GTD Events
Upcoming Events
Detailed information on upcoming events will be published here.
Past events
Research colloquia 2024
| Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Joint colloquium with MUSTS and AMC | Nicole Kusters, Pablo del Hierro, Brigitte Le Normand, Susan Schreibman | 17 January 2024 |
| China in the global land rush | Dr. Yunan Xu | 7 February 2024 |
| The Right to Research and the Conditions of Production of History | Gerawok Gizaw, Kate Reed and Prof. Dr. Schenk | 6 March 2024 |
| Marginalised communities and social justice | Dr. Romina Istratii | 19 April 2024 |
| Knowledge and cultural problems | Prof. Dr. Julia Pauli | 22 May 2024 |
| Vectors of Change: Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (joint colloquium with Centre for Gender and Diversity) | Dr. Asli Zengin | 19 June 2024 |
Research Colloquia 2023
| Title | Speaker(s) | Date: |
|---|---|---|
| Writing Global History from the European Periphery - Joint colloquium GTD-AMC | Ferenc Laczo and Brigitte le Normand | 29 November 2023 |
| Dismantling energy colonialism: Towards a just transition in North Africa | Hamza Hamouchene | 27 September 2023 |
| Africa's second Struggle for Freedom: What's decolonization got to do with it? | Prof. Olufemi Taiwo (Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University) | 6 September 2023 |
| Strange(r) Families - Contesting the "Family" and the "Nation"in Migration Law | Saskia Bonjour | 24 May 2023 |
| Beyond the Boomerang: understanding NGO Advocacy in International Politics | Chris Pallas and Elizabeth Bloodgood | 22 March 2023 |
Research Colloquia 2022
| Title | Speaker | Date: |
|---|---|---|
| Book launch: (Re)mapping Migration and Education: Centering Methods and Methodologies | Cathryn Magno and Anna Becker | 30 November 2022 |
| The politics of care: Making and unmaking families in South Africa | Nolwazi Mkhwanazi | 2 November 2022 |
| Defending democracy: How can civil society organisations succesfully resist repressive laws? | Nic Cheeseman | 30 September 2022 |
| Book discussion "World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics" | Theo d'Haen | 8 June 2022 |
| Refugees and Migrants (In)Visibility: The Case of the Balkans | Boris Ružić | 18 May 2022 |
| STS and Transnational Methods, Perspectives and Topics. Joint Colloquium Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development (GTD) and Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS) | Lauren Wagner, Sarah Anschutz, Ragna Zeiss and Waqar Zaidi | 20 April 2022 |
| Journalism and Human Rights under Attack | Rachel Pulfer | 16 March 2022 |
| From multi-sited ethnography to ethnography of refracted publics: on far right resonances in Brazil | Laeticia Cesarino | 9 February 2022 |
| Labour dynamics in the mining industry. A comparative analysis of the Congolese and Zambian copperbelts | Benjamin Rubbers | 12 January 2022 |
Research Colloquia 2021
| Title | Speaker | Date: |
|---|---|---|
| The Battle for Remittances: (Digital) Financial Inclusion and Market Construction in Senegal and Ghana | Vincent Guermond | 24 November 2021 |
| Transnational Families Belgium and Thailand | Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot | 27 October 2021 |
| Offshore finance: How capital rules the world | Rodrigo Fernandez | 22 September 2021 |
| How climate change travels to sub-Saharan Africa: The anthropology of forecasting, future-making and anticipation in humanitarianism | Sara de Wit | 19 May 2021 |
| Joint event GTD and Centre for Gender and Diversity: Mother Metropole. Transnational adoptions of Rwandan minors in postcolonial Belgium In Search of Humanity: Adoption and the Question Who We Are | Chiara Candaele Sophie Withaeckx |
21 April 2021 |
| The political economy of (in)coherence: Development narratives, Anxious practitioners, and Asian emerging donors | Jamie Doucette | 17 March 2021 |
| Life skills and Financial education among children and young people in about 108 different countries around the world | Rediet Abiy | 13 January 2021 |