Welcome to Southampton's first ever International Development Course, 1-day conference focusing on an introduction to international development issues:
As the traditional social, economic, political and cultural barriers in our world are lifted, local changes in one part of the world are increasingly transforming the lives of distant people.
How will our generation be remembered? The age of economic and environmental crisis? The age of increasing inequality and insecurity? Or the generation who made a stand against injustice?
Come and hear inspiring talks from experts in the field of sustainable development and globalisation; take part in eye-opening workshops and join in the debate about the direction we want to take as a global community.
PROGRAMME
9am: Registration & workshop sign-up (first-come first serve)
Physics building (46) Foyer, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Please arrive promptly and bring tickets or email addresses if paid by paypal
9:30am: Introduction & formal opening
9:40- 10:25
Opening Speaker
Duncan Green
Author of "From Poverty to Power", Head of Oxfam GB Research
10:40 – 11:25
Workshop Set One: choice of 4
1) Mark Koller (U8 Global Student Partnership for Development) "U8 presents: Skills from Management Consultants"
2) Paula Clifford (Christian Aid) "The effects of Climate Change on the Developing World"
3) Dr. Sabu Padmadas (Researcher:Demography, Epidemiology and Public Health) "Comparing India and China: Population, Globalisation, Health and Development”
4) Dr. Clare Saunders (Researcher in Climate Change and Energy Politics) “Climate change: Bridging the Environmental and Social Justice Movements”
11:40 – 12:25
Workshop Set Two: Choice of 4
1) Bremley Lyngdoh(Founder of Global Youth Action Network) "Youth and the Millennium Development Goals: a Role in the Implementation and Monitoring Process"
2) Prof. Nyovani Madise (Advisor to UNAIDS and the Botswana Government, researcher in reproductive health)Title TBC
3) Dr. Ollie Ross (Consultant Anaesthetist, Coordinator of Southampton Overseas Health & Medicine) "Overseas Health Links - How can the NHS contribute to Global Health?"
4) Dr. Gail Grant(Researcher in former Soviet States)
Title TBC
12:25 – 1:10
Lunch: included in your ticket price
1:25 – 2:10
Workshop Set Three: Choice of 4
1) The New Internationalist Magazine (Eight-times winners at the Global Independent Press Awards for "Best International Coverage") "The Credit Crunch: the Possibility of a Fairer, Greener, Economic Future?"
2) The New Internationalist Magazine: Title TBC
3) Speaker TBC
4) Speaker TBC
2:25-3:40
Panel Discussion: dialogue, questions and debate
"What will the effects of the financial crisis be on Development?"
Dr. Ken Shadlen
International Political Economy of Development, London School of Economics (LSE)
Prof. Alfredo Saad Filho
Head of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Bremley Lyngdoh
Founder of Global Youth Action Network
3:55-4:40
Closing Speaker
Charles Malcolm-Brown
The Mountain Trust
Estimated finishing time: 4:45pm
