Dr Alastair Fraser African politics; the political economy of international development; democracy, participation and resistance.
Painting protest: literature, art, and the avant-garde in Socialist Burma This talk explores how Burmese avant-garde artists navigated and resisted authoritarianism, isolationism, and relentless censorship.
Anthony Hyman Memorial Lecture 2026 – The UN in Afghanistan: from state building to survival, rethinking the UN’s role Drawing on his experience and engagement in a range of United Nations roles in and on Afghanistan from 2001 to the present day, Mark Bowden will examine how the UN’s role has been shaped—and constrained—by the political settlement forged at the Bonn Conference.
Kanji Swami: History, teachings, community Bringing to light the nature and scope of Kānjī Svāmī’s philosophy and his legacy, in both philosophical and practical terms.
Kelly Anne Hagen Kelly Hagen, Centre for Global Media and Communications. Diaspora as the Front Line: Online Activism and Transnational Solidarity Amongst the Palestinian Diaspora in the West. Palestinian diaspora in the West, Palestine, online activism, social movements, transnational solidarity
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