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Friday Visiting Speaker Series

Each Friday during Michaelmas and Lent Terms, (see Term dates) DESTIN hosts a Visiting Speaker.
The seminar takes place in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House starting at 4.00pm. See Finding your way around LSE.
Seminars are free and unticketed and open to all. Please come along and join us.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dr Teddy Brett has recently published his latest book - Reconstructing Development Theory.

You may download a sample chapter here. DESTIN alumni can get a 25% discount on order - contact Sue (s.redgrave@lse.ac.uk) for details.

DESTIN alum publications

Lina Abirafeh's (PhD Development Studies) book 'Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan: The Politics and Effects of Intervention' will shortly be available. Full details available here.
 

   Kamini Karlekar (MSc Development Studies, 2000) has recently had her first book published, (Un)settled: Notes from a Shifting Life "...emerged out of the two and a half years I spent working and living in Sudan and Liberia. It’s partly travel, partly personal and partly political as the history of the two countries and work weave in and out of the narrative of my life in these two countries. It’s about the discoveries I made about myself and where I was - my surprise at falling in love with Sudan despite all the bad press, and about feeling at home in Harper, Liberia despite the ubiquitous loitering ex-combatants and razor wire compounds. It’s about how it can be both ‘exotic’ and trying to be a young Indian woman abroad, as well as realizing how much we take democracy and relative political stability and safety for granted. It’s about how I finally understood the fascination foreigners feel for India as over time I found myself drawn to the promise of colour, chaos, anonymity, independence and the unexpected. It’s a book about spending the last of my twenties in countries I least expected and the person I became as a result."

PODCASTS

Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa Podcast available
Speaker: Dambisa Moyo, Global Economist, Goldman Sachs
The Guardian says Moyo has written a "big idea book" on foreign aid.

But is aid truly "dead"? Should the West "turn off the taps" to Africa? Now's your chance to hear the woman who is being called the "anti-Bono" by the New York Times.

Dambisa Moyo was born and raised in Zambia. She completed a D.Phil in economics at Oxford University and holds a Masters from Harvard. She completed a Bachelors degree in Chemistry and an MBA in Finance at the American University in Washington, D.C. She worked at Goldman Sachs for 8 years in the debt capital markets, hedge fund coverage and in global macroeconomics teams. Previously, she worked at the World Bank.

Eastern DRC: what should the international community be doing? Podcast available
Speakers: David Leonard, General Olusegun Obasanjo, Professor James Putzel, Clare Short
Chair: Professor Jo Beall
Further information here

Fighting the Banana Wars - Podcast available
Speakers: Harriet Lamb, Adam Brett, Dr Teddy Brett. Chair: Professor Stuart Corbridge
Only 14 years ago you couldn’t buy a Fairtrade product in Britain. Today almost £500m worth of goods bearing the Fairtrade mark are sold annually, including tea, coffee, bananas, cotton, flowers and even footballs. At the heart of this revolution in our shops is the Fairtrade Foundation, which was established in 1992 by CAFOD, Christian Aid, New Consumer, Oxfam, Traidcraft Exchange and the World Development Movement. Starting small but with big ideas, it has turned a grass-roots movement into a phenomenon of our time – changing not only the way in which corporations deal with their suppliers and how consumers shop on the high street, but also transforming the lives of over 7 million farmers, workers and their families.

The Fairtrade Foundation is all about creating a better deal for workers and farmers in the developing world. At its heart it aims to make sure the food on our plates, and shirts on our backs, don't rob people in other countries of the means to feed or clothe themselves. In this lecture Harriet Lamb will discuss her latest book, Fighting the Banana Wars, in which she travels through an often unjust system to uncover the shocking cost of our demand for cheaper produce.

Post-Graduate Open Evening - link to various podcasts

Address and contacts

Development Studies Institute
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE

Tel: +44 (020) 7955-7425
Fax: +44 (020) 7955-6844
Email: You can email the DESTIN office directly using our online query form but PLEASE read the Frequently asked questions page first! Finally, please do not email the same question to individual members of staff - once is fine.

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