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Debating Development is a public platform for reflection & dialogue on global development. Through this series, the University of Antwerp encourages its community and the wider public to engage in conversations on contemporary societal issues, particularly their global dimension.

​Each year we address a different overarching theme. We explore the broad theme through various panel discussions that bring in different perspectives. Each topic begins with a presentation by a renowned speaker. One or more discussants set the stage for further conversation or debate. At the end, the audience has time for questions and comments. 

Everyone is welcome to attend these conversations. University of Antwerp also offers the series as an elective for students of all faculties. Debating Development is part of the university-wide, interdisciplinary courses

This year's Debating Development series, “Resisting Erasure”, uses Palestine as a lens to examine interconnected struggles against dispossession, ecological destruction, criminalisation, surveillance, and the suppression of histories and knowledge. Bringing together scholars, organisers, artists, and legal thinkers, the series explores how erasure operates—and how communities resist through memory, cultural production, land defence, abolitionist organising, and collective survival. It asks how solidarity can honour difference while helping build futures grounded in justice, dignity, and liberation.

Join us every Tuesday evening from 6 to 8 pm, from 13th October to 15th December 2026, for a series of 9 lectures on this theme!

Participation is free, but please  for each session.

(Design by Aude Abou Nasr)