Development Studies seminar series
The Development Studies Seminars take place weekly during terms 1 & 2 with speakers representing the full range of development-related disciplines including economics, political science, anthropology, sociology and history.
Entrance is free and seminars are open to the public.
Previous Events in this series
Fascism with Indian Characteristics
Dr Benjamin Zachariah (University of Trier, Germany)
10 March 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWithin or Against? The Neoliberal State and the Struggle for Change
Dr Ed Rooksby (University of York, UK) | Dr Chris Nineham (writer and activist)
3 March 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe New Enclosure and Beyond: Neoliberalism and the Privatisation of Land
Professor Brett Christophers (Uppsala University, Sweden)
25 February 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMUrban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism
Professor Susanne Soederberg (Queen’s University, Canada)
18 February 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTechno-humanitarianism: Rethinking the Securitisation and Victimisation of Refugees
Dr Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London)
4 February 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Progress, Opportunities and Perils
Dr Tayyab Safdar (University of Cambridge, UK)
28 January 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSPECIAL PANEL EVENT: The Second Arab Spring: Seasons of Revolution
Dr Janan Aljabiri (Aman Organization for Women, Iraq) | Dr Rima Majed (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) | Professor Gilbert Achcar (SOAS University of London)
21 January 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDebunking the Myths about Immigration
Dr Maya Goodfellow (writer)
14 January 2020, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Milford Bateman & Dr Penelope Hawkins
3 December 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMarginal Development: States, Markets and Violence in Drug-affected Borderlands
Professor Jonathan Goodhand, Dr Jasmine Bhatia, Dr Patrick Meehan (SOAS University of London) & Dr Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín (National University of Colombia)
26 November 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMResisting Religious Nationalism from Below: Gender and Caste, Borders and Boundaries
Professor Navtej Purewal (SOAS University of London) & Professor Virinder Kalra (University of Warwick)
19 November 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMFeminism: Neoliberal Tool or Fuel for the 99%?
Professor Hester Eisenstein (The City University of New York, USA)
12 November 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPlunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth
Professor Guy Standing & Dr Subir Sinha (SOAS University of London)
29 October 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRethinking Prosperity: Climate Crisis, Consumption, Renewal
Professor Emerita Kate Soper (London Metropolitan University)
22 October 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMoney, Markets and Monarchies: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East
Dr Adam Hanieh (SOAS University of London)
15 October 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAusterity, Populism, Protest: People Power in the Age of Dissent
Dr David Bailey (University of Birmingham)
8 October 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAgrarian Transition and Development in an Age of Globalised Inequality: Some Questions from Africa
Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
African countries face a different set of challenges in their attempts to develop than have more recently developed countries. In this talk, we will explore the predicament African countries face in a globalised and unequal world, and the potential paths to rural change, using Kenya as a case study.
12 March 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTowards Zero Violence: Putting Gender into a Theory of Violence and Society
Sylvia Walby (City, University of London)
Is violence increasing or decreasing? The UN Sustainable Development Goals aspire to end violence against women and reduce violence in general. According to Pinker, drawing on Elias, violence is decreasing...
5 March 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMClimate Change and the ‘New Green Revolution’ in India
Marcus Taylor (Queen’s University, Canada)
Rural India is repeatedly argued to be in the midst of a social crisis as manifested in indicators of household indebtedness, farmer suicides, poor nutrition and food insecurity. Such issues are amplified in the context of stark environmental challenges, including groundwater depletion, land degradation and climate change-induced droughts and floods.
26 February 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMExiles in the 21st Century: The New ‘Population Law’ of Absolute Capitalism
Professor Etienne Balibar (University of Paris-Nanterre and Kingston University)
Clearly the 21st century will be marked by the increasingly large number of exiles i.e. uprooted and displaced people who find themselves ‘erring’ within or between states and continents, suffering extreme hardship or facing elimination, and creating imminent ‘pressure’ on states and societies.
19 February 2019, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMFictitious Capital in the 21st Century
Dr Cédric Durand (University of Paris 13 and EHESS, France)
Ten years after the great financial crisis we are still living under financial hegemony. The social and political wounds of the crash are far from being repaired. However, at institutional and structural levels most of the features of financial power are still in place and, arguably, even reinforced. How can we explain this resilience of financialisation? What are the socioeconomic implications?
5 February 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSouth-South Development Cooperation 3.0? Changes in the Decade Ahead
Dr Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge)
The last decade or so has been a period of remarkable success for the actors, ideas and practices of South-South Cooperation.
29 January 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSingularity: A Manifesto for Incomparable Geographies
Dr Tariq Jazeel (University College London)
This paper is a methodological response to the challenge of decolonising geographical knowledge.
22 January 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDeconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords Revisited
Professor Andrea Cornwall, Dr Tania Kaiser & Dr Meera Sabaratnam | SOAS University of London
Why should language matter to those who are doing development? Surely there are more urgent things to do than sit around mulling over semantics? But language does matter.
15 January 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPower, Politics, and Profit: The History of Food Aid in Conflict and Protracted Crisis
PANEL: Dr Susanne Jaspars (SOAS University of London), Professor Laura Hammond (SOAS University of London), Professor David Keen (LSE)
Food aid, and its withdrawal, has been used for a range of objectives: to support or undermine states or political movements, to save lives and support livelihoods, and to encourage self-reliance and – presently – resilience. In situations of conflict, states and leaders have diverted food aid to gain resources and authority or restricted it as part of counter-insurgency tactics. In the longer term, it becomes part of a country’s political economy.
4 December 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Wild East: India’s Criminal Economy and Politics
Professor Barbara Harriss-White (University of Oxford)
In the 21st century, many parts of the South Asian subcontinent are being conquered not by settler-migrants (as was the case in the Wild West) but by unruly and illegal forms of capital.
27 November 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism
Dr Jessica Whyte (University of Western Sydney)
In 1927, the leading Austrian School neoliberal thinker Ludwig von Mises published a scathing attack on European colonial imperialism, which he described as antithetical to all the principles of liberalism.
20 November 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBlack Revolution: The Global Politics of Black Radicalism
Dr Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City University)
Black radicalism is one of the most misunderstood political philosophies that exist. Conflated with extremism, narrow versions of nationalism and misogynistic organisations, it has largely been dismissed or overlooked as the ‘evil twin on the civil rights movement’.
13 November 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMNightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas
SYMPOSIUM: Dr Alpa Shah (LSE, University of London), Kheya Bag (New Left Review)
Alpa Shah and Kheya Bag discuss some of the insights in Shah's new book, Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerillas.
30 October 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBeyond Neoliberalism or Capitalism? The Latin American Experience
Professor Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México)
Latin America is currently caught up in a vortex of forces of social change generated in the process of capitalist development. This seminar will explore the diverse forms taken by the resistance to the advance of capital in the region over the course of the neoliberal era. It is argued that Latin America is a virtual laboratory of diverse experiments in the search for an alternative pathway and different models of post-development.
23 October 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Invention of the Savage: Philosophy, Politics and the Ideologies of Development
Dr Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Development has all too often set up a cordon sanitaire around itself, fending off discomfiting reminders of its entanglements with the ideologies and practices of colonialism and empire.
16 October 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMNeoliberalism, Populism, Fascism: The Implosion of Democracy in Brazil
PANEL: Professor Alfredo Saad-Filho, Professor Anthony Pereira, Dr Marieke Reithof, Dr Pedro Loureiro , Dr Francisco Dominguez
Brazil is in turmoil. The country is going through its deepest economic crisis in recorded history, and an unprecedented political crisis, which has led to the removal of President Dilma Rousseff and the imprisonment of former President Lula.
9 October 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSouth-South Development Cooperation 3.0? Changes in the Decade Ahead
Dr Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge)
The last decade or so has been a period of remarkable success for the actors, ideas and practices of South-South Cooperation. First, the number of Southern development partners has grown, and collectively they have significantly increased their development finances and programmes. Second, they have consolidated and defended the claim to doing development differently. Third, they have achieved recognition as essential partners within the international development community.
13 March 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMProfessor Mark Duffield (University of Bristol), Dr Zoe Marriage (SOAS, University of London), Professor Benjamin Selwyn (University of Sussex)
Most development thought is based upon the assumption that the uplifting of the world’s poor is to be carried out by elite actors (states, corporations, NGOs) rather than the poor themselves.
20 February 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Crisis of Social Reproduction and the End of Work
Dr Nick Srnicek (King's College London)
There has been much discussion in recent years about the “crisis of work”, with academics and journalists alike pointing to potentially concerning trends in the labour market.
6 February 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Jeff Webber (Queen Mary, University of London)
This paper provides a synoptic assessment of the political economy of the Left turn in Latin America in the twenty-first century. First, it charts the broad trajectory of Latin America’s political economy in relation to trends in the world market and the international division of labour between 1980 and 2017.
30 January 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCities in Contexts of Power and Counterpower: A Global Perspective
Professor Emeritus Göran Therborn (University of Cambridge)
Missing in the currently predominant literature on cities is a perspective of cities in contexts of power and politics, of cities as part of systems of power.
23 January 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Stathis Kouvelakis (King’s College London), Kate Evans (cartoonist, artist, and activist), John Rees (writer and activist)
The revolutionary tradition has a long history, and revolutionaries have inspired subsequent generations in fighting for a world free of exploitation, oppression and class distinctions.
16 January 2018, Brunei Gallery, BGLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGround Down By Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India
There is a special conference being organised on 9 December called Ground Down By Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India, which is now part of the Development Studies Seminar Series. The event is free but ticketed, and can be booked through the link below. Please circulate widely to interested colleagues and students. The event will be held in the Brunei Gallery where the exhibition 'Behind the Indian Boom' is taking place.
9 December 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 10:00 AM - 7:30 PMNeoliberal Dogmatism: The IMF and the Arab Spring,
Gilbert Achcar and Hassan Sherry
The Catastrophic Consequences of Neoliberal Dogmatism in the MENA Region
The neoliberal doctrine's postulates are completely inconsistent with the realities of the MENA region. They have produced catastrophic results, which laid the ground for the regional upheaval known as the 'Arab Spring'. And yet, the IMF keeps advocating more of the same.
5 December 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMatteo Rizzo
How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism? Who has the power to influence its changing shape over time? What does it mean to be a precarious and informal worker in the private minibuses that provide such transport in Dar es Salaam? These are the main questions that inform this in-depth case study of Dar es Salaam’s public transport system over more than forty years.
28 November 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMÖzlem Onaran
This talk presents the empirical evidence about the race to the bottom in labour’s share in income in developing countries and the linkages between financialisation, income distribution, growth, investment and productivity. The presentation concludes with alternative progressive policies based on a coordinated policy mix of wage increases and public investment, and addresses the political aspects and barriers to an equality-led development.
21 November 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMIslamophobia in the Name of Women's Rights
Sara Farris
In her presentation Sara Farris will discuss some of the themes laid out in her new book, In the Name of Women's Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke, 2017). Farris' book explores the ways in which feminist ideas are often exploited by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns.
14 November 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSouth Africa's Corporatised Liberation: An ANC and a Country in Crisis
Dale McKinley
South Africa’s democracy is in trouble and so too is the African National Congress, the country’s governing party since the defeat of apartheid in 1994. Despite the more general advances that have been made under the ANC’s rule, power has not only remained in the hands of a small minority but has increasingly been exercised in service to capital.
31 October 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMHistory from Below after the Transnational Turn: The Case of a Forgotten 18th-century Revolutionary
Marcus Rediker
This lecture will survey the theory, methods, and scholarship of “history from below” after the recent move in many disciplines toward a global frame of analysis. The talk reconstructs the largely forgotten life history of Benjamin Lay (1682-1759), a Quaker dwarf who worked around the Atlantic as a shepherd, a sailor, a glover, and a commoner and became one of the first to demand the total and unconditional emancipation of enslaved Africans worldwide.
24 October 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDanny Dorling
Insurrection is an uprising. Analysts and commentators on inequality have long warned that if inequality is allowed to rise too high there will be insurrection. Thomas Piketty suggested this is why elites should concern themselves with inequality. Politicians often confuse sounding as if they care about inequality with actually caring. This talk provides some illustrations of how things fall apart as inequality rises, when it is high and when it is tolerated.
17 October 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMHow to Deal with Truth and Post-truth in Climate Change Politics
Tim Forsyth
Much current concern about climate change politics focuses on the divide between climate science and climate denialism. This talk will argue that this dichotomy can often reduce the complexity by which we understand climate risks, and for understanding why people are, or are not, vulnerable to climate change.
10 October 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, DLT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMProfessor Gilbert Achcar, Professor Chris Cramer, Dr Laura Hammond, Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Professor James Putzel, Chaired by Dr Zoë Marriage
Since Development Studies was first taught at SOAS 25 years ago, the SOAS Department of Development Studies has provided critical perspectives on a wide range of issues that have gone on to shape development theory and practice.
14 March 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCapitalism and the Sea: Sovereignty, Territory and Accumulation in the Global Ocean
Dr Liam Campling, Alejandro Colás
We introduce the term ‘terraqueous territoriality’ to analyse a particular relationship between capitalism as a social formation, and the sea as a natural force. Focusing on three spaces – exclusive economic zones (EEZs), the system of ‘flags of convenience’, and multilateral counter-piracy initiatives.
7 March 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre , 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Russian Revolution and Global Development: Lessons from the First Hundred Years
Tariq Ali, Professor August H. Nimtz, Professor Tamás Krausz
The Russian Revolution was the greatest anti-capitalist uprising in history, and from its origins, sparked controversy, chaos, imagination and hope. It began with the dismantling of the Tsarist autocracy in February 1917 and its replacement with a provisional government; by October, the provisional government was also overthrown.
28 February 2017, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMEconomic Inequality and Gender Inequality
Professor Diane Elson
Economic inequality is now of major concern to both mainstream and heterodox economists. Gender inequality has always been of major concern to feminist economists, but is often ignored by both mainstream and heterodox economists. This talk will explore the intersections between these two aspects of inequality and discuss what difference it makes if gender is brought into analysis of economic inequality.
21 February 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPower and Patriarchy in India: How State-led ‘Women’s Empowerment’ Undermines Women’s Movements
Kavita Krishnan
Does the state confer ‘empowerment’ on women? Can it ‘empower’ without acknowledging and resisting the structures that ‘disempower’ women? In India, state-led ‘women’s empowerment’ campaigns often draw on and reinforce patriarchal ideology.
7 February 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAndreas Malm
Global warming is lapping the shores of countries in the global South with a whole fleet of existential threats. But this is not the first time fossil fuel combustion has visited them. This talk will focus on three places where the British Empire used steamboats to subjugate distant populations and appropriate their resources: Egypt, India and Nigeria, all targets of nineteenth-century imperial expansion powered by coal.
31 January 2017, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRetail Shift: Transforming Work and Gender in Global Production
Professor Stephanie Barrientos
The expansion of global retail has significant implications for analysis of work and gender. Within the retail sector supermarkets, agrifood and manufacturing brands play a central role transforming production, processing, distribution and consumption across developed and developing countries.
24 January 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDemolishing Neoliberal Development Myths
Professor Jayati Ghosh, Professor Erik S. Reinert, Professor Rainer Kattel,
The editors of the Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development attempt to cover a huge canvas, in both time and geography, in order to illustrate processes of economic development from many different angles, with authors of the different chapters hailing from all continents.
17 January 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMProfessor David Harvey
At the end of the very first section of Capital, after offering an initial definition of the labor theory of value, Marx observes that "nothing can be of value without being an object of utility.
17 November 2016, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments Made in India
Dr Alessandra Mezzadri
This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in India.
18 October 2016, Senate House, (S)ALT, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCapitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises
Anwar Shaikh
Competition and conflict are intrinsic features of modern societies. Inequality is persistent, and booms andbusts are recurrent outcomes throughout capitalist history. State intervention modifies these patterns butdoes not abolish them.
11 October 2016, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMerchant Capitalism, Peasant Households, and Industrial Accumulation: Integration of a Model
Professor Jairus Banaji (Department of Development Studies, SOAS, UK)
19 April 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGlobal Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis
Professor Adam Morton (Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia) and Professor Andreas Bieler (School of Politics and International Relations, Nottingham University, UK)
8 March 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Development of Underdevelopment in the UK
Professor Colin Leys (Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Canada and Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
1 March 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWhy is Inequality So Unequal Across the World?
Dr Gabriel Palma (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK)
23 February 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Extreme Centre: How the Neoliberal Project Has Reshaped the World
Tariq Ali (writer, filmmaker and editor of New Left Review)
16 February 2016, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTransformative Politics and the Solidarity Economy
Professor Michelle Williams and Dr Vishwas Satgar (School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
2 February 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPopular Representations of Development: Creating Global Alliances or Reproducing Inequalities?
Professor Uma Kothari (School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK)
26 January 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMEconomic Policy: From Market Fixing to Market Making and Creating
Professor Mariana Mazzucato (Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK)
19 January 2016, Brunei Gallery, BGLT, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PMContesting the Intensification of Women's Labour in Neoliberal India
Dr Kalpana Wilson (Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
12 January 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWomen's Empowerment, Neoliberal Development and Global Justice
Professor Andrea Cornwall (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK)
1 December 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMIs There a Global Movement for Environmental Justice?
Professor Joan Martinez-Alier (Department of Economics and Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
24 November 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDr Milford Bateman (Department of Economics and Tourism, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia, and St Mary’s University, Canada)
17 November 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMUpdating Cuba's Economic Model, Socialism and Human Development
Professor Al Campbell (Department of Economics, University of Utah, USA)
10 November 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMProfessor Paul Cammack (Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong, China)
27 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMA Critique of the Theory and Policy of the New Consensus Macroeconomics
Professor Philip Arestis (Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK)
20 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMFeeding the World: Why Malthus is Still Wrong
Dr Elaine Graham-Leigh
13 October 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAre Emerging Markets Still Developing? And What is Development Anyway?
Professor Jayati Ghosh (School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)
6 October 2015, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGlobalisation and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx's Writings
Dr Lucia Pradella (SOAS)
All welcome, no booking required.
10 March 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Limits of Hybridity and the Crisis of Liberal Peace
Dr Dave Rampton (LSE), Dr Sutha Nadarajah (SOAS)
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3 March 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRethinking the Conflict and Security Implications of Climate Change
Prof Jan Selby (Sussex)
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24 February 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRural Cooperatives and Fair Trade
Prof Chris Cramer (SOAS)
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17 February 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMFlip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads
Prof Caroline Knowles (Goldsmith)
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3 February 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAfter the Honeymoon? The Next decade of South-South Development Cooperation
Prof Emma Mawdsley (Cambridge)
All welcome, no booking required.
27 January 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTechnopopulism, Affective Politics and the Making of 'Modi' as Development Man
Dr Subir Sinha (SOAS)
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20 January 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTransit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf
Dr A. Khalaf (Lund), Dr O. AlShehabi (GCDP), Dr A. Hanieh (SOAS)
All welcome, no booking required.
13 January 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPolarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (Book Launch)
Dr Thomas Marois (Development Studies, SOAS)
9 December 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBuilding Utopian Transformation: social justice and public space in David Harvey’s writings
Marcio Valenca (Professorial Research Associate, Development Studies, SOAS)
25 November 2014, , G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMNepal's 2010 general strike: A moment of truth
Dr Feyzi Ismail (Development Studies, SOAS)
18 November 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAndean Labyrinth: The New Left in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela
Jeff Webber (School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary)
11 November 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMEast Asia: Slippery Floor for the Left
Dae-oup Chang (Development Studies, SOAS)
28 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDying for an iPhone: The Struggle of China's New Working Class
Jenny Chan (Contemporary China Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford)
21 October 2014, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, The Council Chamber (ground floor), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMHaider A. Khan (Univeristy of Denver)
14 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMLand and Freedom: The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism (book launch)
Dr Leandro Vergara-Camus (Development Studies, SOAS)
All Welcome, no need for booking.
7 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMTBC
18 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBook Launch “Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest”
Tim Pringle (Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS)
11 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPalliative Development: Moving Beyond the Limits of the Developmentalist State
Samuel Cohn (Professor, Department of Sociology, Texas A & M University; Professorial Research Associate in Development Studies, SOAS)
4 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMExchange Rate Management in a Natural Resource Dominated Economy: the case of Zambia, 2002-2013
John Weeks (Professor Emeritus, SOAS, Development Studies)
25 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBook Launch “The Global Development Crisis”
Benjamin Selwyn (Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex)
18 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGeographies of Capital and Labour in Mekong Southeast Asia: Border SEZs and Cross-border Regionalism
Dennis Arnold (Assistant Professor, Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam)
4 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBook Launch “Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism: West African labour mobility and EU borders”
Hannah Cross (Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster)
28 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBook launch “The Poverty of Capitalism: Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What Comes Next"
John Hilary (Executive Director of War on Want)
21 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMNew Developmentalism and the Origin of Methodological Nationalism in the Analysis of Development
Lucia Pradella (University of Venice, Ca' Foscari, and SOAS, Development Studies)
14 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDebtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population
Susanne Soederberg (Political Studies, Queen's University)
This event has been organised by the Neoliberalism, Globalisation, and States Research Cluster
10 December 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Lost Logic of State-owned Banking for Development
Thomas Marois (Development Studies, SOAS)
3 December 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe war for biodiversity: the politics of remilitarising anti poaching in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rosaleen Duffy (Development, SOAS)
26 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMClusters, Value Chains and Labour Standards: From Football to the Rising Powers
Khalid Nadvi (Development, SED, Manchester)
19 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSusan Newman (Economics, ISS Rotterdam)
12 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMVicken Chetarian (Development Studies, SOAS)
29 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPredatory growth in India. A critique and an alternative
Aseem Shrivastava (Environmental economist and writer)
22 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRoutes, Transport, Land: Managing Mobility in the Himalayan Borderlands
Tina Harris (Sociology & Anthropology, University of Amsterdam)
15 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGreece, Financialization and the EU. The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction
Vassilis Fouksas (International Politics, University of East London)
8 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMProducing urban asylum: forced migration and the city
Jonathan Darling (Geography, Manchester)
12 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWhat's hot and what's not in development?
Duncan Green (Oxfam)
5 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBasic Income in India: Piloting Unconditional Cash Transfers
Guy Standing (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
26 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRethinking Development: China’s Development ‘Model’
Jennifer Hsu (Political Science, Alberta)
19 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMacroeconomic Impact of Capital Flight on sub-Saharan Countries
John Weeks (Department of Economics, SOAS)
5 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGender, Law and Justice in a Global Market
Ann Stewart (School of Law, Warwick University)
29 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAid 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)
22 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWhen daughters migrate and mothers do not: girl children workers in India
Deepita Chakravarty (Department of Economics, SOAS)
15 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRecovering Internationalism: Creating The New Global Solidarity
Peter Waterman (Network Institute for Global Democracy (Helsinki); Programa De Estudios Sobre Democracia y Transformacion Global (Lima) & Critical Action: Centre in Movement (New Delhi))
4 December 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMIs there a labour movement in China?
Tim Pringle (Dept. of Development Studies, SOAS)
27 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM(Re)Producing Labour: The Economies of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy
Prabha Kotiswaran (School of Law, King’s College London)
20 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPolitics of Pension Reform: A Feminist Reading of Collective Resistance
Kanchana Ruwanpura (Dept. of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton)
13 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMCharles Meth (Dept. of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield & School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal)
30 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGlobalisation, health and work: Chilean women workers and the Engelian Fallacy
Jasmine Gideon (Dept. of Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck, University of London)
23 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Millennium Development Goals And Ambitious Developmental Engineering
Clive Gabay, Dpt. of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London
Seminar to start at 5.30pm.
16 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 12:00 AMMoving out of war: Postwar statebuilding in Southeast Asia
Claire Smith (University of York)
13 March 2012, , G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMTurning Peasants into Soldiers? Securitized development, militarization and nationalism in Sri Lanka
Jonathan Goodhand, David Rampton (SOAS) Rajesh Venugopal (LSE)
6 March 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMMoazam Mahmood (ILO)
The Director of the Economic and Labour Market Analysis Department, ILO, discusses the 2012 Global Employment Trends Report
2 March 2012, Brunei Gallery, B102, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PMAngola and the local politics of civil war
Justin Pearce (Post Doctoral Fellow, SOAS)
28 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMI'm a policymaker get me out of here! The dilemmas of putting conflict policy into practice at DFID
Mark Segal, DFID, Senior Conflict Advisor
21 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM“Organisational Voluntarism”: Pure gifts, dirty money and the field of social action in India
Brendan Donegan (SOAS)
7 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMShould we double aid or halve it? A defining development question for the 21st century
Jonathan Glennie (ODI)
31 January 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMWorking with civil society templates: experts, entrepreneurs and volunteers in rural Tanzania
Claire Mercer (LSE)
24 January 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAndy Sumner (Research Fellow, IDS, University of Sussex)
17 January 2012, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMReconsidering debates on the developmental state
Subir Sinha & Dae-Oup Chang (SOAS)
6 December 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBen Selwyn (Sussex Univeristy)
29 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Pitfalls of Water Privatisation: Failure and Reform in Malaysia
Jeff Tan (AKU-ISMC, Assistant Professor)
22 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge Univeristy)
15 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMJeffrey Webber (Queen Mary, UoL)
1 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMImpact of Global Instability on sub-Saharan Countries: National Policy Responses
John Weeks (SOAS, Professor Emeritus)
25 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMilford Bateman (Independent Consultant)
18 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMSabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Director)
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
11 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMatteo Rizzo (SOAS)
11 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMKarl Marx, Frederik List and the Political Economy of Late Development
Ben Selwyn
15 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMChris Brammal (SOAS)
8 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMHelen Cross (UCL)
1 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWork after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship
Guy Standing (Bath / ILO)
22 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPakistan 1950-2009: Dependency, States, and Markets
Matthew McCartney (SOAS)
8 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMJoseph Hanlon (Open University)
1 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMJon Pattenden (UEA)
25 January 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMike Jennings (SOAS)
18 January 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPower, Profit and Prestige. A History of American Imperial Expansion
Philip Golub (IEE, Université Paris 8)
7 December 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe 'Art of coercion': Organised violence and state-building
Antonio Giustozzi (CSRC, London School of Economics)
30 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWhat is Development Studies for?
Henry Bernstein (SOAS)
23 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMFrom One-by-Two to Coffee Day The Sociology of Coffee Drinking in South India
Peter Mollinga (SOAS)
16 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMOliver Walton (University of Birmingham)
2 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMClean Fake: navigating 'legal residence' in migrant Moscow
Madeleine Reeves (CRESC, Manchester University)
26 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMind the gap! Urban Poverty reduction vs. the reality of being poor in Tanzania
Matteo Rizzo (Cambridge University)
19 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRethinking the Imperial Difference: reflections on US-Latin American encounters
David Slater (Loughborough University)
23 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMHas the current global financial crisis created opportunities for firms
Lutao Ning (Durham University)
16 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Social-Religious Origins of the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement (MST)
Michael Löwy (IIRE)
9 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMColonial Interventions and Postcolonial Transformations
Uma Khotari (IDPM, Manchester)
2 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMAid to Fragile States:The Provision of Budget Support in Difficult Circumstances
Nicola Pontara (World Bank)
23 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMDiego Sánchez-Ancochea (Oxford University)
9 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMIndia: The Political Economy of Growth
Dr Matthew McCartney (SOAS)
2 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMIndustrial Policy: Can We Go Beyond an Unproductive Confrontation?”
Ha Joon Chang
26 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMHierarchies of Power, Space and Bodies: Towards an understanding of Genocidal Violence in Africa
Patricia Daley, Oxford University
19 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMParliamentary Capacity Building in Africa
Hugh Baily, MP
8 December 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMRicardo Antunes, Unicamp, Brazil
1 December 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMKate Meagher; LSE
24 November 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50 , 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMGlobal Standards and Local Responses: A comparative study of two South Asian clusters
Khalid Nadvi; Manchester University
17 November 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMPoverty reduction and microfinance in Asia
John Weiss; Bradford University
3 November 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMicrofinance and Gender Empowerment
Zaki Wahhaj, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Univerity
20 October 2009, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMWho supports Islamist parties: the case of Morocco