IDD Guest Seminar Series

The International Development Department hosts a number of public seminars, talks and lectures throughout the year which focus on a range of different topics.  

Archive

2022

10th May - Performing Independence in Puducherry: Commemorative Public Holidays and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Former French India

26th April - Contesting Collapse: The socially organised inevitability of climate breakdown in the UK

24th March - Lessons for post-pandemic governance and institutional strengthening

8th March - Mission Driven Bureaucrats

24th February - Book Launch: African Peacekeeping

15th February - Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean

25th 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 26

13th 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 Tanzania

16th June - New Directions in Conservation

26th 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 Impact

11th November - "Acting in Good Faith": Reproductive Governance and Population Policies in India

21st 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