Apr 15, 2021
Coleen Vogel ─ Minding the Gap: Creating Coalitions for Sustainable Change
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
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.
Apr 7, 2021
Mar 3, 2021
Sanyu A. Mojola ─ A Nowadays Disease: HIV/AIDS and Social Change in Rural South Africa
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 3, 2021
Ijlal Naqvi — Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Center for Contemporary South Asia
Development and Governance Seminar
Nov 11, 2020
Francisco H. G. Ferreira ─ Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for this virtual event.
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 on Watson's youtube channel
Africa Initiative
Center for Middle East Studies
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