Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University
Coordinator: Dale Tomich, Sociology and FBC
This workshop is intended to open a discussion of slavery through a comparative inquiry into housing patterns on slave plantations throughout the Atlantic world. It is particularly concerned with examining the European and African origins of American building traditions, the spatial organization of the built environment and the patterns of interaction within and between social groups resident on the plantations, material conditions of life, and symbolic representations of social hierarchy.
April 27, 2007 1:00 pm – April 28, 2007, 12 noon: Workshop, Fernand Braudel Center Academic A 330. Program
Coordinators: Gerald Kutcher, History, and Richard E. Lee, Sociology and FBC
This workshop provides a forum where various disciplines within Harpur College can be brought together to articulate ideas and approaches to issues in science and society: The Public Uptake of Knowledge; Medical Constructs of the Body and Mind; Science, the Military and the University; and Science and Institutionalized Knowledge Production.
9/12/06, Introductory Meeting, 4:30 pm,
10/10/06, 4:30 pm,
11/7/06, 4:30 pm,
12/5/06, 4:30 pm,
Coordinator: Richard E. Lee, Sociology and FBC
This workshop will address the question of the large-scale future of the modern world (“utopistics” is Immanuel Wallerstein’s term for possible rather than impossible utopias). On the one hand, the processes of the modern world-system are reaching their asymptotes and thus the present conjuncture is one of transition, of fundamental change. On the other hand, we do not know whether that change will result in a more substantively rational or egalitarian world. This workshop will investigate what alternative futures are actually possible, what choices they implicate, and what relationship between intellectual work and social practice is involved.
9/8/06, Introductory Meeting, 4:30 pm,
10/6/06, 4:30 pm,
10/27/06, 4:30 pm,
11/17/06, 4:30 pm,
12/1/06, 4:30 pm,
3/23/07, group meeting at 2 pm; public lecture, 4:30 pm,
Marina Sitrin, “Horizontalism in
4/20/07, group meeting at 2 pm; public lecture, 4:30 pm,
Michael Menser, “Insurgent Cosmopolitanism: The Global Justice Movement and the
Reinvention of Participatory Democracy,”
5/4/07, group meeting at 2 pm; public lecture, 4:30 pm,
Jamie McCallum, “For Knowledge and Power: Radical Paradigms of American Worker
Education”
Coordinator, William G. Martin, Sociology
4/17/07, 3 - 5 pm, Charles Venator
Santiago, "
4/24/07, 3 – 5 pm, Kelvin Santiago, “Global-Racial Regimes of the British and U.S. Belle Epoques” PDF version of presentation
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