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Notes from the Field: students sharing fieldwork experiences
DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR -FALL 2011
29 September 2011
Learning from labour through the work of activist theatre
Dia da Costa, Associate Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen’s University27 October 2011
A new century for old actors? Political parties and labour unions in post-neoliberal Argentina
Viviana Patroni, Associate Professor, International Development Studies & Latin American & Caribbean Studies, York University
02 November 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, 519 York Research Towers
Financial sector policy and development in the wake of the global crisis
Dr. Roy Culpeper, Former President, North-South Institute
10 November 2011, 12.30-2.00pm
Balancing multiculturalism and gender equality: Legal pluralism and the adjudication of religious family laws in India
Gopika Solanki, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
(Joint seminar with Graduate program in Socio-legal Studies & Graduate program in Women’s Studies)
22 November 2011
Not just fish: Broadening perspectives in fisheries discourse
Ratana Chuenpagdee, Canada Research Chair in Natural Resource Sustainability & Community Development & Associate Professor in Geography, Memorial University
Organized by the International Development Studies program at York University. Seminars will take place at 305 Founders College, 2.30 to 4.30pm unless otherwise notified. For further information contact: parris@yorku.ca or sharada@yorku.ca.
PREVIOUS SEMINARS
FALL 2010/WINTER 2011
10 February 2011
To Make a Life in Marshall Point: Community Empowerment and Small-Scale Fisheries
Miguel Gonzalez
International Development Studies, York University
10 March 2011
Reflections of global politics of population and development
Sunita Bandewar
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto
24 March 2011
What happens when the land is needed, but the people are not? Challenging transitions in Southeast Asia
Tania Li
Canada Research Chair in the Political-Economy and Culture of Asia-Pacific, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
21 October 2010
Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change
Writing a Little Book on a Big Idea
Henry Bernstein
Emeritus Professor of Development Studies in the University of London at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and Adjunct Professor in the College of Humanities and Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing11 November 2010
Employment and Maternity Protection: Understanding Poor Coverage of Beneficial Legislation through Content Analysis of Some Judgments in India
Padmini Swaminathan
Professor, Madras School of Development Studies, India and Shastri Indo-Canadian Visiting lecturer
25 November 2010
Challenging some assumptions about "refugee youth": The case of inter- and intra-generational relationships of Congolese young people in Uganda
Christina Clark-Kazak
Assistant Professor, International Studies, Glendon College, York UniversityOrganized by the International Development Studies program at York University. All seminars will take place at 305 Founders College between 2.30 and 4.30pm unless otherwise notified. For further information contact: parris@yorku.ca or sharada@yorku.ca
