The Modern World-System in the Longue Durée
A Conference to Celebrate the 25th
Anniversary
of the Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University
Nov. 2-3, 2001
All sessions are held in Casadesus Hall, Fine Arts Building.
Friday, November 2
(8-9:15 transportation provided by OCC Transport - the Blue Bus - from Holiday Inn Arena to conference)
8:30-9:15 Registration, Greene Room, Fine Arts Building
9:15- 9:30 Welcome
Immanuel Wallerstein (Director, Fernand Braudel Center)
Lois DeFleur (President, Binghamton University)
9:30-12:30
1. Trajectory of the World-System: Order Out of Chaos?
ch: Immanuel Wallerstein (Fernand Braudel Center)
Samir Amin (Forum du Tiers-Monde, Dakar): "Globalism, or Apartheid on a Global Scale?"
Chris Chase-Dunn (Institute for Research on World-Systems, Univ. of California, Riverside): "Through the Sticky Wicket(s) and on to Global Socialism"
Bart Tromp (Political Science, Leiden Univ.): "Europe: Integration or
Dissolution?"
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch
cash basis in following dining
halls: University Union, Susquehanna Room ; Dickinson Dining Hall;
College-in-the-Woods Dining Hall
2:30-5:30
2. Changing Structures of Knowledge: The Two Cultures in Question?
ch: Richard Lee (Fernand Braudel Center)
Randall Collins (Sociology, Univ. of Pennsylvania): "Commonality and Divergence of World Intellectual Structures in the Second Millennium C.E."
Mahmood Mamdani (Institute of African Studies, Columbia Univ.): "Area Studies and Local Knowledge in the Post-Cold War Era"
Boaventura de Sousa
Santos (Centro de Estudos Sociais, Univ. Coimbra): "The Not-Yet:
Toward a Sociology of Absences and a Theory of Translation"
6-7:30 Dinner
$30 by pre-reservation only in Chenango Room (located at
the SE corner of
Science I)
7:30-10:30
3. Opening the Social Sciences: Scholarship and Reality, 1945-2000
ch: Heinz Sonntag (CENDES,
Venezuela)
Janet Abu-Lughod (Sociology, New School University, Emerita): "Peripheral Vision and the End of American Provincial Scholarship"
Maurice Aymard (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris): "Does One Represent Reality or Does One Explain It?"
Immanuel Wallerstein (Fernand Braudel Center): "The Scholarly
Mainstream and Reality: Are We at a Turning-Point?"
10:30 Transportation to Hotel provided by OCC Transport - the
Blue Bus
Saturday, November 3
8:00-9:00 Transportation from hotel to conference provided by OCC Transport - the Blue Bus
9:00-12
4. Creating and Transforming Households: Class, Gender, and Race
ch: William G. Martin (Fernand Braudel Center)
Joan Smith (Sociology, Univ. of Vermont): "Gender and Race in the World-System: What Changes in the Last 25 Years?"
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (Anthropology, Univ. of Chicago): "Race, Class, and Gender: The Particular Histories of Universal Categories"
Claudia von Werlhof (Political Science, Univ. Innsbruck): "Using,
Producing, and Replacing Life: Alchemy as Theory and Practice in
Capitalism"
12-1:30 Lunch at PSPC
1:30-4:30
5. Antisystemic Movements: Past Tendencies, Future Prospects
ch: Melvyn Dubofsky (Fernand Braudel Center)
Giovanni Arrighi (Sociology, Johns Hopkins Univ.): "Antisystemic Movements and Gramsci's 'Piedmontese Function'"
Pablo González-Casanova (Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México): "Present Systemic Trends and Antisystemic Movements"
Marcel van der Linden (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiednis, Amsterdam): "'Proletarian Internationalism': A Long View and Some Speculations"
4:30 Transportation to hotel provided by OCC Transport - the Blue Bus
Contributed Papers
We have had requests that we assist people in obtaining funds for attending the 25th Anniversary Conference. The Executive Board has therefore decided that we shall have a category of "Contributed Papers."
We invite people to write such a paper, on one of the themes being dealt with at the conference. If we receive a title and abstract by Oct. 15 at the latest, we shall list the paper in a program distributed to registrants. We shall send an official letter of acceptance. The papers may then be distributed on a special table at Registration. The Center cannot reproduce such papers. The authors must bring the copies or have them reproduced locally by Kinko's at their own expense. We suggest a minimum of 25 copies. There may however be 200-300 attendees. Each author will also be required to deposit two paper copies and a diskette of the final version with Donna DeVoist, Administrative Assistant of the Center.
We hope to get some interesting papers which we will also be willing to consider later for publication in Review. We hope this may help people obtain funds from their university to attend.
Registration
Pre-registration by mail is strongly recommended.
Fee: Faculty, non-students $15
Students $5
To attend Fri. dinner and Sat. lunch, you must pre-register.
(Friday lunch, cash basis in various dining halls)
Friday dinner: $30
Saturday lunch buffet, included in registration fee
Receipt Deadline: October 10, 2001
Please send conference Registration Form to:
25th Anniversary Conference
Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University
P.O. Box 6000
Binghamton NY 13902-6000
Lodging
For those attending the conference, reduced rates are available at:
2-8 Hawley St., Binghamton NY 13901
607-722-1212
$69 per room, single king, or 2 doubles; smoking or non
Deadline for guaranteed rooms is
October 10, 2001
Please send Hotel Reservation Form directly to the hotel or register online
at http://holidayinnbinghamton.com
Friday: Parking is available in the Paid Visitor Lot and Paid Garage for $3
Saturday: Paid Garage - $1, Paid Visitors Lot - $2, or free in regular
campus parking lots.
Information
Write to:
25th Anniversary Conference
Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University
P. O. Box 6000
Binghamton NY 13902-6000
phone 607-777-4924
fax 607-777-4315
email: devoist@binghamton.edu
Fernand Braudel Center 25th Anniversary Conference
Conference and Meal Registration Form
Receipt Deadline: October 10, 2001 (Please Print)
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Binghamton Univ.
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Binghamton NY 13902-6000
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