Friday, October 9 |
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| 423 ILR Conference Center | |
| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Registration |
| 9:00 – 9:15 am | Opening Remarks |
Development |
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| 9:15 – 10:00 am | Development Keynote: Wendy Wolford, Cornell University. Constructing Parallels: Land and Labor in South-South Development |
| 10:00 – 10:15 am | Break |
| 10:15 – 11:00 am | Folashadé Soule-Kohndou, Sciences Po, Paris. South-South development funds: tools for soft-revisionism in International Development? Discussant: Isaac Odoom |
| 11:00 – 11:45 am | Isaac Odoom, University of Alberta. The role of South-South cooperation in Africa’s development beyond 2015. Discussant: Jessica Achberger |
| 11:45 – 12:30 pm | Manjusha Nair, National University of Singapore. Indian capital flows to India and Sub-Saharan Africa: Even development pathways? Discussant: Kevan Harris |
| 1:30 – 2:15 pm | Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente, City University of Hong Kong. A new South-South paradigm? The paradoxes of China-Ecuador resource development nexus. Discussant: Omar Manky |
| 2:15 – 3:00 pm | Wendy Leutert, Cornell University. From Contractors to Stakeholders? Chinese State-owned Companies and Infrastructure Development in Ghana Discussant: Wang Duanyong |
| 3:00 – 3:15 pm | Break |
Investment |
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| 3:15 – 4:00 pm | Kevan Harris, UCLA. Rapacious or reciprocal? Chinese investment and trade in the Persian Gulf during the 2000s commodity supercycle. Discussant: Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente |
| 4:00 – 4:45 pm | Jessica Achberger, Southern African Institute for Policy and Research. Is it really new? Defining and historicizing south-south development cooperation. Discussant: Folashadé Soule-Kohndou |
| 4:45 – 5:30 pm | Investment Keynote: Kristin Hopewell, University of Edinburgh. South-South Trade and Investment Cooperation: Destabilizing Theory, Practice and Politic |
| 5:30 – 6:30 pm | Reception – Pennsylvania Room, Statler Hotel |
Saturday, October 10 |
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| 423 ILR Conference Center | |
Civil Society |
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| 9:00 – 9:45 am | Diane Tang Lee, University of Manchester. Socialization from below – the role of Myanmar civil society in China’s adoption of stakeholder engagement norms. Discussant: Adina Matisoff |
| 9:45 – 10:30 am | Adina Matisoff, Yale University. Chinese CSR in Peru Discussant: Diane Tang Lee |
| 10:30 – 10:45 am | Break |
Labor |
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| 10:45 – 11:30 am | Suraj Yengde, University of the Witwatersrand. South-south migration: A case study of contemporary Indian labor migration to South Africa. Discussant: Manjusha Nair |
| 11:30 – 12:15 pm | Pal Nyiri, Vrije Universiteit. South-South? East-East? Chinese managers and local workers in Hungary. Discussant: Eli Friedman |
| 1:30 – 2:15 pm | Labor Keynote: Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University |
| 2:15 – 3:30 pm | Wang Duanyong, Shanghai International Studies University. Mismatching structures: A new explanation for the "unsatisfactory" labor conditions in Chinese mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Discussant: Ching Kwan Lee |
| 3:00 – 3:45 pm | Miriam Driessen, University of Oxford. Pushed to Africa: Emigration and Social Change in China. Discussant: Sarosh Kuruvilla |
| 3:45 – 4:30 pm | Concluding remarks |