• Type: Seminar Series
• Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 17:30 - Astor Lecture 2017: Agriculture, Technology and Economic Development
  Professor Christopher Udry (Northwestern University)

Friday 10 November 2017

• 11:00 - Paradoxical Climate, Top Management Team Job-Related Diversity and Organizational Innovation
  Professor Jiatao Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 17:00 - Panel discussion: Informal Transportation Systems in Rapidly Growing Cities
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford), Dr Clemence Cavoli (University College London)

Tuesday 21 November 2017

• 17:00 - Round table: Reflections on the ‘Bond Coup’ in Zimbabwe to date
  Professor Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford), Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford), Jason Brickhill (University of Oxford), Dr Susanne Verheul (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 17:00 - ZANU PF in History, 1963-2017
  Professor Gerald Chikozho Mazarire (Midlands State University, Zimbabwe)

Monday 22 January 2018

• 11:00 - Small Farming and Development: Contours of the Debate in the Global Era - a seminar for postgraduate students with Elisa Botella-Rodríguez
  Elisa Botella-Rodríguez (University of Salamanca)

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 16:30 - Local Models of Economy
  Professor Stephen Gudeman (University of Minnesota)

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 16:00 - Look Back in Anger: Visuality and Violence in Contemporary Women’s Movement in India
  Mallarika Sinha Roy (Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Monday 25 February 2019

• 17:00 - Roundtable on ‘Protest and Violence in Post-Coup Zimbabwe’
  Shari Eppel (Director, Solidarity Peace Trust), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 13:00 - Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub
  Julie Kleinman (Fordham University)

Monday 10 February 2020

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Political Life of an Epidemic by Simukai Chigudu
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 12:30 - The Asian Miracle: Learning from a Half-century of Development
  Professor Deepak Nayyar (JNU)

Monday 1 June 2020

• 15:30 - Overcoming Boko Haram: A Book and a Conversation
  Various Speakers

Friday 5 February 2021

• 17:00 - The Climate Emergency in LAC: threats and opportunities for sustainable development
  Alicia Barcena (Executive Secretary of the Economic Comission for Latin America and the Caribbean)

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 10:30 - Time to Care: The intersection between social norms, unpaid care work and gender-based violence
  Amitabh Behar (CEO, Oxfam India), Diya Dutta (independent consultant, Oxfam GB & Oxfam US), Amita Pitre (Lead Specialist Gender Justice, Oxfam India)

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 12:00 - Engineering the Middle Classes – online special issue launch
  Please register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 15:00 - Identifying effective strategies to improve livelihoods of LGBTI People
  Please note new time and location
  Professor Lee Badgett (University of Massachusetts)

Monday 11 November 2024

• 17:00 - Book launch | Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka
  Dr David Jackman (Oxford Department of International Development), Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 17:00 - Book launch: Communities, Mines, and Distributive Politics: Direct Contestation in the Andes
  Matthew Amengual (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 16:00 - Book launch | The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People who Manage Them
  Amogh Dhar Sharma (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 15:00 - ODID Research Roundtable: Citizenship
  Prof Matthew Gibney (Refugee Studies Centre), Prof Loren Landau (ODID, University of Oxford), Dr Julia Schweers (Refugee Studies Centre), Dr Dolores Señorans (ODID, University of Oxford), Professor Tom Scott-Smith (University of Oxford), Professor Simukai Chigudu (Associate Professor of African Politics and Fellow of St Antony's College)

Monday 9 December 2024

• 11:00 - Riverways and rural resistance: The case of Colombia's Movimiento Ríos Vivos social movement
  Carolina Osorio Gil (Cornell University)

Friday 28 February 2025

• 17:30 - Hostile | Film Screening plus Q&A with the Director, Sonita Gale
  Sonita Gale (Film maker)