Past events

GDI Lecture: The transformative-transdisciplinary imperative: Decolonizing development in a transboundary delta

15:30 - 17:00 21 May 2025

Speaker: Jenia Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur The Sundarbans is the largest co...

GDI Lecture: Living the Urban Periphery: Our Book and Related Thoughts...

15:30 - 17:00 14 May 2025

The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is littl...

GDI Lecture: Age of Abandonment: States of Uncaring from Syria to Gaza

15:30 - 17:00 7 May 2025

Speaker: Noam Leshem (Durham University) This talk interrogates no man’s land as a site of radica...

Environmental Humanities Annual Event: Living Proof – A Climate Story

13:00 - 16:45 30 April 2025

Please join us for this inaugural event, the first in a series to showcase and celebrate some of the...

Film Screening: No Other Land

15:00 - 18:00 30 April 2025

Join GDI Students for Palestine for a special screening of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land....

The Future of Arts Centres - research event

11:30 - 13:15 29 April 2025

Arts centres across the UK and Ireland have long been the quiet champions of creativity and communi...

GDI Lecture: The War on Gaza: Historical Context and Future Possibilities

15:30 - 17:00 23 April 2025

Israeli and Western officials deal with events of October 7 as an isolated incident of violence and...

GDI Webinar: Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-Liberalisation India

15:30 - 17:00 16 April 2025

Speaker: Sejuti Das Gupta (Michigan State University) India entered a new political and economic ph...

The Important Role of School Leaders in Developing Global Citizenship

13:00 - 14:00 9 April 2025

In an increasingly interconnected world, the role of school leaders in fostering global citizenship...

Webinar: What Next for Our Broken Aid System?

12:00 - 13:00 8 April 2025

Following recent upheavals in aid programmes worldwide, GDI and the Development Studies Association...