Scupad* student Workshop Ethiopia, 16-20 May 2016 in Addis-Ababa
The intensifying ECOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES around the globe areproducing unprecedented reorganization of societies in space. Among the multifold causes, poverty and climate change are referred among the prime roots of the crisis which is producing massive migration (be it rural-urban or cross border). In an attempt to address the challenge of our time,...
The End of the Line.
In December 2015 the Dutch Young Academy, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Global Young Academy hosted a two-day workshop of 20 academic experts and practitioners drawn from different disciplines and from over 10 countries across three continents. The participants endeavoured to provide a fresh and innovative perspective on the refugee crisis, focusing...
NALACS Thesis Award: Sven da Silva (WUR), wins with thesis on the politics of informality
On FEB 26, the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (@NALACS) awarded a prize for the best Master thesis written at a Dutch Institution on a Latin American or Caribbean theme. The finalists presented their theses in Petcha Kutcha format. The quality of their work was outstanding. Sven da Silva with his thesis...
