From Promise to Practice: The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage and What It Means for Vulnerable Developing Countries – A Conversation with Ibrahima Cheikh Diong Join Ibrahima Cheikh Diong, the FRLD’s inaugural Executive Director, for a guest lecture and fireside conversation with Professor Ulrich Volz, the Director of the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, on what this means in practice, how countries access finance, what loss and damage looks like on the ground, and what the Fund's operationalisation signals for the future of global climate finance ahead of COP31.
How India's Finest Filmmakers Were Made - Book Talk 'The Maker of Filmmakers' tells the story of Jagat Murari, the visionary behind FTII, and the legendary filmmakers he shaped, revealing how one man's belief in cinema transformed Indian film.
The Nawabs of Murshidabad under Colonial Rule: Political Interactions and Changing Status (1750–1850) This talk will examines the Nawabs of Murshidabad's gradual transformation from sovereign rulers to ceremonial elites between 1750 and 1850.
Film screening - Ondas: Waves The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice (FCRJ) invites you to a public screening of Ondas: Waves at SOAS, a documentary produced by Dr. Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki and directed by Kurt Orderson as part of FCRJ’s Transnational Research Collaboratory.
Surplus labour and structural transformation after land dispossession What explains the widespread and persistent surplus labour with structural transformation? While many explanations focus on the demand-side through formal sector expansion, we study how the 'push' factor of land dispossession removes subsistence options, thereby prompting migration in search of jobs even at increased risk of unemployment.
'The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies' Join us for the launch of Jeffrey Winters latest book, uncovering the hidden realities of modern oligarchy.