https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/90ab309caf54fb0ca56450e1a04a5a66.pdf 65e1b75dce10ffd7bc19070dc1d14b66 PDF Text Text Central America Revolution & Politics CASPER COLLEGE SOCIALSCIENCESEMINAR-FEB28&MAR1,1985 �CENTRAL AMERICA: REVOLUTION AND POLITICS DURHAM HALL FEBRUARY 28 AND MARCH 1, 1985 THURSDAY, February 28 8:45 A.M.: Welcoming address by Dr. Lloyd Loftin, President of Casper College. 9:00 A.M.: Historical Origins of the Current Central American Crisis Dr. Steve Ropp. 10:15 - 10:30 A.M.: Break 10:30 - 12:00 Noon: Historic Roots and Present-Day Legacies Panel discussion with all major speakers. Mrs. Jane Katherman, Moderator. 12:00 - 1:30 P.M.: Break 1:30 RM.: Why Peasants Revolt: An Anthropological Perspective on Central American Unrest Dr. Theodore Downing 2:45 P.M.: Break 8:00 RM.: U.S. Interests and Alternative Policies in Central America Hon. Sally Shelton �FRIDAY, March 1 9:00 A.M.: Dollars, Dominoes, and Dependence: Economic Foundations of the U.S. Policy Toward Central America Dr. Arthur MacEwan 10:15 - 10:30 A.M.: Break 10:30 A.M.: The View From Nicaragua Mr. Francisco Campbell 11:45 - 12:00 Noon: Break 12:00 - 1:00 RM.: What Are the Solutions? Concluding Panel with all major speakers. Mr. David Cherry, Moderator �Steve C. Ropp Steve C. Ropp is currently Milward Simpson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Wyoming. He received his B.A. in History from Allegheny College and, after a tour in the Army, returned to the University of California, Riverside for a Ph.D. in Political Science. Professor Ropp’s primary research focus has been on Central American politics. He is the author of Panamanian Politics: From Guarded Nation to National Guard (1982) and co-editor of Central America: Crisis and Adaptation (1984). During 1984 he served as a Special Consultant to the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America (better known as the Kissinger Commission) and as Contributing Editor on Central America for the Library of Congress Handbook of Latin American Studies. He has also recently co­ authored a book entitled The Latin American Military Institution that will be published by the Hoover Institution in 1985. �Theodore Downing Dr. Theodore Downing is currently affiliated with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He received his doctorate from Stanford University. Dr. Downing has over twenty years of field research experience in Mexico and Central America, beginning with his early investigations of rural squatters in Costa Rica, and continuing up to his recent nationwide survey of problems facing Mexican agriculturalists. Widely published, in both Spanish and English, his research spans the spectrum of peasant problems, including land inheritance, wealth distribution, agrarian reform, agricultural development, and rural-to­ urban migration. His books, Mexican Migration and Strategies for the Ecodevelopment of Coffee Producers have commanded the attention of policy makers. Dr. Downing’s efforts at improving the lot of rural third world peoples were recently recognized by his colleagues who elected him President of the Society for Applied Anthropology, a society founded by Margaret Mead and dedicated to the objective of understanding the principles controlling the relations of human beings to one another and the wide application of these principles to practical problems. �Sally Shelton Honorable Sally Shelton is Vice President of the International Business-Government Counselors, Inc. (IBGC) and Director of the Division of Country Risk Analysis. Since 1984 she has been Vice President, Latin America for Bankers’ Trust Company in New York. Ambassador Shelton was a Fulbright Scholar at the Institut des Sciences Politiques in Paris. She has an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy and Washington, D. C. Her B.A. is from the University of Missouri where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with Honors in French and Political Science. Ambassador Shelton has spent several years in governmental service and in academia. She served from 1979 to 1981 as ambassador to Barbados, Grenada, and eight other Caribbean nations and territories. Prior to this she was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, served on the U. S. Mission to the U. N., and was Legislative Assistant for International Affairs to Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas. She was also Senior Consultant to the Vice President of the World Bank. Her teaching experience includes posts at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and at two universities in Mexico City (Iberoamerican University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico). �Arthur MacEwan Professor MacEwan is currently chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Previously he was a faculty member at Harvard University, has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute de Economia, Havana, Cuba and has been a Research Associate with the Yale University Pakistan Project in Karachi, Pakistan. Professor MacEwan received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He received both his Master’s and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. In 1981 he was awarded a fellowship from the German Marshall Fund to study the relationship between change in the international economic order and the expansion of the U. S. economy. Professor MacEwan has served in an editorial capacity on the journals Dollars & Sense, Review of Radical Political Economics, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His most recent book is entitled Revolution and Economic Development in Cuba (1981). He is the author of numerous articles and papers dealing with international economic development and with the specific problems characterizing Latin American economies. �Francisco Campbell Mr. Campbell Is a native of Nicaragua. He is the former Director of the Ministry of Development of Agrarian Reform in the southernmost Atlantic province of Nicaragua. He is currently a Counselor for Political Affairs at the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington, D. C. ADDITIONAL SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS Jane Katherman: Mrs. Katherman is instructor of History in the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Casper College. David Cherry: Mr. Cherry is Instructor of Political Science in the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Casper College. 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