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Invitation for participation: ARG Globalisation in the Americas
Postgraduate Conference
Globalisation in the Americas: Interactions and Reactions.
NIASSH, Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities,
Newcastle University, ARG, Americas Research Group Postgraduate Conference
This postgraduate conference aims to explore the interactions and
reactions triggered by the contested, and often highly controversial,
processes of globalisation in a friendly, informal environment.
Venue: Claremont Bridge (5th floor), Room CLB. 563, Newcastle University, UK
Date: 11th March 2009
Time: 12-6
Keynote: Rosemary Thorp, Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford
University: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/staff_a-z_directory/staff/rthorp
Panel 1: State Perspectives towards the Environment
The State and Natural Resource Extraction in Brazil and Chile by Jewellord
Nem Singh, University of Sheffield
The impact of globalization on the changing nature of the state in Mexico:
A governance approach to the energy sector by Alejandro Garnica,
University of Sheffield
National discourses in respond to neoliberal policies and global markets:
the cases of Peru and Bolivia by Fernando González, Newcastle University
Panel 2: Tourism and Migration
Imaginary Incas: An analysis of representations of indigenous geographies
and peoples in responsible, homestay tourism in Peru by Jane Carnaffan,
Newcastle University
Mi tierra querida: exploring the complexities of international migration
from Colombia to London by Gisela Zapata, Newcastle University
Panel 3: Higher Education and Social Rights
Globalisation and Higher Education in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley
of Mexico by Elizabeth Pallister, Newcastle University
The impact of globalization on regional inequality: the tensions between
public, private and collective objectives in higher education by Rosibel
Víquez Abarca, Newcastle University
Panel 4: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and nineteenth century globalisation
by Anyaa Anim-Addo, Royal Holloway, University of London
Transformative everyday life in Latin America, Globalizations from below
by Eduardo Neve-Jimenez, Durham University
Please contact: Gisela Zapata [log in to unmask] by Friday 27th
February 2009 to let us know if you are intending to attend the
conference, so we can plan for catering.
For further information about ARG events, please visit our website at:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/americas/
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