20/11/2024 – GTD Colloquium with Dr. Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot

The Globalisation, Transnationalism, and Development (GTD) Research Group at FASoS, Maastricht University cordially invites you its Fall Colloquium Series. The next session is on Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 15.30-17.00 at Spiegelzaal, FASoS featuring: Dr. Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is FNRS…

16/10/2024 – GTD Colloquium with Prof. Franklin Obeng-Odoom 

The Globalisation, Transnationalism, and Development (GTD) Research Group at FASoS, Maastricht University cordially invites you its Fall Colloquium Series. The next session is on Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 15.30-17.00 at Room GG76S room 1.018, FASoS featuring: Prof. Franklin Obeng-Odoom Prof….

18/09/2024 – GTD Colloquium with Dr. Romina Istratii

The Globalisation, Transnationalism, and Development (GTD) Research Group at FASoS, Maastricht University invites you its Fall Colloquium Series. The first session is on Wednesday, 18 Sept. 2024, 15:30 to 17:00 at Spiegelzaal, FASoS featuring: Dr. Romina Istratii Dr Romina Istratii…

22/05/2024 – GTD colloquium with Prof. Julia Pauli on Kin Navigations, Homebuilding and Return Migration in Rural Mexico

A House for My Son. Kin Navigations, Homebuilding and Return Migration in Rural Mexico Julia Pauli Wednesday 22 May, 15:30-17:00 in c0.311b, Bouillonstraat 1-3 (Faculty of Law), Maastricht – followed by drinks at Paulus (opposite the FASoS entrance at Grote…

24/05/2023 – GTD Colloquium: Strange(r) Families – Contesting the ‘Family’ and the ‘Nation’ in Migration Law

The next GTD colloquium will take place on Wednesday 24 May, organized by the Globalization, Transnationalism and Development research program at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. In this colloquium, Dr. Saskia Bonjour from the University of Amsterdam will…

18/05/2022 – GTD Colloquium- Refugees and Migrants (In)Visibility: The Case of the Balkans

The recent “migrant wave” in Europe (2015) has reiterated at least a two-sided perspective on the representational power of images. Images of migrants and/or refugees were a) either instrumentalized in depicting a threat to the nation-state (Sassken, 1992) or were…

20/04/2022 – GTD/MUSTS Colloquium

The past couple decades have seen a global and transnational turn in many of the subfields of science and technology studies, particularly anthropology and history of science and technology. While it has always been obvious that many scientific and technological…

09/02/2022 – GTD Colloquium: Laeticia Cesarino

On the 9th February at 2.30 pm (CET) Laeticia Cesarino, Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, will present the GTD Colloquium. To attend click here.  

12/01/2021 – GTD Colloquium on Labour Dynamics in the Mining Industry

On the 12 January the fourth GTD colloquium with Benjamin Rubbers of Université de Liège will take plac. It will be on zoom. He will be presenting to us research from his collaborative ERC funded project WORKinMINING undertaken in Zambia…

24/11/2021 – GTD Colloquium on The Battle for Remittances: (Digital) Financial Inclusion and Market Construction in Senegal and Ghana

While international and, to a lesser extent, domestic remittances have long been considered an untapped market for development finance, a wide-ranging set of private sector actors, from microfinance institutions and Fintechs to international banks and giant incumbent companies such as…