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The Report of the Commission has been published under the title, I. Wallerstein et al., Open the Social Sciences. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1996. Stanford Univ. Press books are distributed outside North America by Cambridge Univ. Press.
The Report has already appeared in many other languages:
Chinese: Hong Kong, Oxford Univ. Press (China)
Dutch: Brussel, VUB Press
French: Paris, Descartes & Cie
German: Frankfurt, Campus Verlag
Korean: Seoul, Dangdae
Portuguese: Lisboa, Publicações Europa-América
Portuguese (Brazilian): São Paulo, Cortez Ed.
Publication is expected shortly in the following languages:
English (South Asian edition): Delhi, Sage Publications
(India)
Italian: Milano, Franco Angeli
Japanese: Tokyo, Fujiwara Shoten
Norwegian: Oslo, Universitetsforlaget
Polish: Kraków, Jagiellonian Univ. Publ.
Serbian: Podgorica, CID
Spanish: México, Siglo XXI de México
Turkish: Ankara, Metis Yayinlari
We are completing arrangements for publication in Czech, Romanian, and Russian, as well as an English-language edition for distribution in Africa. We hope to make further arrangements in other languages.
a) New York, Oct. 24, 1995. The Social Science Research Council invited the Chair of the Commission to present the Report to its staff. A written version of this talk was published as Immanuel Wallerstein, "Open the Social Sciences" in Items, L, 1, Mar. 1996, 1-7. This article was reprinted in the Newsletter of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, XV, 2, 1996, 38-45.
b) Lisbon, Mar. 22-23, 1996. The Calouste Gulbenkian Commission convened a conference to discuss the report on the occasion of the launching of the book in English and Portuguese. Those participating in the discussion with members of the Commission were leaders of national and international social science organizations: UNESCO, International Social Science Council, Social Science Research Council, British Academy, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, HSFR (Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences), CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa), CLACSO (Consejo Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales). Also in attendance were leaders of foundations especially interested in the social sciences: MacArthur Foundation, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Volkswagen Foundation, Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation.
c) June 2-3, 1996, Stanford University. The University conducted an International Dialogue on the Report under the title "Which Sciences for Tomorrow?" It was directed by V.Y. Mudimbe, a member of the Commission and a professor at Stanford. Participants came from France, Switzerland, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. The sessions were filmed by SCOLA and will be televised worldwide to some 10,000 institutions. There will be dubbed versions in Chinese and Russian as well.
d) Other conferences to come:
1) The Polish Academy of Sciences is holding a meeting in Kraków in October 1996 to discuss the Polish translated version. The papers at this conference will be published along with the translation of the Report.
2) The Report will be discussed at the VIII Encuentro de Historia y Realidad Económica Social del Ecuador y América Latina in Cuenca, Ecuador on Nov. 11-15, 1996.
3) There will be a meeting in Tokyo on the occasion of the launching of the Japanese edition in January 1997, which will be addressed by the chair of the Commission.
4) The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, will hold a conference on the Report.
5) There will be a conference in Turkey in March 1997 on the occasion of the launching of the Turkish edition.
6) The American Sociological Association will devote a special round-table session to the Report in its meetings in Toronto, Aug. 9-13, 1997.
7) A faculty group has been established at the Univ. of Hawaii on a continuing basis to discuss the Report and its implications.
8) The Korean edition has been widely reviewed and is into its second printing already.
The Table of Contents of the book:
Preface
1. The World-System: Is There a Crisis?
Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein
Part I: The Institutional Vectors, 1945-90
2. The Interstate System
Thomas Reifer and Jamie Sudler
From 1945 to 1967/73: The Creation of the Cold War
Structure
From 1967/73 to 1990: Changes in the Interstate System
3. World Production
Satoshi Ikeda
Expansion, Integration and Polarization
The Expanding Role of Transnational Corporations
The Industrial Sector
The Service Sector
US Hegemony and the World-Economy
Conclusion
4. The World Labour Force
Faruk Tabak
Pax Americana and the Global Spread of Taylorism
The Global Reach of Taylorism
Changing Modes of Expansion of Capital and Labour
Control
The Expanding Dominion of Semiproletarian Households
5. World Human Welfare
Sheila Pelizzon and John Casparis
From 1945 to 1967/73: The Apogee of the Welfare State
From 1967/73 to 1990: The Welfare State under Attack
6. The Social Cohesion of the States
Georgi M. Derlugian
From 1945 to 1967/73: The Time of Universal Deliverance
From 1967/73 to 1990: The Time of Undoing
7. Structures of Knowledge
Richard Lee
From 1945 to 1967/73: The Construction of Consensus
From 1967/73 to 1990: Contradiction and Transformation
A World in Transition
Part II: Overview
8. The Global Picture, 1945-90
Immanuel Wallerstein
9. The Global Possibilities, 1990-2025
Immanuel Wallerstein
Bibliography
b) Regional Economies and Civilizations RWG
The group, coordinated by Giovanni Arrighi, is seeking to clarify the two concepts, "regional economy" and "civilization" and to address the degree of correlation of the two. It is considering their relationship within three time frames: the last 50 years, the last 150 years, 500+ years.
In conjunction with the work of this RWG, the Fernand Braudel Center is organizing an ACLS/SSRC planning meeting on "The Rise of East Asia in World-Historical Perspective" on Dec. 6-7, 1996 at Binghamton. The meeting will take off from a preparatory document written by Giovanni Arrighi and Mark Selden of the Fernand Braudel Center and Takeshi Hamashita of the East Asian Cultural Research Center of Tokyo University. Participants in the meeting will come from the U.S., China, and Japan.
c) Structures of Knowledge RWG
A new group has been formed in the Fall of 1996, coordinated by Immanuel Wallerstein and Richard Lee. It intends to take forward the work begun by the Gulbenkian Commission, concentrating on the issue of the "two cultures" - the intellectual and organizational origins of the distinction, the current challenges to its validity, and the intellectual difficulties in "overcoming" the division. The RWG is presently designing its research program, both conceptually and empirically.
d) Comparative Hegemonies RWG. The completed product of this group is in final editing now.
The three traditional sponsors of the ICWE (Fernand Braudel Center, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, and the Starnberger Institut) were joined by the Karl-Renner Institut in holding a colloquium on "Global Polarization: Reports on the Political, Economic and Social Situation in Major Regions of the World." The Colloquium was followed by a Public Seminar.
b) International Colloquium, Pisa, May 30-June 1, 1996.
The Fernand Braudel Center and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme joined forces with the Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali of the Università degli Studi di Pisa to sponsor an international colloquium on "I saperi storico-sociali prima delle discipline" at the University of Pisa.
c) VIIth Biennial Conference on the Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy, Binghamton, Oct. 11-12, 1996.
The three traditional sponsors (Fernand Braudel Center, the Middle East & North African Program of Binghamton University, and the Institute of Turkish Studies) convened this conference on the theme, "Consumption in the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1923."
The program was as follows:
OPENING REMARKS
Donald Quataert (MENA)
"Consumption Studies: A Useful Concept for Ottoman History?"
SESSION I
Suraiya Faroqhi (Ludwig-Maximilians Univ.)
"Textile Consumption in Bursa, Late Fifteenth to Early
Eighteenth Centuries: A Comparative View"
Tülay Artan (Istanbul Univ.)
"Looking for 'Staples,' 'Delicacies,' and 'Conspicuous
Consumption'in the Ottoman Elite Diet of the Eighteenth Century"
SESSION II
Ariel Salzmann (New York Univ.)
"Tulipmania in the Ottoman Empire: Politics and Public
Consumption in the Early Eighteenth Century"
Beshara Doumani (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
"Workshop on the Use of Probate Inventories (Tereke
defterleri) in Consumption History"
Sherry Vatter (UCLA)
"Food and Fabrics in Ottoman Syria: Re-evaluating the Study
of Consumption"
SESSION III
Leslie Peirce (Cornell Univ.), Chair
Charlotte Jirousek (Cornell Univ.)
"The Transition from Traditional to Mass Fashion System Dress
in the Later Ottoman Empire"
Elizabeth Frierson (Cornell Univ.)
"Cheap and Easy: Consumption, Credits, and the Creation of
Markets in the Late Nineteenth Century"
Nancy Micklewright (Univ. of Victoria)
"Photographs and Consumption in the Ottoman Empire"
SESSION IV
Roundtable Discussion
The Fernand Braudel Center joined other groups in sponsoring this conference, organized primarily by the Africana Studies Department of Binghamton University. The Director of the Fernand Braudel Center was a member of the concluding panel on "The Diaspora, Contemporary African Reality, and the World-System."
2) PEWS XX, April 19-20, 1996
The theme of the conference was "Space and Transport in the World-System." It was held at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. The program was:
Theoretical Perspectives:
Robert Clark (George Mason University)
"Bulk Flow Systems and Globalization"
Phil Steinberg (Clark University)
"Ocean-Space and the Capitalist World-Economy"
Stephen G. Bunker (University of Wisconsin)
"Transport and Hegemony"
Transport and the Core:
David Smith (University of California-Irvine), and Michael
Timberlake (Kansas State University)
"The Global Network of Cities: What Airline Exchanges Tell Us
About the Structure of the World-System's City System"
John Gulick (University of California-Santa Cruz)
"Intermodal Transport and North American West Coast Ports"
Transport and the Periphery and Semiperiphery:
Baldev Raj Nayar (McGill University)
"Power and the Shaping of Markets: Imperialism and Shipping
Nationalism in Colonial India"
Saule Omarova (University of Wisconsin)
"Oil Pipelines in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan"
Richard Lee (Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University)
"Rail Transport in the Incorporation of West Africa"
c) PEWS XXI, April 3-5, 1997
The theme of this conference will be "The Global Environment: A World-Systems Perspective." The organizer is Walter Goldfrank of the University of California at Santa Cruz. The Call for Papers follows:
The twenty-first annual conference of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association will take place April 3-5, 1997 on the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Researchers are invited to submit papers or abstracts on the following themes and topics for consideration by the organizers:
a) environmental factors in the rise and decline of pre- capitalist world-systems;
b) sectoral analyses of environmental effects, both depletion and pollution (e.g., agriculture, forestry, mining, industry);
c) global distribution of environmental degradation;
d) regional environmental conditions for, and consequences of, global economic restructuring;
e) national and international governmental regulation;
f) innovation and diffusion of environmental technology;
g) environmental effects of war;
h) character and consequences of environmental social movements.
We expect to be able to provide lodging and some meals for conference participants. Selected papers will be published in the annual volume by Greenwood Press.
The deadline for submissions is January 6, 1997. Please forward materials to:
PEWS XXI c/o Provost
College Eight - UCSC
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
W. Goldfrank (wally@cats.ucsc.edu)
D. Goodman (hatters@cats.ucsc.edu)
A. Szasz (szasz@cats.ucsc.edu)
September 21, 1995: Bill Haver (History, Binghamton University) & Marilyn Desmond (Respondant, Women's Studies & English, Binghamton University), "Stormy Leather: The Arts of SM and the Invention of the Political"
October 26, 1995: Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey (German & Women's Studies, Binghamton University) & Max Pensky (Respondant, Philosophy, Binghamton University), "Representing Blackness: The Instrumentalization of Race in R.W. Fassbinder's `The Marriage of Maria Braun'"
November 30, 1995: Neville Dyson-Hudson (Anthropology, Binghamton University) & Ali Mazrui (Respondant, Institute for Global Cultural Studies), "Necessary Violence: Lessons from a Singular Society"
March 21, 1996: Godwin Sogolo (Visiting Scholar, Institute for Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University), "Ethnicity and the Crisis of Civil Society: The Nigerian Experience"
April 25, 1996: Christopher Fynsk (Chair, Comparative Literature, Binghamton University), "Language and Violence"
XIX, 1, Winter 1996
Ilya Prigogine, "The Laws of Chaos"
Immanuel Wallerstein, "History in Search of Science"
Faruk Tabak, "Ars Longa, Vita Brevis? A Geohistorical Perspective on Pax Mongolica"
Satoshi Ikeda, "The History of the Capitalist World-System vs. the History of East-Southeast Asia"
Mario Murteira, "The Transition from Central Planning to Market Economy: An International Comparison"
XIX, 2, Spring 1996
Andrei Foursov, "Communism, Capitalism, and the Bells of History"
Ramón Grosfoguel, "From Cepalismo to Neoliberalism: A World-Systems Approach to Conceptual Shifts in Latin America"
Richard Tardanico, "From Crisis to Restructuring: The Nexus of Global and National Change in the Costa Rican Labor Market"
Kosmas Tsokhas, "War, Industrialization, and State Intervention in the Semiperiphery: The Australian Case"
XIX, 3, Summer 1996
Arif Dirlik, "Social Formations in Representations of the Past: The Case of `Feudalism' in Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography"
Ravi Arvind Palat, "Fragmented Visions: Excavating the Future of Area Studies in a Post-American World"
THE WORLD WE ARE ENTERING
W. Warren Wagar, "Socialism, Nationalism, and Ecocide"
Giovanni Arrighi, "Workers of the World at Century's End"
XIX, 4, Fall 1996
Wilma A. Dunaway, "The Incorporation of Mountain Ecosystems into the Capitalist World-System"
Raymond F. Bulman, "Discerning Major Shifts in the World-System - Some Help From Theology?"
Sanjay P. Thakur, "Note on International Trade and the Political Economy of State Formation in South Asia: A Long Wave?"
Jack Arn, "Third World Urbanization and the Creation of a Relative Surplus Population: A History of Accra, Ghana to 1980"
J.-M. Berthelot, "La dynamique pluriculturelle dans la construction de la sociologie et l'aporie du relativisme"
Jan. 1995-Jan. 1996 - Jae-Kwang Lee, reporter for "The Economist," Seoul, Korea
Sept.-Dec. 1995 - Carlos Prieto del Campo, Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda, Madrid
Sept.-Dec. 1995 - Helen Quan, Dept. of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sept. 1995-Aug. 1996 - You Laiyi, City Commission of Economic System Reform, People's Government of Nantong, China
June-Aug. 1996 - Mauro DiMeglio, Sociology Dept., University of Pisa, Italy
Sept. 18, 1995 - Mao-Hsing Tseng, Executive Director, Taiwan Labor Front, "Prospects for Taiwan's Labor Movement after the Lifting of Martial Law in 1987," co-sponsored by Taiwanese American Student Coalition
Oct. 5, 1995 - Herbert Bix, research associate, Reischauer Center for Japanese Studies, Harvard Univ., "August 15, 1945: The Politics of Surrender and the Making of Postwar Japan," co- sponsored by Sociology, History, Asian and Asian-American Studies, Dean of Harpur College
Dec. 11, 1995 - Helen Quan, political science, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, "Japanese Financialism"
April 9, 1996 - Yoneyuki Sugita, American history, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, "Asian-Pacific Security in the Post-Cold War Era: Rethinking Global Order," co-sponsored by Sociology
Giovanni Arrighi, "The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate System," presented at Session on Global Praxis and the Future of the World-System. 90th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, August 19-23, 1995.
Giovanni Arrighi, "Capitalism and the Modern World-System: Rethink ing the Non-Debates of the 1970s," presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, New York, August 16-20, 1996.
Giovanni Arrighi et al., "Modeling Zones of the World-Economy: A Polynomial Regression Analysis (1964-1994)," presented at 91st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, August 16, 1996.
Giovanni Arrighi, Iftikhar Ahmad, Miin-wen Shih, "Beyond Western Hegemonies," presented at XXI Meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 10-13, 1996.
Richard Lee, "Transition and the Disciplines: A Historical Perspective on the Present Crisis," presented at the American Comparative Literature Association meeting "Literature and Science: Historical and Global Perspective," Athens, GA, March 16-18, 1995.
Richard Lee, "Cultural Studies as Geisteswissenschaften? Time, Objectivity, and the Future of Social Science," presented at the American Comparative Literature Association meeting "Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies," Notre Dame, IN April 11-13, 1996.
Richard Lee, "Between Wert and Wissen: A Future for the Three Cultures?," presentation at "Which Sciences for Tomorrow? A Dialogue on the Gulbenkian Commission Report: Open the Social Sciences," Stanford University, June 2-3, 1996.
Richard Lee, "Position Statement and Presentation: `You Just Don't Understand: Talking Across the Boundary at SLS,'" presented at Panel Discussion "You Just Don't Understand: Talking Across the Boundary at SLS," at Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science, Atlanta, GA, October 10-13, 1996.
Immanuel Wallerstein, "La reestructuración capitalista y el sistema-mundo," Conferencia magistral en el XX Congreso de la Asociación Latino americana de Sociología, México, 2 al 6 de octubre de 1995.
Immanuel Wallerstein, "Social Science and Contemporary Society: The Vanishing Guarantees of Rationality," Inaugural Address, Convegno Internazionale di Studi of Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, Palermo, October 26-28, 1995. [published in International Sociology, XI, 1, Mar. 1996]
Immanuel Wallerstein, "Social Change? Change is eternal. Nothing ever Changes," Address at Sessão Solene de Abertura of the III Congresso Português de Sociologia, Lisboa, Feb. 7, 1996.
Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Time of Space and the Space of Time: The Future of Social Science," Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture, Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne, co-sponsored by the Institute of British Geographers and the Royal Geographical Society, Feb. 22, 1996.
Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Structures of Knowledge, or How Many Ways May We Know?" presentation at "Which Sciences for Tomorrow? Dialogue on the Gulbenkian Report," Stanford University, June 2-3, 1996.
Immanuel Wallerstein, "The ANC and South Africa: The Past and Future of Liberation Movements in the World-System," Keynote address at Annual Meeting of the South African Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, July 7-11, 1996.
Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Rise and Future Demise of World- Systems Analysis," presented at 91st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 16, 1996.
The Director of the Center has received two honorary degrees: Litt.D., University of York, 1995; Docteur honoris causa, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1996.
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