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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.

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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Today, on the centenary of her birth, we celebrate the life and impact of @newnhamcollege.bsky.social alumna Dame Margaret Anstee (NC 1944). Find out more about her amazing career at the @theunitednations.bsky.social newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-news... @meznaqato.bsky.social
Dame Margaret Anstee
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We are delighted to be supporting a timely workshop on "What’s Next for Feminist Foreign Policy?" at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 3 Sept. Please share the Call for Papers newn.cam.ac.uk/event/worksh... @crasshlive.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social @cambridgegender.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social
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Workshop: What’s Next for Feminist Foreign Policy?
We invite academics, postgraduate students, and early career researchers to participate in “What’s Next for Feminist Foreign Policy?”,
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Looking forward to hearing from Victoria Cogorno: A Cultural Genealogy of the Patagonian Giants from Magellan to Darwin, 12.30pm, 7 May @newnhamcollege.bsky.social - info: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/cultur... @crasshlive.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Join our Masterclass with renowned trade unionist Sharan Burrow at 5pm on 19 March here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. Find out more about leadership in international labour movements and the relevance of trade unionism in the global economy. All welcome: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/master...
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
What is it like to be a female leader in the world of trade unionism? Join our Masterclass with renowned trade unionist Sharan Burrow at 5pm on 19 March here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. Find out more about leadership in international labour movements. All welcome: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/master...
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Join our next lecture at 5pm on 10 February here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social when we will hear from Prof Maha Shuayb from @camedfac.bsky.social on the topic On Disability: Ableism, Development and Selective Solidarity. All welcome, find out more and register here: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/disabi...
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
@newnhamcollege.bsky.social Margaret Anstee Research Fellow Dr My Hang Thi Bui has a new paper out, "The twinning of the Global East: Notes from South Korea-Vietnam sister cities", read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Join us at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social 4pm, 10 Dec to hear Dr Laura Trajber Waisbich talk about her recently published book, Southern Powers and Global Development: Responsible but Different. newn.cam.ac.uk/event/talk-s... @crasshlive.bsky.social @camunigeography.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social
Book talk
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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...
Library with books and globe.
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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...
Archival boxes.
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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
Term Card Michaelmas 2025
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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....
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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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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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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‘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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Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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...
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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...
Multiversum cover
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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...
Lecture on 10 June on topic of Social Protection for Female Sex Workers in Jamaica: Implications for Social Policy and Development
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
📢 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...
13 May lecture at Newnham College.
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
📢 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...
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Find out more about how to become a Postdoctoral Affiliate here at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social newn.cam.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
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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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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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.
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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....
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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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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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...
From Rights to Protection: Reframing Women's Empowerment for Authoritarian Democracy
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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Announcing a fellowship opening at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, four years. Further particulars here: newn.cam.ac.uk/vacancy/marg...
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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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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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-...
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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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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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...
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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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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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
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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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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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...
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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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