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2008 Roundtable Speakers
James C. Scott James C. Scott, Yale University
Ravi Kanbur Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University
Michael J. Watts Michael J. Watts, University of California, Berkeley

 

International Roundtable 2008

Whither Development?: The Struggle for Livelihood in the Time of Globalization

Thursday, October 2

Session I: 4:30 – 6:15 p.m.

Opening Statements and Introduction  
 
Ahmed I. Samatar, James Wallace Professor and Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship
 
Brian C. Rosenberg, President of Macalester College
Presentation
Vernaculars Cross-Dressed as Universals: Globalization as North Atlantic Hegemony
 
James C. Scott , Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University
 
Friday, October 3

Session II: 9:30 a.m.–Noon

Chair
 
Karin Moe, Professor of Economics
Presentation
The Co-Evolution of the Washington Consensus and the Economic Development Discourse
 
Ravi Kanbur, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics, Cornell University

Discussants
 
Colin Hottman, '09
 
Amy Damon, Assistant Professor of Economics
 
Questions and comments followe by a coffee break.

Session III: 1:30–4:10 p.m., John B. Davis Lecture Hall

Chair
 
Andrew Overman, Professor of Classics
Presentation
Oil, Development, and the Politics of the Bottom Billion
 
Michael J. Watts , Class of 1963 Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Discussants
 
Christine Chung, '09
 
William Moseley, Associate Professor of Geography
 
Questions and comments followed by a coffee break.
Saturday, October 4

Session IV: 10:00 a.m.–Noon

Chair
 
Arjun Gunerate, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
Roundtable Discussion
 
 
 
  Audience questions and comments
  Closing remarks by Dean Ahmed I. Samatar
All sessions will be held in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall.
Discussants are Macalester College students and faculty.

 

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