Events, seminars and workshops In 'Events' Events, seminars and workshopsIDD Guest Seminar Series Back to 'International Development Department' Keep up to date with the latest news and events from around the department and the wide-ranging projects our staff and students get involved with. The IDD Guest Seminar Series lists forthcoming events within the department. More events throughout the School of Government. You can also subscribe to our newsletter. Subscribe to our newsletter Forthcoming events What Does it Feel to be an Ethnic Performer, and How Can Performers' Emotions Reveal the Politics of Inequality in Contemporary China 20Nov Event Archive 2024 30th October - Controlling the capital city: state power and urban land in Africa22nd October - Reframing Peace Mediation16th October - Towards a New Paradigm on Post-Truth8th October - State-Building: Popular Critiques in Five African Countries7th October - The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade2nd October - Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir26th July - The Looking Glass: decolonising gender research for indigenous identities and diversity17th June - Navigating the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in China3rd June - Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya20th May - The pros, cons and risks of ICT for the rural Global South30th April - Branding Authoritarian Nations: Political Legitimation and Strategic National Myths in Military-Ruled Thailand (Book launch)24th April - International Development Department 60th Anniversary13th March - Rethinking Tanzania and its Constitution ahead of the 2025 Elections: Challenges and Prospects28th February - Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence13th February - Book Launch (online) by Sanne Weber 'Salir Adelante' Transitional Justice, Gender and Citizenship in Colombia7th February - Afghanistan. The Reconstruction Years23rd January - Guest Seminar Book talk 2023 28th November - The Bitter and the Sweet: managerial perceptions of the wellbeing of Ethiopian female apparel and horticultural workers21st 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 Brazil11th October - Ethnic parties in a democratising Africa10th October - How well does 'resilience' apply to democracy? A systematic review9th June - Post-Socialist Subjectivities5th June - "Shadowlands" Documentary Film Screening11th May - Migrants in Post-Socialist Britain24th April - Subjective and Objective Measurement of Democratic Backsliding22nd February - Vampires, Vibrators and Pret-a-Manger: A Story of Big Data 2022 5th December - Labour's Legacy on International Development: Where we've come from and where we are heading19th October - Professor Sylvie Delacroix Inaugural Lecture6th-21st June - #MeToo in China Exhibition10th 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)23rd March - 'Force for Good' - Opportunities & challenges for an integrated foreign and development policy
What Does it Feel to be an Ethnic Performer, and How Can Performers' Emotions Reveal the Politics of Inequality in Contemporary China 20Nov