Beyond the MDGs: A Latin American transformatist approach

The 2014 UiB Global Lecture, May 8

Ronaldo Munck
Professor, Dublin City University

It is a pleasure to invite you to the first UiB Global Lecture organized by UiB Global. The internationally acclaimed professor Ronaldo Munck of Dublin City University will analyse the latest developments in Latin America with a link to the old Millennium Development Goals and to the ongoing debate on creating a new set of goals for our global development.

Professor Munck has authored or edited more than 20 books on various topics related to globalisation, international development and social movements as well as over 100 academic journal articles. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Korean, Turkish Chinese and Japanese.

He serves on the editorial boards of a number of international journals including Globalizations, Global Social Policy, Global Labour, Labour History and Latin American Perspectives.

Professor Munck is the Irish representative on the Council of the Development Studies Association of UK and Ireland.

Currently Professor Munck is coordinator of the Irish Aid funded inter-university project the Irish African Partnership for Research Capacity Building, editor of Translocations, an inter-university online journal on migration and social transformation in Ireland and is Visiting Professor of Labour and Migration Studies at the University of Linkøping in Sweden.

The lecture is open to all - breakfast served from 8:30