BRICs 2021-2022 seminar: "BRICs in crises: ruptures and recompositions".

SEMINAR OUTLINE

Presentation (in French):
The BRICS seminar has been closely following public health issues for years. For the coming year, we will be adapting our analyses to the current interactions between health, climate and socio-economic crises, and the accompanying geopolitical recompositions, centered around the economic and political rivalries of the powers that be - the United States, China and its rapprochement with Russia.

With particular attention to field and thematic studies in the major emerging countries (Africa, Latin America, India) without neglecting the need for theoretical reflection on these subjects, the BRICs 2021-2022 seminar, offers international academic colleagues the opportunity to offer their analyses for critical and collective discussion. We will attempt to identify and qualify the complex interactions at work between the multiple dimensions of the turbulence currently experienced by the BRICs and emerging economies. The aim will be not only to establish a reasoned and contextualized inventory of the cases presented, but also to outline an analysis of development trends in the areas and countries studied.

Presentation (in English):
For several years, the BRICs seminar has been closely following public health-related challenges in key emerging countries. For the year to come the analyses conveyed in the BRICs seminar will adapt to the interplay between sanitary, socio-economic, climatic crises and the geopolitical changes that are accompanying them around rivalry between great powers (USA, China and its rapprochement with Russia).

By paying a particular attention to field studies and thematic studies in major emerging countries (in Africa, Asia or Latin America), without neglecting theoretical approaches, the 2021-2022 BRICs seminar will aim at helping to decipher the trajectories of these countries, thanks to the contribution of international scholars who will share their views with the audience in an interactive and critical discussion.

We hope that the BRICs seminar will continue in the future to contribute to a more precise and complete understanding of the ongoing trends and the economic, social and political perspectives of these countries.

SESSION SCHEDULE

- Session 1: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 - (6:00-8:00 pm, [hybrid] Maison de la recherche Inalco, salle Sylvestre de Sacy (L2.05))

• Jean-Joseph Boillot :"Utopias made in Monde - Le Sage et l'économiste"
• Discussant: Julien Vercueil

This session will be introduced by Jean-François Huchet, President of Inalco*

- Session 2: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - (6:00-8:00 pm, [online] Special online session open to the international Master EPOG, Language: English)

• Javier Meijia, Stanford University: "Social Networks and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Atioquian Industrialization"
• Discussant : Thibaud Deguilhem

- Session 3: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - (6:00-8:00 pm, [hybrid] Maison de la recherche Inalco, salle Sylvestre de Sacy (L2.05) and online)

• Zhao Wei and Joël Ruet : "Chinese post-covid growth model, an approach in terms of regulation"
• Discussant : Xavier Richet (Université Paris 3)

- Session 4: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 - (6:00-8:00 pm, Maison de la recherche Inalco, salle Sylvestre de Sacy (L2.05) and online)

• Sergei Guriev: "Structural challenges for the Russian economy"
• Discussant: Julien Vercueil

- Session 5: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 - (6:00-8:00 pm, [online only])

• Natalia Bracarense (PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, North Central College): "From petrodollar to energy-yuan: currency internationalization in the light of network effects"

- Session 6: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - (4:30-6:30pm, [online only])

• Arun Kumar (Institute of Social Science, New Delhi): "The Socio-economic impact of Coronavirus on India: What kind of Recovery is There? "
• Discussant: Guilhem Fabre

- Session 7: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 - (6:00-8:00 pm, [online only])

• Sara Regragui (PhD student University of Montpellier) and Eléonore Nantas (PhD student Inalco - CREE): "Les Nouvelles routes de la soie chinoises : enjeux technologiques régionaux - Afrique du Nord et Europe orientale"
• Discussant: Julien Vercueil

- Session 8 : Wednesday January 26, 2022 - (6:00-8:00 pm, [online] Special online session open to the students of the international Master program EPOG)

• Kirsten Eshnbruch (London School of Economics) : "Migrant in the Chilean labor Market: A story of Successful integration?"
• Discussant: Thibaud Deguilhem

- Session 9: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - (6:00-8:00 pm, [online only]) : Space: China's new frontier

• Isabelle Sourbès-Verger (CNRS) and Lucie Sénéchal-Perrouault (PhD student CNRS): "China's dream in space"
• Julien Breuzon

: "Can China reap geopolitical benefits from the privatization of the space industry?"

• Moderation: Jean-Paul Maréchal (Séminaire BRICs Université Paris-Sud)

- Session 10: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - (6:00-8:00 pm, work in progress)

• Ilan Bizberg (El Colegio de Mexico):"Latin American Health Regimes facing the pandemic. Latin American Health Regimes facing the pandemic"

- Session 11: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - (6pm-8pm, Maison de la recherche Inalco, salle Sylvestre de Sacy (L2.05) and online)

• Stéphane Grumbach (Inria): "States and platforms: sharing governance? "

- Session 12 : Tuesday, April 19, 2022 - (6:00-8:00 pm, Maison de la recherche Inalco, Auditorium Dumézil)

• Jean-Philippe Touffut (Centre Cournot) and Julien Vercueil (Inalco-CREE, BRICs seminar):"The Russian economy in perspective. From rent to war - and after?"

- Session 13: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 - (6:00-8:00 pm, Maison de la recherche Inalco, Salon Borel)

• Philippe Aguignier (Inalco, Sciences Po): "The recurrence of episodes of financial instability in China"

- Session 14: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 - (6:00-8:00 pm, [online only])

• Antoine Flahault (Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva): "COVID-19, attempts to forecast and manage the crisis - COVID19, comment a-t-on pu prévoir et gérer la crise?"

Organizers:
Julien Vercueil (CREE, Inalco), Thibaud Deguilhem (UdP), Jean-Paul Maréchal (UPSud), Guilhem Fabre (emeritus, Université Montpellier), Michel Schiray (emeritus, EHESS).

Scientific contact: julien.vercueil@inalco.fr