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The weeks presenter at the Research Seminar is Lorenzo Cotula from the International Institute for Environment and Development.

The spread and deepening of economic globalisation has highlighted the ever closer connections between the international legal arrangements governing the global economy on the one hand, and claims to land and natural resources on the other. As pressures on valuable lands intensify and land relations become more transnationalised, increasing recourse to international investment treaties is redesigning spaces for land claims at local and national levels.

This paper explores the interface between international investment treaties and local land rights. It focuses on the recent wave of large-scale land deals for agribusiness plantations in low and middle-income countries (‘land grabbing’ for the critics). The analysis connects two topics that have attracted much public attention (‘land grabbing’ and investment treaty negotiations), and aims to interrogate issues relevant to both policy and academic debates.

All research seminars are held in S2.12 and will start at 12:30pm with lunch in S2.09 and the seminar will formally start at 1pm.

Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, eds., Asia Inside Out (Harvard, 2015)

Introduction: Spatial Assemblages, Helen F.Siu, Eric Tagliacozzo, and Peter C. Perdue

War and Charisma: Horses and Elephants in the Indian Ocean Economy, Alan Mikhail

Turning Space into Place: British India and the Invention of Iraq, Priya Satia

Thomas Docherty, “The Condition of Academic Freedom”

Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, eds., Asia Inside Out (Harvard, 2015)

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Tea and coffee will be at 1pm. All are welcome.

Weekly work-in-progress Research Seminars, where we come together to share our research.

Week 9 Speakers:

Papers are 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes of questions each.
All are welcome - biscuits/chocolates will be provided.

Bryan Brazeau (University of ÌÇÐÄTV) on A Good Offense: Poetics and Society in Sixteenth-Century Italy (respondent tbc)

Juan Miguel Valero Moreno (joint with STVDIO), (provisional title) ‘The Neglected Iberian Humanism: Alonso de Cartagena and the Classics’