School for Cross-faculty Studies’ Research Seminar series

‘A critical history of poverty finance’ to be led by Dr Nick Bernards.

The event takes place on Wednesday 11 January 2023 starting at 12 noon in R1.15 and online via Microsoft TEAMS.

Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the fight against poverty. But should we believe the hype?

In this seminar, Dr Nick Bernards will introduce his new book, A Critical History of Poverty Finance. The book demonstrates how newfangled 'digital financial inclusion' efforts suffer from the same essential flaws as earlier iterations of neoliberal 'financial inclusion'. Relying on artificially created markets that simply aren't there among the world's most disadvantaged economic actors, they also reinforce existing patterns of inequality and uneven development, many of which date back to the colonial era.

Bernards offers an astute analysis of the current fintech fad, contextualised through a detailed colonial history of development finance, that ultimately reveals the neoliberal vision of poverty alleviation for the pipe dream it is.

Find out more about the seminar and REGISTER here: SCFS Research Seminar: A critical history of poverty finance (warwick.ac.uk)

Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the fight against poverty. But should we believe the hype?

We warmly invite you to our Applied Linguistics Seminar Series - Language. Culture. Matters.

In term 2, we will still organise the seminar series in a hybrid mode. We will have speakers in person and online, but no matter where the speaker gives the talk, all seminar series will be held in a hybrid form. These are great opportunities for all students and academics to keep updated about recent developments in academia, discuss different topics and network with other scholars and students.

Online meeting room: Please entre the room at 15:55 (Wed). Click here to join the meetingLink opens in a new window

History Research seminar

Nataliia Voloshkova (Kazimierz Wielki University)

They Differ in Many Respects from the Moscovites: Representations of Ukrainian Lands and People in British Travel Accounts in the Long Eighteenth Century Discussant: Christoph Mick; Chair: Charles Walton Week 1, Wednesday 11 Jan, 4.30 – 6 pm, OC0.04, Oculus Building

They differ in many respects from the Moscovites: Representations of Ukrainian Lands and People in British Travel Accounts in the Long Eighteenth Century

speaker: Nataliia Voloshkova, Kazimierz Wielki University

chair: Charles Walton

discussant: Christoph Mick

On Wednesday 25 January at 5pm, Dr. Oindrila Ghosh (Diamond Harbour Women’s University/Oxford) will be presenting "Representative of the Voiceless': Rukmini Devi Arundale and Formation of Animal Welfare Discourse in Twentieth Century India."