The new academic year has just started, and this means we are back with our exciting lecture series ‘Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking and Practice’! This visiting lecture series, which is hosted by the International Development Department, provides students and guests with invaluable insights into the practical world of international development.
This year, we move the series back to in-person for our students and staff, but we will continue to offer our online audience the chance to watch the lectures back via our YouTube channel, listen via the podcast series and read student reflections on our blog.
The series is convened by Dr Laura Mann.
View the full schedule below (Fridays from 4pm-6pm)
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Week/Date
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Speaker + Discussant
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Title
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Week 1; 4 October
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Clare Short is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to 2003
Kevin Watkins is a former CEO of Save the Children UK and is a visiting professor at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa
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British Aid in a Changing World
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Week 2; 11 October
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Marsha Henry is the Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women, Peace, Security and Justice at the Mitchell Institute
Discussant: Myfanwy James, LSE ID
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The Crisis of Peace-keeping
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Week 3; 18 October
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Michael Mann is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, UCLA and the author of The Sources of Social Power which covers the history of power in human societies from prehistory to the present.
Discussant: James Putzel, LSE ID
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Re-examining the History of the Industrial Revolution
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Week 4; 25 October
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Elizabeth Ingleson is Assistant Professor Department of International History and is the author of Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade
Yeling Tan is Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Discussant: Robert Wade, LSE ID
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What's at stake in the US-China Trade War?
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Week 5; 1 November
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Rahmane Idrissa teaches international cooperation at the University of Niamey. His research focuses on the political economy of democratization, political Islam and the problems of the integration processes in the West African region
Discussant: Aoife McCullough, LSE ID
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The Sahelian Question: The ultra-periphery in a changing world
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Week 7; 15 November
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Shamel Azmeh is a senior lecturer at the Global Development Institute (GDI) at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on the international trade and production regimes and the position of developing countries in those regimes
John Minnich is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program at Columbia University and a Research Fellow with the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China.
Discussant: Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, LSE
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80 years on from Bretton Woods, is Multilateralism collapsing?
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Week 8; 22 November
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Annalisa Prizzon is a Principal Research Fellow at ODI. Her research interests are primarily focused on the reform of the architecture of development cooperation, as well as the policies and strategies of multilateral development banks
Amir Lebdioui is an Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the University of Oxford. His research has focused on industrial policy, export diversification, natural resource management, green economic transformation and biodiversity-based innovation models
Discussant: Parth Bhatia, IGC
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A very light shade of green? Is the green transition perpetuating inequality?
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Week 9; 29 November
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Simon Roberts is Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Johannesburg and Director of the Centre for Competition Economics, as well as Visiting Associate Professor at Wits University
Discussant: David Luke, LSE ID
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Competition, trade, and sustainability in agri-food markets in East & Southern Africa: a comparison of citrus and soy
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Week 10; 6 Dec
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Sheba Tejani is Senior Lecturer in International Development at KCL. Her work is centred on the distributional consequences of international trade and structural transformation in developing countries
Discussant: Subir Sinha, SOAS
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Saffron geographies of exclusion in India
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Week 11; 13 Dec
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Alexander Betts is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, and Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College, at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the political economy of refugee protection, with a focus on East Africa
Discussant: Arbie Baguios, LSE ID
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Authoritarian Sanctuaries: Refugee Politics in East Africa
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For any questions related to the event series, please email d.patel20@lse.ac.uk.