7 November, LSE. Competition, trade, and sustainability in agri-food markets in East & Southern Africa: a comparison of citrus and soy. Find out more and register.

14 November, SOAS. The Indebted Woman. Kinship, Sexuality and Capitalism. The talk will draw on a recent co-authored book with Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramanian and will outline the key findings: the sexual division of debt and the work of debt as pillars of contemporary financialized capitalism, and how these are both shaped by and constitutive of specific forms of womanhood and sexuality.

14 November, DPU. China-Africa Knowledge Exchange: Development trajectories and Shared Paradigms. A State and Market Cluster Sponsored DPU70 Dialogue in Development Event. Find out more and register.

14 November, IDS. Was there a famine in Gaza in 2024? With Stephen Devereux. Following Israel’s declaration on 8 October 2023 of a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, a food crisis rapidly developed. But did the situation deteriorate into a full-blown famine? A series of food security assessments conducted by the international community in 2023-24 will be analysed to answer this question.

21 November, IDS. Report launch for Building Solidarities: Gender Justice in a Time of Backlash. Examines the challenges that gender justice movements have experienced over recent years and outlines guiding principles for building solidarities for gender justice, as a means to counter this backlash. More info.

22 November, LSE. A very light shade of green? Is the green transition perpetuating inequality? Find out more and register.

26 November, IDS. IDS Annual Lecture with Mariana Mazzucato speaking on ‘Rethinking growth: making economies work for the common good’. How can a renewed focus on mission-oriented policies and common good economics help us understand how the public and private sectors can collaborate to achieve this goal? Register.  

28 November, SOAS. Financing climate action: Global pledges to local realities. Finance is front and centre of the November COP29 UN climate change meeting in Baku, with critical negotiations on determining targets for future international climate commitments and start-up of a new Fund for responding to Loss and Damage for vulnerable countries hit hard by climate-related disasters. This multi-speaker seminar will consider the challenges facing global climate finance and whether the existing architecture for funding and delivery is fit for purpose.

28 November, CSGD at OU. Technology-supported teacher professional development in low and middle-income countries: A study in Tanzania. Sign up.

29 November, LSE. 80 years on from Bretton Woods, is Multilateralism collapsing? Find out more and register.

2 December, EADI. Academic Blogging: Towards Transformative Research Communication, Online. EADI will be offering a workshop on academic blogging. The workshop will take place online from 14:00–16:00. The workshop will be presented by Lize Swartz, editor of the ISS Blog Bliss, the academic blog of the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands (an EADI member institute). Register.

12 December, SOAS. Book Launch: Equity in COVID-19: Mitigation and Policy Responses in Africa. More information to follow.

1, 15, 29 November, 6, 13 December, from 4-6pm, LSE. Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice 2024. Speakers will include: Clare Short, Kevin Watkins, Marsha Henry, Michael Mann, Elizabeth Ingleson, Rahmane Idrissa, Simon Roberts, Amir Lebdioui, Annalisa Prizzon, Shamel Azmeh, John Minnich, Sheba Tejani and Alexander Betts. The series is in-person for LSE students and staff, but LSE offer online audience the chance to watch the lectures back via YouTube. Find out more.