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The Library offers workshops and events designed to help you develop essential research skills. Whether you're a student, a researcher, or faculty our sessions provide opportunities to explore advanced research techniques, critically evaluate information sources, learn about open research and engaging with AI for research.
Bandung at 70: Launching Teaching with Tricontinental
2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the Bandung conference, the first Afro-Asian summit of formerly colonised nations. From Bandung grew the Tricontinental Conference in Cuba and calls for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) at the UN, as well as the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), a forum of predominantly Global South countries representing more than half of the world’s population.
While these movements seemed to fall by the wayside as US imperialism and ‘neoliberalism’ swept across the globe, recent calls for a revived NIEO and renewed NAM have gained pace as US-led multilateral institutions have failed in their responses to COVID-19, climate injustice, growing global economic inequality and the genocide in Gaza.
In this event, we launch Teaching with Tricontinental, an Open Press University of Sussex sourcebook co-written by staff and students at Sussex, and discuss the importance of the NIEO, NAM, Bandung and radical publishing today. This event will also be a chance to introduce the new Radical Library at the Global Studies Resource Centre, a collaborative initiative organised by the University of Sussex, Pluto Press, and the Left Book Club.
Propose an exhibition or event
We welcome proposals from University of Sussex colleagues to co-produce exhibitions and/or events in designated spaces in our buildings. If you wish to propose or design an exhibition for spaces within the Library and any associated digital or event activities that accompany an exhibition, please complete the Exhibition and events application form and submit to us by uploading below.
Applications should be submitted with at least six months’ notice for exhibitions and three months' notice for events in advance of the proposed start date and require relevant sign-off at Associate Dean, Executive Dean or Director of Professional Services level. This application should be completed in conjunction with the Exhibition and Events process document.