For many people looking on, France’s descent into violence illustrated the dangers of democratic and populist politics.

This talk will explain how Britain’s imperial attempts to manipulate Islam in the nineteenth century ultimately failed.

In this talk, Dr Richard Marsden will explore how changing ideas about the past have contributed to the unprecedented existential challenges now facing the British state.

This talk will consider whether relations between Tudor England and Europe in the sixteenth century ca offer any lessons for remaking our relationship with Europe in the twenty-first.

When the European Community was set up in 1958, Britain declined to join. By 1961, however, the British Government had completely reversed that position.

Arising from a research project on Participation Arts and Social Action in Research led by Dr. Umut Erel, Sociology, Maggie O'Neill, University of York and Tracey Reynolds, University of Greenwich, Erene Kaptani with a group of participants has devised a performance piece on migrant women and citizenship, to be shown at Rich Mix, London, 31 January 2019. All welcome!

The seminar, organised by Development Policy and Practice at The Open University, will focus initially on two thematic areas, education, and social and economic hardship,  and then broaden out to reflect on the potential and challenges of co-operation more widely. Speakers will present from their own research and/or practical experience followed by discussion.