New School talk on Bolivia, 22 February 2011

THE JANEY PROGRAM AT THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES AT NYU [CLACS] PRESENT:

Whither Bolivia: A Conversatorio

February 22, 2011 8 p.m. The New School 6 E 16th Street, New Wolff Room [1103]

Under President Evo Morales’ government, Bolivia has transformed itself---despite its grinding poverty, its relatively frail political institutions and a legacy of ethnic exclusion that dates all the way back to the colonial period, into the most egalitarian, participatory and inclusionary democratic regime in Latin America and, arguably, in the western hemisphere. The aim of this Conversatorio is to explore how this was accomplished, without ignoring some of the obstacles that continue to undermine the spread of civic democracy in Bolivia.

Instead of an academic conference in which each speaker presents a formal paper and responds to a discussant, all three participants have agreed to engage each other and all the members of the audience in a lively and critical discussion.

This event is also sponsored by the Departments of History and Sociology—NSSR and the New School for General Studies.THE JANEY PROGRAM AT THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES AT NYU [CLACS] PRESENT:

Whither Bolivia: A Conversatorio

February 22, 2011 8 p.m. The New School 6 E 16th Street, New Wolff Room [1103]

With the participation of :

 Pablo Stefanoni, Editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, La Paz, Ex-Adviser to President Evo Morales. He is the author of “Qué hacer con los indios y otros

traumas de la colonialidad “(2010), among others.

 Javier Sanjinés, Professor in the Department of Romance Languages, University of Michigan. He has published several books on Bolivia, including

“Rescoldos del pasado. Conflictos culturales en Sociedades Poscoloniales” (2009).

 Sinclair Thomson, Associate Professor of History, NYU. His most recent book is “Revolutionary Horizon: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics” (2007).

This event is also sponsored by the Departments of History and Sociology—NSSR and the New School for General Studies.