Professor Eduardo Silva will be visiting Maynooth University in May 2015 for a 10 day period as this year’s Maynooth University Distinguished Visiting Scholar.
While here he will give a Masterclass to faculty members and postgraduate students from across the university, will participate in an international workshop on popular resistance to austerity and neoliberalism in Latin America and Europe, and will be keynote speaker at a workshop with members of Irish civil society organisations on popular responses to austerity in Ireland in a time of crisis, among other activities.
Eduardo Silva holds the Friezo Family Foundation Chair in Political Science in the Roger Thayne Stone Centre for Latin American Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. He received his doctorate from the University of California-San Diego in 1991. Before joining the Tulane faculty he was professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he also served as department chair and graduate director. His research focuses on Latin American politics, and he has published extensively on the political economy of state-society relations, sustainable development with a focus on forest policy, and mass mobilization. He has conducted extensive field research in Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Venezuela. He also has expertise in the Andean countries and Argentina.
His most recent publications include Transnational Activism and National Movements in Latin America: Bridging the Divide (2013) and Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America (2009). He has been a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank, the U.S. State Department and the Centre for International Forestry Research in Bangor, Indonesia. Professor Silva has received grants, among others, from the Social Sciences Research Council in the United States, the North-South Centre of the University of Miami, Fulbright-Hays, and the University of Missouri Research Board. For more information see his faculty web page.
The Visitor Programme for Distinguished scholars” was inaugurated by Maynooth University in 2013 and is a competitive scheme designed to build international research collaboration between distinguished international scholars and the academic community of MU. A central aim is to advance nascent or established research collaborations between MU and leading researchers/departments/institutions outside Ireland.
Well done to Barry Cannon and all in the Department who facilitated the application. Details of the events will be published on the departmental website and on the website for the Network on Politics, Power and Society in due course.