Dear Latinamericanists
Enclosed you will find the program for a conference (open to public) to be
held at Columbia University, March 3-5.
For more information please call
Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies
Columbia University
212-854-4643
Hope to see you here!
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The Politics of Inequality
Conference March 3-5, 1994
Dag Hammarskjold Lounge
International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street, 6th Floor
Columbia University
New York, NY
Thursday, March 3
Opening Remarks by the Institute of Latin American and Iberian=20
Studies and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
2-4 p.m. Panel 1. Economic Restructuring and Labor Organizations
Panelists:
M. Victoria Murillo, Harvard University, The Argentine Labor=20
Movement and the Effect of Recent Economic Reforms=20
Javier Melgoza and Enrique de la Garza Toledo, UAM, Poli'tica labor=20
neoliberal, modernizacio'n productiva y estrategias sindicales: la=20
experiencia mexicana=20
Scott Martin, Columbia University, The Inevitability of Labor=20
Movement Decline? Some Evidence from the Mexican and Brazilian Auto Industr=
ies=20
Anthony Pereira, New School for Social Research, The Crisis of =20
Developmentalism and the Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil=20
Commentators:
=09Alvaro Di'az, SUR Profesionales, Chile
=09Robert Kaufman, Rutgers University
4-6 p.m. Panel 2. State Reform and the Popular Sector: New Patterns=20
of Interest Representation?
Panelists:
Jorge Papadopoulos, University of Pittsburgh &Fernando Filgueira, =20
Northwestern University, Uruguay=D5s Crossroads: Long Crisis and=20
Vetoed Alternatives=20
Kerianne Piester, Columbia University, Targetting the Poor: The=20
Impacts of Social Policy Reform on State-Society Relations in=20
Mexico=20
Monique Segarra, Columbia University, Redefining the=20
Public/Private Mix: The Social Investment Fund in Ecuador=20
Ana Mari'a Bejarano, Universidad de los Andes, Bogot=87, Alcances y=20
li'mites de la reforma del estado en un contexto de crisis: El caso=20
colombiano=20
Commentators:=20
=09James Malloy, University of Pittsburgh
=09Joan Nelson, Overseas Development Council
6:15 p.m. Wine and Cheese Reception, followed by Dinner in the=20
President's Room, Faculty House
Friday, March 4
10 a.m.-noon Panel 3. Reinventing Local Politics
Panelists:
William Nylen, Stetson University, PT Governance in Rural=20
Brazil=20
Pedro Jacobi, CEDEC, Sao Paulo, Reaches and Limits of Progressive=20
Urban Governments in Brazil=20
Margarita Lo'pez-Maya, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Causa=20
Radical gana la alcaldi'a de Caracas=20
Peter Winn, Tufts University, The Frente Amplio Administration of=20
Montevideo=20
Commentators:
=09Charles Reilly, Inter-American Foundation
=09Jonathan Fox, M.I.T.
2-4 p.m. Panel 4. Collective Responses to Violence
Panelists:
Jo Marie Burt, Columbia University, Quien habla es terrorista:=20
Violence and the Urban Poor of Lima
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Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Nucleo de Estudos da Violencia, Sao Paulo, =20
Popular Responses to State Sponsored Violence in Brazil=20
Deborah Yashar, Harvard University, Guatemala: Political=20
Liberalization, Violence and Popular Participation=20
Miguel Carter, Columbia University, Making It Happen: Churches and=20
Peasants in the Construction of Civil Society in Rural Paraguay=20
Commentators:
=09Kay Warren, Princeton University
=09Deborah Levenson, Columbia University
4-6 p.m. Panel 5. Gender, Ethnicity and Anti-Politics: New Bases of=20
Collective Action
Panelists:
Melina Selverston, Columbia University, The Politics of Identity=20
Reconstruction: The Indigenous Movement and the State in Ecuador=20
Amy Lind, Politicizing Gender and Redefining Politics: The Role of=20
Neighborhood Women's Organizations in Challenging Dominant=20
Conceptions of Gender, Politics, and Development in Ecuador=20
Julia Paley, Harvard University, Rebuilding Urban Popular=20
Movements in Chile: Local History Workshops in Santiago's=20
Shantytowns=20
Aldo Panfichi, New School for Social Research, The Authoritarian=20
Alternative: Anti-Politics Among the Urban Poor in Lima, Peru=20
Commentators:
=09Margaret Crahan, University of Pittsburgh
=09Susan Eckstein, Boston University
=09Saturday, March 5
10 a.m.-noon Panel 6. Movements and Parties: Competitors or Allies?
Panelists:
Kathleen Bruhn, Stanford University, The Seven-Month Itch? The PRD=20
and Popular Movements in Mexico=20
Philip Oxhorn, McGill University, Popular Social Movements and=20
Political Parties: The Challenge of Articulation=20
Maxwell Cameron, Carleton University, Political Parties and the=20
Informal Sector in Peru=20
Jose' Luis Coraggio, FLACSO-Quito, Comunicacio'n y representacio'n=20
popular: El caso de la revolucio'n sandinista=20
Commentators:
=09Carlos Vilas, UNAM
=09Katherine Roberts-Hite, Columbia University
1:00-3:00 p.m. Panel 7. International Forces: Influencing Popular=20
Struggles
Panelists:
Cesare Taviani, Associazione Studi America Latina, La cooperaci=97n=20
europea y el surgimiento de nuevas formas de representaci=97n popular=20
en America Latina=20
Mari'aa Lorena Cook, Cornell University, Economic Liberalization and=20
Transnational Politics: NAFTA and Popular Sector Activism in Mexico=20
Laura MacDonald, Carleton University, Globalizing Social Movements:=20
Responses to NAFTA in Canada and Mexico=20
Joao Paulo Candia Veiga, DESEP/CUT, Brazil, The Role of Unions in a=20
Transnational World: the Case of the CUT in Mersosul Intergration=20
Commentator:
=09Douglas Chalmers, Columbia University
3:00-5:00 p.m. Panel 8. Beyond the Crisis: Latin America's Future
Panelists:
Ian Roxborough, SUNY-Stony Brook, What Future for Social=20
Democracy in Latin America?=20
Eric Hershberg, Social Science Research Council, Market-based=20
Reform and Civil Society Representation: The Cases of Chile and=20
Spain=20
Peter Kingstone, University of California-Berkeley, Social=20
Democracy in the Era of Neoliberalism=20
Kenneth Roberts, University of New Mexico, Rethinking Economic=20
Alternatives: Left Parties and the Articulation of Popular Demands=20
in Chile and Peru=20
Commentators:
=09Cynthia Sanborn, Ford Foundation
=09Maria do Carmo Campello de Souza, Universidad de Sao Paulo
5:15 Concluding Remarks: Jorge Castan~eda, Universidad Auto'noma de=20
Me'xico
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