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Researching Empire in 2019: representations, impacts, and legacies
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 09:00
Meeting Room 12, Wilson A, The Open University, Milton Keynes
Over the last three decades, writing and researching Empire has experienced a renaissance and is more stimulating and relevant than ever. As a consequence, public discourse around the representation, impact, and legacies of Empire has turned progressively febrile
Migration in colonial Africa and Asia: historical perspectives, connections and comparisons
Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - 01:00
Seminar Room 6, The Library, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
Migration is one of the foundational pillars of the story of humanity. The study of migration has been energised in recent decades by new sources and frameworks such as transnational history and diaspora studies.
Arts Approaches to International Development in Practice
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 09:45 to 15:00
Library Seminar Room 2, The Open University
Joint Ferguson Centre-International Development and Inclusive Innovation-IKD research seminar
lunchtime seminar: Why is genital cutting so controversial? Female genital mutilation abandonment and forced male circumcision as cultural rights issues in Kenya today
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 13:00 to 15:00
Oak Seminar room, Block C
Dr Lotte Hughes (Ferguson Centre, History) and Dr Mark Lamont will present papers based on case studies carried out for the ESRC-funded project ‘Cultural Rights and Kenya’s New Constitution’ (2014-17) in which they were, respectively, PI and Research Associate. See seminar abstract.
Cultural capacity building. Internal workshop on ideas for potential AHRC-GCRF bids
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 11:00 to 17:00
CMR15, Walton Hall, The Open University, MK7 6AA
The aim of this FC-IDII strategic research area workshop is to bring together people across the OU who might be interested in adapting their research so as to participate in collaborative bids targeted at the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) initiative.
Ferguson Centre-OpenSpace Seminar
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 12:30 to 16:00
Library seminar rooms 1-2
Joint Ferguson Centre-OpenSpace half-day seminar on ‘Non-Eurocentric approaches to environmental history
Non-Eurocentric approaches to environmental history
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 (All day)
The open University, Milton Keynes
Jointly organised by the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and the OpenSpace Research Centre, this half-day seminar will present current work in environmental history focussing on Africa and South Asia, highlighting the salience of traditional ecological knowledge in shaping how people experience and respond to their changing local environments.
Panel on Heritage and Subversion in Africa
Friday, June 3, 2016 - 01:00 to Saturday, June 8, 2019 - 01:00
Association of Critical Heritage Studies conference, Montreal, Canada
Association of Critical Heritage Studies conference, Montreal, Canada
Cultural Rights in Action: from global policy to local practice
Friday, May 20, 2016 - 13:00
British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
A one-day workshop that will present preliminary research findings by the project team drawn from case studies across Kenya.
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