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APSA Task Force on Difference and Inequality in the Developing World 

April 21-23, 2005
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

Special Public Forum
"Inequality and Difference in Developing Societies: How do Recent Trends Affect Americans"
Thursday April 21, 7:30 PM
125 Minor Hall

Participants:

Susanne Rudolph, University of Chicago
Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina
Valerie Bunce, Cornell University
Bronwyn Leebaw, University of California-Riverside
John Echeverri-Gent, University of Virginia

Conference on "Difference and Inequality in Developing Societies: Trajectories of Change and Social Consequences"
124 Monroe Hall
Friday, April 21 9:00 AM- 6:00 PM and Saturday April 23 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

Friday, April 21

9:00 Welcoming Remarks: Sid Milkis, Chair Department of Politics

9:05-10:15 Panel I: Difference and Inequality: The Construction and Deconstruction of Analytical Frames

Session I.A: Susanne H. Rudolph, University of Chicago,
"The Imperialism of Categories: Knowledge and Context in a Globalizing World"
Discussant: John Gerring: Boston University
 
Session: I.B: Loren Ryter, Cornell University,
"Genealogies of Inequality"  
Discussant: Lloyd I Rudolph, University of Chicago

10:30-12:15 Panel II: Inequalities and Differences in the Constitution of Global Economic Governance

Session: II.A:  Robert Wade, London School of Economics,
"Global Inequalities: What is all the Fuss About?"
Discussant: Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia

Session II.B:  John Echeverri-Gent, University of Virginia, and Leslie Armijo, Reed College,
"Constructing Global Markets: The WTO and Trade Policies in Developed and Developing Countries"
Discussant: Dale Murphy: Georgetown University

Session II.C:  Leslie Elliott Armijo, Reed College, and John Echeverri-Gent, University of Virginia,
"Mental Models and International Inequality: Contending Visions of Global Finance" 
Discussant: Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina

12:15-1:30 Lunch: Mural Room, Clark Hall

1:30-2:40 Panel III  Trajectories of Change: Inequality, Violent Conflict, and Social Welfare

Session III.A  Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina, 
"Inequality and the State in Latin America"   
Discussant David Woodruff, Harvard University

Session III.B: Susan Woodward, CUNY Graduate Center,
"Inequality and Violent   Conflict"
Discussant: Bill Quandt, University of Virginia

2:40-2:55  Break

2:55-4:05 Panel IV  Growth and Inequality in the World's Most Rapidly Expanding Economies

Session IV.A  Aseema Sinha, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Democratic Political Institutions and the Production of Inequality: The Case of India"  
Discussant: Lloyd I Rudolph, University of Chicago

Session IV.B: Marc Blecher, Oberlin College, "Inequality, Embourgeoisment and the State in China" 
Discussant: Brantly Womack, University of Virginia

4:05-4:20 Break

4:20- 5:30 Panel V  Who's Right(s)? Re-Conceptualizing Democracy and Political Rights in an Era of Globalization 

Session V.A   John W. Harbeson, CUNY,
"Toward a Comparative Politics of Concepts   and Categories: Re-Imagining the State and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa," 
Discussant: Robert Fatton, University of Virginia

Session V:B  Bronwyn Leebaw, University of California-Riverside,
"Transitional Justice, Conflict, and Democratic Change: International Interventions and Domestic Reconciliation" 
Discussant: Michael J. Smith, University of Virginia

7:30 PM  Dinner at Bashir's, Downtown Mall, Charlottesville

Saturday, April 23

9:30-10:40 Panel VI  New Inequalites and Promoting Democracy

Session VI.A:  Kiren Chaudhry, University of California-Berkeley,
"The 'Uncanny' Writ Regional: New and Recurring Forms of Poverty and Inequality in the Arab World" 
Discussant: David Waldner, University of Virginia

Session VI.B: Valerie Bunce, Cornell University, "Promoting and Supporting Democracy in Diverse Societies" 
Discussant: John Owen, University of Virginia

10:40-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Panel VI:  Roundtable:  Inequality and Difference in an Interdependent World: Common Themes

Susanne Rudolph, University of Chicago
Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina
John Echeverri-Gent, University of Virginia

12:30-2:00 Working Lunch for the Task Force: Garden