New Differences, Persistent Inequalities? Latin American Experiences

Following up on the first Annual Conference of desiguALdades.net (2010) which focused on transregional interdependencies, the second Annual Conference will concentrate on interdependencies between struggles for the reduction of inequality and articulations of differences in Latin America. desiguALdades.net is an interdisciplinary, international and multi-institutional research network on social inequalities in Latin America supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the frame of its funding line for area studies. The executive institutions of desiguALdades.net are the Lateinamerika-Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.

Thematic sessions and invited guests:

Introduction

Marianne Braig (Berlin)

Keynotes

Andrew Canessa (Colchester/Essex), Chair: Barbara Potthast (Köln)

Juan Pablo Jiménez (Santiago de Chile), Chair: Bert Hoffmann (Hamburg)

Whose Differences? Which Inequalities? Race and Gender Regimes

Göran Therborn (Cambridge), Sérgio Costa (Berlin), Elizabeth Jelin (Buenos Aires), Márcia Lima (São Paulo), Martina Sproll (Berlin)

Politics of Difference and Welfare Policies: A Difficult Balance

Elisa Reis (Rio de Janeiro), Marie Laure Geoffray (Berlin), Stephan Lessenich (Jena), André Cicalo (Berlin), Manuel Góngora-Mera (Berlin)

Development for Whom? Economic Growth, Environmental Sustainability, Cultural Rights

Imme Scholz (Bonn), Barbara Fritz (Berlin), Hebe Vessuri (Caracas), Barbara Göbel (Berlin), Jairo Baquero (Berlin)

Entangled Inequalities: Arenas, Actors, Articulations

Ingrid Kummels (Berlin), Claudio Lomnitz (New York), Jan Hoffman French (Richmond), Gioconda Herrera (Quito), Dominique Vidal (Paris), Simón Ramírez Voltaire (Berlin)

Conclusions

Hans-Jürgen Puhle (Frankfurt), Sérgio Costa (Berlin), Elisa Reis (Rio de Janeiro), Göran Therborn (Cambridge)

Informations and conference registration: www.desigualdades.net