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Resource Conflicts

December 16–17, 2023, University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, December 16, 2023

Panel I: Gender and Sexuality in Law and Social Policy

  • Roslyn Dubler: “Non-Discrimination: Family, Social Policy, and the Welfare State in the European Community, 1975-1992”

  • E. T. Stone: “The Commonplace of the Commons: Tragedy and Sexuality in American Legal and Economic Thought”

    Respondents: Aaron Benanav & Karen Tani

Panel II: Extractive Industries

  • Chris Abdul Hakim Martinez: “The Political Economy of Decolonization: Radicalism and Bauxite Extraction in Guinea, 1950-1984” 

  • Perdana “Pepe” Roswaldy: “Dispossessing Land While Owning It: Palm Oil Smallholders and Indonesia’s Agrarian Roots of Neoliberalism”

    Respondents: Tariq Omar Ali & Robert Vitalis

Keynote Address I

Priya Lal: “Adjustment’s Antecedents: African Development from Manpower to Human Capital Theory”

Panel III: Intellectual Histories of Neoliberalism

  • Milosz Wiatroski-Bujacz: “Ides of Marx: The Embrace of Neoliberalism by Polish Dissidents, 1980-2007”

  • Thomas Zuber: “Modelling Self-Adjustment: Contesting Neoliberalism in Burkinabè and Ghanaian Universities, 1980s-1990s”

    Respondents: Eric Helleiner & Mitchell Orenstein

Sunday, December 17 , 2023

Panel IV: Latin America from Developmentalism to Neoliberalism

  • Jay Pan: “From Collaboration to Conflict: State- Business Relations in Mexico, 1946-1985”

  • Jian Ren: “The Political Economy of China- Latin America Relations, 1960-1990”

    Respondents: Jennifer Bair & Andrew Liu

 Panel V: Urban Histories

  • Julian Hartman: “Community Conflict in an Innovative City: Institutions and Neoliberal Urban Development in the Boston Region”

  • Isabel Peñaranda Currie: “Capturing Public Value: A Genealogy of Neoliberal Approaches to Land Value Capture Instruments in Colombia”

    Respondents: Brent Cebul & Amy Offner

Keynote Address II

Amy Edwards: “Are We Rich Yet?: Telling Stories About Life in Neoliberal Britain”