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We have created a summary of all articles, livestreams and twitter comments on the EADI NORDIC 2017. The following livestreams are available:

• Dudley Seers Lecture: Inequality and Financial Power: A Macroeconomic and Comparative View
• Opening Plenary: Economy And Equality
• Contesting Reconfigured Boundaries: Migration and Development
• Globalization and International Tax Justice
• Sustainability and the Green Shift in an Era of Disruptions

We are delighted to present the EADI NORDIC Conference programme and brochure. Over 400 researchers from 77 countries will come together in Bergen, to discuss the implications and boundaries of globalisation.

Seeing urban politics from the perspective of those who reside in slums offers an important dimension to the study of urbanism in the global South. Many people living in sub-standard conditions do not have their rights as urban citizens recognised and realise that they cannot rely on formal democratic channels or governance structures. Through in-depth case studies and comparative research, The Politics of Slums in the Global South: Urban Informality in Brazil, India, South Africa and Peru integrates conceptual discussions on urban political dynamics with empirical material from research undertaken in Rio de Janeiro, Delhi, Chennai, Cape Town, Durban and Lima.

We are delighted to announce the following speakers and the main programme of the conference:

Professor James K. Galbraith (University of Texas at Austin)
Professor Lise Rakner (University of Bergen, Chr. Michelsen Institue)
Professor Bertil Tungodden (Norwegian School of Economics NHH, CMI))
Professor Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics)
Dr. Arne Strand (Chr. Michelsen Institute)
Professor Uma Kothari (University of Manchester)
Professor Cathrine Brun (Oxford Brookes University)
Professorial Fellow Mick Moore (University of Sussex)
Professor Brooke Harrington (Copenhagen Business School)
Professor Joyeeta Gupta (University of Amsterdam)
Professor Achim Steiner (Oxford Martin School, UNDP)
Professor Susan Parnell (University of Cape Town)

Registration is open.

This international conference aims at debating the limits and potentialities of the growing political and economic interaction between the African countries and the “emerging powers” within a broader historical and political perspective.

Registration for the EADI NORDIC 2017 Conference taking place in Bergen 20-23 August is open now. Registration until June 15, 2017. Funding available for a limited number of participants.

The Social Protection Working Group has released a new briefing paper to inform about current developments.

The Department of Political and Social Studies of the University of Bologna and the EADI Working Group on ‘Transitions in (Southern) Africa’ organize an international conference, that will be held in Bologna (Italy) on 4-5 May 2017.

The EADI Working Group on Social Protection publishes the "Social protection briefs" regularly. If you are interested to subscribe to this online newsletter, please contact the working group conveners Katja Bender and Markus Loewe.