Events

Cultural capacity building. Internal workshop on ideas for potential AHRC-GCRF bids

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 10:00 to 16:00

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 - 00:00

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 - 00:00 to Saturday, June 8, 2019 - 00:00

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 - 12:00

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.

Promoting pastoralist heritage and alternative visions for development in northern Kenya

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 12:30

OU Campus in Milton Keynes

Joint International Development Studies/Ferguson Centre research seminar

Joint International Development Studies/Ferguson Centre research seminar

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 00:00

Open University Campus, Milton Keynes

Promoting pastoralist heritage and alternative visions for development in northern Kenya (Dr. Zoe Cormack, OU, Department of History). 

'Environmental histories of commodities 1800-2000' Conference

Friday, September 11, 2015 - 16:00

University College London

A one-day conference organised under the auspices of the Commodities of Empire project and the Institute of the Americas at UCL

Workshops on Counterinsurgency and Colonialism

Friday, September 24, 2010 - 00:00

Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Commonwealth Studies/
Open University Empire and Postcolonial Group

Workshops on Counterinsurgency and Colonialism

'Negotiating with the "Enemy": perspectives past and present'