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38 Degrees Public Meeting with Mike Crockart MP.
09/01/14
With Martin Sime (SCVO), Juliet Swann (ERS), Richard Dixon (FOE) and Blanche Jones (38 Degrees) and 38 Degrees Members!

Edinburgh West Public Meeting - Gagging Law

In this week's podcast Denis talks to Suzanne Lynch and Mark Hennessy in London about the now imminent election of Jean Claude Juncker and its consequences for the EU and David Cameron. He is also joined in studio by Irish Times columnist Paul Gillespie. 

He then discusses Obama's response to the latest from Iraq with Simon Carswell in Washington before finishing in Rio de Janerio with Tom Hennigan to hear about a World Cup which has utterly defied the dire predictions of its critics. 

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Juncker, Iraq, Brazil World Cup!

Executive Director of 38 Degrees, spoke to the Business, Innovation and Skills select committee about the TTIP campaign.

David Babbs speaks to MPs about the TTIP campaign

This week's podcast features Pablo de Orellana, who is a teaching fellow at the Department of War Studies. His research focuses on issues of identity in diplomatic communication, including the role of representation in the diplomacy of the First Vietnam War and the Western Sahara conflict. In this week's podcast we focused on Pablo's second case study - the Western Sahara conflict. 

On November 17th, Dr Solava Ibrahim from the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, came to the War Studies Department to give a talk titled 'Frustrated Youth and Failed Democracy: The Dynamics of Wellbeing, Aspirations and the Politics in Egypt'. In this week's podcast, she discusses the findings of her research and her academic plans for the future. 

Jayne Peake provides details of next week's events. 
Presented by Xenia Zubova and Bradley Murray.

Pablo de Orellana's talk 'War, Exile and the First Arab Spring: Western Sahara 1975-2015' https://soundcloud.com/warstudies/war-exile-and-the-first-arab-spring-western-sahara-1975-2015?in=warstudies/sets/events

DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.
 



Western Sahara & Egypt after the Arab Spring

Professor David Hulme, Executive Director of the Global Development Institute discusses his book, Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?
This podcast was recorded as part of the Global Development Institute Lecture Series.

Lecture: Should rich nations help the poor? - David Hulme

Lord Jim O'Neill spoke as part of the Rising Powers Conference held at The University of Manchester in June 2017.

24/07/2017

Lecture: Lord Jim O'Neill on are the Rising Powers are really rising? -

Dr Saleemul Huq from International Center for Climate Change and Development, Dhaka discusses the power of Least Developed Countries at UN climate talks.

25/07/2017

Lecture: Saleemul Huq on the least developed countries negotiating climate change

Professor Richard Heeks spoke as part of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission lecture series. The event was entitled Information and Communication Technologies (ICTS) for Development.

Richard Heeks is Professor of Development Informatics in the Global Development Institute, at The University of Manchester. He is Director of the Centre for Development Informatics, which is also based at The University of Manchester.

01/08/2017

Lecture: Richard Heeks on from ICT4D to digital development

In this episode, Prof Diana Mitlin, Managing Director of GDI, and Dr Mercedes González de la Rocha, an anthropologist and sociologist at CIESAS and an alumna of the University of Manchester, discuss inequalities, clustered disadvantages, urban social isolation, why Mercedes loves Immanuel Wallerstein's definition of income. They also discuss Dr González de la Rocha’s research on poverty and vulnerability in Mexico, including the ten-year research project she led to evaluate the impact of Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme Oportunidades (now called Prospera).

In conversation: Poverty and vulnerability in Mexico Mercedes González de la Rocha & Diana Mitlin

Prof Dani Rodrik, Harvard University, gave the Global Development Institute Annual Lecture.

Populism seems to have come out of nowhere, but economic history and theory provide ample grounds for anticipating that globalisation will produce political backlash. But while the backlash may have been predictable, the specific form it took was less so. 

Prof Dani Rodrik will distinguish between left-wing and 
right-wing variants of populism - the first predominant in Latin America and the second in Europe - and how and why these reactions differ.

27/10/2017

Lecture: Dani Rodrik on the economics of populism

In the latest episode of our ‘In Conversation’ podcast we caught up with Shamima and Alicya; two Manchester Alumni whose fashion business was recently highly commended for social innovation at the Manchester Making A Difference Awards 2020.

Listen here to find out how they came up with the idea, what empowerment and sustainability means to them, their goals for the future and how studying at the GDI, in particular the Poverty, Inequality and Development pathway, helped to shape their business approach.

In conversation: Alicya Mamo and Shamima Khonat founders of Electric Bazaar

India and China have responded very differently to the lives and livelihoods threats created by Covid-19 and they have experienced very different outcomes. This webinar explores the different ways in which political factors have shaped policy responses to Covid-19 in China and India and the relationships between scientific/technical analysis of the ‘crisis’ and political forces. Can the different policy choices and outcomes be explained by broad-brush concepts, such as democracy and autocracy, or are the explanatory factors more nuanced and more deeply rooted in the specificities of domestic politics?

Prof Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science & International Studies at Brown University, USA

Professor Yanzhong Huang, Director, Center for Global Health Studies at Seton Hall, & Senior Fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations, USA

Lecture: Dani Rodrik on the economics of populism

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