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Fall 2025 Program: Development Lunch Seminars

DRS Seminars

Join us at lunch, every other Thursday! The Development Lunch Seminar Program for the fall semester of 2025 is now official.

18 September (Online)
“Women Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprises and Women Empowerment”
Abigail Zaato (SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana)

2 October (Online)
“Women and Peacebuilding at Community Level in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Understandings, Contributions and Challenges"
Rosette Nkundimfura (University of Rwanda/University of Gothenburg)

16 October (In-person, Alfa 1: 2067)
"Loyalism and Dissent: Desertion and Britain’s Evolving Relationship with its Indigenous Soldiery"
Benjamin Chatterton (Lund University)

13 November (In-person, Alfa 1: 2067)
 “Chiefs and Mineral Governance in Ghana”
Joel Agbesinyale (Malmö University)

27 November (In-person, Alfa 1: 2067)
“Rice and Rubber in Malaya”
Sascha Klocke and Tobias Axelsson (Lund University)

11 December (Online)
“FinTech Adoption and Access to Agricultural Value Chain Financing: Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Ghana”
Livingstone Edward Xetor (University of Cape Coast, Ghana)

See all upcoming Development Lunch Seminars.

About the Developent Lunch Seminars

The seminar series is a collaboration between the Development Research School and the Development Group at the Department of Economic History at Lund University. Both junior and senior scholars - from a wide range of disciplines and universities - are encouraged to present. By attending, you will get inspiration and the latest research from scholars focusing on development studies.