Events
We engage with students, researchers, government, policy makers and the public through our talks, seminars, workshops and conferences. Our events are open to students, staff and the general public.
Upcoming events
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GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar
16:30 - 18:00 19 November 2025
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 wave...
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GDI Community of Practice: Belonging and connection: The role of social cohesion in community resilience
08:00 - 09:00 25 November 2025
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...
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GDI Lecture: Rethinking resistance: Sudan’s resistance committees during revolution, peace and war
16:30 - 18:00 25 November 2025
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 peace...
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GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead
16:30 - 18:00 26 November 2025
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 domestic...
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Insubordinate and captive mobilities: Time and agency in irregularised return trajectories between North and West Africa
13:00 - 14:30 27 November 2025
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. Contrary...
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Co-created Futures Conference
09:00 - 17:00 3 December 2025
Sustainable Futures will deliver the Co-created Futures Conference in partnership with MERI, Royce, Tyndall and MUI. This one-day conference will convene academics, policymakers, industry and community partners to showcase co-developed and co-produced environmental sustainability research across three themes: Materials: Sustainable resource management,...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Jonathan Reiter
12:00 - 13:00 3 December 2025
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 a...
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GDI Lecture: The Myth of Deindustrialisation and the Possibilities for Development within Industrial Civilisation
16:30 - 18:00 3 December 2025
Speaker: Andrew Fischer, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) This lecture draws from Celso Furtado's classic, Accumulation and Development: the logic of industrial civilisation (tr. 1983) in framing the centrality of industrialisation for understanding economic development and the fundamental differences between centres and peripheries...
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Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic
08:45 - 13:00 4 December 2025
Book your ticket now for the next in series of the GM Connected Health Ecosystem! After the hugely successful AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models events, the GM Connected Health Ecosystem series will be returning in December with Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic! This event will look at the lessons...
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Digital Trust and Security seminar: Prof Marija Slavkovik
13:00 - 15:00 9 December 2025
This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Autonomous Machines as Moral Arbiters Artificial Intelligence has enabled the automation of cognitive tasks. The more able autonomous machines are, and the more they share the same environment...
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