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...
Location: Yorkshire Bank Lecture Theatre (Leeds Business School) What do you think of the INVISIBLE CHILDREN campaign? Did the campaign do good? Or harm? What are its implications? With presentations by a range of experts. This event is organised by Jo Sadgrove, Alex Beresford and Chris Paterson. Dr Joanna Sadgrove is a Research Fellow in the...
Location: Room 11.13 Social Sciences Building Dr Chris Vaughan teaches African history at the Universities of Liverpool and Durham, and taught in POLIS at Leeds in the first semester of the current academic year. He completed his doctorate on the history of Darfur under British colonial rule at Durham in 2011. Chris's research is particularly focussed on examining the character...
Location: Michael Sadler: LG15 In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of independence in Tanzania we are delighted to host this panel event: 50 Years of Independence and Evaluation Dr Anna Mdee: 'Addicted to Aid?' Prof. John Loxley: 'From Self-reliance to Neo-liberalism' Emeritus Prof. Peter Lawrence: 'Agricultural strategy and (De)Industrialisation' Nicodemus Shauri Eatlawe 'Democracy in Tanzania'...
Location: Room 11.13 Social Sciences Building Dr Alex Beresford is a newly appointed to Lecturer in Development Studies in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds. Alex completed his Ph.D. at the Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh University. His interdisciplinary Ph.D. thesis provides a detailed ethnographic focus into class and nationalist politics...
Location: School of Earth and Environment, Seminar Room 8.119 NOTE CHANGE! Lionel Cliffe is a LUCAS board member and Emeritus Professor of Geography with particular interest in land politics in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Kenya. Professor Christine H. Foyer is of the Centre for Plant Sciences whose lab looks at, inter alia, plant performance: plant performance...
Location: Room 8.119, School of Earth & Environment Dr Lindsay C. Stringer is Co-Director, Sustainability Research Institute and Reader in Environment and Development, School of Earth and Environment. Gordon Crawford is Professor of Development Politics in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and a member of the LUCAS Board. Both are also active members of...
