LARR @ LASA2003
In the LASA XXIV International Congress at Dallas, Texas (March 27-29, 2003), the Latin American Research Review editors were pleased to offer the following LARR Sponsored Fora:
Featured Session:
Neo-liberalism in Latin America: Successes and Failures. Thursday 27, 5.00 - 7.00 PM (Houston Room A).
Organizer:
Kurt Weyland, University of Texas at Austin, and LARR.
Panelists:
Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Fundação Getulio Vargas
Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
Fred Solt, Rice University
Michael Walton, World Bank
Reception offered by LARR and co-hosted by the Office of the Executive Vice Provost and Provost of the University of Texas at Austin to launch the new LARR.
Thursday 27, 7.30 PM (San Antonio Room B).
Featured Session:
The Space Between: Literary Studies and Neighboring Disciplines. Saturday 29, 10.15 AM - 12.15 PM (City View 4).
Organizer:
Naomi Lindstrom, University of Texas at Austin, and LARR.
Panelists:
Jean Franco, Columbia University, and
Renato Rosaldo, New York Unversity
Featured Session:
Marginality in Comparative Perspective: from the 1960s to Today's "New Poverty" . Saturday 29 , 12.30 - 2.30 PM (City View 4).
Organizer:
Peter M. Ward, University of Texas at Austin, and LARR.
Panelists:
Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha, CIESAS Occidente
Elizabeth Jelin, Conicet-IDES, Buenos Aires
Janice Perlman, Trinity University
Bryan Roberts, University of Texas at Austin, and
Helen Safa, University of Florida, Gainsville
The LARR editors were also on hand throughout the conference to talk about submission plans and about LARR-On-Line (which - as a member of LASA - you are eligible to receive at no additional cost) at the LARR booth in the exhibit hall.