Location: SSB Room 11.13 Dr. Steven Pierce, of the University of Manchester, studied political science as an undergraduate at Yale University and then received a Ph.D. in anthropology and history from the University of Michigan in 2000. Before coming to Manchester in January 2006, Steven taught for five years in the history department at Tulane University....
Location: Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 19 Dr. David Booth leads the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) at the Overseas Development Institute. APPP is a five-year consortium research programme dedicated to "discovering institutions that work for poor people”. APPP brings together research organisations and think-tanks in France, Ghana, Niger, Uganda, the UK and the USA....
Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Jörg Wiegratz is a Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development at the University of Leeds. Previously, Jorg taught at the universities of Bath and Sheffield. He holds a PhD in Politics (Sheffield), a MA in International Political Economy (Warwick), and a MA in Economics (Cologne, Germany). Between 2004-2007, he...
Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Emma Anderson is interested in development, gender, health and HIV with specialist area in the gender politics of HIV in Africa. Emma has undertaken research in Malawi since 2005, which has included consultations, observations, key-informant interviews and focus group discussions, and has language training and experience working in Chichewa and...
Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Dr. Golooba-Mutebi is a Political Scientist. He was educated at Makerere University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2005 to 2011, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University. From 2001 to 2004 he was a Research Officer...
Location: Conference Auditorium 2 Professor Patrick Bond will be coming from the University of KwaZulu Natal to discuss the massacre of South African mineworkers at the Marikana mine this summer. He will be talking about the broader implications that this incident, and the wave of strikes currently sweeping the country, will have for South Africa’s...
Location: Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 2 Matthew LeRiche is in the Department of Internation Development (ID) at LSE and has been working in South Sudan and the region, including Kenya, Central African Republic, and the DRC for approximately 8 years. His doctorate studied the then rebel Sudanese People’s Liberation Army/Movement and how international humanitarian action impacted...
Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Stefan Ouma is an assistant lecturer at the Institute for Human Geography, University of Frankfurt, since November 2007. He received a BA degree in Human/Development Geography (Major), Political Science and Cultural Studies (Minors) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and a Master of Arts degree in African Development Studies in Geography...
Location: Social Sciences Building. Room 11.20. The White Spaces Postgraduate Research Network invites you to 'Knowing Transformation: Race, space, and epistemic power in one post-apartheid South African town' by Haley McEwan. Abstract: This paper examines space, identity and power in Prince Albert, a small town in the South African Karoo, through analysis of white constructions...
Location: Baines Wing SR 1.16 Within the context of international development the importance of culture is often overlooked, or even ignored. Culture does however play a strong role in attaining overall development goals. While this has been asserted by international organizations throughout the past decades, culture has remained a minor element in most development approaches. It...
