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From: William S Strauss <wss@christa.unh.edu>
To: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY <ipe@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Conference in New Hampshire, October 1, 2, 3, 1995
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A SYMPOSIUM ON INTERNATIONAL CHANGE
Sponsored by
The Department of Economics and
The Center for the Humanities
at
The University of New Hampshire
OCTOBER 1, 2, 3, 1995
THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT: WHY IS THE FUTURE NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE?
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THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR A CONFERENCE. THIS INFO CAN ALSO
BE SEEN ON THE World Wide Web Page at
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~wss/symp.html
Questions?
e-mail wss@christa.unh.edu
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FARTHER BELOW IS A LIST OF THE TITLES OF THE PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THE NEAR
FUTURE.
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THE CONFERENCE THEME
The understandings sought by many analysts of the structures of relations
between nations are often based on a synthesis of determinants which transcend a
single category or discipline. Thus, although explanations or predictions
for action may be framed in the discourse of economics, political science,
history, communication, sociology, philosophy or one of many other
perspectives on the ways in which humankind moves through time, these
explanations often incorporate assumptions which are taken as a priori based
on the work of others selected from outside of the specific discipline.
This thesis, which explicitly recognizes the interdisciplinary nature of
perceiving and prescribing the process of international change, is the
foundation for a two day symposium to be held at the University of New
Hampshire's New England Center on October 2 and 3, 1995 (Registration
begins on Sunday, October 1). This symposium will be a forum for
investigating many of the new questions about international relations that
increasing transnationalism has generated. Below are the specific topics
to be investigated. In general, the questions attempt to expose to
scrutiny the underlying assumptions which influence the prescriptions and
judgments which are made with regard to international relations;
specifically, those international relations that connect the "developed"
world with the "less developed" world. Clearly, even the use of the words
"development" and "third-world" carry implications that delimit the
possibilities for understanding.
It is hoped that this symposium will help us all to understand why the future
is not what it used to be.
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THE SESSIONS:
There will be eight sessions.
1. "The Policy, Politics, and Business of International Interaction"
Participants in this session will engage in a multi-level critique of the
current understandings of what is defined as positive action in the
interactions of government and businesses between developed and less
developed nations.
2. "The Ideologies of Global Progress" This session will provide a focus for
an investigation of the underlying discourses that define the set of
possibilities from which progress is evaluated.
3. "The Rhetoric of Concern: Who Cares about What and Why?" This session is
to be a forum which will explore the motives for international investment and
development policy.
4. "Gender, Global Restructuring, and Alternative Futures" This session
will investigate gender-based issues as both forces for and restrictions to
global change.
5."Measuring and Evaluating Change" Participants will specifically
investigate the methodologies and the selection of variables which provide
the inputs for perceiving and judging change.
6. "Global Growth: Who Gets Better, Who Doesn't, and for How Long?" This
session will focus on the distribution of well-being and on the externalities
developed in the pursuit of progress as well as the implications over time of
these aspects of global growth.
7. "Democracy and Free-Market Economics in World Development: Are the Norms
of the West Best for the Rest?" This session will provide an opportunity for
discussing the spread of Western-style motivational incentives to a diversity
of cultures.
8. "Aggression and Enforcement in World Affairs" Participants in this
session will investigate the relationships of social systems, culture, and
the interactions of international governmental and business policy with
violence.
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SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
Note that the Session numbers correspond to the original "Call for Papers"
numbering. Thus "Session 1" is not necessarily before "Session 3". Also,
some sessions have been split into two time slots denoted by "a" and "b"
Sunday, October 1, 1995
Session 3 "The Rhetoric of Concern: Who Cares about What and Why?"
Berkshire Room
3:00 PM Considerations of Distributive Justice at the Earth Summit
Mr. Paul Harris
University of New Hampshire
4:00 PM Contradictory Economic Priorities Among Developing Countries and
the Failure of the NIEO Movement
Dr. Jennie Watson
Kent State University
5:00 PM Why the Future of Global Change May Not Be As Expected: Interviews
with the Leaders of Third World Countries
Dr. George Assibey-Mensah
Indiana University Northwest
Session 4 "Measuring and Evaluating Change" AND
Session 7 "Aggression and Enforcement in World Affairs"
Kearsarge Room
3:00 PM Beyond GNP: Evaluating Development in Four Dimensions
Dr. Debra Straussfogel
University of New Hampshire
4:00 PM China and World Security
Mr. Adam Cobb
St. John's College, Cambridge UK
5:00 PM Empirical Findings on Third World Social Phenomena and Development
Strategies
Dr. George Assibey-Mensah
Indiana University Northwest
Monday, October 2, 1995
Keynote Address
8:00 AM "The Development of International Structure"
Presenter to be announced
Session 1 "The Policy, Politics, and Business of International Interaction"
Kearsarge Room
9:00 AM The Politics of Privatization: Comparative Perspectives on Latin
America and East/Central Europe
Dr. Douglas Friedman
College of Charleston
9:50 AM Historical Major World Systems Shifts: The Meaning of Progress
Redefined
Dr. Steven Sherman
Binghamton University
10:40 AM Cursed to be Subordinate: Africa's Position in the International
Community
Dr. Tayo Odumosu
Sussex University, Brighten UK
11:30 AM East vs. West: In Search of Rationalizing Social Market Capitalism
Dr. Claudia Secara
Pace University
Session 6a "Democracy and Free-Market Economics in World Development: Are
the Norms of the West Best for the Rest?"
Berkshire Room
9:00 AM Politics, Markets and Hyperdiversity: Development Dilemmas in the
Indonesian Experience
Dr. Albert Dalmolen
Mansfield University
10:00 AM Transnationalization of Capital and the Paradox of Democracy
Dr. Ravi Arvind Palat
University of Auckland, NZ
11:00 AM Presentor to be Announced
Luncheon Address
1:00 PM Andre Gunder Frank "Why the Past is not What it Used to
be -- But Really/Always Was"
Session 5a "Global Growth: Who Gets Better, Who Doesn't, and for How Long?"
Kearsarge Room
2:00 PM Environmental Degradation in the Third World and Modes of
Insertion into the World Economy
Dr. Georgia Carvalho
Colorado State University
3:00 PM International Inequality: Extent, Trends and Reasons Behind
Dr. Herbert Stocker
Institut f. Wirtschartstheorie, Innsbruck, Austria
4:00 PM Amazon Development: Social and Economic Considerations
Dr. Marc Herold
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Session 8 "Gender, Global Restructuring, and Alternative Futures"
Berkshire Room
2:00 PM The Places of Women in Trading Places: Gendered Global/Regional
Regimes and Inter-nationalized Feminist Resistance
Dr. Anne Runyan
SUNY, Potsdam
3:00 PM Globalization and Its Intimate Other: The Filipina Maid Community
in Hong Kong
Doctors Lily Ling & Kimberly Chang
Syracuse University, Hong Kong University
4:00 PM Feminist Futures: Science Fiction and the Art of Possibilities
Dr. Neta Crawford
Brown University
Tuesday, October 3, 1995
Session 2a "The Ideologies of Global Progress"
Berkshire Room
8:30 AM China into the 21st Century
Dr. David Waller
University of Texas at Arlington
9:30 AM Popular Movements and Global Transformation
Doctors Craig Benjamin & Terisa Turner
University of Guelph, Canada
10:30 AM The Coming Age of Ungovernability
Dr. Mohamad Bamyeh
University of Massachusetts
Session 5b "Global Growth: Who Gets Better, Who Doesn't, and for How Long?"
Kearsarge Room
9:00 AM Development in the Caribbean Region: A Study of Psychological and
Economic Dependency
Dr. Holger Henke
Nutley, NJ
10:00 AM The Search for Other Variables: The Limits to the Economic
Determinacy of Democratization
Dr. Patrick Dupont
Center for Development Studies, Antwerp
11:00 AM Predatory Development: The Opening and Destruction of the Amazon
Basin
Dr. Jan Sallinger-McBride
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Luncheon Address
1:00 PM "An Alternative Interpretation of the Global Crisis"
Dr. Melvin Burke, University of Maine - Orono
Session 2b "The Ideologies of Global Progress"
Kearsarge Room
2:00 PM The East Asian Development Model: A Template for Third World
Modernization
Dr. Li Xing
Aalborg University, Denmark
3:00 PM The Contemporary Third World Development Experience in Perspective
Dr. Kwasa Sarfo
York College
4:00 PM What is Globalization and How Do We Know It When We See It?
Mr. Jeffrey Beatty
Ohio State University
Session 6b "Democracy and Free-Market Economics in World Development: Are
the Norms of the West Best for the Rest?"
Berkshire Room
2:00 PM Development in Mexico: A House Becoming of its Foundations. The
Effects of Policy on the Development of Housing in Mexico
Mr. Louis Crust
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
3:00 PM Glasnost in the Market Place?: The Emergence of Relationship
Marketing
Ms. Pandora Patton
University of Texas
4:00 PM Intellectual Property Rights Under GATT
Mr. Robert Ostergard
Binghamton, NY
IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT ARRANGEMENTS WILL BE COMPLETED FOR SEVERAL MAJOR
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO BE SPEAKING IN THE AREA ON THE SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY (SEPT. 30, OCT. 1) JUST PRIOR TO THE CONFERENCE.
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REGISTRATION
Send inquiries to William Strauss, Symposium Coordinator, Box 22, The
Whittemore School of Business and Economics, McConnell Hall, University of
New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824. Call (603) 862-3457 if you have
questions.
At the WWW PAGE http://pubpages.unh.edu/~wss/symp.html you can access an
electronic form by which you may register or send questions.
Registration can be accomplished by e-mail or regular mail. Simply
send a note regarding your attendance and how you will
pay. Hotel reservations (discussed below) are your responsibility.
The Internet Address is wss@christa.unh.edu.
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See the following for details regarding conference fees and accommodations.
Conference Fees:
For attendees that do not wish to attend the luncheons or receive the
published proceedings: One day - $40 Two days - $55 Three days - $65
For attendees that do wish to attend the luncheons but do not wish to
receive the published proceedings: One day - $65 Two days - $95 Three
days - $110.
For attendees that wish to attend the luncheons and receive the
published proceedings: One day - $95 Two days - $125 Three days - $140.
Make check payable to "Symposium on International Change"
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Accommodations
A block of rooms has been set aside at the New England Center (NEC)
located on the University of New Hampshire campus for Saturday, September 30,
Sunday, October 1, and Monday October 2, 1995. The New England Center is a
full service conference center surrounded by the hardwoods of northern New
England. The NEC offers a secluded environment for meetings coupled with a
full service hotel and restaurant. The NEC is one hour from Boston and one
hour from Portland, Maine.
The symposium will occur during the peak of the New England fall
foliage season. Thus, although this timing offers attendees the benefit of
viewing the spectacular colors of the New England Autumn, it also means that
accommodations throughout the area are often booked well in advance.
CALL OR WRITE THE NEW ENGLAND CENTER REGARDING YOUR NEEDS OR TO SET
UP ANY SET OF CONTINGENCY PLANS YOU MAY FEEL IS APPROPRIATE.
Room rates are as follows:
Single room per night - $64 plus 8% room tax.
Double room per night - $69 plus 8% room tax.
The New England Center can be reached at:
15 Stafford Avenue
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
(603) 862-2801
Mention the Conference on "International Change"
Travel arrangements to and from either Boston or Portand airports can
be made.
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WE FEEL THAT THIS GATHERING WILL FULFILL THE EXPECTATIONS OF
THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY THEME THAT INSPIRED THE WORKS TO BE
PRESENTED. WE EXPECT ALL PARTICIPANTS TO GAIN AN ENHANCED
UNDERSTANDING OF THE "REAL" WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES
OF OUR REPRESENTATIVE AGENT... A COMBINATION POLITICAL SCIENTIST/ECONOMIST/
GEOGRAPHER/HISTORIAN/PHILOSOPHER/INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PERSON...
COME AND SHARE THE EXPERIENCE.
Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA
tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu