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…
22/09/2021 – First GTD Colloquium of the Academic Year
The first GTD colloquium of the academic year will be hosted on September from 4-6 pm. It will occur on campus at Grote Gracht 76 1.02. The colloquium will be given by Dr Rodrigo Fernandez from the Center for Research on Multinational…
19/05/2021- GTD Colloquium: Dr. Sara de Wit
Title of Presentation How climate change travels to sub-Saharan Africa: The anthropology of forecasting, future-making and anticipation in humanitarianism? Contemporary discourse on climate change and the Global South largely unfolds through the tropes of vulnerability and crisis. Sub-Sahara Africa…
17/03/2021 – GTD Colloquium by Dr Jamie Doucette
The title of the talk is: The political economy of (in)coherence: Development narratives, Anxious practitioners, and Asian emerging donors. For more information and the link please click here. AbstractThis talk examines the politics of expertise within the field of international…
23/10/2019 – GTD Colloquium: Evelyn Ersanili
On 23 October 2019, from 15.30-17.00 a Globalisation, Transnationalism & Development Colloquium will take place. The lecture will be held by Dr. Evelyn Ersanilli (University of Amsterdam) and is on the topic of “Why do origin states fend for the…
GTD Colloquium: ‘Between Rootedness and Rootlessness: Liberia, Migration and Dual Citizenship’
Topic: ‘Between Rootedness and Rootlessness: Liberia, Migration and Dual Citizenship’ Participant: Robtel Pailey (University of Oxford) When: Wednesday February 6, 2019, from 15:30-17:00 Where: Spiegelzaal, GG 80-82 (Soiron building) Abstract:Within the last decade alone, large-scale emigration has emboldened approximately half of all African states…
GTD Colloquium: Agriculture as Financial Asset: Global Money and the Making of Institutional Landscapes
Topic: ‘Agriculture as Financial Asset: Global Money and the Making of Institutional Landscapes’ Participant: Stefan Ouma (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) When: Wednesday January 9, 2019, from 15:30-17:00 Where: Spiegelzaal, GG 80-82 (Soiron building) Abstract:Finance has gone farming. Since the financial and food…
GTD Colloquium: ‘Heineken in Africa. A Multinational Unleashed’
Topic: ‘Heineken in Africa. A Multinational Unleashed’ Participant: Olivier van Beemen (University of Cambridge) When: Wednesday Oct 17, 2018, from 15:30-17:00 Where: Grote Gracht 80-82 (0.039) Abstract: Heineken in Africa. A Multinational Unleashed is published in 2018 at Hurst Publishers. It is a critical case study about the…
GTD COLLOQUIUM: Executing and analysing fieldwork
Topic: Executing and analysing fieldwork When: Wednesday 10 October 2018 at 3.30 p.m. Where: Spiegelzaal, GG 80-82 Participants: Daan Hovens, Pomme van de Weerd & Areesha Banglani In 2017, Daan Hovens participated as an ethnographer in the production work of a metal foundry…
GTD Colloquium: ‘Comparing Sending States’ Social Protection Infrastructure for Nationals Abroad: An Analysis of Diaspora Institutions and Consular Services’
Topic: Comparing Sending States’ Social Protection Infrastructure for Nationals Abroad: An Analysis of Diaspora Institutions and Consular Services Participant: Jean-Michel Lafleur When: Wednesday, Dec 5, 2018, from 15:30-17:00 Where: Attic, GG 80-82 (Soiron building) Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing interest among migration…