Seminars and Symposia

From Dependency to Globalization: Challenge and Response in the Intellectual Trajectory of Fernando Henrique Cardoso

 

Thursday, May 13, 1999 at 2:00 PM
Conference Room 202
Graduate School and University Center
365 5th Ave.

Ted Goertzel
Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
Camden, New Jersey

Mauricio Font
Professor of Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center
City University of New York

Fernando Henrique Cardoso is president of Brazil. He previously served as finance minister, minister of foreign affairs, and senator. He is professor emeritus at the University of Sao Paulo and has taught at several universities in Europe, United States, and Latin America. A sociologist by training, Cardoso is recognized worldwide as a paramount figure in Latin American historical structuralism, the study of international development and political dynamics. He is the author of numerous books and essays translated into several languages. This colloquium probes the evolution and significance of the brand of historical, structural and global political economic sociology associated with Cardoso.

Professor Ted Goertzel has recently completed a biography titled Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Reinventing Democracy in Brazil (Lynne Rienner, 1999), and has also published in the Folha de Sao Paulo on the role of Marxism in Cardoso’s thinking. He believes that Cardoso’s work provides a useful model for social scientists who wish to combine theory and practice. Goertzel maintains a website on Cardoso and Brazil at http://crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/fhc.htm.

Professor Font is working on a reader on Cardoso’s intellectual trajectory (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming). His published works on Brazil include Coffee, Contention and Change and several articles. He is also completing a new book on the relationship between politics and development in 20th century Brazil.

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