PEWS XXIII: Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 26- 27, 1999
The Conference was organized by Nancy Forsythe and Patricio Korzeniewicz. The theme was "Inequality and Social Movements." The program was as follows:
Panel 1:
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Yukio Kawano, Denis Nikitin and Ben Brewer, "Trajectories of Globalization: 1800-2000"
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Timothy P. Moran and Angela Stach, "Inequality in the World-Economy"
David Smith, "Globalization and Anti-Globalization: World-Systemic Implications of the East Asian Crisis"
Panel 2:
Nancy Forsythe, Vrushali Patil and Gwyndolyn J. Weathers, "Making Ground to Stand On: World-Systems Analysis and Gender Studies"
Ramón Grosfoguel, "Post-Colonial Critique and World-System Approach: A Call for a Dialogue"
Richard Lee, "The Politics of Knowledge Formation: Social Movements and the Structures of Knowledge"
Panel 3:
Torry Dickinson, "Unexpected Feminist Revolutions: Today's Woman-Centered Movements and the Reappropriation of Global Resources"
William G. Martin, "World-Systems Analysis from 1968 to 1998 and Beyond: Still an Antisystemic Intellectual Movement?"
Guest Lecture
Chair: Immanuel Wallerstein
Guest Speaker: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Panel 4:
Angela Martin Crowley, "Weapons Acquisitions and the Limits of Power"
Jason W. Moore, "Primitive Accumulation, Agrarian Unrest, and the Last Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1870-1914"
Dale Tomich, "Constructing Global Inequalities: Market, Labor, and Domination in Nineteenth Century Cuban Planter Thought"
Panel 5:
Richard Hutchinson, "Red and Green Movements in the World-System: Contradiction and Synthesis"
Galip Isen, "Moving Without a Movement: Women's Rights in Turkey"
Agustín Lao-Montes, "Niuyol: Urban Regime, Social Movements, Ideologies of Latinidad"
Panel 6:
Wilma A. Dunaway, "Rethinking Gender Inequality: The Hidden Inputs of Women and Households into Capitalist Commodity Chains"
Marina Karides, "Income Inequality in the Periphery: The World-Systems Debates and the Case of Trinidad's Informal
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