‘One Hand Washes the Other: Corruption, transparency and 21st Century Romania and Moldova’ by Rebecca Chamberlain-Creanga.

Monday 19 February 2007, 18.00-19.30, Room H102 (Connaught House), London School of Economics , Houghton Street , London WC2A 2AE

Rebecca Chamberlain-Creanga is a PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Anthropology.

The presentation “questions the assumption that corruption and the liberal market reflect radically different economic, social and moral orientations. The study acknowledges that local people define corruption and morality differently from that of powerful international organizations…It argues that corruption may in fact be embedded within the very processes of market reform and democratization that seek to stamp out corruption”.