The Social Development Department (SDV) and the Development Research Group (DECRG) have joined hands to organize a new bi-weekly seminar series. The aim of this series is to supplement the many research seminars in economics at the Bank by featuring the best scholarly work in the non-economic social sciences -- critical, empirically engaged research in anthropology, sociology, philosophy and political science that has implications for development thought and policy.  The seminar will normally be organized every second Tuesday from 12:30 - 2:00 PM.  If you would like to be included in periodic announcements for this seminar series please send an email to Yasmin D'Souza ( ydsouza@worldbank.org)  Featured Speakers in FY08  September 11, 2007: Paromita Sanyal, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA  Paromita Sanyal:"From Credit To Collective Action: Microfinance, Women's Group-Based Mobilizations and Implications for Social Capital" in India  October 9, 2007
Aihwa Ong, UC Berkeley (Anthropology)  Aihwa Ong: Knowledge Nomads: Pied-a-terre Subjects in Emerging Asian Cities  November 27, 2007
James Ferguson, Stanford University (Anthropology)
James Ferguson: Distributive Labor and Survivalist Improvisation: Productionist Thinking and the Misrecognition of the Urban Poor  January 29, 2008
Evan Lieberman, Princeton University. (Political Science)
Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS
 May 13, 2008 Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi Does Soft Inequality Produce a Soft State? Anthropological Reflections on Inequality and Governance in India  June 10, 2008
Jeremy Weinstein, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University The Politics of Insurgent Violence
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