Welcome to the Department of International Development at LSE events podcast. Tune in for recordings from a range of events in the Department, including lectures and panel discussions on vital subjects in the world of development. The podcasts include the Great Development Dialogue from 2020, an event on development in Asia with Deepak Nayyar and a coversation around Islamic Extremism in West Africa.
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The looming global financial crisis: time to re-think development and democracy 2.0
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1:26:42The looming global financial crisis: time to re-think development and democracy 2.0 This event took place on Tuesday 01 April 2025, 7.00pm to 8.30pm at LSE In 2006 Professor Bienefeld gave a public lecture at LSE by the very same title, anticipating the global financial crisis of 2007. In that lecture he argued that this crisis would (should?) fina…
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Growth, innovation and singularities: are we sustainable?
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1:24:55Growth, innovation and singularities: are we sustainable? Tuesday 18 March 2025 7pm to 8.30pm, Hong Kong Theatre. Speaker: Professor Geoffrey West, Distinguished Professor and former President of the Santa Fe Institute Chair: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet, Professor Political Economy of Development, LSE Why do people and companies stop growing, age an…
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Is Development an Art or a Science?
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1:33:00International development is a field in which expert knowledge, drawn primarily from the social and natural sciences, has long been dominant. We know that complex global problems require multidisciplinary approaches and solutions, but how and where do the arts and humanities fit in? In their new open access book New Mediums, Better Messages: How In…
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Self in the World: connecting life's extremes
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1:38:32Eminent anthropologist Keith Hart draws on the humanities, popular culture and his own experiences to help us explore our own place in history. We each embark on two life journeys – one out into the world, the other inward to the self. With these journeys in mind, anthropologist, amateur economist and globetrotter Keith Hart reflects on a life of l…
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Humanitarian implications of the Ukraine war
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59:02The crisis in Ukraine is a rapidly growing humanitarian emergency. How is the humanitarian community responding to this crisis, and what are the implications for humanitarian studies more broadly? Gathering together a range of researchers and practitioners with experience across the breadth of humanitarian assistance, this panel seeks to explore th…
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More Than Money? How Anthropology Can Offer Richer Analysis For Economists
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1:24:23A recording of the event, 'More Than Money? How Anthropology Can Offer Richer Analysis For Economists' at LSE, Thursday 07 October 2021. Anthropology has often been seen as an academic version of Indiana Jones – namely a discipline devoted to exotic travel that does not have much relevance for the modern world. However, anthropology-trained Financi…
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This podcast is a recording from a panel discussion on Tuesday 27 July hosted by the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa and the Department of International Development on 'Decolonising development studies: Practical steps in course designing, reading selections and classroom discussions'. The event was chaired by ID's Dr Eyob Balcha Gebremariam and f…
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Overcoming Boko Haram: A Book and a Conversation on Islamic Extremism in West Africa
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1:19:06This event celebrated the launch of Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria. The book looks beyond the details of the insurgency to examine the wider social and political processes that explain why Boko Haram emerged when and where it did, and what forces exist within society to contain it. Drawing on the …
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Deepak Nayyar on development in Asia over the last 50 years
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1:29:21The lecture analyzes the phenomenal transformation of Asia, which would have been difficult to imagine, let alone predict, fifty years ago. In doing so, it provides an analytical narrative of this remarkable story of economic development, situated in the wider context of historical, political and social factors, and an economic analysis of the unde…
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The Great Development Dialogue 24 Jan 2020
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1:45:00Speakers: Maitreesh Ghatak, Dr Gharad Bryan, Deoborah James, David Graeber and Kathryn Hochstetler * Chair: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet The Great Development Dialogue is a yearly event sponsored by the LSE’s Department of International Development, with two purposes: (1) to explore some of the deepest and most vexing questions in development from an…
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