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Conference Call - Chávez’s Death: Implications for Venezuela and the Region

Political scientist Javier Corrales will discuss what Chávez's death means for Venezuela.

Teleconference Call: 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (EST)

AS/COA
680 Park Avenue
New York

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Due to a high volume of registrants we encourage participants to call in 15 minutes prior to the call. 

 

Dial In Instruction:
US Dial-In Number: 1 (888) 275-4480
International Dial-In Number:
1 (702) 759-8511
Conference ID #: 20425079

Please join us for a conference call with Javier Corrales, professor of political science at Amherst College. Corrales will discuss the death of President Hugo Chávez and what this means for Venezuela.

Javier Corrales is professor of political science at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He is the co-author of Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chávez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela, the co-editor of The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on GLBT Rights, and author of Presidents Without Parties: the Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s. His research has been published in academic journals such as Comparative Politics, World Development, Political Science Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, World Policy Journal, Latin American Politics and Society, Journal of Democracy, Latin American Research Review, Studies in Comparative International Studies, Current History, and Foreign Policy. He serves on the editorial board of Latin American Politics and Society and Americas Quarterly. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. In 2000, he became one of the youngest scholars ever to be selected as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. In 2005, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Caracas, Venezuela. He was a visiting scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard in 2009 and a visiting fellow at the Center for Latin American Research at the University of Amsterdam. He was appointed to the board of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities by Governor Deval Patrick in 2010. He has also been a consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, the Center for Global Development, Freedom House, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also working on a book manuscript on constitutional reforms in Latin America.

Prior Registration is required to obtain the Call-in information.

 

Event Information: Please contact Guillermo Zubillaga at 212-277-8362 or gzubillaga@as-coa.org.