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Citizenship Studies seminar series: Covid Chronicles from the Margins

As part of the Citizenship Studies seminar series, Prof. Marie Gillespie investigates how forced migrants from around the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic via creative and artful resistance to marginalisation. 

31st March 2022

Citizenship Studies seminar series: Who should care? Social care and citizenship

As part of the Citizenship Studies seminar series, Dr Dan Taylor discusses how social care remains woefully underfunded and what it reflects

31st March 2022

The OU Graduate Nietzsche Conference

In the not-too-distant past, graduates specialising in the study of Nietzsche’s philosophy were relatively rare. Now we are many. Yet, post-pandemic, there are fewer opportunities to present and discuss our research. The graduate community of Nietzsche scholars at The Open University invites graduate researchers with an interest in this subject to submit papers for our OU Online Graduate Conference on Nietzsche.

30th March 2022

Citizenship Studies seminar series: ‘Ordinary Citizenship’: Anthropological Approaches

As part of the Citizenship Studies seminar series, Professor Catherine Neveu uses empirical research carried out in France and other contexts to discuss the gains to be obtained by exploring citizenship processes “through the ordinary”.

29th March 2022

Economics seminar series: Health and industrial policy in and after Covid-19: Economic context from UNIDO's Industrial Development Report (IDR) 2022

OU Economics Seminar Series 2022

Health and industrial policy in and after Covid-19: Economic context from UNIDO's Industrial Development Report (IDR) 2022.

22nd March 2022
A cityscape showing different stages of development with skyscrapers and wooden huts

Commonwealth Scholarships for MSc in Global Development students in Uganda

Development Policy and Practice have secured 15 Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships, funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, for Ugandan development practitioners to study the MSc in Global Development, starting in October 2022.

14th March 2022

Online conference: Reading for/and Escape

Explore reading for escape as an instrumental practice, as well as reading and escape as a series of cultural or personal associations in this free online conference.

4th March 2022
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FASS expert shares insights on appeasement in the Ukraine crisis

Professor of Foreign Policy and International Relations, Jamie Gaskarth, comments on growing tensions between Ukraine and Russia and the history of appeasement in European conflict in this opinion piece for UK in a Changing Europe.

22nd February 2022
The six black British participants of We Are Black and British sharing cups of tea. Copyright Cardiff Productions

New BBCTwo/OU two-part series “We are Black and British” explores tough questions from unique perspectives.

Broadcast on 23 and 24 February on BBCTwo at 21:00, new two-part OU/BBC series We Are Black and British explores the issues and debates around being black in Britain from a unique perspective.

21st February 2022
The Houses of Parliament lit up from across the Thames

FASS launches Open Politics seminar series in partnership with UK Parliament

An exciting programme of free online events organised by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences kick-starts in February, featuring external speakers from BBC Cumbria and UK Parliament.

26th January 2022

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