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DELC Research Seminar Series: Margarita Vaysman

University of Edinburgh · Room G.01, 50 George Square

An in-person seminar by Dr Margarita Vaysman (University of Oxford) exploring Russian culture’s continuous engagement with narratives of transgender lives, pulling from a case study in Dr Vaysman's…

Histories of Orphan Trafficking in East Africa and the West

Trinity College Dublin · Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub

A lecture by Dr Adreana Prichard (University of Oklahoma) for the International History Research Seminar Series.

Ana Carolina Balthazar (UCL, London) "Shame, Anger, and the Emotional Logics of British Politics

University of Manchester · Boardroom, 2nd floor, Arthur Lewis Building, Manchester

Engaging critically with recent interdisciplinary arguments linking repressed economic shame to anger and resentment among right-wing voters, in this paper I draw on long-term ethnographic fieldwork…

Producing Precarity: Transnational labour, Multinational Capital, and Complicit Governance Go Rural on the Canadian Prairies

University of British Columbia · C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research

Join the Centre for Migration Studies on Monday, November 23 at 11:45 AM-1:50 PM in the C.K. Choi Building (Room 120) for a talk featuring Dr.

The Global Governance Workforce: Shifting Politics of International Organizations

Geneva Graduate Institute

Join us online for a interesting conversation with Vincent Pouliot from the Université de Montréal about his book manuscript: “The Global Governance Workforce: Shifting Politics of International…

The transnational impact on identity formation in theatre across the Chinese-speaking world

SOAS University of London · RG01, SOAS Main Building

The 1980s was a most important decade for global Chinese theatre. In large part prompted by changes in regional geopolitics, the search for a local identity peaked among the Chinese communities in…

Public Intimacies and Wig Spaces: Entangled Migrations of Korean and African Americans

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Min Kyung Lee discusses the Korean-owned wig store as an overlooked urban space through which Korean and African American migrations became materially entangled in the late twentieth-century United…

Touchpapers: Portrait of a Lady as Abortionist

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room D-001, Vienna

‘[T]he decision, if there is to be one, must advance toward a future which is not known, which cannot be anticipated.’ - Derrida

Open discussion with Lara Sheehi, author of From the Clinic to the Streets

University of California, Riverside

From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures With Lara Sheehi

Celebrating older people’s lives and communities in North Manchester: An exhibition and celebration event

University of Manchester · Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester

This event celebrates the lives of older people living in North Manchester and their contribution to their communities.

Women's Lives - Past Present and Future

University of Reading · The Meadow Suite, Park House, Whiteknights

As part of the University of Reading’s Centenary celebrations, and supported by the University Centenary Fund, this interdisciplinary one-day conference brings together researchers, practitioners and…

GRiEG Seminar: Ecological Islamophobia

University of Manchester · A5.5, Ellen Wilkinson Building, Manchester

The seminar will unveil emerging work on Ecological Islamophobia: Muslim Experiences of Environmental Harm in East London, examining how environmental issues such as poor air quality, contaminated…

Book Launch: Cybercriminals (Yahoo Boys) and Society by Dr Suleman Lazarus

University of Portsmouth · Park Building (Room 1.23), King Henry I Street, Portsmouth, PO1 2DZ

Join us for the launch of Cybercriminals (Yahoo Boys) and Society and a discussion of fraud, cybercrime and social context.

GDI Lecture: Changing Access Mechanisms to Safe Drinking Water in the West Bank after the Gaza War

University of Manchester · G32, Humanities Bridgeford Street, Manchester

The water crisis in the West Bank has evolved beyond the scarcity of natural resources into a deeper crisis of access, distribution, and control.

Book launch: Housing Greece. A Century of Emergencies

ETH Zurich

Housing Greece offers a critical perspective on state housing through the lens of emergency. From the 1922 refugee crisis following the Asia Minor Catastrophe to the 2008 economic meltdown and the…

ETH CSS Evening Talk «Adaptive Middle Powers in East Asia: How South Korea and Japan Navigate a Fragmenting Global Order»

ETH Zurich

Amid geopolitical tensions, middle powers are reassessing how they exercise regional and global influence. Focusing on South Korea and Japan, this event examines how middle powers are navigating a…

Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies · Jerusalem Room, George Street, Oxford

Nicholas Trajtenberg "Do Opportunity Effects Travel?" and Olga Sanchez de Ribera "Evaluating a community-based domestic violence programme in the Dominican Republic”

University of Manchester · A202, Samuel Alexander Building, Manchester

This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

The Study of Industrial Policy beyond the Hegemons

SOAS University of London · Main Building R101, SOAS Main Building (R101) & Online

Industrial policy turmoil in non-hegemonic powers: sectoral policy undone by broader economic policies in the Turkish garment industry This seminar examines the changing dynamics of industrial policy…

Inaugural Lecture Series: Professors Matthew Nelson and Rochana Bajpai

SOAS University of London · SOAS Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS Gallery

Professor Matthew Nelson and Professor Rochana Bajpai from the Department of Politics deliver their inaugural lectures on two different and distinctive themes.