Development Studies Events
2013
January
09/01/13
- Temporary Workers, Labour Exploitation & the Future of Global Migration
Immanuel Ness (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
15/01/13
- When daughters migrate and mothers do not: girl children workers in India
Deepita Chakravarty (Department of Economics, SOAS)
16/01/13
17/01/13
- Breaking Dependency and Monopolies: Post-1994 Rwanda's Liberalized Coffee Sector
Pritish Behuria (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
22/01/13
- Aid and reconstruction in Haiti: A panel discussion to mark the anniversary of the 2010 earthquake
Peter Hallward (Kingston University), Andrew Leak (UCL and Haiti Solidarity Group) and Chiara Liguori (Amnesty International)
23/01/13
- Borrowing across Borders: Migration, Credit and Migra-loans in Rural Cambodia
Maryann Bylander (SOAS)
24/01/13
- The Changing Geography of Grain Cultivation in China and Its Environmental Impact
Chris Bramall (Department of Economics, SOAS)
24/01/13
29/01/13
- Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market
Ann Stewart (School of Law, Warwick University)
30/01/13
- The Documentary Moment (and Screening of Channel 4’s “New Model Army”)
Pratap Rughani (University of the Arts, London)
February
05/02/13
- Macroeconomic Impact of Capital Flight on sub-Saharan Countries
John Weeks (Department of Economics, SOAS)
06/02/13
- Flocks without Shepherds? Sovereignty, Governmentality and the Paradoxical Politics of International Policy for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons
Simon Addison (University of Manchester)
06/02/13
- Is Islamism the Arab Destiny?
Aziz Al-Azmeh, CEU University Professor, School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, Central European University, Budapest
- Aziz Al-Azmeh is CEU University Professor in the School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, Central European University, Budapest. Among his books in English are Islams and Modernities, The Times of History, and Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Christian, Muslim and Pagan Polities.
07/02/13
- The physical materiality of the Indian Rice Economy
Barbara Harriss-White (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford)
19/02/13
- Rethinking Development: China’s Development ‘Model’
Jennifer Hsu (Political Science, Alberta)
20/02/13
- Exclusive Religious Identities and Shared Spiritual Cosmologies in the British South Asian Diaspora
Virinder Kalra (University of Manchester)
21/02/13
- Agrarian systems and food provisioning strategies in rural South Africa
Elizabeth Hull (department of Anthropology, SOAS)
26/02/13
- Basic Income in India: Piloting Unconditional Cash Transfers
Guy Standing (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
26/02/13
27/02/13
- Too Much, too Young? The Conceptualisation and Representation of Children and Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK
Heaven Crawley (Swansea University)
March
04/03/13
- Documentary Screening: 'Last Train Home' by Lixin Fan
- 'Every Spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home village for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world largest human migration- an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural as and industrial future. Chinese canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades.'
05/03/13
- What's hot and what's not in development?
Duncan Green (Oxfam)
06/03/13
- Dealing with Difference: representations of migration in European museums
Chris Whitehead (Newcastle University)
06/03/13
- Women and the ‘Arab Spring’: Lessons from Iran?
Haideh Moghissi, Professor and Trudeau Fellow, Department of Equity Studies, York University, Toronto
The swift turn that the movement for democracy and social justice has taken in favour of Islamists signals the challenges ahead for progressive social forces. This paper asks whether there are lessons to be learned from Iran’s 1979 revolution.
08/03/13
- Costly Democracy. Why peacebuilding rarely leads to democracy.
Prof Christoph Zurcher
12/03/13
- Producing urban asylum: forced migration and the city
Jonathan Darling (Geography, Manchester)
13/03/13
14/03/13
- The Tribal Question: Adivasis and the Maoist Movement in India
George Kunnath (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford)
18/03/13
- Insight Day at SOAS
Various Speakers
An invitation only event for prospective undergraduate students who have received an offer from SOAS
20/03/13
- The Ejamba of North Fairmount Avenue, the Wizard of Menlo Park and the Dialectics of Ensoniment: an Episode in the History of an Acoustic Mask
Stephan Palmié (University of Chicago)
April
18/04/13
- Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises: Heterodox Macroeconomics Meets Feminist Economics
Professor James Heintz and Professor Stephanie Seguino
June
06/06/13
- Postgraduate Open Evening
Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.
