Internationale Udviklingsstudier på RUC fejrer 25 år med stor konference

Time: Friday 10th September, at 09.30 – 18.30 hours

Venue: Roskilde University, Auditorium 0, Trekroner, 4000 Roskilde

The institute has invited several prominent people to discuss contending approaches in development studies as well as the origin and character of development studies.

Time: Friday 10th September, at 09.30 – 18.30 hours

Venue: Roskilde University, Auditorium 0, Trekroner, 4000 Roskilde

The institute has invited several prominent people to discuss contending approaches in development studies as well as the origin and character of development studies.

Our guests include Stuart Corbridge, Emily Boyd, Jan Nederveen Pietersee, Benedicte Bull and Raymond Bryant (please see attached programme). After the seminar, Roskilde University will host a reception.

Seats are limited so please sign up for the Anniversary Conference and the reception on http://www.ruc.dk/institutter/isg

We look forward to seeing you! 

International Development Studies at RUC

PROGRAMME

09.30-10.00
Registration and coffee

10:00-10:15
Conference opening by Vice Chancellor Ib Poulsen

10:15-10:30
International Development Studies at Roskilde University at a glance by Mogens Buch-Hansen and Laurids S. Lauridsen, Associate Professor and Professor, Roskilde University

10:30-12:00
The origins and character of development studies as a discipline
Chair: Christian Lund, Professor, Roskilde University
* ‘The Good, the Bad and the Stupid: A Critique of the Creation Myth of Development Theory’ by Benedicte Bull, Associate Professor, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo
* ‘The Possibility of Development Studies’ by Stuart Corbridge, Professor and Head of Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science

12:00-13:00
Lunch break

13:00-15.15
Contending approaches in development studies. Where next for development studies?
Chair: Bodil Folke Frederiksen, Associate professor, Roskilde University
* ‘Peeling the Red Onion: Exploring Radical Futures in Environment, Politics and Development Studies’ by Raymond Bryant, Professor of Political Geography, Department of Geography, King’s College, University of London
* ‘Reimagining Development Futures under Climate Change: Examining the added Value of a Resilience Lens’, by Dr Emily Boyd, Lecturer and Deputy, Director of the Global Development Centre, University of Leeds
* ‘Globalization and Development: the East South Turn’ by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Professor in Global Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

15:15-15.45
Coffee and cake

15:45-16:45
Panel discussion and broader debate

17:00-18:30
Reception for invited guests

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Biografier

Benedicte Bull

Benedicte Bull is Associate Professor at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo. She holds a PhD in political science from the same university. Among her research interests are political economy, the state and economic elites in Latin America, and global development institutions.

She is the editor (with Morten Bøås) of International Development (Vol. I-IV), Sage, 2010, and the author of a.o. Development Issues in Global Governance (with Desmond McNeill), Routledge, 2007, Aid, Power and Privatization, Edgar Elgar, 2005, and various articles on development theory, global institutions and Latin American political economy. She is currently the director of the Norwegian Latin America Research Network (NorLARNet).

Stuart Corbridge

Stuart Corbridge is Professor of Development Studies and head of the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN) at LSE. He works on politics and development with a focus both on cross-country comparisons and the political economy of India. He has produced a range of books and articles on development studies; the political economy of development in general; politics and development in India.

He has worked recently on questions of participation, accountability and governance in eastern India. Of particular interest for the lecture is the article: Corbridge, Stuart (2007) The (Im)possibility of development studies, Economy and society, 36 (2) 2007. pp. 179-211.

Raymond Bryant

Raymond Bryant is a Professor of Political Ecology in the Department of Geography at King’s College London where he has taught since 1993. He has produced five books and numerous articles on theory and practice in political ecology, multi-actor networks in environmental management, as well as the historical and contemporary politics of Southeast Asian environmental change.

His current research interests include the geopolitics, branding and consumption of teakwood, the multi-scale politics of ‘alternative’ trade, and the political ecology of the rich and famous.

Emily Boyd

Emily Boyd is lecturer in environment and development and deputy director of the Global Development Centre at the University of Leeds, and a research associate at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, Oxford University.

Her current research is focused on development futures under climate change, in particular examining the development implications of markets for nature and of the institutional and political dimensions of resilience and adaptation.

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of global studies and sociology in the Global and International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in globalization, development studies and cultural studies. He has been a visiting professor at several universities around the world.

He is associate editor of various journals (including Futures, Globalizations, European Journal of Social Theory, Ethnicities, Third Text, Journal of Social Affairs) and has written numerous books, including: Development theory: deconstructions, reconstructions / Jan Nederveen Pieterse, 2. ed. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2010.