12 September, DSA Land, Labour & Food Study Group: Zimbabwe’s command agriculture: problems of planning under neoliberalism. Sign up.

12-13 September, DSA’s Urbanisation Study Group: informal settlement workshops. Find out more.

26 September, DPU. Urban informality and the built environment book launch. In-person only. Find out more.

26 September, Open University. Shifting Power: Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers’ perspectives from the margins. Dr Venetia Brown, a postdoctoral research associate at the OU, will explore the conceptualisations of perspectives on ‘harm’ and the impacts of AI on society among AI researchers, developers and practitioners from LMICs who study, develop or use AI in their professions. Find out more and reserve a spot.

26 September, 12:30 – 14:00 (BST). REDEFINE Project team invites you to their monthly online Global China seminar. Dr Qiong He, Lecturer at the University of St Andrews will deliver a talk on “Infrastructuring mobility via state-led school franchising: Leveraging public educational resources to facilitate middle-class residential mobility”. All are welcome. For more information, see the MS Teams link.

17 October, Open University. Abolition and International Aid and Development, Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa ​offers reflections on what it means to take anti-colonial and decolonial critiques of international aid and development seriously. Dr Rutazibwa argues that this requires a genuine engagement with abolition rather than reform; and repair and dignity rather than aid and development. Find out more.

21 October, LSE Press symposium – Open Access Week 2024 Social sciences publishing is undergoing a profound transformation in the digital age. From questions around AI and emerging technologies, to funding policy changes, what can we expect from the future of publishing in the social sciences?

4, 11, 18, 25 October, 1, 15, 29 November, 6, 13 December, from 4-6pm, LSE. Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice 2024. Speakers will include: Clare Short, Kevin Watkins, Marsha Henry, Michael Mann, Elizabeth Ingleson, Rahmane Idrissa, Simon Roberts, Amir Lebdioui, Annalisa Prizzon, Shamel Azmeh, John Minnich, Sheba Tejani and Alexander Betts. The series is in-person for LSE students and staff, but LSE offer online audience the chance to watch the lectures back via YouTube. Find out more.