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<u>Please distribute to faculty and student lists</u> <br>
<br>
<div align="center">You are invited to a half-day seminar on <br>
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<p align="center"><b><i>A Week after Inauguration: <br>
</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>The Americas under the Aegis of Donald
Trump - Brainstorming Impacts and Responses<br>
</i></b></p>
<div align="center"><u><i>Wednesday, 25 January, 1 to 5 pm</i></u><u><i><br>
</i></u><u><i> </i></u><u><i><br>
</i></u><u><i> </i></u>Location: <i><u>Sout</u><u>h Ross </u><u>7</u><u>52</u>,
Keele Campus, York University</i><br>
<br>
Open to all<br>
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<br>
Trump’s unexpected victory in the US presidential election has
shaken the entire American continent. This seminar, happening
five days after Trump's inauguration, will allow us, as social
scientists, to reflect on how an extreme right wing and populist
administration in the White House and a Republican-dominated
Congress will impact on the surrounding region. How should we
understand this wave of neoliberalism with a xenophobic and
white nationalist face? What should we make of Trump's
contradictions in the trade area -- his populist aversion to
trade agreements together with his fierce protection of
corporate investor rights nationally and internationally? How
will his billionaire-driven Keynesian infrastructure drive
impact on the US economy and will it spillover beyond its
borders? How "building the wall", his isolationist tendencies
and derision of the United Nations impact on hemispheric
relations? Will the obliteration of regulatory and environmental
institutions in the United States have a domino effect across
borders, for example, regarding the role of Canadian
extractivist capital in Latin America? What will the impacts of
climate change denialism be on the region? Will an
administration of billionaires further embolden right-wing elite
forces in Latin America that are already on the offensive and
have already managed to oust left-leaning governments in several
countries? How will the configuration of domestic power bases
shift in particular countries and will there be new
opportunities for resistance and new roles for grassroots and
subordinate forces? Most importantly, how can we respond to the
onslaught and reassert our hope for a better world?<br>
<br>
<p align="left">Speakers: <br>
</p>
<p> <span> </span></p>
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<p><span>Chair and Organizer: <b>Ricardo Grinspun</b>, CERLAC
and Department of Economics</span></p>
<p><span> Chair: <b>Liisa North, </b>Department of Political
Science, CERLAC and FLACSO-Quito<br>
</span></p>
<p><span><b>Amanda Barrenengoa</b> - Visiting researcher from
Argentina </span></p>
</div>
<p align="center"> </p>
<div align="center">
<p><span><b>Sara Koopman </b>- Researcher, City Institute</span></p>
<p><span></span></p>
<div>
<p><span> <b>Judith Marshall </b>- CERLAC <br>
</span></p>
</div>
<p><span><b>Leo Panitch </b>- Department of Political Science<br>
</span></p>
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<div align="center">
<p><span><b>Viviana Patroni </b>- CERLAC and Department of
Social Science</span></p>
<p> </p>
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<p align="center"> <span></span><span><b>Justin Podur</b> -
Faculty of Environmental Studies</span> </p>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div>Organized by: The Centre for Research on Latin America and
the Caribbean (CERLAC).</div>
<p>Co-sponsors include: Department of Social Science, Department
of Political Science, Faculty of Environmental Studies, and
International Development Studies Program. <br>
</p>
<p>Contact: Ricardo Grinspun <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ricardo@yorku.ca"><ricardo@yorku.ca></a>
and Camila Bonifaz <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:cbonifaz@yorku.ca"><cbonifaz@yorku.ca></a></p>
For updates, please check the CERLAC website at: <a
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href="http://cerlac.info.yorku.ca/event/the-americas-under-the-aegis-of-donald-trump-brainstorming-impacts-and-responses/">http://cerlac.info.yorku.ca/event/the-americas-under-the-aegis-of-donald-trump-brainstorming-impacts-and-responses/</a><br>
<br>
<b>Speaker bios: </b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Amanda Carolina Barrenengoa </b>has a teaching degree in
Sociology as well as a Masters degree from the Humanities and
Educational Sciences Faculty at the National University of La
Plata (UNLP) in Argentina. At this time she has a bursary to do
her Doctorate degree from the Humanities and Social Science
Institute, with financial support from CONICET (The National
Council for Scientific and Technical Investigation in
Argentina). Her workplace is in the Centre of Social-Historical
Investigations for IdIHCS, UNLP, and CONICET. As well she is
actively involved in CIEPE, which is a Centre for Political and
Economic Investigations, dedicated to putting together a
National and Latin American school of thought. <br>
<br>
<b>Ricardo Grinspun </b>is associate professor of economics and
international development studies and a fellow of CERLAC. He
publishes on development and international trade, hemispheric
integration, and Canada’s role in the Americas. He is co-editor
of five books and one briefing paper series, as well as more
than 70 scholarly articles, technical reports and other
publications.<br>
<br>
<b>Sara Koopman </b>is a feminist political geographer who
studies international solidarity and peace organizing, with a
focus on North-South solidarity that builds alternative
securities in the Americas. Her specific expertise is in this
area of international accompaniment in Colombia, and she has
been following the Colombian peace process closely. <br>
<br>
<b>Judith Marshall </b>is a writer and educator who worked for
two decades in the Global Affairs Department of USW. Since her
retirement, she has become a CERLAC Fellow and continues to do
research on popular initiatives to challenge the power of global
mining companies. <br>
<br>
<b>Liisa L. North </b>is author or co-author and editor of 11
books and more than 60 book chapters and journal articles on
party politics, civil–military relations, political–economic
transformations, rural community development processes and
extractive industries in Andean-region countries of South
America; on the civil wars, UN peacekeeping missions, and human
rights and refugee crises in Central America; and on
Canadian–Latin American relations and conflicts generated by
Canadian mining operations in Latin America.<br>
<b><br>
L</b><b>eo Panitch </b>is editor of the <i>Socialist
Register </i>and distinguished research professor emeritus at
York University. He is co-author, with Sam Gindin, of <i>The
Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American
Empire </i>(Verso, 2012), which was awarded the 2013
Deutscher Memorial Prize in the U.K. for best and most creative
work in or about the Marxist tradition. Panitch is the author of
more than 100 scholarly articles and nine books including <i>Working-Class
Politics in Crisis: Essays on Labour and the State </i>(1986),
<i>The End of Parliamentary Socialism: from New Left to New
Labour </i>(2001) and <i>Renewing Socialism: Transforming
Democracy, Strategy and Imagination </i>(2008).<br>
<br>
<b>Viviana Patroni </b>is an associate professor in the
Department of Social Science at York University. Her research
focuses on the political economy of Latin America, the
transformation of the world of work in this region since the
1980s, the centrality of labour struggles in shaping patterns of
development and the transformation of labour markets in
Argentina since the 1990s. <br>
<br>
<b>Justin Podur </b>is an associate professor in the Faculty of
Environmental Studies. He does research in two fields: landscape
ecology and international politics. His politics research is on
international conflicts and social movements. He is the author
of <i>Haiti's New Dictatorship: The Coup, the Earthquake, and
the UN Occupation </i>with Pluto Press.<br>
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