It took place in Coral Gables, Florida on Apr. 20-22, 1995. The local sponsor was the North-South Center of the University of Miami. The sessions were:

Session I: Toward a World-Historical Perspective

Ramón Grosfoguel (Binghamton University), "From Cepalismo to Neoliberalism: A World-System Approach to Conceptual Shifts in Latin America"

Paul S. Cigcantell (Kansas State Univ.) and Stephen G. Bunker (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), "A Rising Hegemon Creates its Periphery: Latin American Raw Materials and Japan"

J. Timmons Roberts (Tulane Univ.), "Globalization and the Environment in Latin America: Loans, Investments, NGOs, and Treaties"

Session 2: Commodity Chains

Caren Addis (Rutgers Univ.), "SEBRAE Sidelines Trade Associations: Shifting Governance in Small Firm Restructuring in Brazil"

Amy E. Bellone (Tulane Univ.), "The Cocaine Commodity Chain and Development Paths in Peru and Bolivia"

David Spener (Univ. of Texas-Austin), "Small Firms, Commodity Chains, and Free Trade: The Transformation of the Texas-Mexico Border Region"

John M. Talbot (Univ. of California-Berkeley), "Struggles for Control of the Commodity Chain: The Instant Coffee Exports of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Cote d'Ivoire, and India"

Session 3: Enterprises, Households, and Labor Markets

Alvaro Diaz (Economics Ministry, Chile), "Social Inequality and Economic Growth in the 1990s: Reflections on the Chilean Model"

Jose Itzigsohn (Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst), "The State, Globalization, and the Informal Economy"

Miguel Korzeniewicz (Univ. of New Mexico), "Uncertainty and Innovation: Emerging Agendas in the Political Economy of Latin America"

Richard Tardanico (Florida International Univ.), "Global Restructuring and Urban Employment in Latin America"

Keynote Address: Alejandro Portes (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

Session 4: Migration Processes

Norma S. Chinchilla (California State Univ.-Long Beach) and Nora Hamilton (Univ. of Southern California), "Economic Liberalization, Political Change and Migration: Some Observations Based on the Mexican and Central American Experience"

Suzanne Jonas (Univ. of California-Santa Cruz), "Can State Policies Reverse Transnational Realities? A Case Study of Central American Immigrants/Refugees and State Policies in Mexico and the United States"

Linda M. Matthei (East Texas State Univ.) and David A. Smith (Univ. of California-Irvine), "Women, Households, and Transnational Migration Networks: Global Economic Restructuring and a Central American Community"

Session 5: States, Elites, Parties, and Democracy

Sergio Berensztein (Univ. of North Carolina/FLASCO-Mexico), "Rebuilding State Capacity in Latin America: The Politics of Taxation"

Marcelo Cavarozzi (FLACSO-Mexico), "Parties and Party Systems in Contemporary South America: A Historical Approach"

A. Douglas Kincaid (Florida International Univ.) and Eduardo A. Gamarra (Florida International Univ.), "Disorderly Democracy: Redefining Public Security in Latin America"

Jeffery Paige (Univ. of Michigan), "Elite Ideology and the World-System Crisis of the 1930s in Central America"

Session 6: Social Movements

Susan Eckstein (Boston Univ.), "Redefining the Urban Experience? State Efforts and Social Resistance"

Nancy Forsythe (Univ. of Maryland-College Park), "Old and New Anti-Systemic Movements: Accumulation, Rule, and Resistance in Latin America"

Edward McCaughan (Univ. of California-Santa Cruz) and Walter L. Goldfrank (Univ. of California-Santa Cruz), "The Demise and Rise of the Latin American Left: Castañeda and Beyond"

Bruce M. Podobnik (Johns Hopkins Univ.), "Revolutionary Terrorism in the Periphery: A Comparative Analysis of the Khmer Rouge and the Shining Path"

b) PEWS XX

The theme is "Space and Transport in the World-System." It will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in April, 1996. The call for papers follows:

Key metaphors in world-system analysis are profoundly spatial, but there have been few systematic attempts to understand how space, location, and topography affect world-system organization and process. Most of the raw materials needed for industrial production are located in specific places with particular topographies that directly affect the organization of their extraction and processing. Space and place constitute strategic advantages and obstacles in the coordination of commodity chains. National states plan and invest around problems of space in their domestic territories as well as in their location within the world-economy.

The articulation and integration of core and periphery across space depends on transport. As world-systems incorporate more space and transform more raw materials into commodities, material flows across space and matter incorporated into particular built environments increase as well. This increase creates requirements and opportunities for scale-economic innovations in railways, ports, loading and unloading equipment, and ships. These innovations increase the amounts of inflexibly sunk capital in vehicles and infrastructure, thereby fomenting incentives and pressures for ever tighter coordination of transport systems across regional and national boundaries. Because the costs and benefits of building integrated transport systems around the globe are unequally distributed, these systems contribute directly to a creation and recreation of inequalities and subordination in the world-system.

In this sense, transport and transport systems provide a critical medium for the structuring and periodic reorganization and expansion of the world-system. The construction and regulation of these complex systems provide a useful analytic window into the interactions of technological, organizational, and political change that occur as rising economies attempt to restructure world markets for raw materials and finished goods to their own advantage.

Possible themes include:

1) Technical and organizational innovations in transport as a factor in hegemonic ascent and decline;

2) Differentiating aspects of space and the built environment in core and periphery;

3) Transport as a component in raw materials access strategies;

4) Transport and location in the construction of commodity chains;

5) Transport as leading sector.

Abstracts should be sent to:
Stephen Bunker
Department of Sociology
1180 Observatory Drive
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706

c) The Black Experience Today: Images of Africana Self and Eurocentricity

It was sponsored by the Institute of Global Cultural Studies & Department of Africana Studies and co-sponsored by the Fernand Braudel Center, and the Society for Global Africa, Binghamton University, February 4, 1995. The program was as follows:

AFRICANA IMAGES OF GENDER: ANCIENT AND MODERN

Gerald E. Kadish (Binghamton University) - "Images of a Mother Goddess: Isis in Ancient Egypt"

Parviz Morewedge (Binghamton University & Cornell University) - "Comments"

Tiffany Patterson (Binghamton University) - "Icons of Africana: A Study in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston"

THE EUROCENTRIC IMAGES OF AFRICANA: CLASSICAL AND MODERN

Achim Koddermann (SUNY Oneonta) - "Native and the Indigenous as `The Other': Africana Images in the Writings of Modern Europeans"

Maria Grosz-Ngate (Binghamton University) - "Comments"

THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT: IMAGES OF AFRICA

Omari H. Kokole (Binghamton University) - "Time and Ecophilia in African Culture"

Laura Westra (University of Windsor) - "The African Environment and Corporate Ethics"

VI. Colloquium on Culture and the World-System

September 22: Kelvin Santiago (Sociology Department, Binghamton University), "The Limits of Traditional Political Economy in Doing Late Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Caribbean Social History"

October 6: Richard Moench (Anthropology Department, Binghamton University), "Brothers and Anthropological Others"

November 10: Tiffany Patterson (History Department, Binghamton Uni- versity), "Culture, Identity, and Consciousness: Zora Neale Hurston and the Ethnographic/Literary Critique of Capitalist Relations"

February 2: Nkiru Nzegwu (Philosophy, Art History & Africana Studies Departments, Binghamton University), "Sweeping Out Africa with Mother Europe's Broom: A Post-Colonial Sacrifice for Appiah"

David Cingranelli (Political Science Department, Binghamton University), "Human Rights and United States Foreign Policy"

David Lloyd (English Department, Univ. of California-Berkeley), "The Memory of Hunger: Hunger Striking and Subaltern Nationalisms in Ireland"

VII. Publications

The contents of vol. XVIII, 1995 were as follows:

XVIII, 1, Winter 1995

LABOR UNREST IN THE WORLD-ECONOMY, 1870-1990

Beverly J. Silver, Giovanni Arrighi & Melvyn Dubofsky, Special Editors

Beverly Silver, Giovanni Arrighi & Melvyn Dubofsky, "Introduction"

Part I: The World Labor Research Working Group Project: Research Design

Beverly J. Silver, "Labor Unrest and World-Systems Analysis: Premises, Concepts, and Measurement"

Jamie F. Dangler, "The Times (London) and the New York Times as Sources on World Labor Unrest"

Part II: Country Reliability Studies

Giovanni Arrighi, "Labor Unrest in Italy, 1880-1990"

Mark Selden, "Labor Unrest in China, 1831-1990"

Mark Beittel, "Labor Unrest in South Africa, 1870-1990"

Roberto P. Korzeniewicz, "Labor Unrest in Argentina, 1906-90"

Donald Quataert, "Labor Unrest in Egypt, 1906-90"

Melvyn Dubofsky, "Labor Unrest in the United States, 1906-90"

John Casparis & Giovanni Arrighi, "Labor Unrest in Germany, 1906-90"

Part III: World-Scale Patterns

Beverly J. Silver, "World-Scale Patterns of Labor-Capital Conflict: Labor Unrest, Long Waves, and Cycles of World Hegemony"

Appendices

World Labor Group, "Data Collection Instructions"

World Labor Group, "Geographical Spread of Mentions of Labor Unrest, 1906-90"

XVIII, 2, Spring 1995

Terisa E. Turner & Craig S. Benjamin, "Not in Our Nature: The Male Deal and Corporate Solutions to the Debt-Nature Crisis"

EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Hans-Heinrich Nolte, "Internal Peripheries: From Andalucia to Tatarstan"

Salvatore Ciriacono, "Land Reclamation: Dutch Windmills, Private Enterprises, and State Intervention"

Carl H.A. Dassbach, Nurhan Davutyan, Jianping Dong & Barry Fay, "Long Waves Prior to 1790: A Modest Contribution"

ON HISTORIOGRAPHY

Bernard Lepetit, "Les Annales aujourd'hui"

Ian Phimister, "Africa Partitioned"

XVIII, 3, Summer 1995

Tony Porter, "Innovation in Global Finance: Impact on Hegemony and Growth since 1000 AD"

Tieting Su, "Changes in World Trade Networks: 1938, 1960, 1990"

Terry Boswell & Joya Misra, "Cycles and Trends in the Early Capitalist World-Economy: An Analysis of Leading Sector Commodity Trades, 1500-1600/50-1750"

Said Chikhi, "Question ouvrière et rapports sociaux en Algérie"

XVIII, 4, Fall 1995

Hayward R. Alker, "If Not Huntington's 'Civilizations' Then Whose?"

THE WORLD-SYSTEM SEEN IN A MEXICAN PRISM

Miguel De Oliver, "Structural Consolidation: The Colorado Delta Region, 1900-10"

Kathleen C. Schwartzman, "The Historical and Global Nature of Dependent Development: A Time Series Analysis of Brazil and Mexico, 1901-80"

Edward J. McCaughan, "National Autonomy in the New World Order: Perspectives from Cuba and Mexico"

Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, "Lo Particular y lo universal a fines del siglo XX"

b) Papers delivered at conferences and available upon request.

Immanuel Wallerstein (1994). "What Hope Africa? What Hope the World?," paper presented at conference on "A Road to Development Africa in the 21st Century," Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, Oct. 13-15.

Immanuel Wallerstein (1994). "History in Search of Science," paper presented at International Meeting, "With Darwin Beyond Descartes: The `Historical' Concepts of Nature and the Overcoming of the `Two Cultures'," Departments of Physics and of History and Geography, Univ. of Pavia, November 17-19.

Mark Selden (1995). "China, Japan and the Regional Political Economy of East Asia, 1945-1995," paper presented at the Japan in Asia Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, April 25. Immanuel Wallerstein (1995). "The Interstate Structure of The Modern World-System," paper presented at Conference to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the World's First Department of International Politics, "After Positivism," Univ. of Wales at Aberystwyth, July 1-3.

VIII. Visiting Research Associates

Sept.-Nov. 1994: Teivo Teivainen, Iberoamerican Research Center, University of Helsinki

Sept.-Oct. 1994: Mauro Di Meglio, Sociology Department, University of Pisa, Italy

Jan. 95-Jan. 96: Jae-kwang Lee, reporter for "The Economist," Seoul, Korea

April-July 1995: Nikolai Rozov, Philosophy Department, Novosibirsk State University, Russia

IX. Public Lectures

Oct. 20, 1994: Sergei Shilovtsev, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russia, "Implications of Japanese Hypergrowth for Long Waves Research"

Nov. 14, 1994: Michael Hanchard, DuBois Inst., Harvard University, "Black Cinderella: Race and the Public Sphere in Brazil," co- sponsored with Dept. of Africana Studies, Affirmative Action, Dean of Arts and Sciences, History, Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies, Political Science, Sociology, TRIP

Nov. 17, 1994: Archie Shepp, Jazz performance, sponsored by Africana Studies

April 24, 1995: Partha Nath Mukherjee, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, "Ethnic Movements: Democracy and Nation-Building in India," co-sponsored by Asian and Asian American Studies, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, History, Sociology