Malthusian Anticipatory Regime for Africa: Gender, Population and the Strategic Interests of the USA

<strong>The Dean School of Social Sciences </strong> a lecture <strong>"Malthusian Anticipatory Regime for Africa: Gender, Population and the Strategic Interests of the USA"</strong> by <strong>Prof Betsy Hartmann</strong>, Professor, Development Studies, School of Social Science, Hampshire College, Mass. She is Senior Policy Analyst, Population and Development Program, Hampshire College (Director from 1988-2014). She has written extensively on political economy of diverse issues such as development, poverty, environment and climate change, population control, reproductive rights and wrongs etc. Her notable works include Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control (Boston: South End Publishers), Deadly Election, a political thriller (White River, VT: White River Press), Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties, eds. Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam and Charles Zerner ( Rowman and Littlefield). She is the recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair Award (for research and lecturing in India, spring 2015). She is currently visiting scholar, Center for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Date:<strong> 22nd April 2015 (Wednesday)</strong>