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Public Guest Lectures

Public guest lecture followed by Q&A
Introduced by Dr Dennis Rodgers (BWPI Senior Research Fellow)

Philippe Bourgois (University of Pennsylvania)

Theorizing Abuse: An Ethnographic Perspective on the War on Drugs in the U.S. Inner City

Friday 30th April, 3pm
Cordingley Lecture Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester

Presented by the Brooks World Poverty Institute in conjunction with:
Global Urban Research Centre (GURC)
State-Society Relations Group, IDPM, SED
Gang Research Unit, School of Law
Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences

For further details see the event poster.


Please see the events archive for details of previous guest lectures.

Please check this page regularly for updates, all our events for the 2009-10 academic year will be publicised in due course.


A film of the guest lecture given by Paul Collier on 25th November 2008 can be viewed here.


For details of previous Public Guest Lectures please see our events archive.

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