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“Empire, Crisis, and Resistance: |
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by Philippine and Filipino American Interests Group
Email: aespirit (nospam) uiuc.edu (verified) |
12 Apr 2006
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“Empire, Crisis, and Resistance:
A View from the Southâ€
A talk by Dr. Walden Bello
Professor of Sociology, University of the Philippines and
Executive Director, Focus on the Global South, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
“Empire, Crisis, and Resistance:
A View from the Southâ€
A talk by Dr. Walden Bello
Professor of Sociology, University of the Philippines and
Executive Director, Focus on the Global South, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
5pm, Wednesday, April 12, 2006 Gregory Hall 100
Bello played a key role in the movement to restore democracy to the Philippines during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos during the 1970s and 80s. In 2003, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, or Alternative Nobel Prize in 2003, issued annually by the Swedish Parliament, for his “outstanding efforts in educating civil society about the effects of corporate globalization, and how alternatives to it can be implemented.â€
Bello received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton in 1975. He is currently a member of the International Council of the World Social Forum, the Board of the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), and the Center for Economic Policy Research (Washington, DC). He is also former chair of Greenpeace Southeast Asia Board and of Greenpeace International.
  Bello has published over a dozen books, including Dilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire (New York: Henry, Holt, and Co, 2005); The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines (Quezon City: University of the Philippines, 2004); and Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy (London: Zed, 2002). His articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, Review of International Political Economy, the Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, Race and Class, Third World Quarterly, Frontline, and La Jornada
Sponsored by the Philippine and Filipino American Interests Group and the Resistance and Empire Reading Group.
ITINERARY FOR WALDEN BELLO
Wednesday April 12
9:45am Arrives at CMI
Noon Lunch
5pm Lecture Gregory Hall 100
7pm Dinner
Thursday, April 13
10-11:30 Talk to Faculty and Grads at AASP Conference Room
Noon Lunch
1pm Take guest to CMI
2:34pm Departs from CMI |
See also:
http://www.focusweb.org
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