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How dynamic community networks shape disaster resilience in urban poor neighbourhoods
When disasters strike, how do grassroots organizations in urban poor communities respond? And how do their dynamic patterns diversify resilience outcomes?
- Wednesday 26 Mar 2025
- Publication
Diverse and divergent place-makinng of people on the move
This book recentralizes the 'out-of-the-way' places that migrants occupy as key sites in the shaping of people’s mobility and identities
- Tuesday 25 Mar 2025
- Publication
Successful PhD defence by Dr Rafael Rosa Cedro
Rafael Rosa Cedro successfully defended his PhD thesis examining recent changes in the thinking about economic development in Brazil and its influence on policy
- Monday 24 Mar 2025
- PhD defence

Children in armed conflict: The protective role of the UN Committee on the Rights of Children and other institutional responses
A discussion on how the rights of children affected by armed conflict have been violated and the measures taken to address these violations
- Tuesday 1 Apr 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
- Seminar
Citizen technoscience in Latin America and the Netherlands: Exploring paths for reflection and collaboration
A participatory investigation into citizen science in Latin America and the Netherlands. Register now!
- Thursday 3 Apr 2025, 12:30 - Friday 4 Apr 2025, 16:00
- Workshop
Migrant farmworkers’ struggles for decent work and housing – Netherlands and US compared
Comparing the Dutch and US context, this assembly will discuss and learn from the struggles that many migrant farmworkers face to access decent work and housing
- Tuesday 8 Apr 2025, 18:00 - 20:00
- General