July 12

15.45 - 16.30
Mauro Campus (University of Florence)
Introductory remarks: The setting up of international connections and the debt crisis. For a research agenda

16.45 -18.45
Roundtable Discussion 1: Foreign debts and the international system in the long 20th century
Chair: Duccio Basosi (University of Venice)

Speakers:
Nicolas Barreyre (Sciences-Po Paris)
Carlos Marichal (Colegio de Mexico)
Jerome Roos (London School of Economics)

July 13

11.00 - 13.00
Panel 1. Debtors in multilateral, regional and bilateral settings
Chair: Kim Seung Woo (Graduate Institute, Geneva)

Speakers:
Massimiliano Trentin (University of Bologna): The G77 and the Middle East and North Africa at UNCTAD

Francesco Saverio Leopardi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): Algeria as a case-study

Discussants:
Benjamin Lemoine (CNRS)
Elena Calandri (University of Padova)
Raphaël Orange-Leroy (CY Cergy Paris Université)

Lunch

16.00 - 17.30
Panel 2. Creditors as agents
Chair: Laura Sabani (University of Florence)

Speakers:
Duccio Basosi and Benedetto Zaccaria (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): Why not default: the US and the IFIs

Discussants:
Ramaa Vasudevan (Colorado State University)
Federico Romero (European University Institute - EUI)
Mattia Ravano (Graduate Institute, Geneva)

17.45 -19.15
Roundtable Discussion 2: Return on Debt and Reforms: Tools for Hegemony?
Chair: Massimiliano Trentin (University of Bologna)

Speakers:

Pierre Pénet (University of Geneva)
Juan Flores Zendejas (University of Geneva)
Giuliano Garavini (University of Roma Tre)

19.20-19.30
Concluding Remarks
Massimiliano Trentin (University of Bologna)