Event Date: November 11, 2009 - 12:00 pm
Location: Social Sciences Building, 120 Universi

A talk by Marianne Marchand, University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico.

Co-sponsor: the School of Political Studies.

Free. Registration is not required. This event will be in English.

Marianne H. Marchand is professor of international relations at the University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, where she also coordinates the Ph.D. program in International Relations. She is a member of the National System of Researchers. Her research examines the politics of change and (global) restructuring. In particular, she looks to feminist and postcolonial theory and engages in critical explorations of the narratives and practices of development, globalization and regionalization/regionalism. She is currently coordinating a research project on Migration and Socially Sustainable Development in two communities in Tlaxcala (Mexico) which has culminated in various publications, including Tlaxcala: ¿Migración o Desarrollo Local? (2006).