Cultural dimension of development work

African Information Centre invites you to a discussion on Cultural dimension of development work. The speaker, a cultural anthropologist Zuzana Hrdličková, will talk on this topic and her own experience with humanitarian and development work in South Asia.

Development projects often have the ambition to change social and cultural conventions. Are they succeeding in it? Are the projects changing the cultures or is the culture changing the projects? How did development work change over the last 50 years and how did the experience of development workers and cultural anthropologists contributed to these changes? How and where are he "right" tdevelopment projects implemented?

Zuzana Hrdličová, PhD studied Ethnology and Indology at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Charles University. She did research work in India and Sri Lanca where she worked for humanitarian and development organizations. She then taught a course on Applied anthropology and development work. She currently teaches at the University of London where she also conducts research on humanitarian and development practices.