Part 1: Hemispheric Integration:
The End of Act One and Towards Act Two: Defining The New Agenda
Monday July 10
9.00 Welcome Daniel Drache, Co-director SI
9.30 Western Hemispheric Integration Ten Years Later:
Currrent Policy Dilemmas For Government and Society, Ed Dosman, Co-director SI
10:45 The Changing Agenda: the Cutting-Edge Issues ö Group Discussion
Lead-off Speakers
Graciela Bensus‡n, UAM, Mexico
Jo‹o Paulo Peixoto, University of Brasilia
Santiago PÎrez, ISRI, Cuba
2:30 Trade Libera lization and Marginalization:
How Has Integration Affected Employment, Income Distribution, Gender Rights?
Al Berry, University of Toronto
5:00 Challenges Facing the MERCOSUR
Fernando Guyer, Coordinator of IDRCâs MERCOSUR Network , Monitvideo, Uruguay
Tuesday July 11
9:00 Winners and Losers: Trade, Technology and Capital Markets in NAFTA
and MERCOSUR
Cal McWilliam, CIDA, Ottawa
Jonas Zoninsein, Michigan State
Alessandro Cesar Ortuso, UNICAMP-CESIT, Brazil
2:15 Power Asymmetry and The Politics of Free Trade. What are the Policy Objectives of the US
and Brazil? Smaller Partners: Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. How Do Canada and
Mexico Manage the U.S. Relationship?
Jean Daudelin, North-South Institute
Amancio de Oliveira, Centre for International Relations, USP
Ed Dosman, York University
Wednesday July 12
9:00 Towards a Redefinition of the ÎPublicâ and Public Services After a Decade of Neo-Liberal
Reforms: Is the US Model of Governance Becoming the Hemispheric Standard? Is the
Washington Consensus Still the Benchmark?
Daniel Drache, Robarts Centre
Mercedes Botto, Flasco Argentina
Vilma Petr‡sh, University of Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
2:30 Civil Society, Trade and Social Policy After Toronto and Seattle: Actors, Strategies
and Scenarios
Tom Legler, CERLAC, York University
Silvia Nœ–ez Garc'a, CISAN
Paolo Krischke, University of Santa Catalina, Brazil
5:00 Special Event Seth Feldman, Robarts Chair, Canadian Films Eh? A Nite at the Cinema.
Part 2: The Northern Model:
Canada, Hemispheric Integration and Social Cohesion
Thursday July 13
9:00 Economic Integration: The Canadian Dilemma: What are the Costs and Benefits
Daniel Drache, Robarts Centre
2:15 Reforming Canadaâs National Health System: Will it Be Privatized?
Terry Sullivan, Institute of Work and Health, Toronto
Friday July 14
9:00 Homelessness and Public Housing in the Americas
Anne Golden, Chair, Toronto Task Force on Homelessness. Whatâs Going on in Toronto?
1:15 Cultural Identity and Applied Sustainability: Moving Ahead Sideways or in Full Reverse?
Joyce Zemans, Fine Arts, York University
David Bell, Centre for Applied Sustainability, York University
Saturday July 15 Free day
Sunday July 16 Free day
Part 3: Hemispheric Options in a Turbulent Environment
Monday July 17
9:00 Is the Power of Labour Growing or Declining in the Americas?
Daniel Drache, Robarts Centre
Viviana Patroni, York University
Graciela Bensus‡n, Mexico, UAM
Maria Cristina Mattioli, Pontifical Catholic University of S‹o Paolo, Brazi
1:15 Corporate Agenda: Solid or Hollow? Is Business Still Bearish on Hemispheric Integration?
Charlie McMillan, Schulich School of Business
Carol Wise, Johns Hopkins University, Washington
Tuesday July 18- Extended Day
9:00 Political Culture: Divergence and Convergence in Canadian and US Values
Michael Adams, Environics, Toronto
2:15 Multilateralism From Below : Civil Society Across Borders in the Americas Labour and Civil Society: Are the ÎDangerous Classesâ At the Table? Do
They Want a Place?
Laura Macdonald, Carleton University
Natalie Sandoval, Laval University
Lucie Lamarche/ Sylvie Paquerot, UQAM, MontrÎal
5:00 Migration, Integration and Borders:
The New Security Threats to Social Cohesion. What Has Changed After A Decade of Free Trade?
Allan Simmons, CERLAC, York University
Magda Zurba, UFSC, Brazil
Khatchik der Ghougassian, FLASCO/Argentina
Wednesday July 19
9:00 The Future of the Nation-State: Nationalism and the Future of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Franz KundmŸller, Centro de Conciliati—n y Arbitraje Nacional e Internacional, Lima
1:15 Prospects for Multilateralism: Governments, Summits and Inter-Governmental Organizations
(IDB, OAS, CEPAL, World Bank and Others)
Nobina Robinson, FOCAL
Thursday July 20
Conclusions and Future Directions
9:00 Integration and Social Sustainability in the Americas: A General Discussion
Jean Daudelin, North-South Institute
1:30 Lunch and Farewell
Hemispheric Integration and Social Cohesion Summer Institute
Building the New Agenda: Summer Institute 2000 Program
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