Title:  "From El Dorado to the End of the Earth: Latin America Past and Present"

Time: April 29 (Wed), 12:00-13:00

Venue: TSE  

Speaker: Louis Goodman (Emeritus Dean and Professor of International Relations at American University’s School of International Service)

Lecture Abstract: This lecture will discuss key elements of the history of Latin America and how they impact the region’s current economic, political and social reality.

Speaker Bio:

Louis Goodman is Emeritus Dean and Professor of International Relations at American University’s School of International Service. He carries out research on social change and politics in Latin America and in Asia. His current research focuses on public goods, regional cooperation and the Global South. He has published widely on civil-military relations in Latin America, on foreign investment in developing countries and on determinants of career success for blue-collar workers. He has researched and lived abroad in Chile, Ecuador, Mexico,Peru , Azerbaijan, Nigeria, and Singapore. Dr. Goodman served on the faculty of Yale University’s Department of Sociology and as Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Programs of the Social Science Research Council and The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has held visiting appointments at The Latin American Faculty of the Social Sciences (Santiago), Tsinghua University (Beijing), the National University of Singapore, and Manipal University (India). He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from San Martin de Porres University (Lima), the United Nations University for Peace (San Jose), and Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto). In 1992, Dr. Goodman served as the President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs.