Brandeis University Proseminar presentation by Oxfam's Duncan Green from March 2012. (1/6)

1. How Change Happens
Duncan Green
Brandeis Proseminar
March 2012

2. What are we doing here?
 Working on your assignments as we go
 Co-creating a new module (and maybe
more – book, website etc), so:
 Tell me what works/doesn’t
 Say what you want more/less of
 Shout if I talk too fast, or you can’t
understand my accent or my jargon
 And there are no such things as stupid
questions!

3. Assignment
 Change episode you are familiar with
 We will develop it over the course of the
weekend
 You then write it up as your course
assignment

4. Introductions
 Name, country
 What do you want to get out of this (i.e.
Why are you giving up a lovely weekend
to study how change happens?)

5. Session Plan: Friday
 Introductions and course outline
 Lecture: interdisciplinary perspectives
on change
 Discussion: what disciplines we have in
the room for this course and what we
are missing?

6. Session Plan: Saturday
 Overnight thoughts and feedback
 Lecture 2: Active Citizens, Effective
States and Change
 Groupwork: Analysing and improving
your case studies
 Lecture 3: Understanding power and
Change
 Groupwork: Analysing the Egyptian
revolution
 Lecture 4: The role of Activism
 Groupwork: analysing South Africa’s
Treatment Action Campaign

7. Session Plan: Sunday (provisional)
 Overnight thoughts and feedback
 Lecture 5: INGOs and Advocacy
 Groupwork: Design a pitch to the Gates
Foundation for an anti-tobacco
campaign
 Lecture 6: The Changing World and
Foreign Aid
 Groupwork: improving the aid system
 Groupwork: Go back to your pre-course
case study and decide what still needs
to be done

8. If this happens, let me know.......

9. And the best assignments end up here