Previous Events

Jan 23

China/Europe and the Changing Global Order seminar series: Chinese Investment Boom in Hungary: Semi-Peripheral Perspectives and Implications for European Identity

Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 12:30 to 14:00

Online via MS Teams

Come along to our seminar and hear Dr Viktor Eszterhai from John Lukacs Institute for Strategy and Politics speak on: Chinese Investment Boom in Hungary: Semi-Peripheral Perspectives and Implications for European Identity.

Nov 4

Literature Matters: Call for Papers

Monday, November 4, 2024 - 10:00 to Wednesday, November 6, 2024 - 20:00

Online, via MS Teams

This FREE 3-day online international conference, Literature Matters, encourages participants to interrogate the importance (or not) of literature and writing in the 21st century.

Oct 29

Economics seminar series: Balancing investment, consumption and employment in Tanzania

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:30

Online and in-person, Wilson B Room 5, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes

Tanzania’s biggest economic challenge in the next 25 years is to leverage its rapidly growing labour force. Marc Wuyts will argue that promoting growth by restraining consumption – the focus of past development plans - is problematic in an economy characterised by extensive surplus labou...

Oct 16

GCSJ roundtable: How far did we decolonise

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - 13:30 to 15:00

Online

This Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) roundtable event invites a critical exploration of the multifaceted work of decolonisation across the Open University.

Oct 11

GCSJ seminar series: Legislating against political lying: risks and feasibility

Friday, October 11, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00

Online

In this seminar, Alex Barber (Philosophy) and Sean Cordell (Philosophy) identify four core challenges for the Senedd proposal in its latest iteration. More positively, we identify some potential workarounds and some alternative approaches to the problem of political lying in a de...