CONTOURS OF DEVELOPMENT: NEW RESEARCH ON MIGRATION, POLITICS AND POLICY BETWEEN THE AMERICAS AND EUROPE 25th February 2011

CONTOURS OF DEVELOPMENT: NEW RESEARCH ON MIGRATION, POLITICS AND POLICY BETWEEN THE AMERICAS AND EUROPE
25th February 2011 Institute for the Study of the Americas

This one-day conference brings together international scholars to present the findings of new research undertaken under the JISLAC Research Grants funding scheme. The papers explore dimensions of the relationship between Europe and the Americas including central issues of migration (from Europe to the Americas and the Americas to Europe); the political, economic and social dynamics and impacts of migration and settlement; and contemporary trade relations between the two continents.

Hosted by the Institute for the Study of the Americas & Funded by the Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean

PROGRAMME OUTLINE BELOW

For full programme and abstracts see http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events.htm and click on ‘Forthcoming Events’

Registration is free but please contact olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk to register your interest in attending .

Room G22/26 Friday 25th February 2011
Senate House 10am -6pm
Malet St London WC1E 7HU

PROGRAMME

9.30 – 10.00 Registration, Coffee & Tea
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome and Introduction, David Howard (Oxford University) and Kate Quinn (ISA)

10.15 – 12.00 Panel 1: Business and Trade Contours
Maria Paula Barrantes, University of Costa Rica and Diego Sánchez Ancochea, Oxford University, ‘Are the EU and US reducing policy space in the same way? An analysis of free trade agreements in Mexico and Central America’
Mahrukh Doctor, Hull University, ‘The Business Impact on European Union-MERCOSUR Trade Negotiations’
Paul Sutton, London Metropolitan University, ‘Neither European nor Caribbean: The “insular peculiarity” of the Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories’

12.00 – 1.00 LUNCH

1.00 – 2.15 Panel 2: Historical Contours

Kenneth Morgan, Brunel University, ‘Towards Abolition: The British Slave Trade and its Caribbean Markets, 1783-1808’
Simon Smith, Hull University, ‘Plantation Settlement as Natural Hazard on St Vincent’
Matthew Brown, Bristol University, ‘European Migration to Colombia and Venezuela 1829-1861: The El Santuario Case Study’

2.15 – 2.45 COFFEE & TEA

2.45 – 4.00 Panel 3: Contours of Migration
Michael Goebel, European University Institute, ‘Italian and Spanish Immigration in Uruguay 1800-1930 and the Concept of Assimilation’
Paolo Drinot, ISA and Laurence Brown, Manchester University, ‘Claiming the Past: History, Citizenship and Migration in Spain and France’
‘Anastasia Bermúdez, Queen Mary, University of London, ‘The Political Mobilisation of Latin American Migrants in Spain’

4.00 – 4.30 COFFEE & TEA

4.30 – 6.00 Panel 4: Cosmopolitan and Transnational Contours & concluding discussion
Mette Berg, Oxford University, ‘Between Cosmopolitanism and the National Slot: Cuba’s Diasporic Children of the Revolution’
Siliva Posocco, Birkbeck, University of London, ‘Expedientes: Fissured Legality and Affective States in the Transnational Adoption Archives in Guatemala’

6.00 – 8.00 WINE RECEPTION

8.00 – Speaker’s dinner