PROVISIONAL AGENDA OF THE CONFERENCE

Dear all,

here is the provisional agenda for the day of the conference. We hope this will give you an idea of the exciting discussions we will have on that day. We are currently taking care of the final details for each panel, but we are very glad to count with very interesting panellists. Looking forward to meet you there!

Chile’s Winter of Discontent: The Breakdown of a Paradigm in Latin America?

Cambridge University, May 11^th 2012 – Seminar Room, Free School Lane (Sociology)

Conference Convenors: Carmen Sepúlveda Zelaya, Tomás Undurraga, Andrés Villar-Gertner

Agenda

9.00-9.20 Registration

9.20-9.30 Welcome and Introduction

9.30-10.30 Guest Speaker Presentation: Laurence Whitehead (Oxford University) “Chile after the Concertación: the Return of More Normal Conflicts”

10.30-10.45 Tea/Coffee Break

10.45-12.15 Panel 1:  “Social movements: emergence, learning process and impact”

12.15-12.30 Tea/Coffee Break

12.30-13.30 Guest Speaker Presentation: Eduardo Silva (Tulane University) “Contentious Politics in Chile?”{TBC}

13.30-14.15 Lunch Break

14.15-15.30 Panel 2: “Chile's education system: revisiting equity and equality, class issues and ideas”

15.30-15-45 Tea/Coffee Break

15.45-17.15 Panel 3: “The Chilean Political System and Neoliberalism: resistance, disaffection, public and private interest”

17.15-17.30 Tea/Coffee Break

17.30-18.15 Guest Speaker Presentation: Gabriel Palma (Cambridge University) “How the ‘new left' in Chile lent a helping hand to those resisting evolutionary change: the distributional stalemate during the 20-years of Concertación rule"

18.15 Closing Remarks