Last updated on March 1, 2014
One of the things I do at the University of Minnesota is serve as faculty advisor for a group called Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Development (IPID).
As its name indicates, IPID’s mission is to get people together to talk about development from a variety of perspectives. So for example, one of the events IPID is organizing this year will feature Colby College’s Laura Seay (perhaps equally well-known as @texasinafrica), who will be giving a public lecture in April that will be open to the entire University of Minnesota community.
Another thing IPID does is run a student journal called Reconsidering Development. Their most recent call for papers landed in my inbox last week, and I thought some readers of this blog might be interested in submitting an article for publication:
Reconsidering Development is a student-run journal based at the University of Minnesota. We are currently looking for submissions and are wondering whether you can help us circulate the message below to students and faculty who you think might be interested. Please do not hesitate to email me if you have any questions. We will greatly appreciate your help.
Reconsidering Development Call for Submissions
Reconsidering Development—an interdisciplinary E-journal based at the University of Minnesota—invites you to contribute to its Spring 2014 issue. The theme of our Spring issue is market-based approaches to international development. We seek submissions that explore the ways in which free market ideas and private sector initiatives are influencing development theory and practice. Public-private partnerships, entrepreneurship education, financial inclusion and microfinance, and market approaches to global health and agriculture are just a few examples such approaches. We especially encourage submissions that examine the creative use of market-based practices in development and explore both the potential and the limitations of such approaches.
The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2014. Accepted submissions will be published in our Spring 2014 issue.
Submissions should be e-mailed to editor@umn.edu.
Visit http://rdj.ipid-umn.org/submissions/ for more information and submission guidelines.