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Events

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12 June 2012, Colloquium #2 ‘A Critical Gender Lens on Greening the Economy’ within the series “Critical Reflections on the Green Economy”—> Location: Aula B, ISS, The Hague / Time: 14:00-17:30, English, Please register (free) at www.iss.nl/environmentcolloquium

18 June 2012, SID Lecture by Hilary Wainwright – ‘Redefining the state: Social change, civil society, and the role of the state‘ – within the 2011-2012 series —> Location: Auditorium, VU University, Amsterdam/ Time: 18:00-19:30/ Language: English / Admission: Free /Please register through registration[ at ]sidnl.org

14 September 2012, SID NL Closing Conference ‘The State in a Globalizing World: providing Water in Africa’ – —> Location: Glazen Zaal, The Hague / Time: 09:30-14:00 / Language: English / Admission: Free /Please register through registration[ at ]sidnl.org

 

Activities explained:

SID Lecture Series

SID NL’s core activity is its annual lecture series of nine lectures on a theme both relevant and current for the area of international and development cooperation. These lecture cycles are organised in cooperation with VU University Amsterdam, Maastricht University, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), University of Utrecht, University of Groningen (RUG), and other partners such as NGO’s, (research) institutes, ministries and international organisations.

Following the lectures, a closing conference is organised in which the conclusions and recommendations of the lecture cycle are discussed by policy-makers, politicians, scientists, media, NGO’s and business. After both the lectures series and the final conference have taken place, the lectures and the report of the conference are published as a book. See our publication page for more information.

The current lecture series 2011-2012 is entitled The State in a Globalizing World. For more information on the current lecture series please click here. (For more information on previous series, please explore the Documentation)

Other activities

From May to December 2011 SID, in cooperation with ISS, is organizing a series of four lectures on the theme of ‘Agriculture, Rural Employment and Inclusive Growth’, aiming to bring together critical minds within the field of rural development studies to discuss key issues in the rural sector. More information on these lectures can be found here.

Aside from these lecture series SID NL organizes several other lectures and discussions in cooperation with, among others, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNDP, ISS, PSO, Partos and NCDO.

Past activities

All information, reports, presentations of the lectures and discussions organized by SID NL in the past can be found in Documentation. These past activities include the Vijverberg Sessies, on emerging global scarcities, the Population Lecture Series, with its aim to reopen the debate in the Netherlands on population issues, the Climate and Agriculture Strategy Meeting and the Kapuscinski Lecture with Prof. Daniel Bach.