CSRC Seminar
Series 2007/2008
Papers will be posted to this site one week prior to each
seminar.
Seminars take place from 16.00 to 17.30 each week during term.
Room numbers are given in red.
These seminars are primarily for DESTIN research students and
for DESTIN and CSRC staff. However, a small number of
places are reserved each week for DESTIN Masters students - if
you would like to attend a particular seminar, please email
csp@lse.ac.uk to reserve a
place.
SUMMER TERM 2008
Wednesday 30th April - Room
U110 (Tower One)
James Putzel and Stefan Lindemann
(Crisis States Research Centre)
'An
Analytical Narrative of State-making in Tanzania'
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Wednesday
7th May - Room U110 (Tower One)
Sally Healy
(Chatham House)
'Troubled
Peace Processes in the Horn of Africa'
Wednesday 14th May - Room
U103 (Tower One)
Rachel Heyman
(Edinburgh University)
'Abandoned Orphan, Wayward Child: the UK and Belgium in post-1994 Rwanda'
Wednesday 21st May -
Room U103 (Tower One)
David French and
Salah Khalil
(Westminster Foundation for Democracy)
Title: 'Are
Effective Political Institutions an Essential Condition for
Building Strong and Democratic States?'
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Wednesday 28th May -
Room U103 (Tower One)
Claire Smith
(Crisis States Research Centre, LSE)
The Impact of
Aid on the State: UNDP's "post conflict" recovery programme for
the Maluku region in Indonesia'
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CIRCULATION
Wednesday 4th June -
Room U103 (Tower One)
Antoine Buisson
(EHESS, Paris)
'State Building, Power Building and Political Legitimacy: the
case of post-conflict Tajikistan'
Wednesday 11th June - Room U103 (Tower One)
Charmaine Ramos
(CSRC)
"The Politics of Production: Philippine Coconut and Colombian Coffee production in the 20th Century"
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Wednesday 18th June - Room U103 (Tower One) at 16.30 - NOTE LATER START TIME
Robert Templer
Asia Programme Director, International Crisis Group
'Pakistan: democratic transition on the rocks'
LENT TERM 2008
Wednesday 9th
January - Room U208
(Tower One)
Jason Sumich
(Crisis States Research Centre)
'To Build a Nation: elite ideologies of modernity and
nationalism in Mozambique'
Wednesday 16th
January - Room U208 (Tower One)
Gabi Hesselbein
(Crisis States Research Centre)
'The Challenge of state-building in the DR Congo"
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Wednesday 23rd
January
Seminar by invitation only.
Wednesday 30th
January - Room V301 (Tower Two)
Brian Thomson
(Associate Fellow,
Africa Programme, Chatham House)
'Governance Reform in Sierra Leone'
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Wednesday 6th
February - Room U108 (Tower One)
Ben French
(Crisis States
Research Centre and DESTIN)
'Understanding the processes of urban violence'
Wednesday 13th
February - Room U108 (Tower One)
Ben Moxham
(DESTIN)
'La Violencia
continua: state rebuilding and crisis in Dili'
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Wednesday 20th
February - Room U108 (Tower One)
Joe Hanlon
(Open University and Crisis States Research Centre)
'Mozambique: is
this IMF "success" threatened by violence? What do data on
poverty and lynchings tell us?'
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Wednesday 27th
February - Room V301 (Tower Two)
Jonathan DiJohn
(Crisis States Research Centre and SOAS)
'State
Resilience in Zambia'
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Wednesday 5th
March - Room V308 (Tower Two)
Dennis Rodgers
(Crisis States Research Centre and Brooks World Poverty
Institute, University of Manchester)
'An illness
called Managua? the city as a reflection of perverse
national political settlements'
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Wednesday 12th
March - CANCELLED - transport
disruption due to bad weather
Rachel Heyman
(University of Edinburgh)
'Abandoned Orphan, Wayward Child: the UK and Belgium in post-1994 Rwanda'
MICHAELMAS TERM 2007
Wednesday 10th
October - Room U203
(Tower One)
Giovanni Carbone
(Universita degli Studi di Milan)
'Do all good things go together? The political,
economic and social consequences of democratisation'
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Wednesday 17th
October - Room U210 (Tower One)
Tim Jacoby
(Manchester University)
'Cultural Immutability, Conflict and the Muslim Menace'
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paper - not for citation or circulation
Wednesday 24th
October - Room U201 (Tower One)
Elliott Green
(DESTIN)
'Democracy,
District Creation and Patronage in Uganda'
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paper - not for citation or circulation
Wednesday 31st October
Special lunchtime seminar in
conjunction with DESTIN at 12.30 in Room V101 (Tower One)
Diane Davis
(MIT)
'Policing, Regime Change and
Democracy: lessons from Mexico'
Wednesday 31st October -
Room U210 (Tower One)
Suzette Heald
(CSRC Visiting Fellow)
Title: Making Law in Rural Kenya
Wednesday 7th November - Room
V112 (Tower Two)
Peter Uvin
(Tufts University)
'Life after war: grassroots perspectives on peace and
governance in Burundi'
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Wednesday 14th November - Room U210
(Tower One)
Robert Picciotto
(Visiting Fellow, Kings College)
'Global Policy Framework for Conflict Prevention:
progress and gaps'
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Picciotto
Biography
Wednesday 21st November - Room V112
(Tower Two)
Lars Buur
(Danish Institute of International Studies)
'People's Party and People's Representation'
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Wednesday 28th November - Room U210
(Tower One)
Eric Morier-Genoud
(Oxford University)
'The Rise and Demise of Political Islam in
Mozambique'
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Wednesday 5th December - Room U210
(Tower One)
Antonio Giustozzi
(CSRC)
'The Eye of the Storm: cities in Afghanistan's civil wars'
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