News Release (January 10, 1974) TESC to host a two-day Northwest Symposium on Chile
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News Release (January 10, 1974) TESC to host a two-day Northwest Symposium on Chile
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10 January 1974
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NEWS
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
98505
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 10, 1974
A two-day Northwest Symposium on Chile will bring four of the nation's foremost
authorities on Latin America to The Evergreen State College campus January 25 and 26.
Organized by students in the Evergreen Latin American Studies group, the two-day
event is expected to draw collegians and professors from most of the west coast's
social science programs, and is open to the general public free of charge.
Evergreen Faculty Member Dr. Charles Nisbet, an economist who has traveled and
studied extensively in Chile, said the s1mposium will feature four prominent guest
speakers:
Dr. Richard Fagan, professor of political science at Stanford University
and president-elect of the Latin American Studies Association; Dr. Jorge Neff, visiting professor of political science at the University of California at Santa Barbara
and formerly a professor at the University of Chile; Dr. James Petras, professor of
political science at the State University of New York and recent author of "Ballots
Into Bullets: Epitaph for a Peaceful Revolution,"published by Ramparts Magazine; and
Dr. Maurice Zietlin, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin who is
considered one of the foremost Latin American sociologists in the United States.
Primary emphasis of the two-day meeting, according to Dr. Nisbet, will be the
military coup last fall that led to the overthrow and death of President Salvador
Allende.
At the time of his death Allende was attempting to establish a socialistic
government in Chile using the country's traditional democratic processes.
Allende
was chosen in free elections in 1970.
Small-group discussions and lectures will also examine such topics as Chilean
politics and voting patterns, and role of the military in Latin American governments.
Dick
Nichols,
Information
Director
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social class and
polarization,
the restructuring of the economYt U.S.-Chile relations
before and after the coup, and agrarian reform in Chile.
Seven students are spearheading the symposium.
Their interest developed
during
a seminar of Dr. Nisbet's academic study group "Revolt In/By Economics" and has since
attracted the participation of students from outside the program, Dr. Nisbet said.
Persons interested in attending the conference or in obtaining more information
should contact Dr. Nisbet at Evergreen (Olympia, Washington, 98505 or call 866-6726).
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