The Development Reading Group
Dr. Renata Serra and Dr. Julie Silva have begun a reading group that focuses on current themes in development. The reading group meets once a month during the semester and discusses a recent book on development (broadly conceived) in Africa and beyond. The setting is informal, and the goal is to create a forum for people with different academic backgrounds and perspectives to discuss critical development issues and learn from one another.
We are very pleased to have received some financial support from the Center for African Studies, which enables us to buy three copies of each selected book. One copy is for the person volunteering to present the book, and two copies are for library reserve. This will enable those of you who do not want to buy the book to consult it before our meeting.
Past Books
Spring 2007
Date: March 5th
Book: J. Sachs, The End of Poverty, 2005
Discussion leader: Dr. Julie Silva (Geography and African Studies)
Date: March 26
Book: W. Easterly, The White Man's Burden, 2006
Discussion leader: Dr. Renata Serra (Center for African Studies)
Date: April 16
Book: A. Sen, Development as Freedom, 1999
Discussion leaders: Dr. Julie Silva (Geography and African Studies) and Dr. Renata Serra (Center for African Studies)
Date: September 27th
Book: R. Kapuscinski, The Shadow of the Sun
Discussion leader: Anna Szyniszewska (PhD student in Geography)
Date: October 25th
Book: F. Pearce, When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - the Defining Crisis of the 21st Century, 2006
Discussion leader: Dr. Katrina Schwartz (Political Science)
Date: November 29th
Book: L. Beneria, Gender Development and Globalization: Economics as if all people mattered, Routledge, 2003
Discussion leader: Jillian Jensen (M.Sc. student in Interdisciplinary Ecology and in Food and Resource Economics)
Date: February 25th
Book: P. Collier, The bottom billion: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it
Date: March 31st
Book: L. Pritchett, Let their people come: breaking the gridlock on international labor mobility, 2006
Development Reading Group List Serve
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