[Fdu] Seminar on "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 half-day seminar on

*/A Week after Inauguration:
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*/The Americas under the Aegis of Donald Trump - Brainstorming Impacts 
and Responses
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_/Wednesday, 25 January, 1 to 5 pm/__/
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/__//_Location: /_Sout__h Ross __7__52_, 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?

Speakers:

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

Chair: *Liisa North, *Department of Political Science, CERLAC and 
FLACSO-Quito

*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: Department of Social Science, Department of 
Political Science, Faculty of Environmental Studies, and International 
Development Studies Program.

Contact: Ricardo Grinspun <ricardo at yorku.ca> and Camila Bonifaz 
<cbonifaz at yorku.ca>

For updates, please check the CERLAC website at: 
http://cerlac.info.yorku.ca/event/the-americas-under-the-aegis-of-donald-trump-brainstorming-impacts-and-responses/

*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.

*Liisa L. North *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.
*
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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