Upcoming London Workshop October 8th and 9th 2018
The OICD is proud to announce that the Aga Khan Centre will be our partners and co-hosts in an upcoming workshop to be held in King’s Cross, London on October 8th and...
The OICD Newsletter: A Year in Review
Greetings to all OICD members and mailing list subscribers, and a warm welcome to new subscribers and members. This edition of the OICD newsletter is brought to you...
What to do with the Knowledge that Identities are Manmade?
By OICD Executive Director, Prof. Bruce White The popularity of books such as Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari periodically thrust a key finding of...
Constructing Identities that Oppose Constructions
OICD Intern Cristina Cusenza takes on one of the big themes in identity and cultural development: how can we diminish the power of dangerous and divisive singular identities...
OICD Goals and Mission Objects 2017-2020
The OICD defines its goals and mission objects every two years. These are the mission objects that the OICD proposes to concentrate on until 2020. Comments from OICD members...
Keeping it Plural: The Dangers of “Singular Identities”
By OICD Executive Director, Prof. Bruce White Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen makes clear his argument for the importance of maintaining multiple identities in his...
Imagining Lebanon from Japan
OICD interns are often interested in identities because they themselves have complex experiences of how identities work in the places they have grown up and/or find...
Where Identities Draw Lines in History
By OICD Executive Director, Prof. Bruce White How do you answer the question “where are you from?”. If you are like most people, you’ll answer with the name...
Nations on Display: Culture, Identity and Technological Innovation at Expo 2017, Astana, Kazakhstan
By OICD Research Fellow, Dr. Aliya Tskhay On what occasion do all major nations of the world present and project images of who they are in the world the same place at...