Development Studies Events
2011
January
18/01/11
19/01/11
- Integration and Return: Emerging Political Narratives amongst Palestinian Refugees
Ruba Salih (Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS)
25/01/11
26/01/11
- From the Pristine to the Peccant: Agricultural Expansion, Migration and the Production of New Subjects in South India, 1920-70
V. J. Varghese (Centre for Development Studies, Sussex)
27/01/11
- The Confédération Paysanne (France) as 'peasant' movement: re-appropriating 'peasantness' for the advancement of organisational interests
Edouard Morena (Kings’ College London)
February
01/02/11
- Just Give Money to the Poor
Joseph Hanlon (Open University)
02/02/11
- The Spatial Structuring of Class: capitalism and labour migration in the Gulf Arab States
Adam Hanieh (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
02/02/11
- Nobel Prize Winner Dr Shirin Ebadi on The Role of Women in Promoting Peace in the Middle East
Dr Shirin Ebadi (Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003)
Free entrance, no booking, first come first seated
08/02/11
- Pakistan 1950-2009: Dependency, States, and Markets
Matthew McCartney (SOAS)
09/02/11
- Migration to Transition Societies: Chinese in Serbia
Maja Korac (Humanities and Social Sciences, UEL)
10/02/11
- Differentiated effects on poverty of a climatic shock: evidence from a longitudinal survey in rural Sindh, Pakistan
James Copestake (University of Bath)
10/02/11
- On the Nation and the 'Jewish People'
Professor Shlomo Sand
ATTENTION: ROOM CHANGE
FREE ENTRANCE, NO BOOKING, FIRST COME FIRST SEATED
Professor Shlomo Sand, author of the controversial bestseller The Invention of the Jewish People, will be in conversation with Professor Gilbert Achcar, author of The Arabs and the Holocaust to discuss his new book On the Nation and the 'Jewish People'.
22/02/11
- Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship
Guy Standing (Bath / ILO)
23/02/11
- The Autonomy of Migration
Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Leicester)
24/02/11
- Salads, Sweat and Status: Migrant workers in UK horticulture
Donna Simpson (City University, London)
March
01/03/11
02/03/11
- Women At-Risk in Migration: Asylum-seeking and trafficked women, violence and health
Cathy Zimmerman (LSHTM)
02/03/11
- Corporate Takeovers, Internet Challenges: does journalism have a future?
Dr Serge Halimi (Director, Le Monde Diplomatique)
FREE ENTRY, NO BOOKING REQUIRED, FIRST COME FIRST SEATED.
08/03/11
- The Great Chinese Famine
Chris Brammal (SOAS)
09/03/11
- ‘No Longer Pet Kittens’: Diaspora, cricket, belonging
Paru Raman (Department of Anthropology SOAS)
10/03/11
14/03/11
- Citizenship, autochthony and the intersected politics of belonging.
Nira Yuval-Davis (Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belong, UEL)
15/03/11
24/03/11
- Industrial tuna fisheries in the Western Indian Ocean: Accumulation strategies, concentration and control
Liam Campling (Queen Mary, University of London)
May
23/05/11
- Nigel Roberts (World Bank) presents The World Development Report, 2011: Conflict, Security and Development
Nigel Roberts (World Bank)
Chair: Professor Christopher Cramer, Development Studies, SOAS
July
05/07/11
- London Premiere of DEBTOCRACY
Downloaded by millions of citizens in Greece and across Europe, 'Debtocracy' is spreading like wildfire. The film seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions - solutions hidden by the governments of Europe and the dominant media.
October
11/10/11
- Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011: New Country Results, Changes Over Time and Sub-national Decompositions
Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Director)
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
11/10/11
12/10/11
- Politicisation of Aid; New or Just Humanitarianism?
Jeroen Jansen (Medecins Sans Frontieres UK)
12/10/11
- Film: ‘Living Like a Common Man’: an anthropological documentary on Indian youngsters living in London
Professor Mario Rutten (University of Amsterdam)
13/10/11
- Land, Labour and Dispossession: Some Results from a Resurvey of a Vidarbha Village, India
R Ramakumar (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)
17/10/11
- Missing Waters and Unhappy Toads - filtered out issues that are biting back in the Himalaya - Ganga with the end of the Age of Aid
Dipak Gywali (Nepal Academy of Science and Technology)
18/10/11
- ‘Fool me once, shame on you: fool me twice, shame on me’ - From Microfinance to Social Business: Exploring the Fantasy Worlds of Muhammad Yunus
Milford Bateman (Independent Consultant)
19/10/11
- The Open Society Foundation’s Work on Migration
Marie Struthers, Elizabeth Franz, Jane McElhone
19/10/11
- Disconnected or Reconnected? The Tamil Diaspora after the end of the war in Sri Lanka
Nicholas Van Hear (Compas, Oxford)
19/10/11
- MSF Discussion: Blind Aid: Relief efforts inside Somalia
MSF Discussion Evening
RSVP to: prog-intern1@london.msf.org
24/10/11
- Water and Work in the Mughal Landscape
James Wescoat (MIT)
25/10/11
- Impact of Global Instability on sub-Saharan Countries: National Policy Responses
John Weeks (SOAS, Professor Emeritus)
26/10/11
- The challenges of IDP protection in the Horn of Africa
Nuur Mohamud Sheekh (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre)
26/10/11
- Histories and Ecologies of Diaspora in the Bay of Bengal
Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck)
November
01/11/11
- Struggles in Bolivia
Jeffrey Webber (Queen Mary, UoL)
01/11/11
- Groundwater Science Challenges for the 21st Century
Professor Denis Peach (Chief Scientist, British Geological Survey)
02/11/11
- Trade unions in the UK and organizing workers -- how is this relevant to international development?
Matthew Dore-Weeks (Unite the Union)
15/11/11
- 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge Univeristy)
16/11/11
- Applying International Humanitarian Law: where law, policy and operations collide
Geoffrey Loane (ICRC-UK)
16/11/11
- Remapping Migration
Paolo Novak (Development Studies, SOAS)
17/11/11
- Stingy patrons and fickle clients: the decline of patronage in the Pakistani Punjab
Nicolas Martin (LSE)
22/11/11
- The Pitfalls of Water Privatisation: Failure and Reform in Malaysia
Jeff Tan (AKU-ISMC, Assistant Professor)
23/11/11
- Christian Aid’s Humanitarian Work: Supporting Local Civil Society
Nick Guttman (Christian Aid)
23/11/11
- Home, City and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta
Alison Blunt and Jayani Bonnerjee (Geography, QMUL)
24/11/11
29/11/11
- Development Within or Against Capitalism: A Critical Engagement with Amartya Sen’s 'Development as Freedom'
Ben Selwyn (Sussex Univeristy)
30/11/11
- I'm a policymaker get me out of here! The dilemmas of putting conflict policy into practice at DFID
Mark Segal, DFID, Senior Conflict Advisor
30/11/11
- Reconciliation: western Muslim religiosity and political behaviour
Justin Gest (Migration Studies Unit, LSE)
December
01/12/11
- Agrarian Transformation in an Indian Maoist Guerrilla Zone
Alpa Shah (Goldsmiths)
06/12/11
- Reconsidering debates on the developmental state
Subir Sinha & Dae-Oup Chang (SOAS)
07/12/11
- Current Research on Humanitarian Space - New Report from ODI/HPG
Samir Elhawary (ODI) and Laura Hammond (SOAS)
07/12/11
- Famine Relief Diaspora-Style The Somali response to the 2011 crisis
Laura Hammond (Development Studies, SOAS)
09/12/11
- Breaking Up? A Route Out of the Eurozone Crisis
Join us for a timely and urgently needed discussion over the future of the eurozone, the possibility of exit, and what it will all mean for the people of Europe. Bringing together leading economists, political scientists and financial journalists, the discussion will play a critical role in setting the terms of the debate for the tumultuous period that lies ahead
12/12/11
- Intensive Groundwater Use - Inspiration and Frustration in the Quest for Sustainability
Professor Stephen Foster (Global Water Partnership)
14/12/11
- Development Brokering and the Blurring of Aid and Security in Dakar
Anne-Line Rodriguez (Anthropology, SOAS)
