The new academic year has just started, and this means we are back with our exciting lecture series ‘Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking and Practice’! This visiting lecture series, which is hosted by the International Development Department, provides students and guests with invaluable insights into the practical world of international development.
This year, we move the series back to in-person for our students and staff, but we will continue to offer our online audience the chance to watch the lectures back via our YouTube channel, listen via the podcast series and read student reflections on our blog.
The series is convened by Dr Laura Mann.
View the full schedule below (Alternating Fridays from 4pm-6pm)
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Week/Date
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Speaker + Discussant
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Title
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Week 1; 3 October
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Ha-Joon Chang, is an economist, author and lecturer on institutional economics and development, SOAS
Discussant: Richard Kozul-Wright, is a development economist, SOAS
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New International Economic Order in the New World
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Week 3; 17 October
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Clare Short is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to 2003
Kevin Watkins is a former CEO of Save the Children UK and is a visiting professor at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa
Deborah Doane is an ID alum and the Author of ‘the INGO Problem’ and a partner of Rights CoLab
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Rethinking the future of development aid
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Week 5; 31 October
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Tin El-Kadi, is a political economy researcher, Oxford
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Developmental implications of China's Digital Silk Road in North Africa
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Week 7; 14 November
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Naila Kabeer, is Professor Emeritus at the Department of International Development, LSE
Diane Elson, is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
Ania Plomian, is Professor in Gender and Social Science, LSE
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A feminist agenda for social change: from deregulated markets to the wellbeing economy
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Week 9; 28 November
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Anne Irfan, is lecturer in interdisciplinary race, gender, and postcolonial studies, UCL
Stuart Gordon, is the Programme Director for the International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies
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The Politics of Non-Knowledge: the Deliberate Obstruction of Humanitarian Aid in Gaza (2023–2025)
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For any questions related to the event series, please email d.patel20@lse.ac.uk.