Knowledges for Development, Development for Knowledges?

8th Development Dialogue to be held at ISS 21-22 June 2010

Tags: Worldwide , Civil Society Building

The Development Dialogue is a yearly initiative of PhD candidates at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, in The Hague, The Netherlands. The objective is to exchange the results of recent and ongoing research by young scholars and PhD candidates in different fields of development studies.

Theme of the Conference: Knowledges for Development, Development for Knowledges

During the last couple of decades there has been a renewed interest in the knowledge being produced for and used in development. Questions relating to what/which/whose knowledge counts for development have been subject to ongoing debates. More specifically, the place, contributions, and implications of different forms of knowledge and practices within the field of development studies have been at the centre of this debate. Conversely, how development itself contributes and shapes the production of knowledge has also attracted a lot of interest.

Against the backdrop of these inquiries surrounding knowledge in the field of development and on the actual practices of knowledge for development, PhD researchers as knowledge producers, seekers and practitioners are at the centre of this debate. Therefore, the 8th Development Dialogue on Knowledges for Development and Development for Knowledges is intended to give PhD students the opportunity to actively engage in this debate within their respective areas of research.

Conference papers will address issues relevant for development including but not limited to the following areas:

• Conflict and dispute resolution
• Education and Youth
• Environment, resources and livelihood
• Gender, ethnicity and human rights
• Globalization,trade relations and value chains
• Governance, Institutions and State building
• Knowledge production
• Other knowledges/knowledges from below
• Labour
• Local development
• Migration
• Civil society
• Poverty, Health and Social Programmes
• Public and Private sector reform
• Religion
• Social Movements and grassroot struggles

The conference will consist of Parallel panels and three plenary sessions.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Professor Catherine O. Hoppers, University of South Africa
• Professor Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies,UK
• Professor Louk de Rive Box, Institute of Social Studies(ISS), Erasmus University
• Kees Biekart, Institute of Social Studies(ISS), Erasmus University
• Professor Mansoob Murshed , Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University
• Susanne von Itter, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
• Professor Ashwani Saith, Institute of Social Studies(ISS), Erasmus University
• Bruno Molijn, Oxfam-Novib
• Professor Max Spoor, Institute of Social Studies(ISS), Erasmus University

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Espcially the roundtable on 22 june, from 14.00 to 15.30 on "Knowledge Diffusion and the Importance of Publishing" with Kees Biekart (ISS), Mansoob Murhsed (ISS) and Suzanne van Itter (EADI) could be of specific interest to knowledge officers and knowledge managers working in development practice.

You can follow the complete conference via livestream: www.iss.nl/livestream