Transcript Informal Meeting on Anthropology and Development in the

Informal Meeting on
Anthropology and Development
in the Bloomsbury Colleges
LIDC
9 May 2008
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
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)
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 samesex 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