Events

2022-23 Events

Society of Policy Scientists Annual Institute

Participants of the 2022 Society of Policy Scientists Annual Institute presented their research findings and insights from the development experience across a diverse array of policy issues.

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Fireside Chat: Is the world in crisis?

Pedro Conceição, director of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report Office, shared insights from Human Development Report findings about the state of the world.

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Program on Climate-Related Migration Launch

The Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration launched with the workshop “Climate-Related Migration: Transdisciplinary Research Informing Policy Solutions.”

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Conference Explores Migration, Climate Change & Policy

The Conference on Climate-Related Migration brought together expertise from a variety of areas for a conversation on climate change and migration.

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Rural Transformations Speaker Series

DCID co-sponsored the Rural Transformations series with the Center for Modernity in Transition. The virtual series, co-moderated by Lecturing Fellow Kerilyn Schewel, featured conversations with leading thinkers about sustainable and equitable development in rural contexts:

Climate Change, Adaptation, and Migration with Sarah Bermeo and Robert McLeman
Religion and Development with Emma Tomalin and Arash Fazli
Local Knowledge, Global Change with Miguel Altieri and Richa Kumar

South-North Scholars

In addition to the fireside chat with Pedro Conceição, director of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report Office, DCID co-hosted two events with the South-North Scholars:

Virtual Panel Discussion: Achieving Africa’s Twin Goals: Industrialization and the Clean Energy Transition
Fireside Chat: Sustainable Infrastructure and the Three Global Crises: Climate, Biodiversity and Debt

South-North Scholars, based at Duke University and Duke Kunshan University, is the first entirely youth-led knowledge network focused on global development.