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Workshop Schedule

 

Specialist Meeting on

“Globalization in the World-System:

Mapping Change Over Time”

University of California, Riverside

Saturday February 7 and Sunday February 8, 2004

(v. 10-13-03)

Friday, February 6, 2004

Guests arrive at Mission Inn

 

Saturday, February 7

Vans depart from Mission Inn at 7:30 am

8:00 am. Continental Breakfast and Meeting Registration at

Institute for Research on World-Systems, College Building South, College Place, UCR

 

Opening Session: 8:30-9:45 am Anderson Graduate School of Management, Room 118.

Welcome: UCR Chancellor France Cordova

Keynote address: Michael Goodchild, “Spatial Perspectives for the Globe”

 

Session 1: Commodity Chains and Labor in the World Economy

           Time: Saturday 10:00-11:45

Place: Entomology Building, Room 161, Large Conference Room

           Presider: Helen Couclelis

           Presenters:

Richard Appelbaum

Jennifer Bair

Beverly Silver

           Discussants: Thomas Reifer and David Smith

 

Break: 11:45- 12:30 Box Lunch, Entomology Building Foyer.

Software Demonstration in IROWS/Presley Computer Lab, College Building South

 

Session 2: Presentations on GIS and Network Analysis

           Time: Saturday, 12:30-1:30

Presenters:

           12:30-1:00 Stuart Sweeney, “Spatial Analysis”

           Place: Entomology Building, Room 161, Large Conference Room

           1:00-1:30 Harvey Miller, “Geographical Information Systems”

           Place: Entomology Building, Room 181, Small Conference Room

           1:00-1:30 Robert Hanneman and Douglas White, “Quantitative Network Analysis”

           Place: Entomology Building, Room 161, Large Conference Room

 

Session 3: Global Business Networks

           Time: Saturday, 1:45-3:15

           Place:  Entomology Building, Room 161, Large Conference Room

           Presider: Christopher Chase-Dunn

           Presenters:

                      William Carroll

                      Jeffery Kentor and Harvey Miller

                      Discussants: Douglas White and Edward Malecki

 

Session 4: The Global City System

           Time:   3:30-5:15

           Place:  Entomology Building, Room 161, Large Conference Room

Presider: Richard Appelbaum 

           Presenters:

Saskia Sassen

David Smith

John Weeks and Chris Chase-Dunn

           Discussants: Jeffrey Kentor and Stanley Brunn

 

5:30 Vans take participants to Reception

6:00- 8:00 Reception.

8:00 Vans Return to Mission Inn

 

Sunday, February 8

8:30 Vans depart Mission Inn
9:00- 9:30 Continental Breakfast at Institute for Research on World-Systems

Session 5: Hegemony and Power Configurations in Interstate Systems

Time: 9:30- 11:30

Place:  Entomology Building, Room 161, Large Conference Room

Presider: Thomas Reifer

Presenters:

Giovanni Arrighi

Zhiqian Yu

David Wilkinson

           Discussants: Robert Hanneman  

 

Break: 11:30-12:15 Box Lunch, Entomology Building Foyer.

 

Session 6: Global Transportation and Communications Networks

           Time: 12:15- 2:15

           Place:  Entomology Building, Room 161, Large Conference Room

           Presider: Michael Goodchild

           Presenters:

Edna Bonacich

Miguel Centeno

Peter Hugill

Matthew Zook

           Discussants: Don Janelle and Giovanni Arrighi

 

Session 7: Roundtable Discussion of New Research Projects

           Time: 2:30-4:00 pm

Place:  Entomology Building, Room 161, Large Conference Room

Presider: Beverly Silver

           Short Summary Presentations:

Richard Appelbaum

Christopher Chase-Dunn

Helen Couclelis

Michael Goodchild

                      Group Discussion

 

4:00 pm: Adjourn.

4:15 Vans Return to Mission Inn; Dinner on Own