Prof. Walden Bello - Palestra - 10/04 - Auditório 005

Dia 10/04 teremos a honra de contar com a participação do prof. Walden Bello em nossa aula. Bello é um figura internacional, intelectual reconhecido e ativista dos direitos humanos. Foi o criador do Focus on the Global South, em 1995. Oportunidade única. NÃO PERCAM! A palestra será em inglês, mas ele falará pausadamente.


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Walden Bello - born in Manila in the Philippines in 1945- is currently a professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and senior research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University in Japan. He served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2009 to 2015, during which he was chairman of the Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs. His resignation from the House in 2015 in protest at the policies of the Aquino administration is the only instance of a resignation on principle in the history of the Congress of the Philippines.


He is the author or co-author of 20 books, including Food Wars (London: Verso, 2009), Capitalism’s Last Stand? (London: Zed, 2013), Dragons in Distress: Asia’s Miracle Economies in Crisis (London: Penguin, 1990), and Development Debacle: the World Bank in the Philippines (San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1982). Bello got his BA from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1966 and his PhD in sociology from Princeton University in 1975