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2007 Conference on “Globalization,
Diversity, and Inequality in Latin America:
The Challenges, Opportunities, and Dangers"
This conference was held on March 23 – 24, 2007 and directed by CLAS faculty members Elizabeth Monasterios (Hispanic Languages and Literatures) and Aníbal Pérez-Líñan (Political Science). The conference was specifically designed to address CLAS’ overarching multiyear research, teaching, and outreach theme of the same name—Globalization and Diversity/ Inequality in Latin America: The Challenges, Opportunities, and Dangers. Financial support for this event was provided by the University of Pittsburgh’s Global Studies Program and Office of the Provost and by the U.S. Department of Education (Title VI).
To access the written versions of the presentations, please click on the presentation titles in the program below.
Day 1: Friday, March 23, 2007
Panel 1 (morning) - Global Communications and New Technologies
• "A System of Indicators for Disaster Risk Management in the Americas" (5.7 Mb), Omar Cardona (Instituto de Estudios Ambientales, IDEA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
• "New Technologies and Old Grammars; Decoloniality and Alternative Globalizations" (71 Kb), Michael Handelsman (Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tennessee)
• "Virtual Resistance: Internet-mediated Networks (Dotcauses) and Collective Action Against Neoliberalism" (524 Kb), Nuno Themudo (Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh)
Panel 2 (afternoon) - Increasing/Decreasing Inequality
• "Liberalism and the Good Society in the Iberian World" (992 Kb), Miguel Angel Centeno (Department of Sociology, Princeton University)
• "Globalización, populismo y política: el laberinto latinoamericano" (131 Kb), Ricardo Forster (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
• "Poverty Reduction And Growth: Virtuous And Vicious Circles" (213 Kb), Humberto Lopez (Senior Economist, Latin America & the Caribbean Region, The World Bank)
Day 2: Saturday, March 23, 2007
Panel 3 (morning) - Leadership and Access to Power
• "Clandestine Connections: On the Makings of Collective Violence" (123 Kb), Javier Auyero (Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook)
• "Opening Up Political Space: Inclusion and Constitution-Making in the Andes" (296 Kb), Ana María Bejarano (Political Science Department, University of Toronto)
• "From the 'End of Politics' to a New 'Left Turn': The Repoliticization of Social Exclusion in Latin America" (80 Kb), Kenneth Roberts (Department of Government, Cornell University)
Panel 4 (afternoon) - Social Movements in National and Transnational Contexts
• "Los movimientos sociales vistos desde el feminismo radical: Mujeres Creando y su crítica al masculinismo popular" (125 Kb), Ana Rebeca Prada M. (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia)
• "Aproximaciones hacia una explicación de la "revolución democrática y cultural" en Bolivia" (60 Kb), Mario Gustavo Guzmán Saldaña (Ambassador of Bolivia to the United States)
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