Nov 4, 2015
Patrick Le Galès ─ What is Governed and Not Governed in the Large Metropolis: Comparing Paris, Mexico (and London and São Paulo)
4 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.
Oct 21, 2015
Oct 7, 2015
Ching Kwan Lee ─ The Specter of Global China: Contesting the Power and Peril of Chinese Investment in Africa
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 30, 2015
Khalid Nadvi ─ Rising Powers, Labour Standards and the Governance of Global Production
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 23, 2015
CANCELLED Suresh Naidu ─ Monopsony Power in Migrant Labor Markets: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 29, 2015
Apr 15, 2015
Aram Hur ─ A Communal Duty Model of Citizen Compliance
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 18, 2015
Andy Clarno ─ The Empire’s New Walls: The Politics of Enclosure in South Africa and Palestine/Israel
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 4, 2015
Feb 25, 2015
Nikhil Anand ─ ScareCity: The Politics of Water Infrastructure in Mumbai
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 11, 2015
David Samuels ─ Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Jan 28, 2015
Dec 3, 2014
Wendy Wolford ─ From Pangaea to Partnership: Brazilian Agricultural Experts and Expertise in Mozambique
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 19, 2014
Lisa Wedeen ─ Neoliberal Autocracy and its Unmaking in Syria: 2000-2014
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 5, 2014
Tania Murray Li ─ Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 22, 2014
Sep 29, 2014
Sep 24, 2014
Rohini Pande ─ Why are Indian Children Shorter than African Children?
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 23, 2014
Eli Friedman ─ Peripatetic Reproduction: Urbanization, Education, and Urban China’s Second-Class Citizens
Rescheduled from February 5.
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 16, 2014
Marc Edelman - Defining “peasant” at the United Nations Human Rights Council
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 3, 2014
Rajiv Sethi ─ Identity Politics and Public Goods
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 2, 2014
Narendar Pani ─ Functioning Anarchy of Indian Cities: A Neo-Gandhian Interpretation of the Urban
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 1, 2014
Mar 19, 2014
Michael Levien ─ The Land Broker State: Dispossession in Neoliberal India
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 19, 2014