Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College

Join our Masterclass with renowned trade unionist Sharan Burrow at 5pm on 19 March here at
@newnhamcollege.bsky.social. Find out more about leadership in international labour movements and the relevance of trade unionism in the global economy. All welcome: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/master...

What is it like to be a female leader in the world of trade unionism? Join our Masterclass with renowned trade unionist Sharan Burrow at 5pm on 19 March here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. Find out more about leadership in international labour movements. All welcome: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/master...

Join our next lecture at 5pm on 10 February here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social when we will hear from Prof Maha Shuayb from @camedfac.bsky.social on the topic On Disability: Ableism, Development and Selective Solidarity. All welcome, find out more and register here: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/disabi...

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@newnhamcollege.bsky.social Margaret Anstee Research Fellow Dr My Hang Thi Bui has a new paper out, "The twinning of the Global East: Notes from South Korea-Vietnam sister cities", read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Book talk

Join us at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social 4pm, 10 Dec to hear Dr Laura Trajber Waisbich talk about her recently published book, Southern Powers and Global Development: Responsible but Different. newn.cam.ac.uk/event/talk-s... @crasshlive.bsky.social @camunigeography.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social

Library with books and globe.

Looking forward to this event on the morning of 7 November here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social to focus on knowledge exchange and impact in research, in particular for College-based researchers, find out more and register, all are welcome: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/advanc...

Archival boxes.

We are excited to have Elizabeth Lhost, Program Manager of the Modern Endangered Archives Program at ULCA Library speaking at 11am this Friday 17 Oct about Endangered Archives and Community Collections, here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social, all welcome: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/endang...

Term Card Michaelmas 2025

Our Term Card is out! Do join us for our Michaelmas Term 2025 events, all taking place at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. First event is on 17 Oct to discuss Endangered Archives. Details on the website: newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-events @crasshlive.bsky.social

Agrarian questions in global Palestine: past, present and future This article introduces and invites contributions to the Forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled. While agrarian political economy has received renewed attention in the Arab region, Palest...

This new article by Fadia Panosetti (Postdoctoral Affiliate @newnhamcollege.bsky.social), Taher Labadi and Ahmad Heneiti introduces and invites contributions to the Forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘It Will All End in Tears’: The Politics of Debt and the Spread of Misinformation on Zambian Social Media Over the last decade, Zambian social mediaSocial media has been dominated by debates about foreign influence over the economy, the embezzlement of public funds, and the country’s descent into a ...

Dr Cynthia Kamwengo @newnhamcollege.bsky.social has a new chapter out, ‘It Will All End in Tears’: The Politics of Debt and the Spread of Misinformation on Zambian Social Media - in Stephen Chan's book on The Economic Transformation and Political Economy of Zambia link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

A new working paper with @CynthKamwengo that hopefully provides some practical examples & ideas for how universities can decolonise, diversify, & update their social science curricula (& possible limits to these efforts):

purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Multiversum cover

Dr Cynthia Kamwengo, Research Fellow @newnhamcollege.bsky.social and @radleyben.bsky.social have a new paper in Multiversum. Deconstructing and reconstructing African development studies through student engagement and cross-cultural collaboration at a UK university: www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-in...

Lecture on 10 June on topic of Social Protection for Female Sex Workers in Jamaica: Implications for Social Policy and Development

Rashalee Mitchell will deliver a lecture at 5pm on 10 June at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on Social Protection for Female Sex Workers in Jamaica. Do join us & share! ‬ @cambridgegender.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social newn.cam.ac.uk/event/social...

13 May lecture at Newnham College.

📢 Public Lecture! Hurling Money: Public Funding and Private Profit during COVID-19. Dr Kathryn Moeller, Shahnaaz Khan & María Fernanda Rodríguez from the Dept of Education, University of Cambridge. 📌 5pm on Tuesday 13 May in the Lucia Windsor room at Newnham College. newn.cam.ac.uk/event/hurlin...

Child looking at laptop

📢 Hurling Money: Public Funding and Private Profit during COVID-19. Public lecture at 5pm here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 13 May presented by Dr Kathryn Moeller, Shahnaaz Khan & María Fernanda Rodríguez, Department of Education, University of Cambridge. Info: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/hurlin...

Find out more about how to become a Postdoctoral Affiliate here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social newn.cam.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Insightful blog post by Margaret Anstee and @newnhamcollege.bsky.social Fellow Dr Cynthia Kamwengo on the impact of US Aid cuts on Zambia, how the country is responding and the international opportunities this new reality might offer.

The Conditions of the Working Class in 1960s Beirut: Fire and Everyday Struggles in Karantina In this paper, I examine the spatial processes of class formation within informal urban spaces. To do so, I consider Karantina in the 1960s, an outgrowth of one of the oldest refugee camps in the wor...

Fascinating new article by @newnhamcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Diala Lteif in @antipodeonline.bsky.social based on her research into The Conditions of the Working Class in 1960s Beirut: Fire and Everyday Struggles in Karantina onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

From Rights to Protection: Reframing Women's Empowerment for Authoritarian Democracy

Looking forward to our next lecture here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 18 March with Poulami Roychowdhury speaking on From Rights to Protection: Reframing Women's Empowerment for Authoritarian Democracy, with Manali Desai as chair discussant. Find out more: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/rights...

Announcing a fellowship opening at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, four years. Further particulars here: newn.cam.ac.uk/vacancy/marg...

Looking forward to Adam Hanieh's lecture, coming up at
@newnhamcollege.bsky.social
on 11 Feb on Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market, find out more and reserve your place: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/crude-...

The FCDO's approach to displaced people - Committees - UK Parliament 2024 saw a continuing rise in global displacement, with at least 117.3 million people forced to flee their homes, including nearly 43.4 million refugees, around 40% of whom are under the age of 18. Th...

The International Development Committee is calling for evidence on the FCDO's approach to displaced people and the effectiveness of Official Development Assistance spending, deadline is 21 Jan 2025, info here:
committees.parliament.uk/work/8710/th...

Do join us at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on Thursday 12 Dec at 5.30pm for Sara Lorenzini's lecture: A death declared too soon? Cold War ideas that influence development aid to this day. Find out more: buytickets.at/margaretanst... @iliasalami.bsky.social

The Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies supports research into economic and social development and international relations, in and relating to the Global South. We are based at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. Find out more about our work: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/mar...