[Fdu] "The Americas under the Aegis of Donald Trump" - Wednesday, 25 January, 1 to 5 pm

[Cynthia Wright]

please distribute to faculty and student lists*


You are invited to a seminar on


*A Week after Inauguration: *


*The Americas under the Aegis of Donald Trump - Brainstorming Impacts and
Responses *
*Wednesday, 25 January, 1 to 5 pm*

Location: *To be announced, Keele Campus, York University*

Open to all

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?

The program is still taking shape; watch for the updates. Confirmed
speakers include:

Chair and Organizer: *Ricardo Grinspun*, CERLAC and Department of Economics

*Amanda Barrenengoa* - Visiting researcher from Argentina

*Sara Koopman *- Researcher, City Institute

*Judith Marshall *- CERLAC

*Leo Panitch *- Department of Political Science

*Viviana Patroni *- CERLAC and Department of Social Science

*Justin Podur* - Faculty of Environmental Studies

Organized by: The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean
(CERLAC).

Co-sponsors include: Faculty of Environmental Studies, Department of Social
Science, Department of Political Science, and International Development
Studies Program.

Contact: Ricardo Grinspun <ricardo at yorku.ca> <ricardo at yorku.ca> and Camila
Bonifaz <cbonifaz at yorku.ca> <cbonifaz at yorku.ca>
For updates, please check the CERLAC website at:
http://cerlac.info.yorku.ca/news/



*Speaker bios: *

*Amanda Carolina Barrenengoa  *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.

*Ricardo Grinspun *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.

*Sara Koopman *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.

*Judith Marshall *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.

*L**eo Panitch *is editor of the *Socialist Register *and distinguished
research professor emeritus at York University. He is co-author, with Sam
Gindin, of *The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of
American Empire *(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  *Working-Class Politics in Crisis:
Essays on Labour and the State *(1986), *The End of Parliamentary
Socialism: from New Left to New Labour *(2001) and *Renewing Socialism:
Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination *(2008).

*Viviana Patroni *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.

*Justin Podur *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 *Haiti's New Dictatorship: The
Coup, the Earthquake, and the UN Occupation *with Pluto Press.



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