UCSB Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, SSMS Conference Room 2001 (2nd Floor) Free Event
Free Event

The Department of Global Studies' Colloquium Series is a lecture and lunch series, which has been made possible by the generosity of the Orfalea Endowment for the Master's Program in Global Studies.  The Colloquium Series strives to open and explore a wide range of interdisciplinary debates and their interaction and engagement with the global, hosting new guest speakers each quarter from UCSB and beyond.  The upcoming event will be hosted in the SSMS 2001 conference room in the Global Studies Department on WEDNESDAY, February 26th at 12:30pm. Please see below for the featured talk:

 "The Global Informality Project"

Professor Alena Ledeneva, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Talk description pending.

Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College London, UK. She is an internationally renowned expert on informal governance in Russia and beyond. Her research interests include corruption, informal economy, economic crime, informal practices in corporate governance, and role of networks and patron-client relationships in Russia and around the globe. Her books Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking, and Informal Exchange (Cambridge University Press, 1998), How Russia Really Works: Informal Practices in the 1990s (Cornell University Press, 2006), and Can Russia Modernize? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2013) have become must-read sources in Russian studies and social sciences.  She received her PhD in Social and political theory from Cambridge University (1996). She was the pillar leader of the multi-partner ANTICORRP.eu research project (2012-2017) and led the UCL FRINGE Centre for the Study of Social and Cultural Complexity (2014-2017). She is founder of the Global Informality Project, editor of the Global Encyclopedia of Informality and co-editor of the FRINGE series at the UCL Press. 
 

For more information about the Colloquium Series, please contact Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Global Studies Colloquium Director:
jnp@global.ucsb.edu

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