Debating Development

25/09/2025

⏰ New series upcoming!

💂‍♀️Authoritarian currents: Power, control and resistance in times of crisis

✍️ https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/usos/debating-development/programme2025/

21/11/2024

⛴💊 The port of Antwerp is known as a gateway for drugs

👮🕵️‍♀️ Are our authorities on the right profiles with their ‘war on drugs’? And what are its perverse effects?

🎙 On Tuesday, we'll be having a conversation with an expert on police violence and a drug coach

✍ https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/usos/debating-development/programme2024/thefightagainstnarcotrafficking/

13/11/2024

⛴ The port as a gateway to violence?

💣 Our upcoming panel session will be on arms trade through the port of Antwerp

🎙️ Invited speakers from International Peace Information Service, Vredesactie and Institute of Development Policy - Development Studies

✍️ register online https://uantwerpen.be/en/centres/usos/debating-development/programme2024/armstradethroughtheport/

06/11/2024

📣 New Debating Development seminar upcoming

👷‍♂️ Exploring the interplay between the Port of Antwerp and Labour Exploitation in Urban Dynamics

✍ https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/usos/debating-development/programme2024/labourexploitation/

24/10/2024

🗯 Buckle up for our next session!

🛳 Life beyond the port: Discussing social-environmental (in)justices behind the ‘green’ narrative of the port of Antwerp

🤝 With Seas At Risk, USOS, Institute of Development Policy - Development Studies

✍️ https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/usos/debating-development/programme2024/greennarrative/

22/10/2024

⏰Tonight at 6.30 Stadscampus

✍️ https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/usos/debating-development/programme2024/lessonsfromtheportofantwerp/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGEQ9BleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcajaW7qtjuGb8XcpvuGQzGLTScbxQslNwGdnDxROFmE3dkklaIPAKXfkQ_aem_6CgvRwPiCn4kG6-YrXUOlA

🌳 How is the Port of Antwerp ensuring the quality of life in its surrounding communities?

📢 Our next Debating Development session will zoom in on the role civic movements can take on.

✍ join our next seminar: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/usos/debating-development/programme2024/lessonsfromtheportofantwerp/