Social Change in Latin America: Toward the Year 2000
The workshop on ``Social Change in Latin America. Toward
the Year 2000,'' organized by Roberto Patricio
Korzeniewicz (Sociology, UMCP), will be held April 8-9,
1994 (please note the change in dates), at the University
of Maryland at College Park. Co-sponsored by the North-
South Center of the University of Miami, and UMCP's
Sociology Department and Latin American Studies Center,
this workshop will examine the more salient social
transformations shaping Latin America as we approach the
year 2000, and the future relationship between these
transformations and ongoing processes of democratization
and economic restructuring.
For more information, please call
Prof. Korzeniewicz at (301) 405-6398.
Friday, April 8
0105 Conference Center (Center for Adult Education)
9:00 ~ 9:30 am: Opening Remarks
Daniel Fallon (Vice President for Academic Affrs and Provost)
9:30 ~ 11:30 am: Session 1
Gonzalo Falabella (PET): ``After the Deluge: Labor Movements in
Rural Latin America''
Liliana Goldin (University at Albany ~ SUNY): ``Economic Re-
structuring and New Forms of Market Participation in Rural
Latin America''
Ramon Lopez (UMCP): Discussant
1:00 ~ 3:00 pm: Session 2
Alvaro Diaz (Centro de Estudios Sociales Sur): ``Economic
Restructuring and New Social Practices in Latin America''
Elizabeth Jelin (Universidad de Buenos res): ``Emerging Citizenship
or Exclusion? Social Movements and NGOs in the 1990s''
Ramon Daubon (A.I.D.): Discussant
Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (Johns Hopkins University):
Discussant
3:15 ~ 5:15 pm: Session 3
Diane Davis (New School for Social Research): ``When New Social
Movements Confront Old Party Structures: Recasting Politics
and Society in Neoliberal Latin America''
Alejandro Portes and Jose Itzigsohn (Johns Hopkins
University): ``The Party of the Grassroots: A Comparative
Analysis of Urban Political Participation''
Edy Kaufman (UMCP): Discussant
5:30 pm: Reception
Saturday, April 9
2112 Conference Center (Center for Adult Education)
9:30 ~ 11:30 am: Session 4
Ian Roxborough (SUNY ~ Stony Brook): ``The Possibilities for
Social Practices Under Neoliberalism''
Sergio Zermeno (UNAM): ``Modernizacion y modernidad en el Mexico
Norteamericano''
William Smith (University of Miami): Discussant
1:00 ~ 3:00 pm Session 5
Roberto P. Korzeniewicz (UMCP): ``States, Markets and Social
Movements: A Comparative Approach''
Juan Carlos Torre (Instituto Torcuato Di Tella): ``The Politics of
Transformation in Historical Perspective''
Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University): Discussant
3:15 ~ 5:15 pm: General Discussion