Envisioning Feminist Futures: A Roundtable on The Diane Elson Reader

"Envisioning Feminist Futures: A Roundtable on The Diane Elson Reader”

Join us for a roundtable to reflect on three decades of feminist thinking on gender, development, and macroeconomic policy with Diane Elson. Drawing on The Diane Elson Reader, the discussion will explore how Elson’s work challenges male bias in economic thought and offers feminist pathways toward more inclusive and equitable futures.

Participants: Diane Elson, Kalpana Wilson, Andrea Cornwall
Chair: Sheba Tejani

Diane Elson, Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Visiting Professor, WiSE Centre for Economic Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University. In 2016, she was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She is a former Vice President of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She has published widely on gender equality and economic policy. For more information see www.drdianeelson.com .

Kalpana Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences. She works on critical international development and social justice. Her research explores questions of race/gender, labour, neoliberalism, and reproductive rights and justice, with a particular focus on South Asia and its diasporas.

Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Global Development & Anthropology at the Department of International Development at King’s College London. A social anthropologist by training, Andrea works on questions of rights and justice in relation to gender, sexuality, participation, democracy and development.

Sheba Tejani is Senior Lecturer of International Development at the Department of International Development at King’s College London. Sheba's work is centred on the distributional consequences of international trade and structural transformation in developing countries. She is interested in the effects of technological upgrading, automation and gender segregation on workers and the future of work. In a related research programme, she focuses on the political economy underpinnings of development in India.

About the Interrogating Development Seminar Series

The 'Interrogating Development' seminar series is organised by the Department of International Development at King's College London. The series examines some of the most pressing issues of development facing global society today, with the authors of new books presenting cutting-edge research on a variety of topics related to development.

The talk will be followed by a wine reception. The event is open to everyone.