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Workshop
Thursday
05
March
Latin America UNIL

Voices from the Margins: Rethinking Neoliberalism from Latin America

By Prof. Janick Schaufelbuehl & Prof. Carlo Edoardo Altamura, University of Lausanne
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Salle Amphipôle 342, Université de Lausanne, Route de la Sorge

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Programme

 

Panel 1 : (Re)constructing Neoliberal Narratives

Chair: Rui Esteves (Geneva Graduate Institute)

  • Paula Vedoveli (Getulio Vargas Foundation) A Narrative of Conviction: The Rise of Economic Growth Indicators of Economic Growth in Authoritarian Brazil, 1960s–1970s
  • Matilde Ciolli (Università Valle d'Aosta) Álvaro Alsogaray and the Making of Argentine Neoliberalism
  • Germano Ribeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Using Congressional Debates to Map Out Tax Rhetoric in Latin America (2000s): An Exploratory Study of Reforms in Brazil and Argentina

 

Panel 2 : Peripheral Agents of Neoliberal Order

Chair: Janick Schaufelbuehl (Université de Lausanne)

  • José Antonio Galindo Dominguez (Centro Universitario Anglo Mexicano), The Invisible Hands of the Market: Private Organizations and the Architecture of NAFTA's Neoliberal Order
  • Ricardo Hernán Valenzuela (Universidad Diego Portales), Reframing the Crisis: The Instituto de Economía Política and the Contested Neoliberal Imagination in Chile, 1982–1985
  • Anna Rangel (University of Sao Paulo), The 1987 Brazilian Moratorium as Peripheral Agency: Debtor States, Global Financial
    Hierarchy, and Negotiations Strategies 

 

Panel 3 : Contested Grounds of Neoliberal Reform

Chair: Sebastian Alvarez (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)

  • Victoria Basualdo (CONICET Argentina), Economic and Labor Transformations of the Steel Sector in Argentina (1970s-1990s): The Case of Acindar Villa Constitución
  • Margarita Fajardo (Sarah Lawrence College), Chile’s Neoliberal Nationalization: Copper Sovereignty and the Failed Promise of Foreign Investment  
  • Laurent Mauron (Université de Lausanne), The Zapatistas and Neoliberal Reforms (1994–1996): From an Indigenous Uprising to the Construction of a Universal Cause

 

Panel 4 : IFIs and the Contested International Neoliberal Agenda

Chair: Juan Flores Zendejas (Université de Genève)

  • Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira & Carlo Edoardo Altamura (Université de Lausanne), Who Learned What? Revisiting IMF and World Bank Engagement in the 1982 Mexican Debt Crisis
  • Gabriella Lima (Université de Lausanne), Global Pressures, Local Resistance: IFIs and the Struggles over the Wage Policy Reform in Brazil (1982–1983)
  • Claudia Kedar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Argentine-Style Neoliberalization: Carlos Menem, the World Bank, and State Transformation, 1989–1999

 

Round Table : Rethinking Latin America’s Place in the Global History of Neoliberalism

Moderator: Carlo Edoardo Altamura (University of Lausanne)

 

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Registration

 

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SNSF Research Project

 

This workshop is convened by Professor Catrlo Edoardo Altamura and his team under his research project entitled "A Matter of Life and Debt: The Lost Decade and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Latin America, 1982-1994" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

 

 

 

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