Informal Meeting on Anthropology and Development in the Bloomsbury Colleges

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Informal Meeting on Anthropology and Development
in the Bloomsbury Colleges

• LIDC
• 9 May 2008

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A bit about LIDC

• Help staff to develop research and teaching
  initiatives
• Across the six Bloomsbury Colleges
• In support of international development goals
• A membership organization
• Can help organize workshops, project proposals,
  etc. at no cost to staff
• Keen to develop interdisciplinary projects and
  dialogue, esp. social natural science

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Why an Anthropology Meeting

• LIDC organizes mostly inter-disciplinary
  meetings, but
• Early interest in disciplines meeting to compare
  development interests and research methods
  econ, anthro, .
• LIDC is keen to have anthro input into
• Structural factors in HIV AIDS (20 May)
• Medicines for neglected diseases (11 June)
• Emerging zoonotic diseases (17 June)

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Programme very loose!

• Jeff Waage (LIDC) Welcome and introduction.
• David Mosse (SOAS) What is the value of
  anthropology to international development.
• Wenzel Geissler (LSHTM) Anthropology of African
  biosciences.
• Nicole Blum (IoE) Environmental education
  sustainable development in Costa Rica.
• Paul Boyce (Thomas Coram Res Unit) Ethnography
  of same-sex sexualities and health interventions
  in Bengal.
• Michael Heinrich (School of Pharmacy)
  Anthropology and medicinal plant research.
• Cicely Marsten (LSHTM) Anthropology to research
  young people's health.
• Tea/Coffee break.
• Open discussion chaired by David Mosse.
• Around 1630 . informal drinks and networking