April 25, 2025, 1:00-2:30PM (US Eastern Time)
JHU Center on Global Poverty Speaker Series/ASA Sociology of Development section webinar:
The Attack on USAID
Please join us for a discussion of what happened, why, and where we go from here.
- Laura Adams and Anna Calasanti on the experiences of aid agency workers
- Blair Glencorse of the Accountability Lab on consequences around the world
- Laura Heideman on what happens when donor withdrawal is poorly planned
- The US experience in the context of the recent defunding of international development in Europe
- Keith Moore: where do we go from here, and are there lessons we could apply to an improved agency?
May 9th, 2025, 3:00-4:00 PM (US Eastern Time)
JHU Center on Global Poverty Speaker Series with Nilanjan Raghunath, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore University of Technology and Design (Zoom Link)
Title TBD
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Past Events
February 28th, 2025 at 3:00-4:00 (Eastern)
JHU Center on Global Poverty Speaker Series with Fiona Greenland, Associate Professor of Sociology, Fiona Greenland, University of Virginia
Investigating War Crimes as a Cultural Sociologist
Fiona Greenland will discuss her experience as a war crimes investigator for the Conflict Observatory Ukraine and how this work both informed and was informed by her training as a cultural sociologist. Documenting alleged war crimes for international legal accountability mechanisms, including the ICC, requires specific data collection and analysis skills that will be familiar to sociologists. At the same time, some of our discipline’s core concepts – such as representativeness and context – function differently in this space. Part of the talk will provide practical information for sociologists interested in getting involved in human rights and/or war crimes investigations.
February 14th, 2025 at 3:00-4:00 (Eastern)
JHU Center on Global Poverty speaker series with Miri Eliyahu, PhD, Northwestern University
“Industry Research and Global Development: A Different Perspective on Problem Solving”
Miri Eliyahu earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern and has worked as “Industry research and global development: a different perspective on problem solving” at Euromonitor. She will be discussing how work at a global market research firm involved in global development projects for international NGOs, Governments and Universities differs from academic work. From ideation to design, to research and then to implementation, this industry heavy process focuses on the client’s notion of desired outcomes and how to achieve them.
January 24th, 2025 at 3:00-4:00 (Eastern)
“Seminar on Grantwriting”
Enrique Pumar of Santa Clara University will speak about his experiences serving as the Program Director for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation.