Program below the break.
Venezuela: Change or Continuity?
The Legacy of Hugo Chávez & the Future of the Bolivarian Revolution
Friday April 19th, 2013
PROGRAM
Panel 1: Media, Civil Society, Social Movements and Communal Power (8:45 am to 10:15 am)
Alejandro Velasco, Shades of Red: Prospects for Revolutionary Dissent Among Urban Social Movements After Chavez
Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Media and Communal Power: Promises and Contradiction of Media Democracy in Venezuela
Leonardo Vivas, Some Human Rights at the Expense of Others: The Case of Freedom of the Press in the Bolivarian Revolution
Moderator: Mark Overmyer-Velasquez, University of Connecticut
Panel 2: Foreign Policy & Political Economy (10:30 am to Noon)
Carlos Romero, Venezuela´s Foreign Policy: From the Past to the Future?
Mark Weisbrot, Haters Gonna Hate: Why Reports of Venezuela’s Economic Demise Are An Exaggeration
Miguel Tinker-Salas, Follow the Oil; Culture, Politics and Power in Post-Chávez Venezuela
Moderator: Ray La Raya, UMASS Amherst Political Science Department
Panel 3: Chavistas, Chavismo, and the Elections (1:30 to 3pm)
David Smilde, Understanding Support for Chávismo: Rationality, Emotion and Inclusion
Javier Corrales, Chavismo Compared: The political status of Chavismo in Venezuela and elsewhere in Latin America
Jennifer McCoy, Venezuela in The wake of new presidential elections
Moderator: Cora Fernandez Anderson, Five College Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
Panel 4: Assessing the Legacy of Chavez and the Future of the Bolivarian Revolution (3:15 to 5:30pm)
David Myers, Political Participation at the Local Level: Chavez’s Legacy and the Future
George Ciccariello-Maher, We Created Chávez, and Now He is Gone: Revolutionary Movements Facing the Future
Francisco Monaldi, Oil and Politics in Venezuela: Chavez and Beyond
Margarita Lopez-Maya, Legacies and Challengers in Post-Chavez Venezuela
Moderator: Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Yale University, Department of Political Science