Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College
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The Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies supports research into economic and social development and international relations, in and relating to the Global South. We are part of Newnham College, University of Cambridge.
Looking forward to this event on the morning of 7 November here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social to focus on knowledge exchange and impact in research, in particular for College-based researchers, find out more and register, all are welcome: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/advanc...
October 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Looking forward to this event on the morning of 7 November here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social to focus on knowledge exchange and impact in research, in particular for College-based researchers, find out more and register, all are welcome: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/advanc...
We are excited to have Elizabeth Lhost, Program Manager of the Modern Endangered Archives Program at ULCA Library speaking at 11am this Friday 17 Oct about Endangered Archives and Community Collections, here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social, all welcome: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/endang...
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We are excited to have Elizabeth Lhost, Program Manager of the Modern Endangered Archives Program at ULCA Library speaking at 11am this Friday 17 Oct about Endangered Archives and Community Collections, here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social, all welcome: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/endang...
Our Term Card is out! Do join us for our Michaelmas Term 2025 events, all taking place at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. First event is on 17 Oct to discuss Endangered Archives. Details on the website: newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-events @crasshlive.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Our Term Card is out! Do join us for our Michaelmas Term 2025 events, all taking place at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. First event is on 17 Oct to discuss Endangered Archives. Details on the website: newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-events @crasshlive.bsky.social
This new article by Fadia Panosetti (Postdoctoral Affiliate @newnhamcollege.bsky.social), Taher Labadi and Ahmad Heneiti introduces and invites contributions to the Forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Agrarian questions in global Palestine: past, present and future
This article introduces and invites contributions to the Forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled. While agrarian political economy has received renewed attention in the Arab region, Palest...
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September 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This new article by Fadia Panosetti (Postdoctoral Affiliate @newnhamcollege.bsky.social), Taher Labadi and Ahmad Heneiti introduces and invites contributions to the Forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dr Cynthia Kamwengo @newnhamcollege.bsky.social has a new chapter out, ‘It Will All End in Tears’: The Politics of Debt and the Spread of Misinformation on Zambian Social Media - in Stephen Chan's book on The Economic Transformation and Political Economy of Zambia link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
‘It Will All End in Tears’: The Politics of Debt and the Spread of Misinformation on Zambian Social Media
Over the last decade, Zambian social mediaSocial media has been dominated by debates about foreign influence over the economy, the embezzlement of public funds, and the country’s descent into a ...
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July 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Dr Cynthia Kamwengo @newnhamcollege.bsky.social has a new chapter out, ‘It Will All End in Tears’: The Politics of Debt and the Spread of Misinformation on Zambian Social Media - in Stephen Chan's book on The Economic Transformation and Political Economy of Zambia link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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A new working paper with @CynthKamwengo that hopefully provides some practical examples & ideas for how universities can decolonise, diversify, & update their social science curricula (& possible limits to these efforts):
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July 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A new working paper with @CynthKamwengo that hopefully provides some practical examples & ideas for how universities can decolonise, diversify, & update their social science curricula (& possible limits to these efforts):
purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
Dr Cynthia Kamwengo, Research Fellow @newnhamcollege.bsky.social and @radleyben.bsky.social have a new paper in Multiversum. Deconstructing and reconstructing African development studies through student engagement and cross-cultural collaboration at a UK university: www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-in...
July 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Dr Cynthia Kamwengo, Research Fellow @newnhamcollege.bsky.social and @radleyben.bsky.social have a new paper in Multiversum. Deconstructing and reconstructing African development studies through student engagement and cross-cultural collaboration at a UK university: www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-in...
Rashalee Mitchell will deliver a lecture at 5pm on 10 June at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on Social Protection for Female Sex Workers in Jamaica. Do join us & share! @cambridgegender.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social newn.cam.ac.uk/event/social...
June 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Rashalee Mitchell will deliver a lecture at 5pm on 10 June at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on Social Protection for Female Sex Workers in Jamaica. Do join us & share! @cambridgegender.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social newn.cam.ac.uk/event/social...
📢 Public Lecture! Hurling Money: Public Funding and Private Profit during COVID-19. Dr Kathryn Moeller, Shahnaaz Khan & María Fernanda Rodríguez from the Dept of Education, University of Cambridge. 📌 5pm on Tuesday 13 May in the Lucia Windsor room at Newnham College. newn.cam.ac.uk/event/hurlin...
May 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
📢 Public Lecture! Hurling Money: Public Funding and Private Profit during COVID-19. Dr Kathryn Moeller, Shahnaaz Khan & María Fernanda Rodríguez from the Dept of Education, University of Cambridge. 📌 5pm on Tuesday 13 May in the Lucia Windsor room at Newnham College. newn.cam.ac.uk/event/hurlin...
📢 Hurling Money: Public Funding and Private Profit during COVID-19. Public lecture at 5pm here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 13 May presented by Dr Kathryn Moeller, Shahnaaz Khan & María Fernanda Rodríguez, Department of Education, University of Cambridge. Info: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/hurlin...
May 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 Hurling Money: Public Funding and Private Profit during COVID-19. Public lecture at 5pm here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 13 May presented by Dr Kathryn Moeller, Shahnaaz Khan & María Fernanda Rodríguez, Department of Education, University of Cambridge. Info: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/hurlin...
Find out more about how to become a Postdoctoral Affiliate here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social newn.cam.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Postdoctoral Affiliates
The College welcomes applications from women in any subject seeking to be affiliated to Newnham College as Postdoctoral Affiliates, strengthening Newnham’s a
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April 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Find out more about how to become a Postdoctoral Affiliate here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social newn.cam.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Insightful blog post by Margaret Anstee and @newnhamcollege.bsky.social Fellow Dr Cynthia Kamwengo on the impact of US Aid cuts on Zambia, how the country is responding and the international opportunities this new reality might offer.
🔍 Read our very first article in the series "Debating #Trump 2.0 and implications for #Africa".
In today's focus: #Zambia's 🇿🇲 response to cuts of US #aid earmarked for health initiatives, how the country can address budget shortfalls, and opportunities for economic #cooperation
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In today's focus: #Zambia's 🇿🇲 response to cuts of US #aid earmarked for health initiatives, how the country can address budget shortfalls, and opportunities for economic #cooperation
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Reality Check for Zambia: Resilience in the Face of US Aid Cuts?
The Zambian government aims to optimize mining revenues, trade and investments to address budget shortfalls created by the Trump...
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March 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Insightful blog post by Margaret Anstee and @newnhamcollege.bsky.social Fellow Dr Cynthia Kamwengo on the impact of US Aid cuts on Zambia, how the country is responding and the international opportunities this new reality might offer.
Fascinating new article by @newnhamcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Diala Lteif in @antipodeonline.bsky.social based on her research into The Conditions of the Working Class in 1960s Beirut: Fire and Everyday Struggles in Karantina onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Conditions of the Working Class in 1960s Beirut: Fire and Everyday Struggles in Karantina
In this paper, I examine the spatial processes of class formation within informal urban spaces. To do so, I consider Karantina in the 1960s, an outgrowth of one of the oldest refugee camps in the wor...
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March 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Fascinating new article by @newnhamcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Diala Lteif in @antipodeonline.bsky.social based on her research into The Conditions of the Working Class in 1960s Beirut: Fire and Everyday Struggles in Karantina onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Looking forward to our next lecture here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 18 March with Poulami Roychowdhury speaking on From Rights to Protection: Reframing Women's Empowerment for Authoritarian Democracy, with Manali Desai as chair discussant. Find out more: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/rights...
March 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Looking forward to our next lecture here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 18 March with Poulami Roychowdhury speaking on From Rights to Protection: Reframing Women's Empowerment for Authoritarian Democracy, with Manali Desai as chair discussant. Find out more: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/rights...
Announcing a fellowship opening at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, four years. Further particulars here: newn.cam.ac.uk/vacancy/marg...
Margaret Anstee Research Fellowship
Newnham College is looking for an outstanding early career female researcher to apply for a Research Fellowship in subjects related to economic and social
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February 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Announcing a fellowship opening at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, four years. Further particulars here: newn.cam.ac.uk/vacancy/marg...
Looking forward to Adam Hanieh's lecture, coming up at
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on 11 Feb on Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market, find out more and reserve your place: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/crude-...
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on 11 Feb on Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market, find out more and reserve your place: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/crude-...
Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market
Tuesday 11 February: 5pm to 6.30pmCrude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market
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January 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Looking forward to Adam Hanieh's lecture, coming up at
@newnhamcollege.bsky.social
on 11 Feb on Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market, find out more and reserve your place: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/crude-...
@newnhamcollege.bsky.social
on 11 Feb on Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market, find out more and reserve your place: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/crude-...
The International Development Committee is calling for evidence on the FCDO's approach to displaced people and the effectiveness of Official Development Assistance spending, deadline is 21 Jan 2025, info here:
committees.parliament.uk/work/8710/th...
committees.parliament.uk/work/8710/th...
The FCDO's approach to displaced people - Committees - UK Parliament
2024 saw a continuing rise in global displacement, with at least 117.3 million people forced to flee their homes, including nearly 43.4 million refugees, around 40% of whom are under the age of 18. Th...
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December 13, 2024 at 3:11 PM
The International Development Committee is calling for evidence on the FCDO's approach to displaced people and the effectiveness of Official Development Assistance spending, deadline is 21 Jan 2025, info here:
committees.parliament.uk/work/8710/th...
committees.parliament.uk/work/8710/th...
Do join us at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on Thursday 12 Dec at 5.30pm for Sara Lorenzini's lecture: A death declared too soon? Cold War ideas that influence development aid to this day. Find out more: buytickets.at/margaretanst... @iliasalami.bsky.social
Select tickets – Sara Lorenzini: Global Development Institute Keynote Address – Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College
A death declared too soon? Cold War ideas that influence development aid to this day.
Sara Lorenzini is a Full Professor of Co...
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December 11, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Do join us at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on Thursday 12 Dec at 5.30pm for Sara Lorenzini's lecture: A death declared too soon? Cold War ideas that influence development aid to this day. Find out more: buytickets.at/margaretanst... @iliasalami.bsky.social
The Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies supports research into economic and social development and international relations, in and relating to the Global South. We are based at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. Find out more about our work: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/mar...
The Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies
The Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies supports research into economic and social development and international relations, in and relating to the Global South. The Centre supports two to three ...
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November 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
The Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies supports research into economic and social development and international relations, in and relating to the Global South. We are based at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. Find out more about our work: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/mar...