Princeton
University

Globalization and Politics: A Conference in Honor of Suzanne Berger

May 8 and 9, 2009

MIT

Organized by Sophie Meunier, Peter Hall, Wade Jacoby and Jonah Levy

Conference Administrator: Kate Searle

By invitation only

Conference Schedule 

THURSDAY, MAY 7 

7:00 pm  Reception at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

FRIDAY, MAY 8 

9:00am-12:00pm: MIT E 25-117

9:00 – 9:15 am  Introduction

9:15-10:30 am  Panel 1: Mediating Globalization

 Chair: David Cameron (Yale)

• Marcos Ancelovici (McGill University)  "Bringing Time Back In: The Formation of Labor Responses to Globalization in France"

• Lucio Baccaro (MIT and University of Geneva) “Corporatism, Democracy, and the Construction of Interests: Evidence from the Italian Pension Reform”

• Bruce Kogut (Columbia Business School) “Economic Policies, Globalization and Governance”

Discussant: Phineas Baxandall (US PIRG)

10:30-10:45 am Break

10:45 am – 12:00 pm  Panel 2: Promoting Social Justice

Chair: Michael Piore (MIT)

•  Jette Knudsen (Copenhagen Business School) “The Seemingly Inexorable Force of Business-Driven Corporate Social Responsibility”

•  Richard Locke (MIT) “What Drives Improvement in Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains?”

•  Cathie Jo Martin (Boston University) “The Political Origins of Coordinated Capitalism”

 Discussant: Jonah Levy (University of California, Berkeley)

12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch

1:45pm-6:00pm: MIT E51-145

1:45 – 3:00 pm   Panel 3: Building Global Governance Structures

 Chair: Serenella Sferza (MIT)

• Sophie Meunier (Princeton University) “Europe and the Management of Globalization”

• Simona Piattoni (University of Trento) “Multi-Level Governance in the EU: Does It Work?”

• Karen Alter (Northwestern University) “Nature or Nurture? Judicial Law-Making in the European Court of Justice and Andean Tribunal of Justice”

Discussant: David Art (Tufts)

3:00-3:15pm: Break

3:15 – 4:30 pm  Panel 4: Creating Sources of Comparative Advantage and Innovation

 Chair: Michele Salvati (University of Milan)

• Michel Goyer (University of Warwick) “Institutional Change and Stability of Coordination: How Building Firm Capabilities Builds Inequalities in France”

• Dan Breznitz (Georgia Tech) “The State and Economic Growth in China”

• Gerald McDermott (USC) “Public-Private Institutions as Knowledge Bridges and Catalysts of Upgrading in Emerging Market Societies”

Discussant: Boaz Tamir (Alfa Century)

 4:30-4:45: Break

 4:45 – 6:00 pm   Panel 5: Forging Collective Identities

 Chair: Christopher Wendt (MIT)

• Jason Wittenberg (University of California, Berkeley) “Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe”

• Victoria Hattam (New School for Social Research) “Immigration and Identities in the United States”

• Elizabeth Prodromou (Boston University) “The Role of Secularity and Secularism in Modern Democracies: Through the Religious Looking-Glass of EU-Turkey Relations”

Discussant: Anthony Messina (Notre Dame)

7:00 pm Dinner

SATURDAY, MAY 9^TH

 9:00am-12:00pm: MIT Bush Room 10-105

9:00 – 10:15 am  Panel 6: Structuring Political Representation

 Chair: Joshua Cohen (Stanford University)

• Gunnar Trumbull (Harvard Business School)  “The Institutional Foundations of Diffuse Interest Representation”

• Fran Hagopian (Notre Dame) “Reorganizing Representation in Latin America”

• Elisa Reis (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) “The Role of NGOs in Public Policy-Making in Brazil”

 Discussant: Jean Schroedel (Claremont Graduate School)

10:30 – 11:45 am  Panel 7: Suzanne Berger: Colleague, Teacher, Friend

 Chair: Llewelyn Hughes (MIT)

• John Zysman (University of California, Berkeley)

• Wade Jacoby (Brigham Young University)

• Martha Zuber (Sciences Po)

• Colleen Dunlavy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Peter Gourevitch (University of California San Diego)

11:45 am – 12:00 pm Closing Remarks

• Suzanne Berger (MIT)

12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch