Latin America Pink Tide Symposium Friday November 14th – Saturday November 15th
Humanities Center – 602 Cathedral – University of Pittsburgh The Pink Tide is the label used for the wave of Latin American elected governments that rose to power in the early millennium with a popular majority mandate to democratize the economy and increase social participation. These include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. The Pink Tide seems to be receding, but it may have transformed politics in Latin America irreversibly, in ways that still need to be assessed. See Program è Art: Detail of Poder del Tigre del Mirití (2014) by Jeison Castillo and Azael Xno. Oil on wood. Castillo’s and Xno’s art is representative of figurative and afirmative themes adopted by young artists inspired by the democratic apertures of the Marea Rosa in South America.
Program All activities will be held at the Humanities Center, 601 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh November, Friday 14th 9:30 AM – Welcome and Introduction – Juan Duchesne Winter 10:00 AM – 12:00 M
Panel I
Argentina Venezuela
Ricardo Forster Margarita López Maya Moderator
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Panel II
View from the North
(This session is in English Only)
Moderator 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Panel III
Chile Brazil Bolivia
Juan Duchesne Winter John Beverley Mike González Aníbal Pérez-Liñán Scott Morgensten Sergio Villalobos Idelber Avelar Pablo Stefanoni
Moderator
Gabriel Chouhy
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Reception
November, Saturday 15th 10:00AM – 12:30 PM
Panel Discussion
Ricardo Forster, John Beverley, Mike González, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Pablo Stefanoni, Sergio Villalobos, Idelber Avelar, Gabriel Chouhy Moderator
Juan Duchesne Winter
Idelber Avelar. Brazil/U.S. Tulane University. Cultural theorist currently working on biopolitics and ecology. Author of Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship (2011) John Beverley. U.S. University of Pittsburgh. Co-founder of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. His most recent book is Latinamericanism After 9/11. Gabriel Chouhy. Uruguay/U.S. University of Pittsburgh. Graduate Student in Sociology: Trajectory of leftist parties in the Southern Cone. Ricardo Forster. Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Head of the Office of Strategic Planning for National and Latin American Thought. Author of La anomalía argentina (2010). Mike Gonzalez. UK. University of Glasgow. British historian and literary critic. Columnist to The Guardian. Author of Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the 21st Century (2014). Margarita López Maya. Venezuela. Center for Development Studies (CENDES), Universidad Central de Venezuela. Wilson Center Fellow (2013). Scott Morgensten. U.S. University of Pittsburgh. Director of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS). Specialist on Brazil. Author of Pathways to Power (2008). Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. U.S. University of Pittsburgh. Author of Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America (2007). Pablo Stefanoni. Bolivia/Argentina. Independent economist, political analyst, and journalist, is editor of Nueva Sociedad. Co-author, with Hervé do Alto, of La revolución de Evo Morales (2006). Sergio Villalobos. Chile/U.S. University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Author of Soberanías en suspenso. Imaginación y violencia en América Latina (2013). Juan Duchesne Winter. U.S. University of Pittsburgh. Director of Revista Iberoamericana. Author of La guerrilla narrada: acción, acontecimiento, sujeto (2010).
Sponsors: Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Office of Graduate Studies Office of the Provost John Beverley Research Fund