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
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 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
Nov 28, 2018
Poulami Roychowdhury ─ Outsourced Justice: Governing Gender Violence in India's Era of Rights Mobilizations
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 14, 2018
Jamie Hansen-Lewis ─ Does Air Pollution Lower Productivity? Evidence from Manufacturing in India
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 7, 2018
Candelaria Garay ─ Local Health Care Provision as a Territorial Power-Building Strategy in Argentina
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 25, 2018
Ann Swidler ─ Social Ecologies of Religion in Malawi: Local Institutions and Collective Goods
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 24, 2018
Marie Berry ─ War, Women, and Power
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 17, 2018
Oct 10, 2018
Colin Hoag ─The Soil Solution: Water Production, Soil Erosion, and Infrastructures of Distribution in Lesotho
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 3, 2018
GPD Back from the Field
4:15 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 26, 2018
Maria Mica Sviatschi ─ Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
May 4, 2018
Juan Pablo Luna ─ It is that land, stupid! Structural roots of contemporary Mapuche conflict in Chile
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Kim Koo Library
May 2, 2018
Apr 18, 2018
Kate Baldwin ─ Accountability and Inclusion via Horizontal Pressure: Evidence from a Village-Level Experiment in Zimbabwe
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 4, 2018
Mar 21, 2018
CANCELED: Claudio Sopranzetti ─ Relapse Symptoms: The Rise of Authoritarianism in Thailand
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 14, 2018
Elif Babül ─ Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 7, 2018
Erin Beck ─ How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 7, 2018
Career Pathways after GPD: A Panel Discussion with Alums
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Development and Governance Seminar
Student Events
Watson Career Series
Mar 2, 2018
Ethnographic Explorations in the Global South through Music
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Feb 21, 2018
Amy Austin Holmes ─ Democratic Autonomy or Authoritarianism? The Political Ambitions of Kurdish Militias in Syria and Iraq
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room