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
Development Seminar
The Development 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 research program at the Institute and a large community of graduate students at Brown. The seminar is directed by Prerna Singh.
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
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
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