Emerging development policy issues and implications for development research was the overall topic that three experts' panels discussed at ZEF on Thursday, September 27. Among the panelists were members of ZEF's International Advisory Board such as Hans van Ginkel, Lisa Sennerby Forsse, and Carolina Vera.

This week's "Alternative Wednesday" will remind us of the consequences of the ever increasing demand in gold. The double feature screening of two short documentaries by Aljazeera will be shown on Wednesday, October 10.

ZEF will host an international academic conference on “Agricultural knowledge and knowledge systems in post-Soviet societies” on September 12 – 13, 2013. International experts will meet to discuss issues such as cultures of knowledge production and sharing.

The first major Crossroads Asia conference on "Figurations of Mobility" will be held from November 22-24, 2012 in Berlin. This conference aims to provide a forum to discuss approaches of figurational sociology with the objective to re-conceptualize Area Studies. Theoretical advantages and shortcomings will be related to concepts such as networks or translocality and empirical case studies.

Around 60 visitors attended the "Water Lecture" held at ZEF on Wednesday, November 21. Waltina Scheumann and Michael Brüntrup (DIE) and Franziska Hollmann (DEG) presented aspects of research and work related to "water grabbing".

Speaker: Alejandro Mora Motta, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Global Heritage Lab, University Bonn

Speaker: Micely Díaz Espaillat, Junior Researcher at ZEF Cultural and Political Change (CPC) Working Group

Speaker: Dr. des. Axel Prestes Dürrnagel (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau)

Speaker: Rahel Gebremichael Ago, PhD student at Bonn International Graduate School of Clinical and Population Science (BIGS-CPS)

Speaker: Professor Oyinlola Oyebode (Professor of Public Health, Centre Lead Public Health and Policy at Queen Mary University of London)