The members of the Commission were appointed in the fall of 1993. They are:
Immanuel Wallerstein, chair of the Commission, sociology, USA. Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, and Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Binghamton University; author, The Modern World-System (3 vol.), Unthinking Social Science.
Calestous Juma, science and technology studies, Kenya. Executive Director, African Centre for Technology Studies; 1991 Pew Scholars Award in Conservation and the Environment; co-author, An Evolutionary Approach to Economic Growth.
Evelyn Fox Keller, physics, USA. Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MacArthur Fellow, 1992-1997; author, Reflections on Gender and Science.
Jürgen Kocka, history, Germany. Professor of the History of the Industrial World, Freie Universitãt, Berlin; permanent Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; author, Geschichte und Aufklãrung; editor, Interdisziplinariat: Praxis - Herausförderung - Ideologie.
Dominique Lecourt, philosophy, France. Professeur de la Philosophie des Sciences, Université de Paris-Denis Diderot; author, A quoi donc sert la philosophie? Des sciences de la nature aux sciences politiques.
Valentin Y. Mudimbe, Romance languages, Zaire. Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of Romance Languages and Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University; General Secretary, Society for African Philosophy in North America; author, The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge.
Kinhide Mushakoji, political science, Japan. Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University; former President, International Political Science Association; former Vice-Rector for Programme, United Nations University; President, Japanese Council for International Affairs; author, Global Issues and Interparadigmatic Dialogue - Essays on Multipolar Politics.
Ilya Prigogine, chemistry, Belgium. Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1977: Director, Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie; co-author, La nouvelle alliance. Les métamorphoses de la science; Exploring Complexity.
Peter J. Taylor, geography, UK. Professor of Political Geography, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; editor, Political Geography Quarterly; author, Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality.
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, anthropology, Haiti. Director of the Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power & History, and Professor of Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University; Chair, Advisory Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; author, Peasants and Capital: Dominicain the World Economy.
The first meeting of the Commission was held in Lisbon on June 17-18, 1994. The Commission will meet twice more -- in Paris on January 13-14, 1995 and in Binghamton on April 28-29, 1995.
The Commission will issue a report which will include an analysis of the historical construction of the social sciences, a discussion of current intellectual debates and dilemmas, and will offer proposals for the directions in which the social sciences might move in the coming decades. This report should be ready by June 1995 and will then be published in multiple languages.
The theme for 1993-94 was "Nomothetic vs. Idiographic Disciplines: A False Dilemma?" Four Fellows were with the program:
Andre Fursov (historian, Russia)
Ramón Grosfoguel (sociologist, Puerto Rico)
Kyung-il Kim (sociologist, [South] Korea)
Ulf Strohmayer (geographer, Germany)
The fellows have produced jointly a book which is currently being edited.
For 1994-95, the Program has five fellows. They are:
Parthasarathi Banerjee (tech. & devel. st., India)
Reinhard Blänkner (historian, Germany)
Waldemar Czajkowski (social philosophy, Poland)
Y. Eyüp Özveren (sociologist and
economist, Turkey)
Wang Zhengyi (political scientist, P.R. China)
The theme for the year will be "The States, the Markets, and the Societies: Separate Logics or a Single Domain?"
The Post-Doctoral Program is suspended for 1995-96.
Both these groups have completed their research, and the final versions of the books are being edited.
c) Regional Economies and Civilizations RWG
This is a new Research Working Group, coordinated by Giovanni Arrighi. P.K. Hui is serving as Secretary. The RWG will engage in a comparative analysis of the various regions in the world-economy and the links of the socio-economic patterns to the civilizational matrices in which they are located. The group will look initially at East and Southeast Asia. Persons interested may write to Mr. Hui at the FBC.
It was held in Tokyo and Nagoya, December 10-14, 1994. The Japan Council on International Affairs joined with the three traditional sponsors (Fernand Braudel Center, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Starnberger Institut) to sponsor this conference on the theme "Asia in the World-Economy." In addition to some 10 Japanese participants including Prof. Kinhide Mushakoji, President of the JCIA, participants included Samir Amin (Egypt/Senegal), Giovanni Arrighi (FBC), George Aseniero (Philippines), François Gipouloux (France), Terence K. Hopkins (FBC), Otto Kreye (Starnberger Institut), Su-hoon Lee (Korea), Ravi Palat (India/New Zealand), M. Schoell (Germany/Papua New Guinea), Pu Shan (China), and Immanuel Wallerstein (FBC).
b) Journées Braudeliennes, II
The Primeras Jornadas Braudelianas were held in Mexico City, October 7-11, 1991, organized by Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas. The acts were published by the Instituto Mora, Mexico City, 1993.
The second conference, Jan. 20-21, 1994, was organized at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme by Alberto Tenenti and Immanuel Wallerstein. The theme: "Histoire et sciences sociales, aujourd'hui."
c) Sixth Biennial Conference on the Ottoman Empire
The Conference is sponsored by the FBC in conjunction with the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) Program at Binghamton, and the Institute of Turkish Studies. It will take place at Binghamton on September 23-24, 1994. The theme is "Historiographies of the Ottoman Empire." The four sessions are as follows:
It was held at Irvine, CA from April 7-9, 1994 on the theme, "A New World Order? Global Transformations in the Late Twentieth Century." The program was as follows:
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Samir Amin, "The Future of Global
Polarization"
(Forum du Tiers-Monde, Dakar, Senegal)
Discussants:
Andre Gunder Frank
(Faculty of Economics, University of Amsterdam)
Immanuel Wallerstein
(Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University)
STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Day One: Basic Approaches to Global Restructuring
I.
Herb Addo (International Relations, Univ. of the West Indies,
Trinidad and Tobago), "Late Twentieth Century Global
Changes: The
Refining Continuities for the Periphery"
Robert Ross (Sociology, Clark University), "The Theory of Global Capitalism: Variants of Capitalism on a World Scale"
Philip McMichael (Rural Sociology, Cornell), "Transforming Capitalist Regulation: State System Restructuring and the New Colonialism"
Edel Egger & Gerhard Hanappi (Socioeconomics, Austrian Academy of Sciences), "After the Class - Information Technology and the New World Order"
II. Empirical Analysis of Global Restructuring: Network Analogies
Albert Bergesen (Sociology, Arizona) & Roberto Fernandez (Business School, Stanford), "A Network Analysis of Global Economic Competition, 1956-1989"
Tieting Su (Sociology, McGill), "A Dynamic Analysis of World Trade Structure"
III. Regional Dynamics: East Asia & the Pacific Rim
Richard Child Hill & Kuniko Fujita (Sociology, Michigan State), "Product Cycles and International Divisions of Labor: Contrasts Between the United States and Japan"
Stephen G. Bunker & Paul S. Ciccantelli (Sociology, Wisconsin), "Restructuring Space, Time and Competitive Advantage in the World-System: Japan and Raw Materials Transport After World War II"
Jieli Li (Sociology, UC-Riverside), "Geopolitics of China: Towards the Turn of the Century"
Frederic Deyo (Sociology, SUNY-Brockport), "Competition, Flexibility, and Industrial Ascent: The Thai Auto Industry"
IV. Regional Restructuring: Three Cases
Denis O'Hearn, (Sociology, Queens University, Belfast) "Restructuring, Hegemonic Competition and the Transnational Sector in the European Periphery: Has Anything Changed?"
John Martino (Economics, La Trobe University, Melbourne), "Against the Grain: Social Democracy and the Process of Capital Restructuring in Australia During the 1980s-1990s"
Cynthia Siemsen Maki & Walter L. Goldfrank (Sociology, UC-Santa Cruz), "Lessons From the Gulf War: Hegemonic Decline, Semiperipheral Turbulence, and the Role of the Rentier State"
Day Two: New Social Movements and Strategies for Resistance
V. Responses and Resistance to Restructuring: South Asia
Robert Denemark (Political Science, Delaware), "Sri Lanka in Crisis: Understanding 'Ethnic' Upheaval in the Post Cold War World System"
Timothy J. Scrase (Sociology, University of Tasmania), "Voices from India: Globalization and the Struggle for Justice"
Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase (Sociology, Deakin University, Australia), "Can Watching MTV End Class Divisions? Global Manufacturing and Indian Leather Workers"
VI. Ecological Crisis and Activism: An Antisystemic Movement?
Sing C. Chew (Social Sciences, Humboldt State), "Global 'Transformations': Accumulation, Ecological Crisis and Social Movements"
Stefan Kipfer (Environmental Studies, York, Toronto), "Urban Politics in World Cities: The Case of Ecological Politics in Zurich, Switzerland"
VII. Reconceptualizing Resistance: Theoretical Explorations"
Andre Drainville (Political Science, Laval, Quebec City), "Left Internationalism and the Internationalization of the State: The Politics of Resistance in the New World Order"
Jeffrey M. Paige (Sociology, Michigan), "Intimacy, Identity and Dignity: Human Needs and the Primacy of Production in Marxist Social Thought"
b) XIX PEWS.
The theme is "Latin America in the World-Econo my." It will be held at the North-South Center (Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL) on April 20-22, 1995. The sub-themes are:
a. The Persistence of Authoritarianism or Deepening Democratization? In order to understand current political transformations in Latin America, we seek to analyze these developments in a historical perspective. What are the institutional changes that have accompanied processes of democratization? Have democracies changed the culture of institutions such as the military over the past decade? What is the current regional status of human rights? What are the persistent differences and similarities across the region?
b. The Social Construction of Commodity Chains: States, Enterprises and Households. Current efforts at economic restructuring in Latin America have entailed new relations between states, enterprises and households. What is the nature of these new regulations? How have these new relations altered the character of these three arenas? Has the emergence of a new entrepreneurial ethos accompanied economic restructuring? What has been the regional evolution of social stratification over the past decade? What can we learn from micro and macro approaches to this theme?
c. New Regional and Conceptual Boundaries: Economic, Political and Cultural Flows. The past decade challenged existing boundaries in Latin America. What has been the evolution of migration? Have capital flows acquired a new character? To what extent have trade agreements resulted in the creation of new institutional arrangements between and within states? What will be the appearance of these boundaries as we approach the year 2000?
d. Terrains of Confrontation: Social Movements and Categories of Identity. The relationship between social movements and current transformations in Latin America is not clear. What has been the role of social movements over the past decade in Latin America? Has the develop ment of new categories of identity strengthened or weakened social movements?
e. Regional Differences and Commonalities. What is the role that Latin America has played and will play in the world- economy? Has it been, is it now, will be an important locus of world accumulation of capital, or has it been, is it now, will it be relatively marginalized? How do the trends addressed in this conference relate to concurrent developments elsewhere in the world-economy (e.g., Eastern or Southern Europe)? What theoretical approaches and concepts have proven most useful in analyzing these transformations?
Those interested in offering papers are asked to send an abstract by December 1, 1994 to both of the organizers:
Roberto P.Korzeniewicz
Dept. of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
FAX: (301) 405-5743
E-Mail: rk81@umail.umd.edu
Prof. William C. Smith
Graduate School of Int'l St.
University of Miami
Coral Cables, FL 33124
FAX: (305) 284-2863
The sessions were as follows:
October 14: Negussay Ayele (Univ. of Addis Ababa, and Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University), "Macho and the Political Culture of Violence: The Case of the Horn of Africa"
November 11: Maria Lugones (LACAS and SEHD, Binghamton University), "Purity, Impurity and Separation"
December 9: Bill Haver (History Department, Binghamton University), "Not Even a God Can Save Us Now: Aids, Materiality, Globality or Totality"
March 15: Isidore Okpewho (Afro-American and African Studies, Binghamton University), "The Cousins of Uncle Remus: Relations between African and Afro-American Oral Traditions"
April 7: Linda Forcey (SEHD, Binghamton University - Sponsored in association with Women's Studies), "Women in India Thinking About Peace: An Outsider's Reflection"
April 21: Maria Grosz-Ngaté (Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University), "Women, Men, and the Construction of 'Community' in Sana (Mali)"
The contents of vol. XVII, 1994 were as follows:
XVII, 1, Winter 1994
THE EXOGENEITY/ENDOGENEITY DEBATE
Andre Gunder Frank, "Inside Out or Outside In?"
Ernest Mandel, "Reply" David M. Gordon, "Reply"
FEUDALISM/CAPITALISM IN JAPAN
Stephen K. Sanderson, "The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism: The Theoretical Significance of the Japanese Case"
Mark Metzler, "Capitalist Boom, Feudal Bust: Long Waves in Economics and Politics in Pre-Industrial Japan"
XVII, 2, Spring 1994
William McNeill, "The Fall of Great Powers: An Historical Commentary"
William G. Martin, "The World-Systems Perspective in Perspective: Assessing the Attempt to Move Beyond Nineteenth-Century Eurocentric Conceptions"
Tariq Banuri, "Noah's Ark or Jesus's Cross? UNCED as a Tale of Two Cities"
Wilma A. Dunaway, "The Southern Fur Trade and the Incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the World-Economy, 1690-1763"
Jim Mac Laughlin, "Emigration and the Peripherlization of Ireland in the Global Economy"
XVII, 3, Summer 1994
George Aseniero, "South Korean & Taiwanese Development: The Transnational Context"
Samir Amin, "The Future of Global Polarization"
WORLD CITIES
Ramón Grosfoguel, "World Cities in the Caribbean: The Rise of Miami and San Juan"
Çaglar Keyder & Ayse Öncü, "Globalization of a Third-World Metropolis: Istanbul in the 1980's"
XVII, 4, Fall 1994
Mark Selden, "Pathways from Collectivization: Socialist and Post-Socialist Agrarian Alternatives in Russia and China"
Anouar Abdel-Malek, "Historical Initiative: The New 'Silk Road'"
SILK
Rila Mukherjee, "The Story of Kasimbazar: Silk Merchants and Commerce in Eighteenth-Century India"
Patrizia Sione, "Patterns of International Migration: Italian Silk Workers in New Jersey, USA"
b) The work of the World Labor RWG will be published as a Special issue of Review, XVIII, 1, 1995.
LABOR UNREST IN THE WORLD ECONOMY, 1906-1990
Beverly J. Silver, Giovanni Arrighi & Melvyn Dubofsky
Special Editors
Beverly J. Silver, Giovanni Arrighi & Melvyn Dubofsky, "Introduction"
PART I: RESEARCH DESIGN
Beverly J. Silver, " Labor Unrest and World-Systems Analysis: Premises, Concepts and Measurement"
Jamie F. Dangler, " The Times (London) and New York Times as Sources on World Labor Unrest"
PART II: RELIABILITY STUDIES
Giovanni Arrighi, " Labor Unrest in Italy"
Mark Selden, " Labor Unrest in China"
Mark Beittel, " Labor Unrest in South Africa"
Roberto P. Korzeniewicz, " Labor Unrest in Argentina"
Donald Quataert, "Labor Unrest in Egypt"
Melvyn Dubofsky, " Labor Unrest in the United States"
John Casparis & Giovanni Arrighi, " Labor Unrest in Germany"
PART III: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Beverly J. Silver, " World-Scale Patterns of Labor-Capital Conflict: Labor Unrest, Long Waves and Cycles of Hegemony"
APPENDICES
World Labor Group, "Data Collection Instructions"
World Labor Group, "The Geographical Spread of Mentions of Labor Unrest, 1906-1990"
c) Giovanni Arrighi's book, "The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times" will be published this fall by Verso.
d) Papers delivered at conferences and available at request.
Immanuel Wallerstein (1993). "The Fall of Great Powers, Peace, Stability, and Legitimacy: 1990-2025/2050," paper presented at Norske Nobelinstitutt, Tromsø, August 1-4.
Immanuel Wallerstein (1993). "The Geoculture of Development, or the Transformation of our Geoculture?," paper presented at IFES/UNESCO, Seoul, September 20-22.
Immanuel Wallerstein (1993). "End of What Modernity?, paper presented at President's Forum on The End of Modern Age, Bucknell University, September 30.
Immanuel Wallerstein (1993). "The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System," paper prepared for International Seminar on Nations, Identities, Cultures at Duke University, November 5.
Immanuel Wallerstein (1993). "The Agonies of Liberalism: What Hope Progress?," paper prepared for 25th Anniversary of founding of Kyoto Seita University, December 7.
September 1993 - June 1994: Hiroshi Makina, International & Cultural Studies, Tsuda College, Japan
September - December 1993: Anna-Maria Nassisi, Economics, Univ. of Rome, Italy
November 1993: Victor Armony, Sociology, Univ. of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
November 1993: Leo Poncelet, Anthropology, Univ. of Montreal, Canada
December 1993 - December 1994: Qu Zhenyuan, Economics, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing China
February 1994: Manjit Singh, Labor Relations, Punjab Univ., India
April - July 1994: Zheng Weimin, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China
July 1994: Antón Alvarez Sousa, Sociology, La Coruña Univ., Spain
July - October 1994: Sergei Shilovtsev, Institute of Oriental
Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
September 27, 1993, Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba, History, Univ. of Dar
es Salaam and President, CODESRIA, and Jacques Depelchin,
African- American Studies, Syracuse Univ., "Democratization in
Zaire and Africa," co-sponsored by Institute of Global Cultural
Studies and Political Science Dept.
October 13, 1993, Gail Arrigo, Ph.D. candidate, Sociology,
Binghamton Univ., "Report on U.N. Conference on Human Rights,
Vienna, June 1993"
October 15, 1993, Brantly Womack, Government and Foreign Affairs,
Univ. of Virginia, "The Many Worlds of China's Provinces: Trade
and Diversification," co-sponsored with Sociology
November 10, 1993, Andrezej Wyczanski, Scientific Secretary and
President, Polish Academy of Sciences, "The Annales School and
Polish Historiography: Research and Attitudes," co-sponsored by
History
February 12, 1994, Symposium, "The Black Experience Today: Black
Humanities: Literature and Philosophy; Political Africa: Left,
Right, and Center," co-sponsored with Institute of Global
Cultural Studies, Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies
May 9, 1994, Daniel Mato, Inst. of Latin-American Studies, Univ.
of Texas-Austin, Construction of Transnational Identities in
Latin America in Times of Globalization," co-sponsored with
LACAS, Office of the Dean of Harpur College
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