Activities > Conferences > 2025 Grantees Conference
Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms
December 12-13, 2025, Boston University
Friday, December 12
Panel I
Charli Muller – WiFi Neoliberalism: Wireless Networking’s Technical Undermining of the State
Aditi Dey – From Big to Small: How the Indian Tech Entrepreneur Was Born during the Crisis of the 1970s
Respondents: Jason Jackson & Ben Siegel
Panel II
Hengameh Ziai – The Birth of Biopolitics in Underdevelopment: Human Capital and Agriculture
Zachary Griffen – Quality Production, Not Quantifying People: W. Edwards Deming and the Influence of Management Science on Healthcare
Respondents: Gabriela Soto Laveaga & Boyd Ruamcharoen
Keynote Address I
Sarah Bellows-Blakely – Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi
Panel III
Edward Knudsen – Tariffs, Trump, and Time Travel: The Legacy of Interwar Protectionism in Contemporary US Trade Policy
Connor O'Brien – “Let Him Cast the First Stone”: Good Governance at the End of History, 1989-1993
Respondents: Francine McKenzie & Quinn Slobodian
Saturday, December 13
Panel IV
Jan Altaner – The Transformation of Beirut’s Real Estate into a Global Commodity, 1945-1975
Bench Ansfield – Bonds of Catastrophe: Capitalism and the New Climate of Risk
Respondents: Dylan Gottlieb & Betty Anderson
Panel V
Chloe Bernadaux – Sanctions as Legitimation: The UN Embargo and Authoritarian Narratives in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
Flavia Canestrini – “People's Sanctions”: Non-State Actors and Financial Markets in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1977-1986
Respondents: Diana Wylie & Christy Thornton
Keynote Address II
Joel Suarez – Work and the Problem of Freedom in the Late Twentieth Century