Past events
GDI Lecture Series - Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development
Can a celebrity be a “disrupter,” promoting strategic partnerships to bring new ideas and fundin...
SCI Annual Lecture 2022: In Conversation with Kate Raworth
The Sustainable Consumption Institute is delighted to welcome Kate Raworth (author of Doughnut Econo...
Eradicating extreme poverty in China: A sociological account.
China has lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty since late 1970s and announced in 2020...
School of Environment, Education and Development Inaugural Lectures
O?n Wednesday, 23 November, join the School of Environment, Education and Development for our winter...
GDI Lecture Series - Lost Lands: Indigenous People and Land Rights in East Africa - POSTPONED
Indigenous people’s land claims meet with suspicion and distrust. This lecture will explore exampl...
GDI Lecture Series - Understanding migration dynamics in the Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa (HoA) is a region with a long history of crises, including conflict, natural disa...
GDI Lecture Series - Transformative change from below in a context of climate-related uncertainties: praxis, patches and politics - POSTPONED
Climate-related uncertainties have tended to be defined by experts and bureaucrats (the ‘above’)...
Interconnected Worlds of Electronics Global Production Networks After the Pandemic
Based on his recent monograph Interconnected Worlds (Stanford University Press, June 2022), this pre...
What Makes a Place Urban?
Please contact Felix Agyemang at for the Zoom link and password fo...
GDI Lecture Series - FutureDAMS: Addressing the water-energy-food-environment challenge
Following the completion of the interdisciplinary FutureDAMS project in early 2022, this lecture wil...