Wednesday Research Seminar

The department runs a series of International Development Research Seminars through Autumn and Winter terms for academic staff and research students.

This year's seminar programme has an internal departmental flavour, with the aim of getting to know each other's work better and giving feedback on ongoing research, particularly in the case of junior faculty. We will also experiment with a discussion panel format for the final meeting, with the aim of building understanding of different methodologies and epistemologies used by members of the department.

Seminars will take place on Wednesdays 12.30 - 2pm in the Graham Wallas Room, alternating each week with the new PhD student seminar series in the same room, at the same time.

Organisers: Professor David Lewis & Dr Lydia Assouad

Autumn Term
30 September - Niharika Singh (LSE): Worker Collective Action and Public Service Delivery: Experimental Evidence from India
14 October - Elliott Green (LSE): Socialism and National Identity in Post-Colonial Africa.
28 October - Joan Ricart-Huguet (Loyola University, Maryland/Visiting Senior Fellow LSE): Unequal Education: The Origins of Elite Power in Postcolonial Africa
11 November - Tiziana Leone (LSE): Half a century of disasters in Indonesia: what happened to fertility?
25 November - David Lewis (LSE): How policy forgets: time and memory in international development.
9 December - Myfanwy James (LSE): "MONUSCO Dégage": Understanding anti-peacekeeping tensions in the eastern DR Congo. (To be held in CON.7.05)

Winter Term
27 January - Danial Lashkari (LSE): How Will AI Automation Unfold Across Developing Countries?
10 February - Kate Meagher (LSE): Precarious Transformations: Is the transition out of informality really stalled?
24 February - Lydia Assouad (LSE): The gendered impact of climate change: Evidence from Jordan
10 March - David Lewis (Chair, with panel to be announced): A forum discussion on development research - disciplines and epistemologies