Programme
The digital workshop on Neoliberalism and the Global South will take place online via StarLeaf on Thursday May 27th and Friday May 28th 2021.
Brussels Time: 2:30 PM – 5 PM (!)
Calcutta Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
London Time: 1:30 PM – 4 PM (!)
New York/New Jersey Time/Boston: 8:30 AM – 11 AM
Princeton: 7:30 AM-10 AM
Denver Time: 6:30 AM – 9 AM
Rio de Janeiro: 09:30 AM-12 AM
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2 days, 2 hours per day, 30 min break
May 27
May 28
Digital Walk-in DAY 1 (2:00-2:30 PM Amsterdam-Brussels time - 30 MIN)
A time to double check technical issues, have a chat and get to know each other a bit already before the workshop begins. You can drop in at any time.
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Opening (2:30-2:40 PM, Amsterdam-Brussels time - 10 MIN)
Welcome by dr. Rachel Gillett, Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations, Utrecht University, Co-PI of the Decolonisation Group (5 min)
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Introduction of the topic by Frank Gerits, Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations, Utrecht University, Co-PI of the Decolonisation Group (5 min)
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Panel I – Neoliberalism and the Cold War
(2:40-3:40 PM, Amsterdam-Brussels time - 60 MIN)
- 2:40 - 2:50 PM – Alessandro Iandolo, Lecturer in History, Oxford University:
Free for All: The USSR, Latin America and UNCTAD’s Push for International Trade (10 min.)
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- 2:50 - 3:00 PM – Simon Toner, Lecturer in Modern American History, University of Sheffield:
Keynesians and Neoliberals at War: Economic Reform in South Vietnam, 1965-1975 (10 min.)
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- 3:00 - 3:10 PM – Commentator: David Engerman, Yale University. (10 min.)
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- 3:10- 3:40 PM General Discussion (30 min)
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Break I (3:40-4:10 PM, Amsterdam-Brussels time - 30 MIN)
-- 3:40 - 4:00 PM: Coffee Corner Session --
Chat with 4 people
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-- 4:00 - 4:10 PM: Screen Break --
Step away from your computer (10 min)
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Panel II – Social Steering by the Market
(4:10-5:00 PM, Amsterdam-Brussels time - 50 MIN)
- 4:10- 4:20 PM – Pragna Paramita Mondal, PhD Scholar, University of Calcutta:
Market or the Moral Economy: Indian Surrogacy Law and the Neoliberal Paradox (10 min.)
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- 4:20 - 4:30 PM – Ali Kassem, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Sussex:
The Neo-Liberal Market as an Agent of Coloniality: the Economic and the Erasure of Islamic Practice and Semiotics
(10 min.)
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- 4:30 - 4:40 PM – Commentator: Fernando Brancoli, Associate Professor - International Security and Strategic Studies Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) , Brazil. (10 min)
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4:40 - 5:00 PM General Discussion (20 min)
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-- 5:00 PM: End of Day 1
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Digital Walk-in DAY 2 (2:00-2:30 PM Amsterdam-Brussels time - 30 MIN)
A time to double check technical issues, have a chat and get to know each other a bit already before the workshop begins. You can drop in at any time.
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Panel III – Green Neoliberalism
(2:30-3:30 PM, Amsterdam-Brussels time - 60 MIN)
- 2:30 - 2:40 PM – Julia Swart, Assistant Professor Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University:
Neoliberalism and the City (10 min.)
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- 2:40 - 2:50 PM – Alexander Stingl, WIRL-COFUND Fellow, philosophy and sociology, Warwick University:
Green Precarization (10 min.)
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- 2:50 - 3:00 PM – Commentator: Katharina Schramm, Universität Bayreuth (10 min)
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- 3:00 - 3:30 PM General Discussion (30 min.)
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Break II (3:30-4:00, Amsterdam-Brussels time - 30 MIN)
-- 3:30-3:50 PM: Coffee Corner Session --
Chat with 4 people
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-- 3:50-4:00 PM: Screen Break --
Step away from your computer (10 min)
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Panel IV – Neoliberal Employment & Unemployment Labor
(4:00-4:50 PM, Amsterdam-Brussels Time - 50 MIN)
- 4:00 - 4:10 PM – Stephanie Dimatulac Santos, Assistant Professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver:
Racializing the Ideal Worker: Filipino Workers in Empire
(10 min.)
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- 4:10 - 4:20 PM – Chambi S. Chachage, Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
Privatization and Devaluation of African Labor in Tanzania
(10 min.)
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- 4:20 - 4:30 PM –Commentator: Holger Droessler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(10 min.)
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- 4:30- 4:50 PM General Discussion (20 min)
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Closing Remarks
(4:50-5:00 PM, Amsterdam-Brussels time - 10 MIN)
- 4:50-5:00 PM Frank Gerits, Assistant Professor Utrecht University and Fellow University of Free State, Bloemfontein and Shanghai University
Neoliberalism in the Global South and Racial Capitalism. (10 min)
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