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FACDIS Twenty-Seventh Annual Workshops

Learning from the Developing World

November 1-2, 2007
Lakeview Resort & Conference Center
Morgantown, West Virginia

Final Program

Thursday, November 1

9:30 am-1:00 pm

REGISTRATION: Library
BOOK Display: University Hall

10:30-11:30 am

STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING: Stewart Room

11:45 am- 1:15 pm

LUNCH: Chestnut 1 & 2
Welcome: Jack Hammersmith, Director, FACDIS
INTRODUCTION OF LUNCHEON SPEAKER: Clark Egnor, Executive Director, Center for International Programs, Marshall University, and Council Chair, Consortium for Internationalizing Higher Education in West Virginia, West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission
LUNCHEON PRESENTATION: Dr. Stephen Kopp, President, Marshall University

1:30 pm-3:00 pm

OPENING PANEL DISCUSSION WITH PRESENTERS: University Hall
Steve Chan, University of Colorado
Daniel Balderston, University of Iowa
Kevin Healy, George Washington University
David Wiley, Michigan State University

3:00 pm-3:15 pm

BREAK

3:15 pm-4:45 pm

First Set of Concurrent Sessions
Topic 1. Learning from East Asia: Virtuous Cycle or Tough Choices?: Chestnut Room 1
Consultant: Steve Chan, University of Colorado
Security, Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty are what people want all over the world, and what governments aspire to attain. Yet, both historical evidence and social science theorizing seem to suggest that these desiderata may present difficult tradeoffs -- at least in terms of the timing and sequencing of their attainment. If this view is correct, the East Asian countries have done a rather remarkable job in addressing the relevant challenges, having made substantial progress in economic development with social equity and liberalization in a relatively short period of time. Moreover, by most objective measures, the security environment for the region has improved significantly in the recent years. What are then the lessons one may learn from the East Asian experience?
Session I: An Overview of the Various Conundrums Posed by Historical and Social Scientific Research
An overview of the various conundrums posed by historical and social scientific research show - through theories and cross-national evidence - that "good things don't always go together."

Topic 2. Literature and the Developing World: Training Room 1
Consultant: Daniel Balderston, University of Iowa
Session I: Teaching about Latin America: Opportunities and Pitfalls
In this session, a discussion of the ways in which students bring stereotypes of Latin America to the undergraduate classroom will be led, and the ways in which the instructor can unpack these and use them as teaching opportunities. Drawing from a variety of courses taught over the years (introduction to Latin American studies, the Latin American short story, sexuality in Hispanic culture) the presenter will talk about how to talk about stereotypes, using as a point of departure Xavier Villaurrutia’s poem ‘Nocturno de los ángeles’ (Nocturne of the Angels/L.A. Nocturne) and another short text or two.
Topic 3. Grassroots Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Chestnut Room 2
Consultant: Kevin Healy, George Washington University
Session I: The Drug Trafficking Phenomenon in Latin America
Drug trafficking has had a significant impact on national politics, guerilla insurgency, social violence, corruption of the state and democracy, foreign policy, indigenous movements, economic development, peasant agriculture and agro-industry in an articulation with social groups from the top to the bottom of the social pyramid in Latin America over the past few decades. This talk will focus on ways to present in the classroom this multi-faceted topic to arouse and expand student interest not only on drug trafficking related policy issues but also as a window into many other important societal, developmental and political topics.
Topic 4. Understanding Africa in its Global Context: Training Room 4
Consultant: David Wiley, Michigan State University
Session I: African Health and Our Health: The Globalization of Health and Medicine
African health - malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malnutrition, and other diseases - link the U.S. and Africa in complex and surprising ways. What are these diseases and where are they found on the ground there? What are our linkages to Africa in health and disease, from medical missionaries, to epidemiology, to pharmaceutical companies and Western trade policies?

6:00 pm -7:00 pm

Social Hour (cash bar): University Hall

7:00 pm

Banquet - University Hall

Friday, November 2

7:00 am

Institutional Representatives Breakfast: Ward Christopher Room

7:30 am

General Breakfast: University Hall

8:30-10:00 am

Second Set of Concurrent Sessions.
Participants will stay in same track as Thursday afternoon (3:15-4:45 pm)
Topic 1.Learning from East Asia: Virtuous Cycle or Tough Choices?: Chestnut Room 1
Consultant: Steve Chan, University of Colorado
Session II: East Asian Achievements
Some highlights illuminating the "East Asian" way that helped their achievements thus far will be introduced. Specifically, historical and theoretical reasons that enabled East Asia to finesse or skirt the tradeoffs discussed previously will be presented.
Topic 2. Literature and the Developing World: Training Room 1
Consultant: Daniel Balderston, University of Iowa
Session II: Magical Realism and its Discontents
The international success of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude has proven a great misfortune for many Latin American writers, whose work is judged by how close it comes to a stereotype of Latin American writing, often called ‘magical realism,’ although various other names have been used at different times and each has been contested. Discussion will consider how certain writers and works were valorized because of this stereotype, while many other important writers never have had success in translations in the English-speaking world.
Topic 3. Grassroots Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Chestnut Room 2
Consultant: Kevin Healy, George Washington University
Session II: The Rise and Expansion of Indigenous Movements in Latin America
This session will examine the rise and expansion of indigenous movement in Latin America over the past few decades and the impact they have made on democracy, economic development, the reduction of poverty, socio-economic inequality, natural resource conservation, and the empowerment of the rural poor and the challenges they face in transforming their political gains into improved socio-economic conditions for their constituencies throughout the hemisphere.
Topic 4. Understanding Africa in its Global Context: Training Room 4
Consultant: David Wiley, Michigan State University
Session II: American Policy on Africa: Understanding the Multi-stranded Realities
The U.S. has a long history of political and economic links to Africa from the South African mining complex to the Barbary pirates of North Africa. With the rising importance of African oil, a new Africa Command in the U.S. Department of Defense, and competition with China for Africa, American foreign policy is taking new directions. How do citizens and teachers comprehend and respond to U.S. policy on Africa?

10:00-10:30 am

Coffee Break

10:30 am-12:00 pm

Third Set of Concurrent Sessions.
Participants will stay in same track as Thursday afternoon and Friday morning (above)
Topic 1. Learning from East Asia: Virtuous Cycle or Tough Choices?: Chestnut Room 1
Consultant: Steve Chan, University of Colorado
Session III: Broad Cross-Regional Comparisons
Some broad cross-regional comparisons, especially with Latin America, will be introduced. Also, a discussion of U.S. policies and circumstances, and ask whether, how, and which aspects of the East Asian experience can be applied appropriately to other regions or contexts will be invited.
Topic 2. Literature and the Developing World: Training Room 1
Consultant: Daniel Balderston, University of Iowa.
Session III: Borges: The Argentine Writer and the Western Tradition
This third session will focus on some of the strategies that Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Latin America’s most influential twentieth-century writer, uses to engage discussions of national (Argentine) culture and of the western tradition. Discussion will focus on the essay ‘The Argentine Writer and Tradition’ (in Selected Non-Fictions) and several stories, including ‘History of the Warrior and the Captive’ and ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ (in Collected Fictions).
Topic 3. Grassroots Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Chestnut Room 2
Consultant: Kevin Healy, George Washington University
Session III: The Teaching of Grassroots Development in Latin America
The teaching of grassroots development - for all the interesting human interest stories, some inspiring, some discouraging but always interesting as a phenomenon in Latin America - is worth teaching about. Grassroots development experiences also reveal much about the larger macro political and economic trends in Latin American countries including political and economic globalization, foreign aid, U.S. and the strategies and resources mobilized by the poor and structural obstacles to social change and broad-based development. The presentation would also examine how grassroots development has mobilized many interesting indigenous cultural resources and pioneered greater respect for them throughout society.
Topic 4. Understanding Africa in its Global Context: Training Room 4
Consultant: David Wiley, Michigan State University
Session III: Teaching about Africa: How to Portray the Misunderstood Continent?
There is evidence that negative stereotypes about Africa are worse in the U.S. than for any other world region. How do college and secondary teachers find a way to offer a more accurate narrative about Africa that takes those stereotypes into account and moves beyond them to present a more accurate and more sympathetic understanding? We will review instructional texts, web resources, and videos about Africa to use in the classroom with American students.

Noon:

WORKSHOPS ADJOURN

WORKSHOP LEADERS

STEVE CHAN, University of Colorado

Steve Chan, Professor (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1976) currently serves as chair of the Department of Political Science. Recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research, his scholarly interests focus on international relations, political economy, foreign policy, decision-making and East Asia. His books include Coping with Globalization (2001); Economic Sanction As Statecraft (2000); Beyond the Developmental State (1998); Foreign Direct Investment in a Changing Global Political Economy (1995); Defense, Welfare and Growth (1992); The Evolving Pacific Basin in the Global Political Economy (1992); Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development (1992); East Asian Dynamism (1993, 1990); International Relations in Perspective (1984); Foreign Policy Decision Making (1984); and Understanding Foreign Policy Decisions (1979). His work has also appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, and World Politics.

DANIEL BALDERSTON, University of Iowa

Daniel Balderston (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1981) Professor of Spanish and Collegiate Fellow at the University of Iowa, specializing in Latin American literature. Past chair of the departments of Spanish and Portuguese at Iowa and Tulane, he is currently president of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. His work ranges widely across the Latin American field. Five books relate to Jorge Luis Borges, including Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges (Duke UP, 1993, Spanish ed., 1996), and he currently directs the Borges Center and edits the journal, Variaciones Borges. He has also worked extensively on other writers of Southern Cone countries, including a forthcoming critical edition on Juan Carlos Onetti, a book and translations on José Bianco, and articles and translations on Ricardo Piglia, Juan José Saer and Silvina Ocampo. Another focus of interest is sexuality studies, including El deseo, enorme cicatriz luminosa: ensayos sobre homosexualidades latinoamericanas (2nd exp. ed., 2004) and (with José Quiroga at Emory) Sexualidades en disputa (2006). In addition, he has edited Sex and Sexuality in Latin America (NYU Press, with Donna Guy of Ohio State, 1997) and several other books. He has translated works from Spanish (and less often from Portuguese), and co-edited (with Marcy Schwartz, Rutgers) Voice Overs: Translation and Latin American Literature (SUNY Press, 2002). He has taught at several U.S. universities as well as those in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Uruguay and Norway.

KEVIN HEALY, George Washington University

Kevin Healy (Ph.D., Cornell University) earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Notre Dame and Georgetown. For over two decades he has worked as a grant officer at the Inter-American Foundation, a public corporation which funds a broad range of grassroots development projects with local NGO's in Latin America and the Caribbean. Healy has funded projects in the Andes as well as throughout Central America and Mexico. He is the author of two books on development in Bolivia, the most recent being Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), and many book chapters in edited volumes covering topics such as the drug industry in the Andes, indigenous movements, and participatory development among others. Since l998, Healy has been teaching in the Elliott School at George Washington University. Currently, he teaches two courses, one on Indigenous Movements, Culture and Grassroots Development in Latin America and the other on Drug Trafficking in the Americas. He has also taught graduate level courses at Georgetown University, American University, SAIS and undergraduate course at the Johns Hopkins University.

DAVID WILEY, Michigan State University

One of the premier Africanists in the United States, David Wiley (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1971) has contributed as a teacher, researcher, activist, administrator, and advocate for better understanding of and assistance to Africa. For thirty years he participated in the movement for decolonization in Southern Africa and the anti-apartheid involvement. Currently he is a member of the Higher Education Forum of the U.S./South Africa Bi-National Commission and was a Fulbright Scholar in Durban, South Africa, working on community organizations mobilizing for change in 1994-96. Under his directorship since 1977, the Center for African Studies at Michigan State University has produced more doctorates on Africa than any other North American university. In addition to teaching such courses at MSU as International Social Research in Africa, Asia and Latin America and Social Science Integrative Studies of Africa, Dr. Wiley has also taught at the University of Zambia, worked in Zimbabwe, and, as a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa, assisted community organizations mobilizing for change. The author of six books as well as numerous articles and chapters, he has concentrated his research on Zambia, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. In addition to his many professional honors, he has served as President of the African Studies Association.

FACDIS ORGANIZATION

FACDIS Director:

Jack L. Hammersmith, Dept of History, WVU; (304)293-2421 x 5235; email: jhammer@wvu.edu

FACDIS Assistant Director:

Gretchen Peterec, Dept. of Political Science, WVU; (304)293-7140; email: gretchen.peterec@mail.wvu.edu

Administrative Secretary:

Sharon Nestor, Dept. of Political Science, WVU; snestor@wvu.edu

FACDIS Founding Director (1980-1997):

Sophia Peterson, Professor Emerita, Dept. of Political Science, WVU; (304) 293-7140

Institutional Representatives, Study Abroad Advisers, and Steering Committee (2003)

INSTITUTION	INSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE	STUDY ABROAD REPRESENTATIVE
Alderson-Broaddus College	John Hicks	Jim Daddysman
Bethany College*	Joseph Lovano	Joseph Lovano
Bluefield St. College*	Patricia Mulvey	John White
Concord University**	Carmen Durrani	Carmen Durrani
Davis & Elkins College	David Turner	Barbara Fulks
Fairmont St. University**	Patricia Ryan	Patricia Ryan
Glenville St. College	R. Michael Smith	C. E. Wood
Marshall University*	David Mills	Maria C. Riddle
Potomac St. College	Fred Jacoby	Fred jacoby
Salem International University	Larry Zbach	Larry Zbach
Shepherd University	Roland Bergman	Linda Kinney
University of Charleston	Sarah Adams	Sarah Adams
West Liberty St. College	Brian Crawford	Michael Strada
WVU Institute of Technology**	Jan Rezek	Jan Rezek
WV Northern Comm. College	Frank DeCaria	Denny Roth
WV State University	James Natsis	James Natsis
West Va. University	Michael Lastinger	Tara George-Jones
WVU-Parkersburg	Emily Lamb	Gregory and Mary Beth Busch
West Va. Wesleyan College	Kwame Boateng	Kwame Boateng
Wheeling Jesuit University	Joe Laker	Dominick DeFelippis

* Institution whose Institutional Representative serves on the Steering Committee until November 30, 2007

** Institutions whose IR serves on the Steering Committee until November 30, 2008