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• News

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    TIPC OPENS A TRANSFORMATIVE RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT BASE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA’S NEW FUTURE AFRICA CAMPUS

    News

    25 May 2023

    This week heralds a significant strengthening of the relationship between Africa’s science and innovation research, policy and investment communities, and the members and coordinating partners of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) with the opening of a new strategic alliance at the University of Pretoria (UoP) in South Africa.
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    Vacancy for Student Assistant (2023-2024)

    News

    24 April 2023

    The Contesting Governance UGlobe Flagship within the Strategic Theme of Institutions for Open Societies (IOS) seeks to hire a student assistant!
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    New Minor: Re-Imagining Security

    News

    24 April 2023

    We are proud to share that Contesting Governance core team members, Dr. Tessa Diphoorn and Dr. Katharine Fortin, are coordinators of a brand-new multi-faculty minor titled Re-Imagining Security.
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    Vacancy for core team members Contesting Governance

    News

    21 April 2023

    The Contesting Governance UGlobe Flagship seeks to hire new core team members
  • Integrating a life skills and financial education curriculum into school systems

    News

    16 April 2023

    How can education systems integrate life skills and financial education into their curricula? UGlobe is working with Aflatoun, Meljol, and ChildFund to test the effectiveness of integrating Aflatoun’s life skills and financial education curriculum in Indian and The Gambian schools.
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    Integrating WCD into education systems

    News

    16 April 2023

    How can school systems worldwide integrate the Whole Child Development (WCD) approach in measurement and teacher training? UGlobe is working with several Global Learning Community (GLC) members on two articles surrounding the importance of measurement and school leader and teacher training.
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    Reflections on a successful Security Conference

    News

    12 April 2023

    On 21 March 2023, the Security in Open Societies platform and Contesting Governance platform co-organized a workshop on the theme of 'security', bringing together researchers from different disciplines working on this theme.
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    Researchers: will you participate in Weekend van de Wetenschap (Science Weekend)?

    News

    11 April 2023

    Would you like to engage audiences or tell them about your research? On Sunday, October 8, 2023, the CWC is hosting the public event Weekend van de Wetenschap.

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• Toepassen

  • 5 Jun

    Lecture: Re-Shaping t/dunes; Coastal Infrastructure as a sonic object

    5 June 2023 from 13:00 to 15:00

    Re-Shaping t/dunes’ aims to research acoustic communication between coastal infrastructure and the ecological environment when re-shaping dunes on the coast that have been eroded by environmental influences
  • 6 Jun

    Workshop: Religion and Armed Groups in Comparative Perspective

    6 June 2023 from 14:00 to 17:00

    The Contesting Governance group ‘Governance and Citizenship in Protracted Conflict is organizing a workshop on New perspectives on armed groups and religion in Africa.
  • 14 - 15 Jun

    Interrogating the Geopolitical: Ethnographic Engagements

    14 June 2023 09:00 to 15 June 2023 16:30

    Interrogating the Geopolitical: Ethnographic Engagements is a conference, bringing together scholars from political geography, law, and anthropology to interrogate the methodological problems of studying geopolitics from a “bottom-up” perspective.
    
  • 16 Jun

    Contesting Governance Book Launch Dr. Thijs Jeursen

    16 June 2023 from 16:00 to 17:30

    As Contesting Governance platform we look forward to hosting our first book launch with platform member Dr. Thijs Jeursen.
  • 26 Jun

    UGlobe café 3: Protest music

    26 June 2023 from 20:00 to 21:30

    On the 26th of June, the third and final UGlobe café will take place. During the evening we will discuss the topic of protest music.
  • 27 Jun

    Contesting Governance Network Event

    27 June 2023 from 16:00 to 18:30

    We look forward to seeing our platform members for a summer network event, which is part of the Contesting Governance Platform’s Interdisciplinary Playground series!
  • 28 - 30 Jun

    Equality Law in Context: Illuminating Intersections in Search for Global Justice

    28 June 2023 09:00 to 30 June 2023 13:30

    The tenth annual conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (BCEE) is held at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands on 28-30 June. It aims to create a sense of community among equality scholars and advocates around the world. We hope to learn from each other as we compare legal problems and borrow insights from other disciplines in our pursuit of innovative ways to redress inequality.
  • 6 Oct

    Book Launch Voices that Matter - by Dr. Marlene Schäfers

    6 October 2023 from 15:00 to 17:00

    We kindly invite you to the book launch, hosted by Marlene Schäfers, Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. She will launch her book ‘Voices that Matter’, a fine-grained ethnography exploring the sociopolitical power of Kurdish women’s voices in contemporary Turkey.

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