About this Event
Join us to celebrate a special milestone for our new professors and and hear about their innovative research. Doors for this event will open on 17:15 with the lectures to commence at 17:30. A post drinks reception will be held at 18:30 immediately after the lecture.
Michael Jennings, Professor of Global Development in Africa
Title of Inaugural Lecture: Back to the Future: · Saviourism and Solidarity in Global Development
About the Lecture: This lecture looks back at the first Development Decade of the 1960s, with particular focus on the ways in which ideas around global solidarity, local action and radical ideas of decolonised practice were reflected in Tanzanian development. Professor Jennings reflects on the how echoes from that past are reflected in contemporary global development debates.
This inaugural lecture is both a return to the start of Professor Jennings research career, and a look forward to new ways in which historical explorations of global development can speak directly to contemporary concerns, debates and challenges.
Professor Jenning's research career began with a focus on the history of development in east Africa in the 1960s and ‘70s.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/michael-jennings
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre (BGLT), SOAS University of London, 10 Thornhaugh Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
