Events, seminars and workshops

20th November - What Does it Feel to be an Ethnic Performer, and How Can Performers' Emotions Reveal the Politics of Inequality in Contemporary China

30th October - Controlling the capital city: state power and urban land in Africa

22nd October - Reframing Peace Mediation

16th October - Towards a New Paradigm on Post-Truth

8th October - State-Building: Popular Critiques in Five African Countries

7th October - The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade

2nd October - Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

26th July - The Looking Glass: decolonising gender research for indigenous identities and diversity

17th June - Navigating the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in China

3rd June - Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya

20th May - The pros, cons and risks of ICT for the rural Global South

30th April - Branding Authoritarian Nations: Political Legitimation and Strategic National Myths in Military-Ruled Thailand (Book launch)

24th April - International Development Department 60th Anniversary

13th March - Rethinking Tanzania and its Constitution ahead of the 2025 Elections: Challenges and Prospects

28th February - Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence

13th February - Book Launch (online) by Sanne Weber 'Salir Adelante' Transitional Justice, Gender and Citizenship in Colombia

7th February - Afghanistan. The Reconstruction Years

23rd January - Guest Seminar Book talk

28th November - The Bitter and the Sweet: managerial perceptions of the wellbeing of Ethiopian female apparel and horticultural workers

21st November - Book Talk: Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics To the Left or to the Right?

14th November - Who Persists? Explaining the Pursuit of Social Welfare Benefits in Brazil

11th October - Ethnic parties in a democratising Africa

10th October - How well does 'resilience' apply to democracy? A systematic review

9th June - Post-Socialist Subjectivities

5th June - "Shadowlands" Documentary Film Screening

11th May - Migrants in Post-Socialist Britain

24th April - Subjective and Objective Measurement of Democratic Backsliding

22nd February - Vampires, Vibrators and Pret-a-Manger: A Story of Big Data

5th December - Labour's Legacy on International Development: Where we've come from and where we are heading

19th October - Professor Sylvie Delacroix Inaugural Lecture

6th-21st June - #MeToo in China Exhibition

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

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)

23rd March - 'Force for Good' - Opportunities & challenges for an integrated foreign and development policy