|
|
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Gambrell Hall 429, 3:30pm
"Communities in Transition: Recovering from War and Displacement in Northern Uganda."
Eric Green
Ph.D. Candidate,
USC's Department of Psychology |
| Ph.D. candidate in Community Psychology from USC’s Department of Psychology, Eric Green, will present a colloquium entitled, "Communities in Transition: Recovering from War and Displacement in Northern Uganda." The presentation is based on fieldwork for his Ph.D. dissertation in an internally displaced persons' camp in Northern Uganda, where Eric lived for eight months, and where research assistants continue to gather data. |
|
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
“Nonsense without Stilts?: The Rhetorical Question of Reconciliation in the UN’s Discourse on Transitional Justice”
Erik Doxtader
USC, Department of English |
| New faculty member Erik Doxtader, who has just come from the University of Wisconsin to teach rhetoric in USC’s Department of English, will present a colloquium entitled “Nonsense without Stilts?: The Rhetorical Question of Reconciliation in the UN’s Discourse on Transitional Justice.” This will be an extension of his long-term work on reconciliation and justice in South Africa, on which he has co-edited with South African colleagues a number of books, including Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa – The Fundamental Documents, co-edited with Philippe Salazar (Cape Town: David Philip, September 2007). Erik was also recently in South Africa for the launch of his new book, Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa ( Cape Town: David Philip, February 2008). This event is co-sponsored by the African Studies Program, the Department of English, and the Development Studies Working Group. |
|
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
"Micro-Finance: Empowerment of Women vs. Empowerment of Capital"
Jude Fernando
Clark University |
| Dr. Jude Fernando is an Associate Professor of International Development in Clark University's Department of International Development, Community, and Environment. His research interests include South Asian rural development, NGOs and microcredit schemes, and human rights. He has edited several collections on development issues, including Microfinance: Perils & Prospects (Rutledge, 2005) and Progress, Promise and Partnerships: South Asian Development Experience (The Asia Society, 1999) as well as three issues of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; Rethinking Sustainable Development (2003), Children's Rights (2001), and The Role of NGOs (with Alan W. Heston, 1997). He has consulted for the Asia Foundation, IFAD and the World Bank. In Sri Lanka he worked in conflict zones for World Vision and co-founded a newspaper, the Northeastern Herald. |
|
October 24-25, 2007
"Partnership and Dependence: The Dysfunctions of Foreign Aid"
Dr. Joel Samoff
Stanford University |
|
|
