GTD Colloquium

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 rights of their low-skilled labour migrants? Evidence from the Philippines”. 

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.

Title of Presentation 

How climate change travels to sub-Saharan Africa: The anthropology of forecasting, future-making and anticipation in humanitarianism? 

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. 

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 Western Union, are getting ready for “the battle for the remittances market”, deemed ripe for “digital disruption” (The Economist, 2018).

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 and the Democratic republic of Congo. 

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

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 used in an iconographic sense to frame the suffering of the victim, or b) were used – more seldomly – as a proof for reports of mistreatment and violation of human rights of migrants (i.e., Border Violence Monitoring Network). My talk aims to provide a “countervisual” approach to the migrant image (Nail, 2019) in the Balkans by emphasizing the importance of images made of them, but also of the images made by them.

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.