On August 15, 1996, a group of his former students organized a colloquium in his honor in New York City under the title "Mentoring, Methods and Movements." The Center has decided to publish the papers of this Colloquium in a hardcover version. The contents are as follows:
I. Graduate Education: The Formation of Scholars
Immanuel Wallerstein (Binghamton Univ.) "Pedagogy and Scholarship"
Walter Goldfrank (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) "Rereading the Classics"
William G. Martin (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "Opening Graduate Education: Exploring the Hopkins Paradigm"
Giovanni Arrighi (Binghamton Univ.) "The Hopkins Funnels: Area Papers, Dissertations and the Formation of Young and Not-So-Young Scholars"
Ravi Palat (Univ. of Auckland) "Terence Hopkins and the Decolonization of World-Historical Studies"
II. Methods of World-Historical Social Science
Resat Kasaba (Univ. of Washington) "Studying Empires, States and Peoples: Polanyi, Hopkins, and Others"
Richard Lee (Binghamton Univ.) "Structuring the Past/Acting the Future: Methods and Purpose in Doing World-Scale Historical Sciences"
Philip McMichael (Cornell Univ.) "The Global Wage Relation as an Instituted Market"
Elizabeth Petras (Drexel Univ.) "Regionalism Confronts Globalism" Beverly Silver (Johns Hopkins Univ.) "The Time and Space of Labor Unrest"
III. Scholars and Movements
Rod Bush (Seton Hall Univ.) "Hegemony and Resistance in the U.S.: Class, Race, and Gender"
Nancy Forsythe and Patricio Korzeniewicz (Univ. of Maryland) "Thinking about Gender: The Contribution of Terence Hopkins"
Aiguo Lu (WIDER, United Nations Univ.) "From Beijing to Binghamton and Back - A Personal Reflection on the Trajectory of Chinese Intellectuals"
Cedric Robinson (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) "Theoretical Insights"
Evan Stark (Rutgers Univ.) "Sociology and Social Work: A Case of Mis-taken Identity"
The text will also include Responses by Terence Hopkins and Discussion.
The book will be available at a net price of $30. It will be in print as of January 1998. We are taking advance subscriptions (up to Dec. 15, 1997) at a rate of $25. The form for such advance subscriptions is to be found at the back of this Newsletter.
In addition to the conferences and discussion groups previously reported, social scientists in Istanbul and at Univ. de Paris-VII have set up continuing groups of reflection. The American Sociological Association at its 1997 meetings in Toronto held a special forum on the Report in which participated Edward Hackett (NSF), Barbara Laslett (Minnesota), Cora Marrett (Wisconsin), Saskia Sassen (Columbia), Alan Sica (Penn State), and William J. Wilson (Harvard).
b. Structures of Knowledge RWG. This group was organized to take forward the intellectual work of the Gulbenkian Commission by doing research on the "two cultures" - the origins of the split between science and philosophy, its consequences for the social sciences, and the recent challenges to the division that may indicate modes of "overcoming the two cultures."
This group, presently with 16 members, and coordinated by Immanuel Wallerstein and Richard Lee, has developed a structure for its work which takes the following provisional form:
1. The Historical Construction and Institutionalization of the Two Cultures
a. First Arena - The Rise of Science as a Separated, Demarcated Domain: The Secular Trend, 1450-1960's
b. Second Arena - The Drawing Inward of the Humanities and the Defense of Values: French Revolution to the 1960's
c. Third Arena - The Contradictory Pulls of the "Two
Cultures": Mid-Nineteenth Century to the 1960's
- The Methodenstreit: The Poles of Positivism and
Historicism
- The Emergence of the Separate Social Science
Disciplines
2. Contemporary Challenges In and To the Social Sciences
a. Complexity Studies
b. Social Studies of Science
c. Diversity I: Feminisms
d. Diversity II: Race and Ethnicity in the West
e. Diversity III: Non-Western Civilizations
f. Popular Culture/Cultural Studies
g. Environmentalism/Ecology
3. Conclusions and Prognostics
c. East Asia in World-Historical Perspective RWG This is the renamed "Regional Economies and Civilizations RWG." The group conducted a small international planning meeting in Binghamton on Dec. 6-7, 1996, with support from the ACLS. The conference centered around discussion of a paper jointly authored by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita, and Mark Selden, entitled "The Rise of East Asia in Historical Perspective." Participants included: Mitchell Bernard (York Univ.), Bruce Cumings (Northwestern Univ.), Gary Hamilton (Univ. of Washington), Peter Katzenstein (Cornell), Caglar Keyder (Binghamton Univ.), Philip McMichael (Cornell), Takashi Shiraishi (Kyoto), Robert Wade (Brown), Wang Zhengyi (Nankai Univ., China), Ramon Grosfoguel (Binghamton Univ.), Beverly Silver (Johns Hopkins Univ.) and Immanuel Wallerstein (Fernand Braudel Center).
There will now be a workshop in either Hong Kong or Tokyo in June 1998. This workshop will be entitled "The Rise of East Asia: 500, 150, and 50 Year Perspectives."
The workshop proposes an analysis of the emerging East Asian regional political economy along three distinct temporal dimensions, embedded within one another in Russian-doll fashion. The shortest dimension is defined by the reorganization of East Asia in the era of U.S.-Soviet hegemonic rivalry and the resurgence of Asia as a power center in the world-economy; the intermediate perspective is defined by the response of East Asian countries to the devastating nineteenth-century challenge of Western power including colonialism and the rise of Japan; and the long perspective, at least for our purposes, is defined by the legacy of the East Asia tribute-trade system in the intergovernmental and interenterprise relations from the sixteenth century.
The following papers are being prepared:
1. Takeshi Hamashita (Director, Toyo Bunka Kenkyujo, Tokyo Univ.), "East Asia and the Sinocentric Tributary-Trade System"
2. Giovanni Arrighi (Fernand Braudel Center) & P.K. Hui (Lingnan Univ., Hong Kong), "East Asia and Europe Compared: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives"
3. Bruce Cumings (Univ. of Chicago), "East Asia in the World-System"
4. Gary Hamilton (Univ. of Washington), "East Asia Business Networks and State Interactions"
5. Peter Katzenstein (Cornell Univ.), "Network Structures in Asia and Europe"
6. Takashi Shiraishi (Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto Univ.), "The Making of Southeast Asia: Comparative and Relational Perspectives on East Asia"
7. Sugihara Kaoru (Osaka Univ.), "Intra-Asian Trade Patterns"
8. Philip McMichael (Cornell Univ.), "East Asian Agriculture and Food Regimes"
9. Robert Marks (Whittier College), Title forthcoming
10. Mark Selden (Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton Univ.), "Social Movements in East Asia"
11. Kenneth Pomeranz (Univ. of California, Irvine), "Households, Markets, and Accumulation: Women and Labor-Intensive Production in East Asia and Western Europe since 1400"
PANEL ONE: Constructions of Class and Gender
Presenter: Mine Ener, Villanova University
Discussants: Louise Tilly, New School for Social
Research; Elizabeth Thompson, University of Virginia
PANEL TWO: Constructions of Ethnic Difference
Presenter: Martin Van Bruinessen, Utrecht University
Discussants: Radha Kumar, Warren Weaver Fellow, The
Rockefeller Foundation; Vince Boudreau, City College of New
York
b) Gendered Revisions Conference. The Center supported the Second Annual Conference, organized by the Graduate History Society of Binghamton University. The title was "Identity, Culture and Conflict in History." The keynoter was Mary Beth Norton (Cornell Univ.).
Keynote lecture, "Ecology and Capitalist Costs of Production: No Exit," Immanuel Wallerstein (Binghamton Univ.)
Session I: Historical Studies
"Economic Ascent and the Global Environment: World-Systems Theory and the New Historical Materialism," Stephen G. Bunker (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) & P. S. Ciccantell (Kansas State Univ.)
"Ecological Relations in the Rise and Decline of Kingdoms and Civilizations, 2500BC to 500BC," Sing C. Chew (Humboldt State Univ.)
"Commodity Frontiers, Ecological Transformation, and Industrialization: Rethinking the Expansion of the Early Modern World-Economy," Jason W. Moore (UC Santa Cruz)
"Environmental Factors in the Decline of the Pre-Columbian Caribbean Societies and its Consequences for the Emerging World-System," Hakiem Nankoe & Margo Nankoe (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Session II: Industry and Environment in the 20th Century
"Politics of Space and the Political Economy of Toxic Waste," Robert Futrell (Univ. of Kansas)
"World Systems Environmental Effects of the Gulf War," Claire Gilbert (Blazing Tattles)
"Hungary and the Discourse of Waste," Zsuzsa Gille (UC Santa Cruz)
Session III: Agriculture and Environment in the 20th Century
"Environmental and Political Development in the Circumpolar North after Europeanization," Ilmo Massa (Univ. of Helsinki)
"Food, Water, Power, People: Dams and Affluence in Late 20th Century East and Southeast Asia," Gavan McCormack (Ritsumeikan Univ., Kyoto & Australian National Univ.)
"The Role of New Arid-adapted Crops in Breaking the Cycle of Grazing Land Degradation in Patagonia," Jorge A. Zavala (Univ. of Buenos Aires)
Session IV: Global Environmental Analyses
"How Toxic is the World-System?," Albert Bergesen & Laura Parisi (Univ. of Arizona)
"World-Systems Theory and the Global Environment: An Exploration," Peter E. Grimes (Johns Hopkins Univ.) & J. Timmons Roberts (Tulane Univ.)
"Capitalism and Biospheric Collapse," Peter E. Grimes (Johns Hopkins Univ).
Session V: Environmental Movements
"Global Green Praxis: A Typology of Environmental Move ments," Richard Hutchinson (Univ. of Arizona)
"Success and Impasse: Environmental Theory and Movement Practice in the United States and Around the World," Robert Schaeffer (San Jose State Univ.)
"The Emergence of South Korean Environmental Movements: A Response (and Challenge?) to Semiperipheral Industrialization," Su-Hoon Lee (Kyungnam Univ., Seoul) & David A. Smith (UC Irvine)
"Impacts of the Global System on Environmental Regulations and Social Movements in the New South Africa," Christine Root and David Wiley (Michigan State Univ.)
1. The Core Triad (Europe, USA, Japan): Competitors or Colluders?
2. Future World Wars or World Peace? Are world wars eliminated from the geopolitical cycle? World empire, global multilateralism, or world anarchy?
3. China and Russia: Evolving Roles of Semiperipheral Giants in the World-System. Adjunct competitors? Or possible allies against the core?
4. Withering Away of the State or States? Which states? Is stateness declining in the strong states as well? What replaces statehood in the areas where state structures collapse? How do such stateless zones (presumably, much of Africa and Central Asia) affect the general morphology of the interstate system?
5. World Antisystemic Movements: Do They Exist? Will they exist? Are they new in style or content?
The deadline for paper proposals is December 15, 1997. Write to Georgi Derluguian, Center for International and Comparative Studies, 618 Garrett Place, Evanston, IL 60208. Tel: 708-467-2770 or 491-2741 (Derluguian); fax: 708-467-1996; email: gderlug@nwu.edu.
September 26: Carole Boyce Davies (English, Binghamton Univ.), Nkiru Nzegwu (Art History, Binghamton Univ.), Abidin Kusno (Art History, Binghamton Univ.), "Roundtable Discussion"
October 24: Biodun Jeyifo (English, Cornell University), "Postcoloniality and Late Capitalist Postmodernity: What Does it All Mean?"
November 21: Nayan Shah (History, Binghamton Univ.), Kelvin Santiago-Valles (Sociology & LACAS, Binghamton Univ.), "`Postcolonial' and the Production of Knowledge"
February 27: Tiffany Patterson (History, Binghamton Univ.), "Diasporic Methodologies and Historical Memory: Explorations in the Development of an Analytical Framework"
March 20: Juanita Diaz (Sociology, Binghamton Univ.), "Criminal Justice/Imprisonment and Latinas(os): How Relevant is the `Postcolonial'?"
April 17: Ping-hui Liao (Yenching Institute, Harvard Univ. and National Tsinghua Univ., Taiwan), "Music and Travel in the Postcolonial Era: On Puccini's Turandot and Glass's The Voyage"
May 1: Nurrudin Farah (English, Univ. of Texas at Austin), "Literature and the Postcolonial African Condition"
XX, 1, Winter 1997
Peter J. Taylor, "Modernities and Movements: Antisystemic Reactions to World Hegemony"
Amiya Kumar Bagchi, "Contested Hegemonies and Laissez Faire: Controversies over the Monetary Standard in India at the High Noon of the British Empire"
Y. Eyup Ozveren, "A Framework for the Study of the Black Sea World, 1789-1915"
Ramon Grosfoguel, "Migration and Geopolitics in the Greater Antilles: From the Cold War to the Post-Cold War"
XX, 2, Spring 1997
Franco Moretti, "Narrative Markets, ca. 1850"
Raquel Sosa Elizaga, "Social Sciences in Latin America: From the Neoliberal Deluge to the End of the Century"
MERCHANT CAPITALISM
Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Synopsis of Book: The Rise and Decline of Holland's Economy: Merchant Capitalism and the Labour Market"
Ad Knotter, "A New Theory of Merchant Capitalism?"
Catharina Lis & Hugo Soly, "Different Paths of Development: Capitalism in the Northern and Southern Netherlands during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period"
Immanuel Wallerstein, "Merchant, Dutch, or Historical Capitalism?"
Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Do We Need a Theory of Merchant Capitalism?"
Ad Knotter, "Afterword: Parasitory and Dynamic Elements in Merchant Capitalism"
XX, 3/4, Summer/Fall 1997
NOMOTHETIC VS. IDIOGRAPHIC DISCIPLINES: A FALSE DILEMMA?
Immanuel Wallerstein, "Introduction"
Ulf Strohmayer, "The Displaced, Deferred or was it Abandoned Middle: Another Look at the Idiographic-Nomothetic Distinction in the German Social Sciences"
Andrei Foursov, "Social Times, Social Spaces, and Their Dilemmas: Ideology `In One Country'"
Keong-il Kim, "Genealogy of the Idiographic vs. the Nomothetic Disciplines: The Case of History and Sociology in the United States"
Ramon Grosfoguel, "A TimeSpace Perspective on Development: Recasting Latin American Debates"
XX, Supplement 1997
VOLUMES I-XX: CONTENTS
I. Contents by Issue
II. Contents by Author
III. Contents by Subject
December 1996 - Hilda Torok, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Budapest University of Economic Sciences
Nov. 14, 1996 - Dirk Hoerder, Diefenbaker Visiting Professor, Univ. of Toronto and Professor of History, Univ. of Bremen, "Migration and Mobility, 11th-20th Centuries," cosponsored with History
Dec. 10, 1996 - Dr. Owens-Wiwa, Nigerian environmentalist, "Human Rights and Environmentalism in Nigeria," organized by Sociology Graduate Students Speakers Committee and cosponsored with Harpur College, Office of the Dean, GSO, SGSU, Graduate African Students Organization, Environmental Studies Program, Off Campus College, Institute of Global and Cultural Studies, Office of Affirmative Action, Multicultural and Educational Board, SA, Dept. of Sociology, School of Education and Human Development, Center for Academic Excellence, Dept. of Africana Studies, History Students Society, United Methodist Church
Mar. 6, 1997 - Martin Van Bruinessen, Dept. of Oriental Studies, Utrecht Univ., "Structural Changes in the Kurdish Movement since 1980," co-sponsored with Middle East and North African Program, History
April 10, 1997 - Malcolm Alexander, Senior Lecturer, School of Australian and Comparative Studies, Griffith Univ., Brisbane, "Globalization or Simply Internationalization: The Structure of World Business in the 1990s and its Implications for World-System Transition in the Twenty-First Century"
April 17, 1997 - Matsui Yayori, President of Japan Asia Women's Resource Center, and author of Women's Asia, "Feminism, Women's Movements and the Women of Asia," cosponsored with Sociology, Asian and Asian-American Studies, Women's Studies
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