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Past ODID Events
Below you will find information about special events organised by the department in the past. For information about past events organised by our research groups, please see the individual group websites.
Please note - some of the events below include audio files which lack a transcription. If you would like a transcript, please email communications@qeh.ox.ac.uk.
12 May 2023
Climate Change & the Challenges of Development | Green "new" deal for the Global South or more of the same?
Time:
17:00
Speaker:
Aruna Chandrasekhar (Independent journalist)
Series:
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 1, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
03 May 2023
The UN at a time of geopolitical divisions: challenges and opportunities
Time:
17:00
Speaker:
Sam Daws (University of Oxford)
Series:
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 1, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
26 Apr 2023
Book Talk: ‘Queer Diplomacy: Homophobia, International Relations, and LGBT Human Rights’
Time:
11:30
Speaker:
Dr Douglas Janoff
Series:
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 1, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
15 Feb 2023
Identifying effective strategies to improve livelihoods of LGBTI People
Time:
15:00
Speaker:
Professor Lee Badgett (University of Massachusetts)
Series:
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Location:
St Antony's College, Syndicate Room, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Department Event
14 Feb 2023
Geo-technology: an analysis of global decoupling pressures in technology and geopolitics today
Time:
17:00
Speaker:
Scott Young (Consultant, Geo-technology (and former GGD student) from the Eurasia Group), Nick Reiners (Senior Analyst, Geo-technology, Eurasia Group)
Series:
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 3, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
03 Feb 2023
Climate Change and the Challenges of Development | Transformative Education: Lessons from a new eco-campus
Time:
17:00
Speaker:
Professor Cécile Renouard (ESSEC Business School, Ecole des Mines, and Centre Sèvres)
Series:
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 1, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
02 Feb 2023
Engineering the Middle Classes – online special issue launch
Time:
12:00
Speaker:
Series:
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Location:
Department Event
31 Jan 2023
Book Talk: 'Peacebuilding Legacy: Programming for Change and Young People's Attitudes to Peace'
Time:
16:00
Speaker:
Sukanya Podder (Reader in Post-war Reconstruction and Peacebuilding, King's College London)
Series:
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 1, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
25 Jan 2023
Toward Social Diplomacy
Time:
17:00
Speaker:
Professor Dr. Alisher Faizullaev (The University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Series:
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 3, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
01 Dec 2022
Frontiers of Development | Mobilising Development: Ethical and Epistemic Recalibration in World of Shifting Sands
Time:
17:00
Speaker:
Loren Landau (Professor of Migration and Development, ODID)
Series:
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 3 , 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
28 Nov 2022
Building a global fundraising career: a view from the MENA region and UNHCR
Time:
15:00
Speaker:
Houssam Chahine (UNHCR)
Series:
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Online, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
16 Nov 2022
The UK government approach to crisis management
Time:
17:00
Speaker:
David Munroe (UK Cabinet Office)
Series:
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 1, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event