Newcastle IDC

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Newcastle University International Development Conference

About IDC

IDCs are courses into which development professionals distil the crucial issues people should be aware of to be a global citizen and, especially, before participating in development interventions themselves.

The International Development Conferences are one day events currently run at Oxford and Cambridge with the aim of increasing awareness of development issues at universities.

IDC at Newcastle University presents...

A day of talks and workshops with leading academics in politics, economics and development.

Info

Date:   Saturday, 1st November 2008
Venue: Armstrong Building, Newcastle University (view map)
Ticket:  £8 including lunch, available from Newcastle University Student's Union Reception

Talks

Key note speaker: Helen Lewis of CHASE (Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department), DFID

Other speakers include:
- Professor James Stanfield on 'Africa's great leap backwards: How international aid undermines development'

- Dr Tony Waterstone on 'The controversies of Globalization'

- Sara Maioli on 'Economic and Political barriers to development'

Workshops

Workshops with representatives from NGOs: 
- COCO (Comrades of Children overseas)
- VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas)
- Send a Cow

Concluding in an open floor debate with a panel of four speakers on the true meaning of International Development.

Contacts

For further details, contact Caitlin Procter:
email: c.h.e.procter@ncl.ac.uk
mob: 07813 702 878

Extra

After Party at World Headquarters (£2 off entry with IDC ticket)