The Seminar on Issues in African Development series examines a broad range of critical concerns in contemporary Africa including food production, human resource development, migration, urbanization, environmental resource management, economic growth, and policy guidance. The weekly presentations are made by invited specialists. Students write weekly memos about the talks. Graduate students (CRP 6770/GDEV 6770) facilitate one seminar question period. 

Thursdays, 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m., 109 Ives Hall

Schedule

January 30

Issues in African Development: an overview 
Rachel Bezner Kerr, Professor, Global Development, and Director, Institute for African Development, Cornell

February 6

TBA

February 13

David M. A. Murphy, Assistant Professor Department of Economics, Colgate University  - Can Reducing Alcohol Consumption in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa Improve Smallholder Agricultural Outcomes? Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Kenya 

February 20

TBA

February 27

Sophie Oldfield, Professor and Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell - Becoming ‘Unlawful’: Homeownership, Housing Bureaucracy, and the Production of Precarity in Eastridge, Cape Town, South Africa 

March 6

Elmond Bandauko, Postdoctoral Associate, City and Regional Planning, Just & Equitable Cities, Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities - Street Traders' Association and Collective Action In Politically Volatile and Contested Cities

March 13

William G. Moseley, Dewitt Wallace Professor of Geography and Director, Program for Food, Agriculture and Society, Macalester College  - Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology, and the Need for Radical Transformation 

March 20

TBA

April 10

Cascade Tuholske, Assistant Professor of Human Environment Geography, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University Climate Change, Heat, and Health Across Africa

April 17

Helena Shilomboleni, Assistant Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability and the Dept. of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo  - Collaborative Rice Breeding Programs in East Africa: Insights from Feminist Political Ecology 

April 24

Rachel Sandwell, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Cornell  - The National Liberation Moment: Solidarity, Civil Society, and Development Aid

May 1

Tukumbi Lumumba Kasongo, Professor and Chair, Political Science , Wells College, Regional Affiliate, IAD, Cornell, African Integration Within the Imperatives of Neo-Liberal Globalism, Multipolarity and the African Union Agenda 2063: can it be feasible?