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.  

21Jan

State-Building

Dates
Tuesday 21 January 2025 (12:00-13:30)
Location
Room 118 Muirhead Tower
Description
Julia's talk explores how thinking about the state as a work of architecture can help us understand how citizens experience, critique, and ultimately help make the state
28Jan

Where next for volunteering and sustainable development?

Dates
Tuesday 28 January 2025 (12:00-13:30)
Location
118 Muirhead Tower
Description
Cliff'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
25Feb

Why culture matters

Dates
Tuesday 25 February 2025 (12:00-13:30)
Location
Room 429 Muirhead Tower
Description
A revised approach to political settlements analysis and institutional change
4Mar

Investigating how civil wars end

Dates
Tuesday 4 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)
Location
118 Muirhead Tower
Description
In this session, Dr. Miranda Melcher will present findings from her recently published book Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique
2Apr

Refugee Cities

Dates
Wednesday 2 April 2025 (12:00-14:00)
Location
420 Muirhead Tower
Description
How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan

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