Talks of interest to International Development staff and students
Talks:

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Gangs, Labour Mobility, and Development
Date: 29 November 2023, 12:30 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Alison Andrew (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Niclas Moneke (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

What Economists Really Do: The Economics of Sustainability
Date: 29 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Robin Nuttall (McKinsey & Co)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: and ONLINE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Moldova's Foreign Policy in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape
Date: 29 November 2023, 16:30 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Dorin Recean (Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Emily Usherwood (Oxford Department of International Development)
Host: Professor Corneliu Bjola (University of Oxford)

Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 2: Borders, Racialisation, and Refugee Protection in Rwanda
Date: 29 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker s: Professor Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Dr Frank Habineza MP (Member of Rwandan Parliament 2018-2023 and Founding President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda), Dr Felix Ndahinda (Researcher and Consultant), Dr Uttara Shahani (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transcending the "Bamboo Curtain": Cultural diplomacy and tourism across the Taiwan Strait
Date: 29 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker s: Po-Hsun Chen (University of Manchester), Cho-kiu Li (Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (Hybrid Format - In-person & Online via MS Teams)
Organisers: Lucas Tse, Weihan Sun, Simon Lam, Zhixia Jin, Young-Chan Choi, Tommy Yui Chim Lo, Yaxi Liu (University of Oxford), Kuldip Kaur Singh (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford), Zhixia Jin (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford)
Host: Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford)

The Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS: in lockstep for Hitler?
Date: 29 November 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Ben Shepherd (Glasgow)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Governing Market Access: How Index Providers Gatekeep Local Currency Sovereign Debt
Date: 30 November 2023, 12:30 - 14:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker s: Natalya Naqvi (LSE), Ben Cormier (Strathclyde)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders
Date: 30 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Offstage Storm? Decolonization and the Politics of Democracy in Post-war Western Europe
Date: 1 December 2023, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Professor Martin Conway (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
Date: 1 December 2023, 17:00 - 18:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Professor Yoav di Capua (The University of Texas at Austin)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host: MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)

LAC Main Seminar Series: Book Launch: Business Power and the State in the Central Andes, Eds John Crabtree, Francisco Durand and Jonas Wolff
Date: 1 December 2023, 17:00 - 18:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker s: John Crabtree (LAC), Jonas Wolff (The Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Unlocking Renewables Development in the Global South
Date: 5 December 2023, 5:00 - 06:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker s: Professor Cameron Hepburn, Alistair Phillips-Davies (Chief Executive, SSE plc), Damilola Ogunbiyi (CEO, SEforALL), Tariye Gbadegesin (MD & Chief Executive Officer, ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment LTD), Lars Gert Lose (Associate Partner and Head of Global Public Affairs, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners)
Venue Details: Hybrid
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Examining National Health Insurance Fund Members' preferences and trade-offs for the attributes of contracted outpatient facilities in Kenya: a discrete choice experiment
Date: 5 December 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Jacob Kazungu (Health Economics Research Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya)
Venue Details: Webinar (MS Teams)
Organiser: Oxford Global Health Society
Host: Melvin Obadha (Oxford Global Health Society)

Wednesday 6 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

COP28 Briefing: Experts from the Oxford Smith School Live from Dubai and Oxford during COP28
Date: 6 December 2023, 9:00 - 10:00 (Wednesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker s: Dr Steve Smith (Executive Director, Oxford Net Zero and CO2RE, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), Alexis McGivern (Net Zero Standards Manager, Oxford Net Zero), David Shukman (British Journalist and former science editor, BBC), Injy Johnstone (Research Associate in Net Zero Aligned Offsetting, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mitigating the Consequences of Job Loss: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Date: 6 December 2023, 12:30 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Stefano Caria (University of Warwick)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Alison Andrew (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Niclas Moneke (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

What Economists Really Do: Economics and LGBTQ+
Date: 4 March 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Ian Burn (University of Liverpool)
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

What Economists Really Do: The Economics of Tax Evasion
Date: 6 March 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Sarah Clifford (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

What Economists Really Do: The Economics of Refugees and Migration
Date: 20 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dennis Egger (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
African History & Politics Seminars
African Studies Seminar Series
African Studies Seminar Series
African Studies Seminar Series
African Studies Seminar Series
Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2023
Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
CESS/Nuffield Seminars
Changing Character of War
Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
Children and Youth in a Changing World
Contemporary South Asia Seminars
Contestations in Land and Agriculture: Historical and Geopolitical Case-Studies
CSAE Development Economics Webinar Series
CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
CSAE Research Workshops
Current Trends in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy
Cyber Strategy and Technology Studies Working Group
Discrimination: A Migrant’s Issue?
East Asia Seminar Series
ECI Big Ideas Seminar
Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times
Endangered Tribal Languages in India
Future of Food Lunchtime Talk Series
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Green Templeton Lectures series 2020
Health Economics Seminars
Health: fresh perspectives
History of War Seminar Series
Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them
International Gender Studies: Feminist mapping in a volatile world; spaces of creativity and survival
International History of East Asia Seminar
IR Research Colloquium
Justice, Equality and Identity seminar
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
Leave No One Behind – Sustainable Development Goals, Ageing and Global Development
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Migrants and the Economy: Realities and Representations
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Modern South Asia Seminar
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
ODID Distinguished Speaker Series
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Older Women’s Health
Olof Palme Lectures
OpenAg Symposium: Food Futures in a Changing Climate
OxCarre Seminar Series
Oxford Central Africa Forum
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Evolving economic thought
Oxford Martin School Series - African Governance: Economic, social and political governance challenges
Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic
Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
Oxford SDG Impact Lab Lectures & Seminars
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
Oxford University China Africa Network (OUCAN)
Oxford Water Network
OxSID Hilary 2019
Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Population Ageing in Countries that have Experienced War, Revolution, and Economic Transition
Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series
Refugees and the Economy
Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
Reproductive Migrations: Mobility, Stratification and Reproductive Labour
Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)
South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group
Southeast Asia Seminar
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
Technology and Mobilities in Africa
The Economics of Post-Crisis Recoveries
The Geopolitical Implications of Global Population Change
The George Institute for Global Health UK Seminars
The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations
Thinking Through Toxicity
TORCH Oxford and Empire Network Travel and Translation
Transnational & Global History Seminar
What Economists Really Do