CSRC Seminar
Series 2009/10
We aim to post a
seminar paper on this site one week prior to each event.
Seminars take place
on Wednesdays 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 and
others interested in the topic - if
you would like to attend a particular seminar, please email
csp@lse.ac.uk in advance to
request a place.
Seminar series - Summer Term2010
Wednesday 5th May - Room NAB 114, New Academic Building
Joe Hanlon
(Open University/ Crisis States Research Centre)
'Why Poverty in Mozambique is not being Reduced'
Wednesday 12th May - Room U108, Tower One
Charmaine Ramos
(Crisis States Research Centre/DESTIN)
'Taxation, State-building and Conflict in Colombia: notes from the field'
Wednesday 19th May - Room U108, Tower One
Tom Goodfellow
(Crisis States Research Centre/DESTIN)
'Cities and Conflict'
Wednesday 26th May - Room U108, Tower One
Haris Gazdar
(Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi)
'Cities, States and Development - a research overview'
Wednesday 3rd June - Room U108, Tower One
Gabi Hesselbein
(Crisis States Research Centre)
Economic Resource Mobilisation
Wednesday 9th June - Room U108, Tower One
Jonathan DiJohn
(SOAS and Crisis States Research Centre)
'Taxation and Fragile States'
Wednesday 16th June - Room U108, Tower One
James Putzel
(Crisis States Research Centre/DESTIN)
'Political Organisations and Patterns of Fragility and Resilience'
Previous seminars in academic year 2009/2010:
Lent Term:
Wednesday 13th January - Room V308, Tower Two
James Deane
(BBC World Service Trust)
'Fragmented media, fractured states: do media development interventions ignore theories of state development?'
Wednesday 20th January - Room NAB 2.14, New Academic Building
Ben Shepherd
(Dinam Fellow, International Relations Dept)
'Reflections on Peace-making in eastern DRCongo, 2006-2009'
Wednesday 27th January - Room V308, Tower Two
Meike deGoede
(Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, University of St. Andrews)
'Security Paradoxes in the Congo: the Armed Forces and Regime Establishment in Post-War DRC'
Wednesday 3rd February - CANCELLED
There is no seminar at 4p.m. this week as the speaker is unavailable.
However, we are running a special lunchtime discussion on Afghanistan in room U8 at 12.30.
Details on our Events page.
Wednesday 10th February- Room V308, Tower Two
Dennis Rodgers
(CSRC / Brooks World Poverty Institute)
'Infrastructural violence in urban Nicaragua'
Wednesday 17th February -Room NAB 2.14, New Academic Building
Sean Fox
(CSRC/DESTIN)
'Cities and Fragile States: emerging policy insights from recent research'
Wednesday 24th February - Room V308, Tower Two
Gabi Hesselbein
(CSRC)
Resource Mobilisation and Agriculture in Rwanda, DRCongo, Tanzania and Zambia
Wednesday 3rd March - Room V112, Tower Two
Jonathan DiJohn
(CSRC/SOAS)
Topic: Taxation in fragile states
Wednesday 10th March - Room V308, Tower Two
Tom Goodfellow
(CSRC/DESTIN)
‘Rebuilding the capital city, unbuilding the local state? The silent politics of construction and destruction in Kigali’
Wednesday 17th March - Room NAB 2.14, New Academic Building
James Putzel
(CSRC/DESTIN)
"Is Aid to 'Fragile States' Creating a Dual Public Sector?"
Michaelmas Term:
Wednesday 7th October - Room - V308 (Tower Two)
Joe Hanlon
(Open University)
'Mozambique's elite - finding its way in a globalised world and returning to old development models'
Wednesday 14th October - Room -
V108 (Tower Two)
Kate Meagher
(DESTIN)
'Where angels fear to tread: informal enterprise, state crisis and new religious movements in Nigeria'
Wednesday 21st October -
Room - V308 (Tower Two)
Michael Innes
(UCL)
'The Social Construction of Militant Sanctuary'
Wednesday 28th October -
Room - V108 (Tower Two)
Gabi Hesselbein
(CSRC)
'Economic Resource Mobilisation in DR Congo, Rwanda, Zambia and Tanzania: the case of the mining sector'
Wednesday 4th November -
Room - V308 (Tower Two)
Dominik Helling
(CSRC/Destin)
'Tillyan Footprints Beyond Europe: War-making and
State-making in the Horn of Africa - The Case of Somaliland'
Wednesday 11th November - Room - NAB 2.13 (New Academic Building)
Suzette Heald
(CSRC)
'Making Law in Rural Kenya' - a film about the Kuria
Wednesday 18th November - Room - V308 (Tower Two)
Antonio Giustozzi
(CSRC)
'The Elephant in the China shop: an assessment of advisory missions to conflict countries'
Wednesday 25th November - Room - NAB 2.13 (New Academic Building)
Stefan Lindemann
(CSRC/DESTIN)
'Broad-based' politics under Museveni (1986-2009): Fundamental change or just another change of guard?
Wednesday 2nd December - Room - V308 (Tower Two)
Sean Fox
(CSRC/DESTIN)
'The political and economic origins of Africa's "urban crisis"
Wednesday 9th December - Room - NAB 2.13 (New Academic Building)
Anna Matveeva
(CSRC)
'External Democracy Promotion in Post-Conflict Zones: the case of Tajikistan''