Nov 11, 2020
Development and Governance Seminar with Francisco H. G. Ferreira
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for this virtual event.
Development and Governance Seminar
The Development and Governance Seminar is a cross-disciplinary speaker series based at the Watson Institute for International Studies. The seminar seeks to bring a diverse range of scholars to Brown to present innovative research and thinking on the challenges of national and global transformation in the 21st century. The seminar draws on a core group of faculty in the Development and Governance research programs at the Institute and a large community of graduate students at Brown. The seminar is directed by Nitsan Chorev.
Oct 28, 2020
Kentaro Toyama ─ Can Digital Technology Alleviate Global Poverty?
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for this virtual event.
Oct 20, 2020
Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa ─ Virtual Book Talk
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar, or tune in to the talk live at watson.brown.edu/live
Africa Speaker Series
Development and Governance Seminar
Meet the Author
Oct 14, 2020
Guillaume Lachenal ─ A government of doctors? The story of a colonial experiment in the French empire
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for this virtual event.
Oct 8, 2020
Carla Alberti ─ The long memory: Pre-colonial origins of contemporary Mapuche mobilization in Chile
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for this virtual event.
Sep 22, 2020
Apr 15, 2020
CANCELED: Daniel Fridman — Economía in the wild: The making of a museum of economics in Mexico
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 1, 2020
CANCELED: Rashmi Sadana ─ The Delhi Metro: Technocratic Governance, Social Engine, and Urban Plan
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 26, 2020
Adam Auerbach ─ Cultivating Clients: Reputation, Responsiveness, and Ethnic Indifference in India's Slums
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 20, 2020
Atul Kohli — Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Center for Contemporary South Asia
Development and Governance Seminar
Feb 12, 2020
Maria Victoria Murillo — Understanding Weak Institutions: Lessons from Latin America
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Jan 29, 2020
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría ─ In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 20, 2019
Margo Mahan ─ The Racial Origins of U.S. Domestic Violence Law
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 6, 2019
Rebecca Dizon-Ross — Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 16, 2019
Lelys Dinarte ─ Peer Effects on Violence: Experimental Evidence in El Salvador
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 2, 2019
Anita Häusermann Fábos ─ Escape from Limbo: Forced migration, refugee home-making, and how feminist geopolitics offers policy-makers a way out
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 25, 2019
Jason Jackson ─ Varieties of Economic Nationalisms in Post-War Brazil and India
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 18, 2019
Graduate Program in Development Back from the Field
4 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 11, 2019
Graduate Program in Development Back from the Field
4 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 17, 2019
Veronica Herrera ─ The Politics of Slow Harms: Environmental Degradation and Collective Action in Latin American Cities
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 5, 2019
Clément Imbert ─ Entry, Exit and Candidate Selection: Experimental Evidence from India
2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Room 101, 59 Charlesfield Street
Apr 3, 2019
Catherine Fennell ─ Ends of the House: Deconstructing the Dream in the Late Industrial Urban Midwest
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 20, 2019
Bryce Millett Steinberg ─ Brain vs. Brawn: Child Labor, Human Capital Investment, and the Role of Dynamic Complementarities
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 27, 2019
Onoso Imoagene ─ Footprints: The US Diversity Visa Program, Its Immigrants and Migration Industry Actors
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 13, 2019
Rebecca Tarlau ─ Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street