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Spring 2009 Lecture Series
Organized by David Simon

January 29

Joel Barkan
Political Science / University of Iowa
Can Kenya Muddle Through?

February 5

Abebe Zegeye
Rice Fellow / Yale University
The Magical Universe of Art: Zerihun Yetmgeta, an Ethiopian Artist

February 12
CANCELLED

Mohamed Said Mohamed
Zanzibar AIDS Commission
HIV & AIDS Intervention in Zanzibar: A Challenge to Developing Economies
Presentation Part 1 Presentation Part 2

February 19

Yaw Nyarko
Economics / New York University
Is the Brain Drain Good for Africa?

April 2

Robert Rotberg
Kennedy School of Government / Harvard University
Zimbabwe A Year After Elections

April 9

Lundy Braun
Public Health / Brown University
Race, Populations, and Genomics: The Legacy of Systematizing Projects in Africa and the U.S.

April 15
Luce 102
(Wednesday)

Christopher Blattman
Political Science / Yale University
The Industrial Organization of Rebellion: The Logic of Forced Labor and Child Soldiering

April 29
Luce 202
(Wednesday)

Elliot Green
Development Studies Institute / London School of Economics
Patronage as Institutional Choice: Evidence from Rwanda and Uganda

May 7

Leslye Obiora
African Studies / Yale University
When Rights Become Sexy

Unless otherwise stated, all lectures are on Thursday afternoons from 4:15 to 5:45 pm in room 203, Luce Hall, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Funded in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center grant.
Co-sponsored by the MacMillan Center and the Council on African Studies.


Updated April 20, 2009






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