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Building and Protecting Inter-American Scholarly Community: Fifty Years of Fruitful Investment

Date & Time

Tuesday
Nov. 15, 2016
9:30am – 11:00am ET

Location

5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

Co-sponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue and American University’s School of International Service

In the 1960s and ’70s, authoritarian regimes seized power across Latin America. Faced with repression, some of Latin America’s leading scholars fled their home countries, often assisted by international foundations and governments. Others established new research centers in their own countries and built transnational networks of academic collaboration.

Central to the creation of inter-American networks of solidarity and collaboration was Kalman Silvert, one of the founding architects of Latin American studies in the United States. Prominent intellectuals—Brazilian sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Chilean economists Osvaldo Sunkel and Alejandro Foxley, Peruvian sociologist Julio Cotler, Argentine political scientist Guillermo O’Donnell, and others—played key roles in fostering inter-American scholarly collaboration. They were supported by a number of U.S. institutions, especially the Ford Foundation, and by such leading scholars as Albert O. Hirschman and Bryce Wood.

How did these efforts come together some 50 years ago?  What have been their fruits? How can the legacy of those years inform current challenges facing Latin American, inter-American and other scholarly communities?

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Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more

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