Past Speakers
Past Speakers, Fall 2014 - Present
Each semester, the Emory Program in Development Studies sponsors and co-sponsors speakers whose scholarship addresses a wide range of development-related issues and enriches campus dialogues about development.
Fall 2016
Thursday, October 27, 2016, 5:00 - 6:00 pm, 303 Anthropology
Gary Paul Nabhan (University of Arizona)
"Food, Genes & Culture"
Sponsored by: Emory University Center for the Study of Human Health, Dining Services, Office of Sustainability, Turner Environmental Law Clinic, Dept. of Anthropology, Development Studies Program and Dept. of Environmental Sciences.
Thursday, November 10, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, 206 Anthropology
Martin Murray (University of Michigan)
"Studying Urban Informality in Africa"
Spring 2015
Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 12:15 - 1:15 pm, 206 Anthropology
Waktole Tiki (Post-Doctoral Research Associate)
“Singing Wells: Social and Environmental History of Ancient Water Systems in Borana, Southern Ethiopia"
Thursday, March 5, 2015, 4:15, Bowden Hall, Major Seminar Room
William Reno (Northwestern University)
“The End of the Era of Liberation? The National Patriotic Front of Liberia and the Failures of Rebel Diplomacy (1989-94)"
Sponsored by The Institute of African Studies
Thursday, March 19, 2015, 4:15, Bowden Hall, Major Seminar Room
Aubrey Graham (Emory University)
“A Humanitarian Imaginary: Photography, Imagination and Aid in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo"
Sponsored by The Institute of African Studies
Wednesday. April 1, 2015, noon, 206 Anthropology
Myriam Paredes Chauca, PhD (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales)
“Food Sovereignty vs Food Security: Lessons from the Ecuadorian case”
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 4-6 pm, Callaway S423
Development Studies Minor Capstone Presentations
Fall 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Mike McGovern, (University of Michigan
“Those who eat monkey will never rule over us"
Sponsored by The Institute of African Studies
Thursday, September 25, 2014
James Howard Smith (University of California, Irvine)
“Tales from the time of may it never end: Price, networks, and temporality in and around the artisanal mines of the Eastern DR Congo"
Sponsored by The Institute of African Studies
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Jenny Chio, PhD, (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Emory University)
“Finding Phrases in Rural Ethnic China: Anthropological Lessons Learned from A Landscape of Travel "
Sponsored by Emory College Language Center; Russian, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Department of Anthropology and Program in Development Studies
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Shaunna Barnhart, PhD (Post-doctoral fellow in Sustainability, Emory University)
“Biogas in Nepal: Rethinking Waste and Energy”
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Dr. Yamini Atmavilas, (The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Policy and Advocy Division)
"Pathways Beyond the Professoriate"
Sponsored by The Laney Graduate School, Graduate Programs in Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Development Practice, and Development Studies Program
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Discussion of John Hope Bryant’s book How the Poor Can Save Capitalism
With Emory Provost Claire Sterk, Author John Hope Bryant and Ambassador Andrew Young
Cosponsored by Departments of Economics, Sociology, African Studies; Office of the Provost; Program in Development Studies
Friday, November 14, 2014
Edward Carr, PhD (Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Associate Director, Walker Institute for International and Area Studies, University of South Carolina)
"Looking for Levers: Moving from critique to change in development practice"