Feb 8, 2017
Derek Sheridan ─ Commodities, Intermediaries, and the “Imperialism” of Chinese Trade in Tanzania
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
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.
Feb 1, 2017
Rikhil Bhavnani ─ Local Embeddedness and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from India
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Dec 7, 2016
Sveta Milusheva ─ Less Bite for your Buck: Using Mobile Phone Data to Target Disease Prevention
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 30, 2016
Natalie Bau ─ Can Policy Crowd Out Culture?
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 9, 2016
Guy Grossman ─ Information Dissemination, Competitive Pressure, and Politician Performance between Elections: A Field Experiment in Uganda
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 2, 2016
Graduate Program in Development Back from the Field Presentations
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 26, 2016
Ramah McKay ─ Life in Circulation: Global Health, Urban Space, and Gender in Maputo, Mozambique
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 19, 2016
Graduate Program in Development Back from the Field Presentations
4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 12, 2016
Gautam Rao ─ Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 5, 2016
Irene Pang ─ Precarity as a Legal Construction: Lessons from the Construction Sectors in Beijing and Delhi
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 28, 2016
Brodwyn Fischer ─ The Right to the City in Theory and Practice: An Uneasy History of Brazil’s Urban Social Movements
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 21, 2016
Megan Turnbull ─ State Responses to Militias and Political (Dis)Order in Nigeria
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 14, 2016
Alisha Holland ─ Imperfect Recall: The Politics of Subnational Office Removals in Peru
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 20, 2016
Philip Keefer ─ Media Effects on Preferences for Clientelist Candidates
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 13, 2016
Cancelled - Jamie McPike ─ Fast Policies, Slow Governance: India’s National Urban Renewal Mission and Urban Policy Fields in India
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 23, 2016
Danilo Contreras ─ Ethnoracial Reclassification as a ‘Weapon of the Weak’
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 16, 2016
Carla Alberti ─ Projecting Hegemony: Parties, Organizations, and Indigenous Governance in Bolivia
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 9, 2016
Matthew Amengual ─ The Local Politics of Mining in Bolivia: The Distributive Outcomes of Firm Responses to Risk
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 2, 2016
Diego Diaz ─ Blessing and Curse: Oil and Politics in the Argentine Provinces
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 24, 2016
Steven Samford ─ Networks, Brokerage, and State-Led Technology Diffusion in Small Industry
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 17, 2016
Feb 10, 2016
Hannah Appel ─ Toward an Ethnography of "The Economy"
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 3, 2016
Bhawani Buswala ─ The Bazaar and the Butchers: Social Life of an Untouchable Work in North India
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 18, 2015
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner ─ Active Citizenship: Claim-Making and the Pursuit of Social Welfare in Rural India
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 11, 2015
Alessandra Voena ─ Bride Price and the Returns to Education for Women
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room