Call for papers

The 22^nd, 23^rd and 24^th October 2008, the

Sociedad de Economía Política y Pensamiento Crítico Latinoamericano (SEPLA)

(Latin American Society for Political Economy and Critical Thinking)

will held its fourth International Conference, called:

LATIN AMERICA: new century scenarios.

New challenges and transformation horizons.

This conference represents the continuation of those that took place in México in 2005, Santiago de Chile in 2006 and Caracas in 2007; as well as several other critical economists meetings that gathered in previous years in Brasil and other countries.

The conference will be held, on one hand, in the context of the financial crisis unleashed in the United States and spreading towards other regions of the world; on the other hand, among an increasing questioning from Latin American societies to the United States domination, and the consequent search for new methods and projects. In order to reflect this reality in the broadest possible way, we make this call for the submission of papers by Latin American and world-wide critical economists. The papers should contain any of the following general and particular topics:

General subjects:

* Latin America in the midst of the stress of the world economy.

* Contesting models: neoliberalism, neodevelopmentalism, socialism.

* Which kind of regional integration?

* Forms of imperialisms today: accumulation by dispossession, international insertion and natural resources.

* The new international financial architecture.

* Resistances, new radicalities and transformation alternatives.

Particular subjects:

* Once again: public debt and international financial flows.

* The energetic dimension of international integration.

* Integration and regional infrastructure: the Puebla-Panamá / IIRSA Plan.

* Quality and responsibility in the statistics for economic analysis.

* Wealth distribution. Politics and instruments for its sustentability.

* Labour flexibility, precarization and accidents.

* Potentialities and challenges of social movements (autonomy / self-organization – fragmentation / cooptation - politization).

* Latin America relationships with U.S and Europe.

Chronogram deadlines:

Abstract presentation: July 31^st, 2008.

Paper presentation: September 15^th, 2008.

Rules for the submission of papers: Times New Roman, size 12, 1.5 separation between lines, 2 cm. margins (minimum) and a maximum extension of 25 pages (including graphics and bibliography). In PDF format.

The admission of papers will be communicated on September 25^th, by e-mail to each participant.

Any inquiries may be addressed to coloquiosepla@gmail.com

The conference will take place at the Economic Sciences Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires (Córdoba 2122, Buenos Aires, Argentina). In our next communications, we will provide more information about planned activities and on organizational matters.

Buenos Aires, February 2008.

EDI (Economistas de Izquierda – Left Economists) - Argentina.

IADE (Argentinean Institute for Economic Development).

EsEP (Political Economics Schools) - UBA and UNLP.

AGD-Económicas. Comisión Oscar Braun.