development@manchester seminars
The development@manchester seminar series constitutes a critical forum of dialogue and exchange in relation to research, policy and practice in international development.
The series is directed by Dr Tanja Bastia and Dr Beverly Dawn Metcalfe, and brings together leading scholars in international development from IDPM as well as world leading scholars in development in the UK.
In true participatory fashion the seminar series is inclusive, incorporating scholarly, policy and activist perspectives. The seminars cover leading topical research in the field of international development, and more generally the series aims to challenge development orthodoxies and set new agendas for development policy and research, and in doing so also engender collaboration with scholars from the global development community.
The development@manchester initiative is part of the School of Environment and Development's broader research and teaching and learning strategies, which aim to foster closer alliances between faculty and research study/fellows, disseminate new knowledge and enquiry, reflect research-led synergies in academic programmes and generally nurture the philosophy of world leading scholarship in SED.
As such, the development@manchester seminar series is intended to facilitate, intellectually inspire, and contribute to a collegiate research-led climate in the School and in the University of Manchester. Seminar presenters also include early researchers in the international development field, so as to cultivate a dynamic learning environment and personalised research support and ideas exchange.
2011/12 Seminar Programme
All seminars held on Tuesdays, 16.30-18.00.
Semester 1 (Theatre B, Zochonis Building)
Tue 4 October 2011
The Ethiopian Famine Revisited: Band Aid and the Antipolitics of Celebrity Humanitarianism
Dr Tanja Müller (IDPM, University of Manchester)
Chairwoman: Dr Beverly Dawn Metcalfe
Tue 11 October 2011
Why is the Personal Not More Political in Development Studies?
Dr Mike Edwards (BWPI, University of Manchester)
Chairwoman: Dr Tanja Bastia
Tue 25 October 2011
Where There Is No Public. Questioning the Meanings of Politics and Development in Africa's Urban Estuaries
Prof Loren Landau (African Centre for Migration and Society, Johannesburg)
Chairwoman: Dr Tanja Bastia
Tue 8 November 2011
Unfree Labour and Adverse Incorporation in Global Production Networks
Prof Nicola Phillips (Politics, University of Manchester)
Chairwoman: Dr Tanja Bastia
Tue 15 November 2011
And Who Listens to the Poor?: Gender Insights into Shocks, Safety Nets and Graduation in South Asia (India and Pakistan)
Dr Karishma Huda (BRAC Development Institute, London) and Prof Naila Kabeer (IDS, University of Sussex)
Chairwoman: Dr Beverly Dawn Metcalfe
Tue 22 November 2011
After the Green Rush? Some Distributive Implications of New Value Grabbing in Conservation Banking Markets
Dr Sian Sullivan (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Chairman: Dr Dan Brockington
Tue 29 November 2011
Between Secular and Islamic Feminism(s): Prospects for Social Reform and Development in the Middle East
Dr Beverly Dawn Metcalfe (IDPM, University of Manchester)
Chairwoman: Dr Tanja Bastia
Semester 2 (Room G6, Humanities Bridgeford Street)
Tue 31 January 2012
The Sociology of Human Rights
Dr David Straw (University of Manchester)
Chairwoman: Dr Tanja Bastia
Tue 7 February 2012
Development Education and Skills Formation: Global Perspectives
Prof Simon McGrath (School of Education, University of Nottingham)
Chairwoman: Dr Beverly Dawn Metcalfe
Tue 21 February 2012
Education and Development Progress in Pakistan
Dr Jawad Syed (Kent Business School, University of Kent)
Chairwoman: Dr Beverly Dawn Metcalfe
Tue 6 March 2012
Adaptation to Climate Change and Desertification: Perspectives from National Policy and Autonomous Local Practice in Malawi
Dr Lindsay Stringer (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds)
Chairwoman: Dr Tanja Bastia
Tue 13 March 2012
Why Aspirations Matter
Dr Solava Ibrahim (IDPM, University of Manchester)
Chairwoman: Dr Beverly Dawn Metcalfe
Locations and Directions
- Zochonis Building Location and Map (n. 60 on map)
- Humanities Bridgeford Stree Building Location and Map (no. 35 on map)
More Information
For more information on the seminars, please contact Dr Tanja Bastia and/or Dr Beverly Dawn Metcalfe.