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Second Annual Development Studies Lecture: 'The Politics of Food and the Arab Spring'
24 May 2012. Following the success of our first Annual Development Studies Lecture last year we have planned another lecture. The title of this year's lecture will be 'The Politics of Food and the Arab Spring' and the lecture will be delivered by Professor Jane Harrigan from the Dept. of Development Economics at SOAS. There will be a wine reception after the lecture.
Birkbeck Open Evening
21 June 2012
Workshop: 'The Future of Development Beyond 2015'
23 June 2012. This workshop seeks to address the following question - Where is the development industry heading and how can Development Studies set the agenda?

Podcast - I-D: The Boundaries of Identity lecture
Podcast - Eric Kaufman and Karen Wells - 'The Political and Geographical Boundaries of Identity and Ethnicity'
I-D: The Boundaries of Identity: Three lectures
Three lectures in dialogue around the themes of identity from different subject perspectives.
Historic Digimap
Historic Digimap now available.

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