2 June

Can the BRICS+ bloc achieve a durable, just DE-DOLLARISATION?

Johannesburg hosts the BRICS summit from August 22-24.

In addition to BRICS+ expansion plans which will likely incorporate several Middle Eastern ‘petro-dollar’ regimes, there may arise a long-overdue challenge to US monetary and currency hegemony, known as ‘de-dollarisation.’ Yet prior BRICS multilateral financial reforms have failed, and a ‘multipolar’ agenda runs the very real risk of reproducing repressive economic relations. Could the BRICS do better, with non-$ trade, a different New Development Bank, and central bank innovations? And what ‘nonpolar’ alternatives are emerging from below, in social struggles aimed at economic democracy?

WEBINAR of the SA RESEARCH CHAIR INITIATIVE:
CHAIR IN SOCIAL CHANGE (Professor Ashwin Desai)
DATE : Friday, 2 June 2023, 1-4 PM SA (+2 GMT)
VENUE : HUMANITIES COMMON ROOM
C-Ring 319, UJ Auckland Park Campus

RSVP BY 1 JUNE TO JOIN IN PERSON AT UJ:
Lorna Singh lsingh at uj.ac.za
ONLINE ZOOM (English language):
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/87297228837

Brief inputs and debates:

  • Sarah Bracking, Kings College London International Development, Acting Director and Professor
  • Michel Chossudovsky, University of Ottawa, Professor Emeritus of Economics
  • Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba, Professor of Geopolitical Economy
  • Sushovan Dhar, Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt, International Member
  • Ilene Grabel, University of Denver, Distinguished Professor of International Finance
  • Michael Hudson, University of Kansas City, Professor Emeritus of Economics
  • Fadhel Kaboub, Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, President
  • Vuyo Mjimba, Human Sciences Research Council, Africa Institute, Director
  • David Monyae, UJ Centre for Africa-China Studies, Director and Assoc Professor
  • Redge Nkosi, Firstsource Money and Public Banking South Africa, Director
  • Éric Toussaint, Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt, Brussels, Spokesperson
  • Sit Tsui, Southwest University Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Associate Professor
  • Richard Wolff, New School for Social Research, Visiting Professor of Economics
  • Siphamandla Zondi, UJ Institute for Pan-African Thought & Conversation, Director and Professor

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