Events

London Business School is holding an online course on African Economic History February to April 2022.

The Pearson Institute Director James Robinson will be joining April 12 to teach a plenary session on Africa's assets and future. 

This masterclass aims to familiarize students with insights into the recent, burgeoning literature on the impact of Africa’s history on contemporary development (JEL review). The online course will cover recent economic history contributions that use geospatial data from anthropological maps, colonial archives, secondary sources, and other sources to uncover the legacies of these phenomena. 

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Join us for a Pearson Speaker Series event with Andrew Lavali, Executive Director of the Institute for Governance Reform (IGR), a research and advocacy think tank in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The discussion will focus on the experience of collaborating on a World Bank-funded citizen engagement program focused on improving health.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CDT

Keller Center, Sky Suite

FREE

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Join The Pearson Institute and Harris Public Policy's International Development Policy Association for the North American premiere of the documentary film Congo Calling and a conversation with Director Stephan Hilpert and Harris Professor and film protagonist Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra.

About the Film: In crisis-ridden eastern Congo, three European development aid workers are forced to question what it means to help. Featuring deeply personal insights from its subjects, the film asks a myriad of questions, helping to nuance, humanize, and problematize the question of the Global North's relationship with Africa. Watch the trailer here. 

Friday, April 1, 2022

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM CDT

Harris School of Public Policy (Keller Center), Forum 

*This event will be presented in the in-person format only. 

Free

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