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 same-

sex 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