November 28, 2005
Clark Symposium Dec. 6 on Neoliberalism and Democracy
WORCESTER, Mass. - Clark University will present “Neoliberalism or Democratic Development?” a symposium/forum/debate featuring several distinguished speakers, beginning at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, in the Jefferson Academic Center, Room 320.
David Harvey will present “Neoliberalism and the Restoration of Class Power.” Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He also serves on the Department of Urban Planning at Tonjing University, Shanghai. His recent books include Spaces of Hope, Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography, The New Imperialism, Paris, Capital of Modernity, and A Brief History of
Neoliberalism.
Arthur MacEwan, Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at University of Massachusetts, Boston, will compare neoliberalism to democratic development in his lecture “Equality, Growth, or Both?” His recent publications include Instability and Change in the World, Debt and Disorder, and Neo-Liberalism or Democracy? In addition to his scholarly work, MacEwan writes regularly for Dollars & Sense magazine.
Clark Professor of Geography Richard Peet will discuss “Dreams of American Empire.” His recent books include Global Capitalism, Liberation Ecologies (with Michael Watts), Modern Geographical Thought, Theories of Development (with Elaine Hartwick), and Unholy Trinity: The IMF, the World Bank and the WTO (with 17 Clark students). He is presently writing a book, Power/Geography: Making Global Economic Policy.
Professor of Economics John Brown and Assistant Professor of Government and International Relations Srini Sitaraman, both of Clark, will present “Going Global, Growing Wealthy: Incentives, Reform and Growth in Our Century.” Brown is also a Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He specializes in the history of the international economy and demographic change. His recent publications include “An Empirical Assessment of the Gains from Trade: Evidence from Japan” (with Daniel Bernhofen), American Economic Review (2005), “A Direct Test of the Theory of Comparative Advantage: The Case of Japan” (with Daniel Bernhofen), Journal of Political Economy (2004) and “Regions and Time in the European Fertility Transition: Problems in the Princeton Project’s Statistical Methodology” (with Timothy Guinnane), Economic History Review (forthcoming). He is currently researching the redistributive impact of Japan’s opening up to international trade in the mid-19th century.
Sitaraman teaches courses on the United Nations and International Law, International Political Economy, and International Relations. His research interests focus on understanding the divergence in the behavior of democracies and non-democracies toward international regimes and organizations. Recent publications include “Evolution of the Ozone Regime: Local, National, and International Influences,” in Environmental Change and U.S. Foreign Policy (2001) and “Domestic and Grand Foreign Policy Motivations of the Indian Nuclear Weapons Program,” Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (2000). He is working on a book project on the participation of the United States and China in international treaty regimes.
Ipsta Chatterjee, a graduate student at Clark, will also speak. Chatterjee is interested in inter-ethnic violence and globalization.
The International Studies Stream program, the Graduate School of Geography, the department of International Development, Community and Environment, and Praxis sponsor this event. It is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Professor Peet at 508-793-7364, or Lisa Mann at 508-793-7181.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in New England, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
Clark University
Worcester, Mass.
phone: 508-793-7635
www.clarku.edu
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