Event
The Southern Europe Crisis and Resistances
@ Birkbeck, University of London - UK - November 22, 2012 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm
Boaventura de Sousa Santos participates to the debate titled “The Southern Europe Crisis and Resistances”.
Event description
Academics from Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain will discuss the economic, political and humanitarian crisis austerity has created in South Europe. But PIGS can fly. The widespread protests of 2011 have started again in Spain, Portugal and Italy while in Greece the new austerity has brought the government close to collapse. Is austerity or resistance the future of Europe?
Speakers:
Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck)
Andrea Fumagalli (UNI PV)
Maria Margaronis (journalist for The Nation & The Guardian)
Juan Carlos Monedero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Coimbra University, Birkbeck Leverhulme Fellow)|
Luis Trindade – Chair (Birkbeck)
All welcome – no registration
Ref: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/events/bbk-local?uid=cdf693a658c1789d21af5f79a998963a
