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
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 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
Feb 7, 2018
Regine Spector ─ Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Dec 6, 2017
Rebecca Bell-Martin and Richard Snyder ─ Who is Safe? Varieties of Security in Providence, RI
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 8, 2017
Development and Governance Seminar: Graduate Student Presentations
3 p.m. – 6 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 1, 2017
Ana Villarreal ─ The Armored City: Violence, Fear and Upper Class Seclusion in the Mexican Metropolis
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 25, 2017
Development and Governance Seminar: Graduate Student Presentations
3 p.m. – 6 p.m. McKinney Conference Room