Uncomfortable Truths: Development & Global Health Histories through the BLDS Legacy Collection
Channel: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 2021-03-17

In this seminar we will discuss what it means to face uncomfortable truths about development and global health histories through engagement with archives and institutional collections. The talk will bring recent work from the ‘Decolonising London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine history’ project into conversation with emerging findings from the cataloguing of the British Library for Development Studies Legacy Collection. We ask what role historical research and the resurfacing of institutional pasts can play in current debates on decolonising global health and development studies. 

Speakers: 

Lioba Hirsch, Research Fellow, Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Danny Millum, BLDS Metadata and Discovery Officer, University of Sussex Library

Erica Nelson, Post-doctoral Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies 

Chair: 

Jeremy Allouche, Professorial Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies