May 2, 2018
Rudra Sil ─ Triangulating Regions, Not Just Methods: The Distinctive Logic and Contribution of Comparative Area Studies
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Kim Koo Library
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.
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
José Carlos Orihuela ─ One Blueprint, Three Translations: Development Corporations in Chile, Colombia and Peru
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Development Seminar
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
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
Oct 18, 2017
Sam Hickey ─ How Politics Shapes Development and Why This Matters: The Role of Incentives, Ideas and Coalitions
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 11, 2017
Graduate Program in Development Back From the Field Presentations
4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 27, 2017
Richard F. Doner and Ben Ross Schneider ─ The Middle Income Trap and the Politics of Skills
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
May 2, 2017
Tony Levitas ─ Quietly Ukraine? The State of the (Subnational) State after Russian Occupation
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 26, 2017
Vishwas Satgar ─ The Crisis of South African Democracy: The Challenge to Civil Society and Transformative Politics
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 19, 2017
Daniel Corstange ─ Sectarian Framing in the Syrian Civil War
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 5, 2017
Elisabeth King ─ What Kenyan Youth Want and Why it Matters for Peace
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 15, 2017
CANCELLED - Elif Babül ─ Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey
This seminar has been cancelled and will be rescheduled in the 2017-2018 academic year.
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 1, 2017
Erin McDonnell ─ Interstitial Bureaucracy: How Some State Agencies Succeed in the Context of Weak and Fractious Institutional Environments
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 22, 2017
Poulomi Chakrabarti ─ One Nation, Many Worlds: Varieties of Developmental Regimes in India
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 15, 2017
Edwin Ackerman ─ The Emergence of the PRI: Land, Civil Society, and Party Formation in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room