Los dos conferencistas centrales son:
Roberto Russell.
Roberto Russell es Ph. D. en Relaciones Internacionales por la School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, profesor plenario y director de la Maestría y el Doctorado en Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella y presidente de la Fundación Vidanta. Ha sido profesor visitante en las Universidades de Georgetown, Londres, Beijing y en el Instituto Ortega y Gasset de Madrid. Obtuvo la beca Fulbright como Research Scholar (1980), la cátedra Domingo Faustino Sarmiento de la Universidad de Salamanca (1999) y el Premio Konex en Ciencia Política (2006). Su último libro es Argentina 1910-2010. Balance de un siglo, Taurus, Buenos Aires, 2010.
Andrew Hurrell.
Professor Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, since 2007. He was previously a Faculty Fellow in International Relations at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is currently the Director of the Centre for International Studies at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford.
Previously, professor Hurrell taught at Johns Hopkins University center in Bologna, and at Christ Church, Oxford. He is an expert on Brazil and has authored a large number of works on Latin American politics. He is a leading theorist of the International Society' approach pioneered at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Oxford by Hedley Bull, and has published widely on a vast range of international issues, from the United Nations and humanitarian intervention to international law. His current research project involves comparing the policies and outlooks of emerging regional powers such as Brazil and India, asking what their role in the shifting world order is likely to be.
Last publications:
"On Global Order: Power, Values and the Constitution of International Society", OUP 2007.
“Hegemony, Liberalism and Global Order: What Space for Would-be Great Powers,” International Affairs vol 82 January 2006: 1-19.
“Legitimacy and the Use of Force: Can the Circle be Squared?! Review of International Studies vol 31, 2005: 15-32.
“Global Inequality and International Institutions,” Metaphilosophy vol 32 January 2001: 43-57.
Además de ellos, se trabaja en la confección de unos paneles con intervenciones de expertos internacionales provenientes de Rusia, España, Estados Unidos, entre otros.
No obstante, la mayor parte del tiempo, los asistentes estarán aprovechando las ponencias de los académicos colombianos aceptados por el comité organizador y académico del Congreso.