The Open University

Mar 7

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

Oct 18

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 - 12:00 to 14:00

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.

Oct 11

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.

Nov 2

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.

Jun 3

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

May 20

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.

Oct 7

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

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).

Sep 11

'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

The Centre for Empire and Postcolonial Studies

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