Apr 5–6, 2022
Global Capitalism in the Global South: Enduring Legacies and Recent Transformations
Joukowsky Forum, 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.
Nov 10, 2021
Ieva Jusionyte — Doing Ethnographic Research on the U.S.-Mexico Border
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 3, 2021
Julia Chuang ─ Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 22, 2021
Decolonizing Sociological Theory and Knowledge
9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 20, 2021
Brandon Stewart ─ Text as Data: Promises, Pitfalls, and Validating Results
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 13, 2021
Jeff Colgan ─ Behind the Scenes: Writing a Scholarly Book on Oil and Climate Politics
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 29, 2021
Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito ─ Global Action-Research: The Potential and Challenges of ERA (Engaged Research, Reflexive Advocacy)
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 15, 2021
Development and Governance Seminar with Vijayendra Rao
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
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.
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
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