Global Development Institute

GDI Film Screening: A Place in the City, Gabriel Silvestre

16:30 - 18:00 12 November 2025
A Place in the City, by Dr Gabriel Silvestre, from Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, features communities in Latin America facing displacement,…

GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar

16:30 - 18:00 19 November 2025
Speaker: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS The political landscape in the MENA region looks bleaker today than ever before. This is in sharp contrast with the euphoria aroused fifteen years ago…

GDI Community of Practice: Belonging and connection: The role of social cohesion in community resilience

08:00 - 09:00 25 November 2025
Note: We are running two sessions at 8am and 2pm (UK time) Description While personal resilience is fundamental in staying optimistic and effective within challenging development roles,…

GDI Lecture: Rethinking resistance: Sudan’s resistance committees during revolution, peace and war

16:30 - 18:00 25 November 2025
Speaker: Sharath Srinivasan Professor Sharath Srinivasan is the David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies…

GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead

16:30 - 18:00 26 November 2025
Speaker: Joseph Stead, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration The Seville Commitment emphasized the pivotal role of tax revenues as the largest source of financing for development.…

Insubordinate and captive mobilities: Time and agency in irregularised return trajectories between North and West Africa

13:00 - 14:30 27 November 2025
A Migration, Refugees, and Asylum Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Sabina Barone, UCL In this seminar, I examine how the IOM’s ‘Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration’ (AVRR) programme…

GDI Lecture: The Myth of Deindustrialisation and the Possibilities for Development within Industrial Civilisation

16:30 - 18:00 3 December 2025
Speaker: Andrew Fischer, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) This lecture draws from Celso Furtado's classic, Accumulation and Development: the logic of industrial civilisation…

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