Previous Events

Feb 25

Researching Global China Conference – Innovation and Challenges

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 09:00 to Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 16:30

Hub Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA

Welcome to the Researching Global China Conference, with this year’s theme looking at methodologies around Innovation and Challenges.

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...