Workshop - Contemporary Latin American Politics

Current trends in Latin American politics and a discussion of Danish relations with Latin America in the light of the political situation.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 09:00 to 13:15

Edgardo Lander (Venezuela) will present his perspective on diversitites and conflicts in today's Latin American Left
, while Ramón Grosfoguel (Puerto Rico) will concentrate on the relationsship between Latin America and the US, and how the current political situation has affected this.

Lars Bredal (Foreign Ministry) and Finn Kjærulf (RCT) will present the Danish perspectives.

Program

09.00 - 09.15

Opening and Welcome

09.15 - 09.30

Jan Gustafsson (CBS)

Contemporary Latin American Politics - themes for discussion

09.30 - 10.15

Edgardo Lander

Diversities and Conflicts in Today's Latin American Left

10.15 - 10.30

Coffee Break

10.30 - 11.00

Lars Bredal (Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Denmark and Latin America

11.00 - 11.30

Finn Kjærulf (RCT)

The NGO Perspective

11.30 - 12.15

Ramón Grosfoguel

Latin America and the US

12.15 - 13.15

Discussion

The CBS workshop is part of the four-day International Symposium:
From the Left Turn to the Decolonial Option: Conceptualizing Current Latin America, which takes place on May 20-23 at various locations. The Symposium is organized in corporation with Roskilde University and the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, and funded by the Danish Research Council for Society and Business.

The event is motivated by the challenges that the recent series of political events in Latin America, also conceptualised as the Left Turn, pose both in a political and in an academic realm. These events, spearheaded by the election of Brazilian president Ignacio Lula da Silva, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, and the first Aymara Bolivian president, Evo Morales, have inaugurated a watershed of political change which seems to require a revision of established scientific approaches to understand Latin America in a global, regional, national and sub-national perspective.

The workshop is hosted by Center for Study of the Americas.

For further information and registration, please contact:

Merete Borch:

Tel. +45 3815 3389

Mail: mb.iadh@cbs.dk

For the full programme and more information on speakers, please visit www.cbs.dk/csa

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