Events
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Upcoming
Past events
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Tackling Climate Change with the Social Sciences Workshop Series: Working with uncertainty and systems thinking
Join YESI and IGDC for a series of workshops that will bring researchers together to share and mobilise social science approaches, methods and perspectives to meet the challenges posed by climate change at the local and global scale.
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Rethinking climate resilience planning: by understanding the legacy of interventions in food production systems
Join our YESI International Fellows Seminar with Edmond Totin, Department of Tropical Forestry, National University of Agriculture, Benin
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The impact of contested decarbonisation on peace: Carbon revenue governance in Aceh and Papua's predatory peace settlements.
Join us for a talk on the preliminary results from a pilot study for the World Peace Foundation & US Institute of Peace
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Anarchy & Activism - Disrupting Disability
Get ready for Anarchy & Activism - Disrupting Disability, all about challenging norms, breaking barriers, and creating change together.
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What holds us together? Photographing the unseen and unheard
Join our seminar with Les Monaghan where he will talk about what holds us together and photographing the unseen and unheard
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The use of indigenous underutilized plant species to achieve sustainable food security in the Global South: a case study from Ghana
Join our joint YESI/IGDC International Fellows Seminar with Dr Abena Boakye, from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.
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Political and legal reflections on the Israel - Palestine conflict
Join IGDC, CAHR, and the Department of Politics & International Relations as we explore the political and legal reflections on the Israel-Palestine conflict
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Land in hard places: how militarization, conflict and political transition
Join us for the second webinar in a series organised by the IGDC and the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Connected Development: Community-led development in practice
Join IGDC and William Harnden in person for his talk on Connect Development.
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Local ownership and community-led development: Cases from Thailand, Myanmar Tanzania, and Madagascar
Join IGDC and William Harnden in person for his talk on Connected Development.
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Indigenous Land Struggles: Transregional Perspectives Across Asia and Africa
Join us for the first webinar in a series organised by the IGDC and the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Empty signifiers: New approaches to discourse analysis in infrastructure
What can discourse analysis reveal into the development of connective infrastructures, past and present?
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Doing Interdisciplinary Decolonial Research in a Digital Age
Join the newly established PhD student collective at IGDC for the first lecture in their semesterly seminar series.
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Doing Interdisciplinary Decolonial Research in a Digital Age
Join the newly established PhD student collective at IGDC for the first lecture in their semesterly seminar series.
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Towards decoloniality and justice: when the past pushes unfinished into the present
IGDC is hosting a lecture on "Towards decoloniality and justice: when the past pushes unfinished into the present"
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Conference Ventana 5 (in person)
Join us for the fifth Ventana Conference, they theme is navigating uncomfortable contradictions: decolonial routes to pluriversality
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Conference Ventana 5 (online)
Join us for the fifth Ventana Conference, they theme is navigating uncomfortable contradictions: decolonial routes to pluriversality
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Security and Development in the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel
Join IGDC for the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel (LCB&S) Security and Development Early Career Knowledge Exchange Conference
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Climate Neutrality and Adaptive Behaviour
Join IGDC and YESI’s Climate Change Network for a joint workshop on Climate Neutrality and Adaptive Behaviour
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Audiovisual community collaborations in Bahia, Brazil
Join UFBA and IGDC for a film screening on audiovisual community collaborations in Bahia, Brazil.
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Global Health Research presentations
Join the IGDC and the ISC in celebrating their global health research partnership
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Lost and damaged?
Will 2023 be the year in which historic responsibility for climate change is finally acknowledged by the world’s major polluting nations?
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An intersectional and gendered approach to health and wellbeing in informal settlements
Join ARISE and CHORUS consortia for a webinar to discuss the importance of employing an intersectional and gendered lens when looking at health and wellbeing in informal settlements.
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Inequalities in knowledge systems: biodiversity conservation in Tanzania
IGDC is hosting a seminar on "Inequalities in knowledge systems"
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IGDC Annual Lecture 2022: The Anthropocene Globe
IGDC and the Department of History are hosting a webinar on “The Anthropocene Globe”
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Rethinking recovery and conservation in Latin American landscapes
IGDC and ISRF are hosting a webinar on “Rethinking recovery in Latin American landscapes: knowledges, conservation and justice.”
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New Developments in Business for Peace and the Role of Companies in War Zones
We are delighted to announce a one-day online workshop of invited speakers from the field of Business for Peace at the School for Business and Society, University of York.
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Leave no one behind: Taking stock of the Sustainable Development Goals
The private and public sectors, civil society, academia, NGOs must all come together to ensure that we realise the ambition enshrined in the various SDGs. Goal#17 in effect is the load-bearing goal of the SDGs.
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The Moral Economy of the Global Crowd: The Popular Politics of Economic Crises
Join us on Wednesday 5 October when Professor Naomi Hossain will give a lecture on the moral economy of the global crowd
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Conference Ventana 4
Hear from researchers working on African postcolonial and/or decolonial processes. We are looking to share and compare the experiences in these two continents.
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Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene
Join us to explore the effectiveness, and potential consequences, of the framing of planetary environmental challenges as ‘emergencies’.
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Recovery from Crisis
Our speakers with backgrounds in Brazilian Environment and Society studies, reflect how diverse scientific fields are tackling these crises.
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Queering International Development
Dr Saba Joshi chairs a roundtable with four scholars and development practitioners discussing their work relating to LGBTQI inclusion in International Development
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The Security-Development-Migration Nexus Interrogated: 'Global' Britain, EU and Beyond
Using recent British political developments as a jumping-off point, this roundtable brings together experts to challenge assumptions about links between security, migration, and development made by Britain, the EU and beyond.
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Thai Baan webinar
Join us for a lively panel discussion presenting the history and principles of Thai Baan and discussing the process of conducting Thai Baan research using two case studies that have applied Thai Baan research approaches.
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Voice from the Global South – post COP26 session
Co-hosted by Research Theme Champions and IGDC, engaged scholars from the Global South who are also involved in the COP present their perspectives on what COP means for future research agendas and research priorities.
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IGDC Research Away-day: Making development research more sustainable
For this IGDC Research Away Day, Chris West (SEI-Y) will introduce the University’s work on the Sustainability Code of Practice to date, and we will reflect on the implications of adopting more sustainable research practices for the IGDC community
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Fighting dirty money in the UK for global benefit: the work of the Joffe Trust
Alex Jacobs, Director of the Joffe Charitable Trust discusses how the UK and its network of offshore centers play a central role in global illicit financial flows.
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Horizons of Hope
A panel of expert speakers provide their unique professional and personal experiences and perspectives to discuss the concept of hope and its role in human society.
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Decentering Migration Research: The Challenges of Walking the Talk
Professor Heaven Crawley explores the challenges of ‘walking the talk’ when it comes to decentering migration research.
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Racing Climate Change
Dr Ariadne Collins discusses how de-centring whiteness from its position as an automatic, oppositional counterpart to blackness can make space for greater recognition of the role played by the environment in processes of racialization.
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Decolonising Methods and Methodologies
Dr Tuhiwai Smith discusses decolonising research methods and provides reflections regarding the practical conduct of social science research methods as well as her best-selling book Decolonising Methodologies Research and Indigenous Peoples
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COP26 Workshop: Building Transformational Pathways to Adaptation in Eastern Africa
British Institute for East Africa collaborate with the IGDC, University of York, University of Cambridge and University College London for a UKRI-funded online conference and COP26 Workshop on Building Transformational Pathways to Adaptation
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Harnessing the strength of the private and informal sector for better health in urban areas
The Urbanisation and Health Network in collaboration with ''CHORUS'' (Community-Led Effective Urban Health Systems), present talks and a panel discussion with speakers from multiple institutions around improving health in urban areas
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Unpaid Care Work and Covid-19: A Missed Opportunity to Recognise, Value and Take Action?
Tallulah Lines (IGDC) and Jayanthi Lingham (WICID) chair a panel exploring the impact of unpaid care work on women and girls by discussing how feminist and women’s movements challenge non-recognition and the challenges presented by Covid-19.
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Racist Disciplines? Critically exploring approaches to race in the Social Sciences and Humanities
In the context of Black History Month in the United States, Professor Henrice Altink and Dr Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven host a round table to explore how race is dealt with across three distinct disciplines.
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IGDC Research Away-Day: Hope and Inclusive Research
IGDC's Research Away-Day discusses the theme of Hope following a discussion around inclusive research
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Migrants and refugees facing Covid-19: UK and global concerns
Dr Sara De Jong will discuss and explore how migrants and refugees have been affected by Covid-19 with our guest speakers Emily Arnold-Fernandez, Niamh Ni Bhriain, John Grayson, Dr Adriana Marcela Velasquez Morales and Dr Pia Riggirozzi.
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Reflections on public health system responses during Covid-19 in low-and middle-income countries
Papiya Mazumdar is joined by a panel of speakers discussing the current health system constraints in low middle income countries and will provide their opinions on the present and future agendas in global health initiatives.
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Inequalities in Global Finance and Gender: Economic Responses to Covid-19
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven chairs a panel discussion surrounding the economic and financial consequences of the current Covid-19 pandemic on women and how it has exacerbated gender inequality.
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Climate justice movements and Covid in the Global South
Jessica Omukuti discusses COVID-19's projected impact and climate justice implications as well as exploring the economic downturn from emerging from COVID-19 adversely impacting communities and households in the Global South.
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Covid-19 and the ‘Global Development Industry’
Christine Wallace chairs a panel discussion to explore the impact of Covid-19 on the Global Development industry and discuss the challenges presented by Covid-19 to the business of development.
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Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Time of Coronavirus: Perspectives from Brazil and India
Dr Philip Roberts and Dr Indrajit Roy discuss the implications of global power shifts that are likely to emerge due to Covid-19 with our invited guest speakers, Dr Harsh Mander and Dr Sabrina Fernandes.