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Podcasts and Presentations

Podcasts and presentations of TIDI’s events including the recent lecture ‘Memory, Culture and Hope: Reinventing Western-Islamic Relations’ by Dr. Ismail Serageldin are available at the following link: http://www.tcd.ie/tidi/newsite/resources/

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Friday 18th December: Botany Seminar Series 2009: Soil Respiration

Mike Williams, Department of Botany, TCD will present this lecture on Soil respiration: Fluxes of CO2 to the atmosphere.
Time: 2 -3 pm
Venue: Botany Lecture Theatre, Botany Building, Trinity College Dublin
Contact: Website: https://www.tcd.ie/Botany/

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IIIS Discussion Paper Series

The Economic Partnership Agreement between Uganda and the EU: Trade and Poverty Impacts by Olé Boysen, Alan Matthews, IIIS IIIS Discussion Paper No. 307 Website: https://www.tcd.ie/iiis/documents/discussion/pdfs/iiisdp307.pdf Border Price Shocks, Spatial Price Variation and their Impacts on Poverty in Uganda Olé Boysen, IIIS IIIS Discussion Paper No. 306 Website: https://www.tcd.ie/iiis/documents/discussion/pdfs/iiisdp306.pdf

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Tuesday15th December: GREENshoots Seminar Series: Resource Modeling of Material and Energy Flow in Cities.

This lunch time discussion, delivered by Paul Dunne, ARUP, aims to create a long standing multidisciplinary community interested in the questions of sustainability and low carbon urban living.
Time: 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Venue: LTEE2, basement of the Hamilton Building, TCD
Contact: Dr. Emma Siddall Tel: 896 3956, Email: emma.siddall@tcd.ie or Website: www.trinityhaus.tcd.ie

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Friday 11th December: Resesearch Seminar on “International Peacemaking and the Irish Peace Process”

This seminar, organised by the International Peace Studies programme at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College, will be given by David Bloomfield, Chief Executive of the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation.
Time: 11.00 am-12.30 pm
Venue: Irish School of Ecumenics, Milltown Park, Dublin 6 Contact: Iain Atack, E-mail: atacki@tcd.ie. Website: www.tcd.ie/ise/peace/

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Friday 11th December: TCD/UCD Lunchtime Seminar: Reinterpreting the Citizen Consumer: The Alternative Consumer Movement and the Right to Health and Development in Malaysia

Speaker Dr. Su-ming Khoo, lecturer with the School of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway will deliver this lecture as part of the TCD/UCD ‘Development Practice’ Seminar Series.
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD
Contact: Adrian Corcoran, adrian.corcoran@ucd.ie, http://www.ucd.ie/hdi/ or Sarah Glavey, sglavey@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/tidi

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Thursday 10th December: Memory, Culture and Hope: Reinventing Western-Islamic Relations

This public lecture delivered by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Librarian of Alexandria is presented by TIDI and the Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr. Serageldin was Vice President for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development with the World Bank from 1992 to 1998, and Chairman of the Global Water Partnership from 1996 to 2000 among other roles. More information on his distinguished career can be found at http://www.serageldin.com/Index.aspx
Time: 5.15– 7pm
Venue: Edmund Burke Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Arts Building, TCD
Contact: RSVP to tidi@tcd.ie Website: http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/events/forthcoming/ or www.tcd.ie/tidi

Dr Ismail Serageldin, BA (Cairo), PhD (Harvard), is the founding Director (2002) of the visionary New Library of Alexandria. This is a library for the modern era - the contents of the WorldWideWeb are downloaded and stored every two months. The historic post, Librarian of Alexandria, has been re-established for him, the first person to hold it for more than1500 years.

He spent more than 30 years at the World Bank becoming Vice-President for Sustainable Development. He has focussed on the importance of education (especially of women), technical and scientific knowledge and social reform. Recognising that the importance of water was being overlooked he founded (1996) and chaired The Global Water Partnership. He reformed the UN institutes of agriculture while chairman of the CGIAR. He has advocated the value of biotechnology in health and agriculture hosting BioVision Alexandria since 2004. He is a member of the Senate of Egypt, a brilliant and courageous orator who is devoted to "rationality, tolerance, dialogue, learning and understanding". He will talk on how to build bridges between Islam and the West. For further information please visit: http://www.serageldin.com/Index.aspx

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Wednesday 9th December: Peace Studies Public lecture on “Dialogue with the Devil: Dilemmas for Peacemakers”

This public lecture, organised by the International Peace Studies programme at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College, will be given by David Bloomfield, Chief Executive of the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation.
Time: 7 pm
Venue: J. M. Synge Theatre, Arts Building
Contact: Iain Atack, E-mail: atacki@tcd.ie. Website: www.tcd.ie/ise/peace/

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Friday 4th December: TCD/UCD Lunchtime Seminar: An Overview of the Aid-for-Trade Agenda

Speaker William Hynes, Policy Analyst, Poverty Reduction and Growth, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD will deliver the next instalment of the TCD/UCD ‘Development Practice’ Seminar Series. Recent trends in ODA, crisis response by donors, aid to productive sectors and the green growth agenda in developing countries will be discussed.
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: G317, Arts (Newman) Building, Belfield Campus, UCD Contact: Adrian Corcoran, adrian.corcoran@ucd.ie, http://www.ucd.ie/hdi/ or Sarah Glavey, sglavey@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/tidi

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Friday, 4th December: Psychiatry and Photography in Colonial East Africa.

Dr Sloan Mahone, Deputy Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford will deliver this seminar as part of the Long Room Hub Lecture Series.
Time: 11am - 12.30pm
Venue: Room C6002, IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, TCD.
Contact: Email: lrh@tcd.ie, Website: http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/events/forthcoming/

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Tuesday 1st December: Suas Global Issues Seminar Series: Ethical Volunteering

This is the final lecture of the series, held every Tuesday evening in Trinity College. Suas also run Global Issues courses in UCC, the Irish Aid Volunteer Centre, RCSI, UCD; NUIM and NUIG. See Suas website for full details.
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: M-17, Museum Building, Trinity College.
Contact: Email: joanne@suas.ie, Website: http://www.suas.ie/global-issues-evenings.html

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Friday 27th November: TCD/UCD Lunchtime Seminar: Elephants, Flying Penguins and Superpipes; Some Reflections on 'Education Best Practice' and ICT4Dev.

Speaker Dr Conor Galvin, Lecturer and Researcher at the UCD School of Education will deliver this lecture as part of the TCD/UCD ‘Development Practice’ Lunchtime Seminar Series.
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: G317, Arts (Newman) Building, Belfield Campus, UCD
Contact: Adrian Corcoran, adrian.corcoran@ucd.ie, http://www.ucd.ie/hdi/ or Sarah Glavey, sglavey@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/tidi

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Friday 27th November: Results from the Lake Malawi Drilling Project

Prof. Tom Johnson, University of Minnesota will deliver this lecture, organised by the Department of Geology at Trinity College, which focuses on a 150,000-year record of aridity and temperature from the East African tropics. Tea and coffee provided, feel free to bring a sandwich.
Time: 1 - 1.50 pm
Venue: Museum 4, Museum Building, Trinity College.
Contact: David Chew, Email: chewd@tcd.ie, Website: http://www.tcd.ie/Geology/MAIN-PAGE/meeting.php

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Thursday 26th November: What Can We Learn About Climate Change from Studies of the Earth's Upper Atmosphere?

In his work on atmospheric and particle collision physics, Dr Frank Mulligan, Department of Experimental Physics, NUI Maynooth, has carried out research in Spitzbergen, at City College New York, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Space Physics Research Laboratory of the University of Michigan, the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. His main interest is in the study of the Earth’s upper atmosphere through observations of optical emissions that originate at altitudes greater than 80km.
Time: 19:30
Venue: Botany Theatre, Trinity College
Contact: Website: http://www.irishmetsociety.org/cms

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Wednesday 25th November: ‘Copenhagen: Delivering Climate Justice?’

Oxfam Ireland, in collaboration with TIDI, present a keynote address by Mary Robinson, Honorary President of Oxfam International and Chancellor of the University of Dublin, Trinity College.
Time: 6.30-7.30pm
Venue: Thomas Davis Theatre, Ground Floor, Arts Building, TCD
Contact: Limited places available, entrance with RSVP only. Please contact tidi@tcd.ie if interested in attending. Website: www.tcd.ie/tidi

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Friday 20th November: TCD/UCD Lunchtime Seminar: Countdown to Copenhagen; Climate Change Policy and Advocacy

Speaker Colin Roche, Policy and Advocacy Coordinator of Oxfam Ireland will deliver this lecture as part of the TCD/UCD ‘Development Practice’ Lunchtime Seminar Series.
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Room 5052, 5th Floor, Arts Building, TCD
Contact: Adrian Corcoran, adrian.corcoran@ucd.ie, http://www.ucd.ie/hdi/ or Sarah Glavey, sglavey@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/tidi

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Wednesday 18th November: Peace Studies Public Lecture on “Vietnam-Iraq: Language and the Ethics of War and Peace”

In this lecture, Ron Large will examine how leaders and policy-makers have used language to shape the moral world of the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq. Ron Large is a Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga College in Spokane, Washington and a visiting Fulbright Scholar in the International Peace Studies programme at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College
Time: 7 pm
Venue: J. M. Synge Theatre, Arts Building
Contact: Iain Atack, E-mail: atacki@tcd.ie. Website: www.tcd.ie/ise/peace/

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Tuesday 17th November: Suas Global Issues Seminar Series: Global Education

This is the fifth of six lectures which will be held every Tuesday evening in Trinity College. Suas also run Global Issues courses in UCC, the Irish Aid Volunteer Centre, RCSI, UCD; NUIM and NUIG. See Suas website for full details.
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: M-17, Museum Building, Trinity College.
Contact: Email: joanne@suas.ie, Website: http://www.suas.ie/global-issues-evenings.html

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Monday 16th November: Trinity Volunteer Opportunities Forum: Summer Volunteering Opportunities Fair

Building upon the success of last year's event, this year's volunteering fair will showcase 20 local, national and international organisations who have volunteering opportunities commencing in summer 2010. Both TCD staff and students are welcome to attend to pick up information and application forms and to chat to representatives and past volunteers. Final year students, who may be interested in engaging in a period of full-time voluntary work on completion of their degree, are especially welcome. This event is coordinated by Trinity Volunteer Opportunities Forum in conjunction with the TCD Civic Engagement Office. TVOF is a TCD student initiative to promote the spirit of volunteerism across campus and to support current volunteering activities within Trinity.
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Outside Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building
Contact: tvof@tcd.ie, http://www.tvof.tcdlife.ie/

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Monday 16th November: Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence: Public Lecture by Professor Luke O’Neill

Professor Luke O'Neill winner of the 2009 Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence, will give a public lecture describing his research. Professor O’Neill was awarded the prize for his significant contribution to international research into the immune system, in addition to his involvement in education and industry and his participation in international research meetings.
Time: 7pm.
Venue: RDS, Dublin 2.
Contact: Website: http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/news.php?headerID=1293&vs_date=2009-10-1

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TIDI Development Research Week

Trinity’s first ‘Development Research Week’ ran from Monday 9th – Friday 13th November. The Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI) presented a showcase of development research and associated activities, hosting sessions in collaboration with researchers and students from TCD and other education institutes, as well as NGOs, to highlight development research and its application across a range of disciplines and themes. ‘Development Research Week’ included: a multidisciplinary module for doctoral students, entitled ‘Adapting Research Methodologies for Developing Country Conditions’, the launch of the Trócaire Development Review: Business, Ethics and International Development: Which Way Forward?, TIDI’s Autumn Business Meeting and a seminar on Climate Change Research. See www.tcd.ie/tidi for full details and resources from events held during ‘Development Research Week’. Podcasts of some events will be available soon.

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First Grand Rounds Collaboration Between Clinicians and Researchers at TCD, John Hopkins and Makerere University

In a groundbreaking development, clinicians and researchers from Trinity College Dublin, St James’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA and Makerere University in Uganda utilised state of the art Telesynergy technology facilitated by a National Institute for Health satellite, to host a joint simultaneous grand rounds meeting to discuss complex cases in international health. It is intended that regular grand round meetings will take place between these partners over the coming period. The Telesynergy unit at the Trinity Centre in St James’s Hospital is one of three such units in the Republic of Ireland and allows regional, national and international expertise to be pooled into a single easy-to- access resource, effectively removing the geographical barriers that prevent sharing of expert opinion and direct collaboration between clinical and research professionals. For full details click here.

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Thursday, 12th November: Centre for Global Health Postgraduate Symposium

This symposium will showcase the research efforts of our recent MSc in Global Health graduates. Graduates from the class of 2008-2009 will present the results of their final research projects that were conducted in countries including Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone, and Ireland. More details available on the Centre for Global Health website: www.global-health.tcd.ie.
Time: 2-6pm
Venue: Jonathan Swift Theatre, Arts Building
Contact: Karen Reilly, Email: global.health@tcd.ie, Website: http://www.global-health.tcd.ie//

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Monday 9th – Friday 13th November: TIDI Module for Ireland-based Doctoral Students (Limited Place Available)

TIDI is offering a compressed module for doctoral students entitled ‘Adapting research methodologies for developing country conditions’ to raise awareness about development issues among doctoral students and to provide training in the methodological challenges of conducting research in developing country environments. The course is aimed specifically at doctoral students from any discipline who are currently conducting researching (or preparing for research) in the developing world and/or on topics relating to international development.
Time: 10-12am and 2-4pm
Venue: Trinity College Dublin
Contact: Tel: +353-1-896-4177, Email: tidi@tcd.ie, please register your interest using the form available on the TIDI website www.tcd.ie/tidi or click here for further information.

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Friday 6th November : TCD/UCD Lunchtime Seminar: Development Studies as a Foundation for Multi-disciplinary Advocacy, Teaching and Research: A personal perspective.

TIDI and the UCD Human Development Initiative present the third seminar in the ‘Development Practice’ Series. Dr. Edward Lahiff Doctoral Programme Officer for the Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI) at Trinity College Dublin will deliver the seminar. The presentation will look at how training in development studies, in two specialised institutions, served as a preparation for working in various development-related capacities in Africa, with particular emphasis on multi-disciplinary teaching and research. Examples will be drawn from the presenter’s ongoing research in the field of land reform and natural resource rights in southern Africa. It will also consider the current state of development studies in Ireland and make a case for the expansion of development studies as a distinct academic discipline. All welcome. Sandwiches provided.
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Room G317, UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Arts Building, Belfield Campus.
Contact: Adrian Corcoran, adrian.corcoran@ucd.ie, http://www.ucd.ie/hdi/ or Sarah Glavey, sglavey@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/tidi

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Friday 6th November: Research seminar on "Martin Luther King, Nonviolence, and Economic Justice"

This seminar, organised by the International Peace Studies programme at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College will be given by Professor Ron Large of Gonzaga College,Spokane Washington, visiting Fulbright Scholar with the International Peace Studies programme. Professor Large has studied the connection between virtue and social change in the thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi.
Time: 11.00am -12.30pm
Venue: Irish School of Ecumenics, Milltown Park, Dublin 6.
Contact: Email: atacki@tcd.ie, Website: www.tcd.ie/ise/peace/

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Friday 6th November: Forced Labour and the Consequences of Trafficking Discourse

This Trinity Immigration Initiative seminar is being held in conjunction with the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies Seminar Series and will be delivered by Deirdre Coghlan, Independent Research.
Time: 1-3pm
Venue: College Green, Room 4, TCD.
Contact: Email: immigration@tcd.ie, Website: http://www.tcd.ie/immigration/seminars/upcoming.php

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Tuesday 3rd November: Muslim Women in Nigeria

The School of Religion and Theology and the Theological Society of Trinity invite you to the lecture and book launch by Dr. Kathleen McGarvey.
Time: 7pm
Venue: Swift Theatre, Arts Building, TCD
Contact: Website: http://www.tcd.ie/Religions_Theology/

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Tuesday 3rd November: Suas Global Issues Seminar Series: History, Narratives and Rights in the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

This is the third of six lectures which will be held every Tuesday evening in Trinity College. Suas also run Global Issues courses in UCC, the Irish Aid Volunteer Centre, RCSI, UCD; NUIM and NUIG. See website for full details.
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Museum Building, Room M17, TCD
Contact: Email: joanne@suas.ie, Website: http://www.suas.ie/global-issues-evenings.html

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Thursday 29th October: Climate Change and the Developing World

The Irish Meteorological Society presents a public lecture by Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern Worldwide on the effects of climate change on the developing world.
Time: 8 pm
Venue: Botany Theatre, (check building name), Trinity College, Dublin. Contact: Emily Gleeson, Secretary, Irish Met Society, Email: info@irishmetsociety.org, Website: http://www.irishmetsociety.org/cms/

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Wednesday 28th October: IIIS and Sociology Public Lecture Series: 'Is globalization reversible?'

In this paper Professor Robert Holton explores the underlying question ‘is globalization reversible?’ Analyses of globalization have moved beyond the earlier hype about a borderless world inhabited by mobile capital and confident cosmopolitans. Many now speak of limits to globalization, while a few see its death as imminent. Robert Holton is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Fellow of Trinity College.
Time: 7pm
Venue: Synge Theatre, Trinity College.
Contact: Website: http://www.tcd.ie/iiis

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Tuesday 27th October: Family Networks and Orphan Caretaking in Tanzania

Christopher Ksoll, Oxford University will deliver this lunchtime lecture, as part of the joint Department of Economics and IIIS seminar series. Time: 12.30 to 2 pm
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Sutherland Centre, Arts Building, Trinity.
Contact: Catia Batista Tel: (0)1 896 1041, Website: http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/Seminars/

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Thursday 22 October: Public meeting on "U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Peacemaker or Peacebreaker"

This lecture, organised by the International Peace Studies programme at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College, will be given by Professor Stephen Zunes, lecturer in Politics and International Studeis at the the University of San Francisco.
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building Prof.

Zunes will also present a research seminar on "Nonviolent Resistance to Authoritarian Regimes" on Friday 23rd October.
Time: 10.00-11.30am
Venue: Irish School of Ecumenics, Milltown Park, Dublin
Contact: Email: atacki@tcd.ie, Website: www.tcd.ie/ise/peace/

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Thursday, 22nd October: TCD Science Gallery: Can Game Theory Predict the Future?

Meetforeal at the Science Gallery welcomes Bruce Bueno de Mesquita consultant to the CIA and the Department of Defense in the US. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has built an intricate computer model that can predict the outcomes of international conflicts His systems based on game theory have an astonishing 90%+ ratio of accuracy and are frequently used to shape US foreign-policy decisions.
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Paccar Theatre, Science Gallery
Contact: Website: http://www.meetforeal.com/retrieveevent.do?eid=26

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Friday 23rd October: TCD/UCD Lunchtime Seminar: 'Aid as One Element of the Financing for Development Jigsaw'

TIDI and the UCD Human Development Initiative present the second seminar in the ‘Development Practice’ Seminar Series. Tara Bedi, Trocaire Policy and Research Coordinator and Joanne McGarry, Trocaire Aid Policy Officer will deliver the seminar. Aid, while only one element of financing for development is critical for many reasons. However, Ireland's aid budget has been cut by €224 million, or 24% in 2009. The speakers will discuss the impact these cuts are having in the developing world and the long term effect it will have on the sustainability and quality of the Irish Aid Programme. All welcome. Sandwiches provided.
Time: 12.45-1.45pm
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
Contact: Adrian Corcoran, Email: email@adriancorcoran.com, http://www.ucd.ie/hdi/ or Sarah Glavey, sglavey@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/tidi

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Monday 19th October: The Mystery of Capital

Organised by the University Philosophical Society at TCD, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto will give a talk on his new book The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. The lecture will be followed by a short Question and Answer session.
Time: 12.30-2pm
Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College
Contact: Website: http://www.tcdphil.com/index.php

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Tuesday 20th October: Suas Global Issues Seminar Series: Introduction to Development

The first of six lectures which will be held every Tuesday evening in Trinity College. The course offers a way to learn about Global Issues from leading experts in the field. Each weekly session lasts for two hours and is a mixture of presentation and an interactive component such as a group exercise or discussion Suas will also run six to seven week Global Issues courses in UCC, the Irish Aid Volunteer Centre, RCSI, UCD; NUIM, NUIG. See website for full details.
Contact: Email: david@suas.ie Website: http://www.suas.ie/global-issues-evenings.html

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Monday, 5th October: Poverty as a Human Rights Issue

This talk will be delivered by Professor Michael Freeman. Professor Freeman, from the University of Essex, UK has been a member of Amnesty International since 1977, was Chairperson of its UK Section 1986-1988, and was the Alternate Chairperson of Amnesty’s International Council Meeting which was held in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1989. He has lectured on human rights in more than 20 countries, from China and Japan to Brazil and Mexico, and is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, USA.
Time: 7pm
Venue: GMB Debating Chamber, Trinity College
Contact: http://www.tcd.ie/

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Wednesday, 7th October: Joseph Stiglitz on Globalization

The College Historical Society will be presenting Professor Joseph Stiglitz with the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse. He will chair a short debate on the motion 'That Globalisation has been used by the rich world to exploit the poor world' and give the key note address to follow. The event will subsequently be open to questions from the floor. Tickets will be distributed on Tuesday 6th October at 10am in the Arts Block to Hist members (membership can be obtained at the stand for €5).
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: GMB, Trinity College
Contact: Email: info@thehist.com, Website: http://www.thehist.com/

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Friday 9th October: Presentation by The Society for Environmental Exploration / Frontier

Frontier is a UK-based non-profit organisation which works to promote and advance field research and implement practical projects contributing to the conservation of natural resources in East Africa, Central America and South East Asia. This presentation will be on the organisation’s work and fieldwork and career opportunities for students, particularly students of the Natural Sciences.
Time: 2.00 pm
Venue: Botany Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
Contact: Email: fraser.mitchell@tcd.ie, Website: http://www.frontier.ac.uk/

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Friday 9th October: TCD/UCD Lunchtime Seminar on ‘NGO Regulation’

TCD and UCD present the first seminar in the ‘Development Practice’ Seminar Series. This series is organized by the Human Development Initiative at UCD and TIDI at TCD. The seminar will be delivered by Dr. Oonagh Breen, Lecturer at the UCD School of Law and visiting research fellow at Harvard's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. The seminar is titled ‘NGO Regulation’ – the impact of the Irish Charities Act 2009 for international NGOs. All welcome. Sandwiches will be provided
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Room G317, UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Arts Building, Belfield Campus. Contact: Adrian Corcoran, email@adriancorcoran.com, http://www.ucd.ie/hdi/ or Sarah Glavey, sglavey@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/tidi

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Leaders: A Photographic Exhibition

A photographic exhibition by the Trinity Immigration Initiative (TII) Migrant Networks project which aims to showcase the contribution made by leaders of migrant networks is touring various Dublin City Council venues until October, 2009. All venues are free and open to the public.
Contact: Email: immigration@tcd.ie, Website: www.tcd.ie/immigration/networks/exhibition.php

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Global Classroom “ Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development Practice”: Opportunity for TCD and UCD students and lecturers to participate in an interactive lecture series hosted by Colombia University and the MacArthur Foundation.

Global Classroom “Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development Practice”. Opportunity for TCD and UCD students and lecturers to participate in an interactive lecture series hosted by Columbia University and the MacArthur Foundation. Participation will be by teleconference on Tuesdays at 11.45am for one hour from 8th September to 15th December. This opportunity comes as a result of the award made by the MacArthur Foundation to TCD and UCD in collaboration with the University of Rwanda, for a joint Masters in Development Practice which will have its first intake in 2010.
Contact: Interested lecturers and students should contact Padraig Carmody as soon as possible. Tel: 01 896 1243 or Email: carmodyp@tcd.ie.
For more information, see press release: http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/pressreleases/pressRelease.php?headerID=1228&pressReleaseArchive=2009

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Friday 2nd October: Employment Rights Compliance and Migrant Labour.

The Trinity Immigration Initiative presents its upcoming lecture delivered by Ger Deering, Director of the National Employment Rights Authority
Time: 12.30-2pm
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, C6.002, 6th Floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Contact: Email: immigration@tcd.ie Website: http://www.tcd.ie/immigration/index.php

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Trinity Immigration Initiative contributes to E-Journal: Translocations

The new issue of Translocations: Migration and Social Change is now online. Translocations is an Inter-Disciplinary, Open Access E-Journal on migration and social change.
To read more go to: http://www.translocations.ie/volume_5_issue_1/index.shtml

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Tuesday 1st September: Hotel Rwanda

To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, The Africa Centre wishes to invite you to a talk by Paul Rusesabagina.
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: JM Synge Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.
Contact: RSVP by the 28th of August to: Mubarak@africacentre.ie Website: http://www.africacentre.ie

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Applications invited for NEW International Doctorate in Global Health

INDIGO, the International Doctoral School in Global Health, based at the Centre for Global Health in Trinity College, Dublin, is offering a new, interdisciplinary and multi-institutional PhD programme in global health.

INDIGO is now inviting applications from suitably qualified candidates wishing to pursue research in any area of global health for registration in September 2009.

Contact: edward.lahiff@tcd.ie, http://www.medicine.tcd.ie/global-health/indigo/

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Findings of Study led by Trinity Researchers Shed Light on Cause of Cerebral Malaria That Kills 1 Million African Children Each Year

A novel pathway that may contribute to the high mortality associated with severe malaria in African children has been identified by researchers from an international collaborative study led by Dr James O’ Donnell, Director of the Haemostasis Research Group at Trinity College Dublin and St James’s Hospital, Dublin. The research, which was recently published in the prestigious publication PLoS Pathogen, was funded by the Wellcome Trust and Science Foundation Ireland. To view more information please see:http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/pressreleases/pressRelease.php?headerID=1251&pressReleaseArchive=2009

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Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin awarded $900,000 (€640,000) by the MacArthur Foundation for Masters in Development Practice.

Trinity College and University College Dublin, in partnership with the University of Rwanda, Trócaire, the Ethical Globalisation Initiative, and Kimmage Development Studies Centre, have been awarded $900,000 by the MacArthur Foundation, one of the largest independent foundations in the United States, to establish Ireland as the European Hub for the provision of Development Practice Education and Training. The award is part of an $8 million worldwide initiative by the MacArthur Foundation to tackle the challenges in global sustainable development. The joint Irish entry was selected from more than 70 proposals worldwide. The award will be used to create a joint UCD-TCD Masters Degree in Development Practice which will train the next generation of development experts and provide them with the knowledge and skills required to tackle the challenges of global poverty and environmental sustainability. To view more information please see: http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/pressreleases/pressRelease.php?headerID=1228&pressReleaseArchive=2009

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Online supplement to the Trinity News: “The Delhi Report”

Report on education and development in India produced by TCD student reporters and funded by Irish Aid. http://www.trinitynews.ie/index.php/delhi-blog/magazine

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Podcast now available - “On Global Confusion” by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.

A public lecture by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Amartya Sen, chaired by Chancellor of the University of Dublin, Dr. Mary Robinson, took place on Thursday 9th July at the Public Theatre, Trinity College Dublin. Over 520 guests from the academic and development communities, as well as politicians, diplomats and members of the general public, were in attendance.
Prof. Sen spoke on the topic "On Global Confusion".
This lecture was hosted by TIDI and the Royal Irish Academy in collaboration with Concern and the Irish Times.
Click here for the podcast of this public lecture.

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Trinity staff join New Global Task Force on Humanitarian Work Psychology.

The Task Force, originally convened in 2008 by Stuart C. Carr, of the New Zealand-based Poverty Research Group, Massey University, is an international, non-partisan initiative formed to link organizational psychology and its institutions with development and humanitarian agencies. The first meeting of the task force took place in University College London on June 24-25th.
Click here for press release with further information.

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After the Boom:  Migration and the Irish Construction Sector.

The Migrants Careers & Aspirations research team, made up of the Trinity Immigration Initiative and the Employment Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin, has recently published their latest newsletter, After the Boom:  Migration and the Irish Construction Sector.
For further information see: http://www.tcd.ie/immigration/css/downloads/MCA_Newsletter_2.pdf.

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Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin

Postgraduate programmes in Reconciliation Studies, Ecumenics and International Peace Studies are taking applications for 2009/2010.

Contact: reconsec@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/ise

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Thursday 9th July: “On Global Confusion” presented by Professor Amartya Sen

The event is hosted by Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with the Royal Irish Academy, Concern and the Irish Times.

Speaker: Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen, Chaired by Chancellor Mary Robinson.

Venue: Public Theatre, Front Square, Trinity College Dublin

Time: 6.30pm

Contact: Admission is free, but places must be reserved. To reserve a place email sen@ria.ie. Further details at http://www.tcd.ie/tidi or http://www.ria.ie/news/OnGlobalConfusion.html
RSVP to sen@ria.ie is essential by 3rd July

 

Further information on the speaker:

‘The world's poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate or insightful a champion among economists than Amartya Sen.' Kofi A. Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations.

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the Econometric Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association and the International Economic Association. He was formerly Honorary President of OXFAM and is now its Honorary Advisor. Born in Santiniketan, India, Amartya Sen studied at Presidency College in Calcutta, India, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is an Indian citizen. He was Lamont University Professor at Harvard also earlier, from1988 – 1998, and previous to that he was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University, and a Fellow of All Souls College (he is now a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls). Prior to that he was Professor of Economics at Delhi University and at the London School of Economics.

Amartya Sen’s books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and include Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), On Economic Inequality (1973, 1997), Poverty and Famines (1981), Choice, Welfare and Measurement (1982), Resources, Values and Development (1984), On Ethics and Economics (1987), The Standard of Living (1987), Inequality Reexamined (1992), Development as Freedom (1999), and Rationality and Freedom (2002), The Argumentative Indian (2005), and Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006), among others. His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war.

Amartya Sen has received honorary doctorates from major universities in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Among the awards he has received are the “Bharat Ratna” (the highest honour awarded by the President of India); the Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize in Ethics; the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award; the Edinburgh Medal; the Brazilian Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Grã-Cruz); the Presidency of the Italian Republic Medal; the Eisenhower Medal; Honorary Companion of Honour (U.K.); The George C. Marshall Award, and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

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Wednesday 1st July: Is religion infectious? The spread and future of religion.

As part of INFECTIOUS at the Science Gallery, Dublin's political cabaret Leviathan presents an interactive public conversation on world religion. This will be followed by a head-to-head discussion with two of Ireland's leading scientists, Dr William Reville and David McConnell on how religion spreads.

Venue: Paccar Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

Time: 8-9.30pm

Tickets available at: http://www.sciencegallery.com/events

€15.00 (10% off original price for members). Pre-booking essential.

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Call for applications to MSc Global Health 2009/2010

Deadline: 31st May
Contact: global.health@tcd.ie or 01 895 8594, http://www.medicine.tcd.ie/global-health/

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Call for applications to NEW MSc Environment and Development

Deadline: 16th June
Contact: carmodyp@tcd.ie, http://www.tcd.ie/Geography/GeographyWebsite/MScEnvironmentAndDevelopment/CourseDescription.php

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Tuesday 16th &17th June: The Centre for Nonprofit Management: 4th Annual Summer School

“Resourcing and Enabling Irish Civil Society – Considering the Role of Philanthropy Centre for Nonprofit Management”

Time: Lunchtime Tuesday 16th June and Lunchtime Wednesday 17th June
Speakers: Declan Ryan, Dermot McCarthy, Tina Roche, Niall Crowley, John R. Healy, Helmut Anheier, Colm O'Gorman, Fintan O'Toole and others.
Venue: Irish Management Institute, Sandyford, Dublin 16
Contact: nonprofit@tcd.ie, http://www.cnm.tcd.ie/

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LEADERS: A photographic exhibition of Migrant Networks’ Leaders Presented by the Trinity Immigration Initiative

Date/Time: 29th May – 25th June, Mon-Thurs, 8am-6.45pm, Fridays, 8am-5.45pm

Venue: The Buttery Food Court, off Front Square

A photographic exhibition showcasing the contribution made by leaders of migrant networks in the fields of advocacy, religion, culture, media, and gender, organised by the Trinity Immigration Initiative Migrant Networks Project and supported by An Post.

Contact: immigration@tcd.ie, http://www.tcd.ie/immigration/news.php

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Tuesday 2nd June “Energy Piles”

A TrinityHaus GREENprint Colloquium on energy pile applications and their use leading towards 21st century low carbon societies.

Speakers: Geotechnical Engineer, Peter Bourne-Webb

Time: 4-6pm

Venue: PACCAR Theatre, Science Gallery, TCD

Contact: rgreenan@tcd.ie, www.trinityhaus.tcd.ie

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Thursday 11th June “Development and Migration – Migration and Development: What comes first?”

TIDI and the Trinity Immigration Initiative present a public lecture by Professor Stephen Castles. Speakers: Professor Stephen Castles, Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies and Director of the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford.

Time: 7pm

Venue: Synge Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Arts Building

Contact: immigration@tcd.ie, http://www.tcd.ie/immigration/index.php, www.tcd.ie/tidi

Additional Information on the speaker:

Stephen Castles is Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies, and Director of the International Migration Institute (IMI), at the University of Oxford. He is a sociologist and political economist, and currently works on global issues, migration and development, and migration in Africa. From 2001-2006, he was Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University.

Stephen Castles studied sociology at Frankfurt am Main, and took an MA and DPhil at the University of Sussex. He has carried out research on migration and multicultural societies in Europe, Australia and Asia for many years. He has also been involved in community education work in the UK and Southern Africa. Castles taught Sociology and Political Economy at the Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main from 1972-85. From 1986 to 2000 he was Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Multicultural Studies (1986-96) and then Director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, at the University of Wollongong, Australia. From 1994 to 2001, Castles helped establish and coordinate the UNESCO-MOST Asia Pacific Migration Research Network. He has been an advisor to the Australian and British Governments, and has worked for the ILO, the IOM, the European Union and other international bodies.

Stephen Castles recent books include: The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World (Fourth Edition, with Mark Miller, Basingstoke, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009); Migration, Citizenship and the European Welfare State: A European Dilemma (with Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Peo Hansen, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); and Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South (edited with Raúl Delgado Wise, Geneva: International Organization for Migration, 2008).

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Friday 22nd May “Moving Out of Poverty” Book Launch

Trinity International Development Initiative & Trócaire would like to invite you to a book launch of: Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up by Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett and Soumya Kapoor.

Time: 2.30-4pm

Venue: Seminar Room 0.09, Áras an Phiarsaigh, Trinity College, Click here for map http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/assets/pdf/tcd-main-campus.pdf

Contact: tbedi@trocaire.ie, sglavey@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/tidi,

http://go.worldbank.org/QJ7XR6FS51

Speaker: Author, Deepa Narayan

Chaired by Prof. Patrick Honohan with panel speakers

 

Author Biography:

Deepa Narayan is project director of the 15-country World Bank study titled Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy, and Growth from the Bottom Up. From 2002 through 2008, she served as senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network of the World Bank, first in the Poverty Reduction Group and subsequently in the vice president’s office within PREM. She has development experience in Asia and Africa while working across sectors for nongovernmental organizations, national governments, and the United Nations system. Her areas of expertise include participatory development, community-driven development, and social capital, as well as use of these concepts to create wealth for poor people. Her recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (World Bank, 2007); Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work (with Elena Glinskaya, World Bank 2007); Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (World Bank, 2005); Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Sourcebook (World Bank 2002); and the three-volume Voices of the Poor series (Oxford University Press 2000, 2001, 2002).

 

Information on the Book:

Poverty studies typically focus on people who live below the poverty line. Few studies have examined how people not only move out of poverty but also stay out of poverty. A follow-up to the Voices of the Poor, the second volume of the Moving Out of Poverty project, Success from the Bottom Up represents one of the few large-scale comparative research attempts to address these questions. The book is coauthored by Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett and Soumya Kapoor and it is based on life stories, interviews and questionnaires with more than 60,000 people in Africa, East Asia, South Asia, and Latin America. The findings of the study should be of interest to Bank staff, development professionals, academics, and members of civil society organizations working on poverty reduction. “No matter if I fall, I get up again. If I fall 5,000 times, I will stand up another 5,000 times.” — William, a 37-year-old from El Gorrión, Columbia Why and how do some people move out of poverty—and stay out—while others remain trapped? Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic experts. In contrast, Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up presents the experiences of poor people who have made it out of poverty. The findings draw from the Moving Out of Poverty research conducted in communities in 15 countries in Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and South Asia. The authors synthesize the results of qualitative and quantitative research based on discussions with over 60,000 people in rural areas. They offer bottom-up perspectives on the processes and local institutions that play key roles in escapes from poverty. The study finds that there are no differences in the initiatives taken by the poor, the rich, and the upwardly mobile. What, then, explains the difference in outcomes? The authors demonstrate how—in the face of deep social inequalities that block access to economic opportunities and local democracies—individual initiative and empowerment by themselves are often not enough to escape poverty. This book will be of interest to all concerned with equity in an increasingly unequal world.

 

Comments:

“Today, too few people around the world have enough opportunity to connect their dreams and their talents with the outcomes of their efforts to lift themselves out of poverty. As we work to expand these opportunities, we can learn a lot from the voices of the poor themselves, especially those who have lifted themselves up successfully. This book, based on conversations with thousands of people around the world, is an important resource for everyone who’s working to alleviate poverty.” Bill Clinton, Former President, United States

“Here is a treasure trove of stories, data, and creative analysis that no one who cares about ending poverty should miss…. From thousands of interviews in 15 poor countries, the authors extract some surprising conclusions: Most poor people do not feel trapped; local markets and politics and community leadership and institutions matter more than average national income in who escapes poverty. An important complement to the World Bank-sponsored Spence Commission Report on growth.” Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development

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Monday 25th May “Africa – Moving Forward”

TIDI, The Institute of International Integration Studies and the Group of African Ambassadors in Ireland invite you to celebrate Africa Day.

Speakers: Dr. Louis Kasekende, Chief Economist of the African Development Bank, Ambassador Tunji Olagunju, Special Advisor to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on NEPAD and Minister of State for Overseas Development, Peter Power.

Time: 3.30-5.30pm with refreshments from 3pm

Venue: Synge Theatre, Ground Floor, Arts Building

Contact: sglavey@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/tidi, www.tcd.ie/iiis

 

Africa Day Conference: Africa Moving Forward

Group of Ambassadors Alan, Kasekende, Olangunju and Patrick

Pictured above left: (left to right) Ambassador Ramses Clelland (Ghanaian embassy), Ambassador Anas Khales (Moroccon embassy), Ambassador Zerihun (Ethiopian embassy), Ambassador Tunji Olagunju (Speaker, Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria on NEPAD), Ambassador Priscilla Jana (South African embassy), Ambassador Amr Helmy (Egyptian embassy).

Pictured above right: (left to right) Professor Alan Matthews, Director of IIIS, Dr. Louis Kasekende (Speaker, Chief Economist at the African Development Bank), Ambassador Tunji Olagunju (Speaker, Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria on NEPAD) and Professor Patrick Honohan (Director of TIDI).

Photograph taken by: Seamus Sullivan Photography

TIDI was pleased to welcome a diverse group of approximately 120 guests, from the College community and beyond, to the celebration of Africa Day at Trinity on Monday the 25th of May 2009.

The event was hosted by TIDI, IIIS and the Group of African Ambassadors in Ireland.

Presentations made at the conference are available as follows:

Presentation by Dr. Louis Kasekende

Presentation by Ambassador Tunji Olagunju

Presentation by Minister of State for Overseas Development, Peter Power

Podcast of Africa Day event

 

Speaker Biographies

Dr. Louis A. Kasekende Chief Economist, African Development Bank

Dr. Louis A. Kasekende is the Chief Economist of the African Development Bank. He worked as part-time lecturer at Makerere University from 1988 to 1994. Then, he served as the Executive Director Research and Policy at the Bank of Uganda, where he became Deputy Governor from 1999 to 2002. He was seconded to the World Bank (2002-2004), where he served as Executive Director for 22 Africa Group 1 countries, mostly from Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa, before returning to the Bank of Uganda as Deputy Governor from November 2004 until April 2006. Dr. Kasekende holds an Master's Degree and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Manchester, U.K, and B.A. in Economics from Makekere University in Uganda.

 

Dr Tunji Olagunju Ambassador

Dr Tunji Olagunju has been Special Adviser to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on NEPAD since June 2007. Born in Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria in 1944, Ambassador Olagunju holds a BA in International Relations from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he was subsequently a research fellow and lectured at the Institute of Administration. He was awarded both a Masters’ Degree in Economics and a Doctorate in Government at the University of Manchester, England. Between 1976 and 1979, he served as a Special Assistant/Deputy Secretary to the Federal Cabinet Office, Lagos and in 1979 moved to National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru as a Senior Research Fellow. He was later appointed as Special Adviser to the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, a position which he held until he was appointed Honourable Minister for Special Duties of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and later Minister of Internal Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria until January 1993. Between 1999 and 2005, Ambassador Olagunju served as High Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Republic of South Africa, with concurrent accreditation to Lesotho and Swaziland.

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Thursday 28th May “AIDS, Sex and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa”

TIDI and the Institute of International Integration Studies (IIIS) present a lunchtime seminar (sandwiches provided).

Speaker: Professor Ida Susser, Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York and Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building

Contact: sglavey@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/tidi, www.tcd.ie/iiis

Further information about the speaker:

Professor Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York, as well as Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. She has been the President of the American Ethnological Society, and is a founding member of ATHENA: Advancing Gender Equity and Human Rights in the Global Response to HIV/ AIDS. Her research focuses on the changing patterns of inequality and poverty, social movements, gender and HIV/AIDS, and is based on fieldwork in New York City, Puerto Rico, and southern Africa. Her most recent book is 'AIDS, Sex and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa' (2009: Wiley-Blackwell), and it is based on extended ethnographic research among urban, rural and indigenous populations concerning community mobilisation, women's strategies and the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS in Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. Some of the other books that she has authored/edited include ‘Medical Anthropology in the World System: A Critical Perspective’, ‘The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory’, and ‘The Anthropology of AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean'.

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Thursday 28th May “Brazil: Recent Changes, Future Challenges”

The Embassy of Brazil in Ireland, IIIS and the Department of Economics present a public lecture.

Speakers: Dr. Luiz de Mello, Senior Economist, OECD

Time: 6.45-8pm

Venue: Swift Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Arts Building

Contact: RSVP to commercial@brazil.ie, www.tcd.ie/iiis

 

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Friday 15th May “Environmental Sustainability and the Millennium Development Goals: A Short Film and Discussion”

Presented by TIDI and the Millennium Development Goal Lecture Series for Trinity Week.

Film: ‘The Water Diary’ by Academy Award winning director Jane Campion – one of eight short films on the MDGs that make up the feature film ‘8’.

Panel discussion with speakers: Niamh Garvey, Trócaire, Tara Shine, Consultant to Irish Aid, Bruce Misstear and Laurence Gill, TCD Department of Environmental Engineering, Barra Roantre, TCD Student of Economics and Politics.

Time: 11.15am -12.45pm

Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Ground Floor, Arts Building

Contact: ngaynor@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/tidi, http://www.ldmproductions.fr/8/

Note: Trinity Week presents a range of events on the theme of ‘Energy and Sustainability’ from 11th-15th May, Note: This event is part of a morning symposium which will feature an address from Dr. Mary Robinson on ‘Climate Justice’ at 9.30am. Full schedule for this symposium and for Trinity Week events on the theme of ‘Energy and Sustainability’ available at http://www.tcd.ie/trinityweek/friday

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Tuesday 5th May “Passive and Green Architecture”

A Trinity Haus GREENprint colloquium on designing low energy and green buildings in Ireland.

Speakers: Architects Michael Haslam and Graham Petrie

Time: 4-6pm Venue: Science Gallery, TCD

Contact: rgreenan@tcd.ie, www.trinityhaus.tcd.ie/

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Thursday 7th May “Reforming the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Zambia”

A meeting by the Access to Medicines in Developing Countries Group.

Speakers: Niamh O Reilly and Edward Andrews, 4th year medical students, Southampton University.

Time: 5.30-7pm

Venue: Montgomery Theatre, Trinity Centre, St. James’ Hospital Contact: mgotoole@tcd.ie, http://www.medicine.tcd.ie/global-health/

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Friday 8th May “Neutrality and Irish Identity: lessons from international experience”

A seminar by the Irish School of Ecumenics TCD, and Quaker Dublin Monthly Meeting Peace Committee.

Speakers include: Senator Deirdre de Burca, Professor Ivana Bacik, Dr Noel Dorr and Professor John Maguire. European contributors from Austria, Sweden, Switzerland and QCEA Brussels discuss neutrality from their viewpoint.

Time: 6-8pm

Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2

Contact: Please RSVP to reserve a space, smccrum@eircom.net, http://www.tcd.ie/ise/events/

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Thursday 9th April “Hunger and Development: Irish and International Responses”

A public lecture by the Millennium Development Goal Lecture Series

Speaker: Kevin Farrell, World Food Programme
Time: 7-8.30pm
Venue: Swift Lecture Theatre (2041a), Ground Floor, Arts Building
Contact: mdglect@tcd.ie, http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/Development_Studies/link.php?id=112

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Tuesday 14th April "Cell-Phones and Economic Development: Evidence From South Africa"

A Seminar by the Institute for International Integration Studies/Department of Economics

Speaker: Dr. Patrick Nolen, University of Essex
Time: 1-2pm Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building
Contact: iiis@tcd.ie, http://www.tcd.ie/iiis/pages/events/seminars0809.php

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Thursday 26th March RAW: ‘Are Babies Bad for the Planet?’

A debate in the RAW Series hosted by the TCD Science Gallery

Speakers including: Philip Longman, New America Foundation

Time: 7pm Venue: PACCAR Theatre, Science Gallery

Contact: beth.gormley@sciencegallery.com, http://www.sciencegallery.ie/events

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Friday 3rd April IIIS/Trinity Immigration Initiative Seminar

Title: Transgressing the nation: cultural and social practices in Ireland and Poland

Speaker: Dr Kinga Olszewska, National University of Ireland, Galway

Time: 12.30-2pm Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building

Contact: immigration@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/immigration

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Thursday 9th April Hunger and Development: Irish and International Responses

A public lecture by the Millennium Development Goal Lecture Series

Speaker: Kevin Farrell, World Food Programme
Time: 7-8.30pm
Venue: Swift Lecture Theatre (2041a), Ground Floor, Arts Building, TCD
Contact: mdglect@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/Economics/DevelopmentStudies

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Thursday 19th MSc Global Health Open Day

Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Téatar Mhairtín Uí Chadhain, Arts Building
Contact: global.health@tcd.ie,www.medicine.tcd.ie/global-health/

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Friday 13th Centre for Non-Profit Management Lunchtime Seminar

Title: The interrelationship of philanthropy, volunteering, and cognition in older adults: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis
Speaker: Russell James, Dept of Housing and Consumer Economics, University of Georgia
Time: 11-1pm
Venue: Room 4.34, Level 4, Áras an Phiarsaigh
Contact: nonprofit@tcd.ie by 10th March, www.cnm.tcd.ie/

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Thursday 12th March: Timor Leste: challenges and opportunities for an Irish partner country

A public lecture by the Millennium Development Goals Lecture Series 2009

Speaker: Nuala O’Loan, Ireland’s roving ambassador to Timor Leste
Time: 7-8:30pm
Venue: Uí Chadhain Lecture Theatre (2041b), Ground Floor, Arts Building
Contact: mdglect@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/Economics/DevelopmentStudies

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Wednesday 11th Department of Economics Lunchtime Seminar

Title: TBC
Speaker: Christian Ahlin, Michigan State University
Time: 1-2pm Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building
Contact: iiis@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/iiis

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Wednesday 11th Capitalism and Development

Part of the Suas Global Issues Seminar Series

Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Room 50, The Atrium
Contact: education@suas.ie, www.suas.ie

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TIDI launch event attracts 100 guests

TIDI launch photo
Prof. Patrick Honohan (Chair of TIDI), Prof. Juergen Barkhoff (Registrar), Sarah Glavey (TIDI Co-ordinator), Dr. John Hegarty (Provost), Dr. Edward Lahiff (TIDI Doctoral Programme Officer). Photograph taken by: Gabrielle Pierantoni, of the Dublin University Photography Association, dupa@csc.tcd.ie.

TIDI was pleased to welcome a diverse group of approximately 100 guests, from the College community and beyond, to the official launch of the initiative on Friday the 27th of February 2009.

Minutes of the TIDI Spring Business meeting are available here (local access only).

Presentations made at the launch are available as follows:
"Elections and violence in Africa", Dr. Pedro Vicente, Department of Economics.
"Inclusive global health", Prof. Malcolm MacLachlan, School of Psychology and Centre for Global Health.
"Using basic science to combat protozoal diseases in Africa", Dr. Angus Bell, Department of Microbiology. Please contact abell@tcd.ie
"Climate change and development: the challenges for Africa", Prof. David Taylor, Department of Geography.
"Understanding the human resources for health crisis", Eilish McAuliffe, School of Medicine and Centre for Global Health.

"An introduction to The Doctoral Training for Development in Africa Programme", Dr. Edward Lahiff, TIDI Programme Officer.

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TIDI Launch Event, Friday 27th February, All Welcome

3 – 4pm: TIDI Business Meeting (TCD Staff and Students)
4 – 6pm: Trinity Development Research in Action: Seminars
6pm onwards: Official Launch of TIDI & The Doctoral Training for Development in Africa Programme

To view the full Event Programme please click here.

This event is supported by:

rish Aid HEA Logos

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Thursday 26th February: MDG lecture series, "Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals"

A public lecture by the Millennium Development Goals Lecture Series 2009

Speaker: Phakiso Mochochoko, Senior Legal Advisor at the International Criminal Court
Time: 7-8:30pm
Venue: Swift Lecture Theatre (2041a), Ground Floor, Arts Building
Contact: mdglect@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/Economics/DevelopmentStudies

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Tuesday 24th February: Suas Extraordinary Lives Event

Hosted by the Trinity Suas Society

Speakers: Philip Berber, Philanthropist and Businessman; Tina Roche, C.E.O. of Business in the Community and The Community Foundation for Ireland; Dr. Steve Collins, pioneer of community-based therapeutic care and ready-to-use foods in the treatment of hunger.
Time: 7.30-9pm
Venue: Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building
Contact: info@suas.ie, www.suas.ie

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Lunchtime Seminar Monday 16th February:
Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience

Click here to download this presentation.

TIDI and the MDG Lecture Series present a lunchtime seminar by Amita Baviskar, Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

Topic: 'Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience'
When: 12.30pm, Monday 16th February.
Where: IIIS Seminar room, C6.002, The Sutherland Centre, 6th Floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.

All Welcome

Speaker Biography:
Amita’s research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. Her first book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley (Oxford University Press) discussed the struggle for survival by adivasis in central India against a large dam. Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and cultural identity. She has edited Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings (Penguin India), Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource (Permanent Black) and Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power (Oxford University Press). She is currently writing about bourgeois environmentalism and spatial restructuring in the context of economic liberalization in Delhi. Amita Baviskar has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting professor at Stanford, Cornell and the University of California at Berkeley. She is co-editor of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology. She was awarded the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for distinguished contributions to development studies.

For more information on the MDG Lecure Series see www.tcd.ie/Economics/Development_Studies/link.php?id=71

TIDI would like to acknowledge the support of our sponsors in presenting this event:

Irish Aid and HEA Logo

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Lightwave Festival: Lighttalk: lighting Africa with off-grid energy

Friday 30th January, 7p.m.
Venue: PACCAR Theatre, Science Gallery, TCD Tickets free (pre-booking essential: see www.sciencegallery.com/events)

Professor David Edwards, Hugo Van Vuuren, Alexander Fabry, Aviva Presser, Ralph Borland & Richard Kirk.
In partnership with Harvard University / Lebônê Solutions
Join this presentation of the remarkable technology of microbial fuel cell aimed at providing off-grid lighting in the developing world. At Lightwave you get a chance to meet the people behind this inspiring project.
The project grew out of Harvard’s Ideas Translations Lab, with funding from the World Bank.

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HIV & Gender-based violence in Tanzania and Ethiopia

Friday 30th January, 12 noon – 2p.m.
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, Sixth Floor, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2
Sharon Jackson, IIIS, Trinity College Dublin & Martha Nemera, Director, Women Support Association, Ethiopia

Supported by Irish Aid and the Health Research Board

This multi-disciplinary seminar is open to the public. It will present an overview of HIV and gender based violence (GBV) priorities in Tanzania and Ethiopia arising from recent networking there with academics, government and NGOs. Martha Nemera will share experience from Women Support Association’s work in Ethiopia on topics such as harmful traditional practices, early marriage, HIV, and sexual and reproductive health.

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