Workshop on States, Development and Global Governance

Date:  March 12-13, 2010 Location:  Lubar Commons Sponsor:  Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), Global Legal Studies (GLS)

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This two day workshop is a part of the WAGE Research Collaborative on Remaking the Developmental State.  Details Pending.

Workshop on States, Development, and Global Governance
March 12-13, 2010
Lubar Commons, UW Law School
Draft Agenda (updated 11/10/09)

Day 1 - March 12, 2010     Global issues:

8:15-8:45            Registration/breakfast

8:45-9:00            Introduction       

9:00-10:30      Panel 1 - Trade/WTO and domestic state capacity
      Paper by Professor Rob Howse 
(Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law, New York University School of Law)
            Discussant 1 –Joe Conti, UW-Madison
            Discussant 2 –Greg Shaffer (Minnesota)/Bob Staiger, UW-Madison
            (PI’s in charge: John Ohnesorge)     

10:30-10:45      Break

10:45-12:15      Panel 2 –Governance of international financial institutions and BRICs
            Paper by Mark Copelovitch
            (Assistant Professor, Political Science and Public Affairs, UW-Madison)
            Discussant 1 –David Trubek
            Discussant 2 –Aseema Sinha
            (PI in charge: Dave Trubek)     

12:15-1:30      Lunch

1:30-3:00            Panel 3 - Finance policy
            Paper by Wang (MIT)?
            Discussant 1 –Menzie Chinn (tbc)
            Discussant 2 –Dongsheng Zhang, University of Washington, Seattle
            (tbc)
            (PI in charge: John Ohnesorge)     
            
            Others mentioned: Michael Pettis, Beijing University Business School
           
3:00-3:15            Break

3:15-4:45            Panel 4 - BRICS as a response to changing global context
            Paper by Cynthia Roberts
            (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University)
            Discussant 1 (tbc) –Tricia Olsen
            Discussant 2 (tbc) –Jon Pevehouse (tbc)
            (PI in charge: Aseema Sinha)

6:30            Dinner (venue tba)

Day II - March 13, 2010

Domestic issues

9:00-10:30      Panel 5 - Industrial Policy: R&D
            Paper by Professor Glauco Arbix
            (Professor of sociology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
            Discussant 1 –Shubha Ghosh, UW-Madison (tbc)
            Discussant 2 (tbc) -
            (PI in charge: Dave Trubek)

10:30-10:45      Break

10:45-12:15      Panel 6 - Industrial Policy: Infrastructure
            Paper by Professor Rahul Mukherji
            (Associate Professor, National University of Singapore)
            Discussant 1 –Ian Coxhead, UW-Madison
            Discussant 2 (tbc) –Adam Auerbach (tbc)
            (PI in charge: Aseema Sinha)

12:15-1:15      Lunch

1:15-2:45            Panel 7 - Industrial Policy: job creation versus protecting workers’
            rights
            Paper by Professor Andrew Schrank
            (Department of Sociology, University of New Mexicoy)
            Discussant 1 –Gay Seidman
            Discussant 2 (tbc)
            (PI in charge: Gay Seidman)

2:45-3:00            Break

3:00-4:30            Panel 8 - Social Policy
            Paper by Professor Shireen Hassim
            (Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
            Discussant 1 –Christina Ewig, UW-Madison
            Discussant 2 –Sida Liu, UW-Madison
            (PI in charge: Gay Seidman)

4:30-5:30            Closing Roundtable