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"