Session One: 9.30-10.30
Chair: Professor Yuen Foong Khong (DPIR and Nuffield College)
Paper: Professor Deborah Welch Larson (University of California, Los Angeles), Managing Rising Powers: The Role of Status Concerns
The Centre for International Studies and the Oxford Fulbright Initiative held a workshop on 10th June 2011 to discuss the Role of Status in International Relations.
Speakers:
SATURDAY
12-1.30pm
Nigeria: Economy and Society
Chair: JDY Peel. Discussant: Bjorn Beckman
Ruth Watson:
Gavin, Garveyism, and Literary Materialism in Colonial Ibadan
Kathryn Nwajiaku:
The politics of oil and identity in Nigeria: A political economy of ethnic nationalism
Gunilla Andrae:
Organising the Informal Economy: Union power and civil society in Nigeria
AR Mustapha:
Why there is Agrarian Capitalism in Nigeria: The Zimbabwean Farmers in the Nigerian Middlebelt
FRIDAY
3-4.30pm
Weber & Marx
Chair: Jan-Georg Deutsch. Discussant: Bob Shenton
Jeremy Seekings:
Webers ghost and the study of stratification in South Africa
Kate Meagher:
Weber meets Godzilla: Social Networks and the Spirit of Capitalism
Swagato Sarkar:
Marxs politics vis-a-vis post-Marxists
FRIDAY
1.30-2.30pm
Agrarian Societies
Chair: Peter Lawrence, Discussant: Abdul Raufu Mustapha
Barbara Harriss-White:
Taking the part of petty commodity producers
Judith Heyer:
The political economy of development in an industrialising rural area of South India
Lindsay Whitfield:
A New Kind of Agrarian Capitalism in Ghana: Capitalist farmers in the horticulture export industry.
FRIDAY
11-12.30pm
Political and Development Theories
Chair: Valpy Fitzgerald. Discussant: Martin Murray
Bjorn Beckman:
Where do effective institutions come from?
Sara Dorman:
Primary contradictions: thinking about state formation in post-colonial Africa
Alastair Frasier:
Participation, liberation and tyranny - from JS Mill to PRSPs
Deborah Bryceson:
Discovery and Denial: Social Science Theory and Interdisciplinarity in African Studies
FRIDAY
9.30-10.30 Opening Session:
Chair: Barbara Harriss-White.
Keynote Address: Lionel Cliffe.Gavin Williams: An Appreciation.
Messages from absent friends.
A conversation between Elizabeth Frazer (PPE, 1984; DPhil 1987), Matthew Powell (PPE, 2010) and Nick Alexander (PPE, 1976).
Matthew and Nick discuss their learning experiences at Oxford across the internet divide, and find that they have much in common.
