Lunch and Learn Seminars

Lunch and Learn seminars

"FLIA hosts a ‘Lunch and Learn Series’ every Monday where researchers working on Africa present their work to an audience. This series was a favourite and exposed me to a body of research beyond my field".

Farzana Ibrahim, pursuing an MSc in Development Management at the London School of Economics. She is a Chevening scholar from Kenya. She previously worked in public sector development in East Africa.

FLIA and The Centre for Women, Peace and Security host a weekly seminar series to showcase their work. The seminars are open to staff and Master's students from across LSE and beyond. All the events will be hybrid and you are welcome to attend in person or via Zoom.

Next Seminar:

30 September 2024

In the 2023/2024 academic year we held 23 Lunch and Learn Seminars, which covered a diverse range of topics including feminist foreign policy, systemic challenges in the humanitarian sector, lessons from working with Yazidi women survivors, managing fear in fieldwork, social change in post-slavery plantation societies, research with Ukrainian women during wartime, engaging men in gender violence prevention, prosecuting sexual and gender-based crimes at the ICC, the role of federalism and creative research methods in addressing interlocking oppressions, the impact of school feeding programs on child hunger, testimonial injustice, gender-based violence and work, economic development in SACU, SSA's economic outlook, and the role of civil society in shaping WPS policies.

These seminars featured various experts such as Prof. Tim Allen, Dr. Karen Smith, Dr. Kevin Watkins, Ms. Sherizaan Minwalla, Dr. George Bryne, Maël Lavenaire, Ms. Oksana Potopova, Dr. Will Mcinnery, Louise Arimatsu, as well as Deputy Head of the IMF's Africa, Catherine Pattillo among others.

We will start with the Lunch and Learn seminars for the next academic year on the 30th of September. 

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