Department of Geography & Environment
London School of Economics
The Research Seminar in Cities,
Space, and Development, 2010-11
Room H201 Connaught House, LSE
Tuesdays 4-6pm
Seminar Convenor: Sharad Chari
MICHELMAS TERM 2010
Oct 26 – Dr. Rivke Jaffe
No Bwoy Cyaan Violate: Crime, ‘Alternative Governance’ and Popular Culture in
Urban Jamaica.
Nov 2 – Professor Miles Ogborn, QMUL
‘The Power of Speech: Orality, Oaths and Evidence in the British Atlantic World,
1630-1830’
Nov 9 – Professor James McCarthy, Penn State University
A genealogy of 'ecoterrorism'
Nov 16 – Dr. Dave Featherstone, Glasgow
Black Internationalism and the Spatial Politics of Anti-Fascism
Nov 23 – Dr. Hakan Seckinelgin, LSE
Whose knowledge counts? Gender, Conflict and HIV/AIDS
Nov 30 – Professor Fulong Wu, Cardiff
The development of migrant villages in Chinese cities
Dec 7 – Professor Bob Jessop, Lancaster
Crises in Varieties of Capitalism OR Crisis in Variegated Capitalism? Alternative
approaches to the financial crisis and its urban and global ramifications
For further information, please contact Sharad Chari: s.chari@lse.ac.uk
Department of Geography & Environment
London School of Economics
LENT TERM 2011
Jan 11 – Dr Asher Ghertner, LSE
Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City-Making in Delhi
Jan 13 – PUBLIC LECTURE with LSE Africa Talks
Professor Michael J. Watts, University of California, Berkeley
Jan 18 – Professor Wendy Wolford, Cornell University
From Mosquitoes to Marx: The Changing Dynamics of Governance and
Mobilization in Brazilian Land Reform
Jan 25 – Dr. Cathy McIlwaine, QMUL
The gendered nature of political and civic participation among Colombian
migrants in London
Feb 15 – Dr. Jason Dittmer, UCL
Grounding and embodying the nation-state: territory/landscape/superhero
Feb 22 – Dr. Alan Mace, LSE
Belonging in suburbia: does class matter?
Mar 1 – Dr. Elliot Green, DESTIN, LSE
The Political Geography of Nation Formation in Tanzania
Mar 11 – PUBLIC EVENT and BOOK LAUNCH
Gender and Poverty Panel with Professors Sylvia Chant,
Nancy Folbre, (Manchester), Naila Kabeer (IDS, Sussex) and
Maxine Molyneux (ISA) - Old Theatre, 6-8pm. Followed by
Book Launch: Syliva Chant ed. International Handbook of Gender
and Poverty (Elgar, 2010) - Senior Common Room, 8-9.30pm
Mar 15 – Professor Sylvia Chant, LSE
'Looking for the One(s): Young Love and Urban Poverty in The Gambia'
For further information, please contact Sharad Chari: s.chari@lse.ac.uk