Quo Vadis ODID? Climate change, growth, and the future of development

How, if at all, can we square sustainability with economic growth?

Do the current measures of ‘green growth’ suffice to abate the problems of environmental degradation and climate change, or do we need more radical ideas of ‘degrowth’ and fundamentally different economic systems?

Join ODID staff, researchers, students and alumni as we debate how our department should position itself.

Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies

This one and a half day conference, organized by Prof. Giovanni Capoccia and Prof. Isabela Mares (Yale) brings together scholars from Europe and the US to analyze in comparative and historical perspective the conditions of viability of the strategies that pro-democratic forces can adopt to counter the rise of illiberalism in liberal democracies.

View more information and the provisional program.

Emma Madden

Research

I specialise in computational methods in social science with a particular interest in modelling complex social systems through the lens of political violence and opinion dynamics. Some of my research topics include:

  • Replication of social experiments with synthetic data from LLMs

  • Organisational structure and group decision making in insurgency

  • Complex systems and modelling collective behaviour

The Future of Democracy in India: a conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi

A historian, biographer, and a former member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of India’s parliament), Rajmohan Gandhi has sought throughout his life to develop and protect a democratic India which respects all its citizens and enables all to thrive.

During the 1975-77 Emergency in India, Himmat, the weekly founded and edited by Rajmohan Gandhi, was among a handful of Indian journals that opposed the suspension of democratic rights.
In 1990, he led India’s delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
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