Overseas Development Institute.Date:Tuesday 31st January 2017 IDD Guest seminar podcast: How Change Happens DescriptionWhat works in achieving progressive change? How do power and systems shape change, and how can you influence them? Duncan Green, Strategic Adviser at Oxfam GB, discussed the themes of his new book How Change Happens.Date:Tuesday 31st January 2017 Recent seminars: 2017 23rd May - Podcast: Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict11th May - Spatial Politics of the Refugee Crisis: Biopolitical Power and the Struggle over Public Space on Refugee Routes to the EU27th April - Podcast: Responsibility and Its Avoidance: Essays in Public Management and Governance22nd March - Reproducing Remoteness? States, Internationals and the Co-Constitution of Aid 'Bunkerization' in the East African Periphery16th March - Breaking The Marble Ceiling: My Experience As A Fijian Woman In Politics15th March - Podcast: The Authoritarian Origins of Well-Organised Opposition Parties: The Rise of Chadema in Tanzania8th March - Podcast: From Becoming 'saso' to Becoming MSM? Queer Subjectivities and HIV Discourse in Accra, Ghana23rd February - Aid and Development: National Interest or Common Interest?2nd February - Podcast: Reconsidering 'Resource Wars': The Micro-Dynamics Of Diamonds in the Revolutionary United Front19th January - Podcast: How Change Happens16th January - Africa in 2017: Prospects & Forecasts12th January - Podcast: Politically Smart Support to Economic Development 2016 8th December - Manufacturing power: The everyday politics of power in Pakistan24th November - Aid and development: National interest or common interest?10th November - The political economy of power-sharing27th October - The World Humanitarian Summit, 'One Humanity' and the iconography of childhood: Where does it leave humanitarianism?20th October - Preventing another Ebola and maintaining medical services in violent conflict: Challenges for non-state armed groups and 'hard to reach' populations