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The Microcredit Mousetrap: From the Promise of Fighting Poverty to a New Form of Financial Slavery in Mexico w/ Antonio Orozco Ramos
The Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, West Duke, Room 101 1364 Campus Drive, DurhamAntonio Orozco studied Business Administration at the Mexican University Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and an AD2 Top Management Program by the IPADE Business School. He has held several senior directorial positions on Microfinance Institutions in Mexico; has worked for PlaNet Finance, a global French consulting company specializing in Microfinance, and provided […]
Extravagant Geometries: Art and the Collapse of Modernization in Latin America
The Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, West Duke, Room 101 1364 Campus Drive, DurhamJaime Acosta Gonzalez is a PhD candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University. His dissertation, Writing in the Interregnum: Fiction and the Neoliberalization of Democracy examines how contemporary fiction encodes both the breakdown of the interstate geopolitical system and the failure of new global democratic forms to emerge in the age of globalization. His research interests […]
Amoral Markets: Accumulation by Drugpossession and Armspossession in 19th Century China
The Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, West Duke, Room 101 1364 Campus Drive, DurhamMark Driscoll is Associate Professor of East Asian and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is an intellectual historian and cultural studies scholar of East Asia, focusing on Japan’s historical interactions with its regional neighbors, Korea and China. His first book was a monograph on the Japanese imperial propagandist Yuasa […]