Events
GDI Film Screening: A Place in the City, Gabriel Silvestre
A Place in the City, by Dr Gabriel Silvestre, from Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, features communities in Latin America facing displacement, segregation, and gender inequality. The film captures how ordinary people are reshaping their neighbourhoods—fighting not just for rights, but for the power to de..
GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar
Speaker: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS The political landscape in the MENA region looks bleaker today than ever before. This is in sharp contrast with the euphoria aroused fifteen years ago by the 2011 revolutionary shockwave commonly known as the Arab Spring. Two years into that shockwave, regional political winds had already reversed. But a further..
An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia
Research Matters: An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia Colleagues from MIE will share brief overviews of different educational issues in Southeast Asia. Miguel Antonio Lim - The State of Higher Education in Southeast Asia Nay Myo Htet - Migrant learning centres in Thailand and the education of displaced population Nasharil..
GDI Community of Practice: Belonging and connection: The role of social cohesion in community resilience
Note: We are running two sessions at 8am and 2pm (UK time) Description While personal resilience is fundamental in staying optimistic and effective within challenging development roles, it’s not enough to keep us going in the long term. Community and solidarity represent a vital piece of the puzzle, helping us to tackle complex problems and..
GDI Lecture: Rethinking resistance: Sudan’s resistance committees during revolution, peace and war
Speaker: Sharath Srinivasan Professor Sharath Srinivasan is the David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is a scholar of contentious politics in Africa in global perspective, whose work has evolved from explaining failed p..
GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead
Speaker: Joseph Stead, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration The Seville Commitment emphasized the pivotal role of tax revenues as the largest source of financing for development. Realising the optimal level of tax revenues to support development is a complex challenge combining policy and administration challenges, as well as domesti..
MIE - Anti Racist Education Network: Countering Islamophobia.
November marks Islamophobia Awareness Month, and the Anti-Racist Education Network is pleased to invite you to a special in-person conversation with Professor Salman Sayyid from the University of Leeds on Countering Islamophobia. We look forward to welcoming you to what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking discussion.
Insubordinate and captive mobilities: Time and agency in irregularised return trajectories between North and West Africa
A Migration, Refugees, and Asylum Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Sabina Barone, UCL In this seminar, I examine how the IOM’s ‘Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration’ (AVRR) programme plays out in the overall return trajectories of West African migrant men and women I could accompany before, during and after the AVRR procedure. Contr..
Green Research in Education Group (GRiEG seminar)
The subject of the seminar is: ""Learning and response-ability in dangerous times: the challenge of transformation"
Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Jonathan Reiter
Talk Title: The Role of Third Party Intelligence in Transparent Markets The promise of public ledgers is that everyone can see everything. But most public data is not usable by most end users. Instead over the last decade this dynamic led to a proliferation of blockchain intelligence tools and services that leverage available data to address..