The Modern World-System in the Longue Durée

A Conference to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary
of the Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University

Nov. 2-3, 2001

All sessions are held in Casadesus Hall, Fine Arts Building.

Friday, November 2

(8-9:15 transportation provided by OCC Transport - the Blue Bus - from Holiday Inn Arena to conference)

8:30-9:15 Registration, Greene Room, Fine Arts Building

9:15- 9:30 Welcome

Immanuel Wallerstein (Director, Fernand Braudel Center)

Lois DeFleur (President, Binghamton University)



9:30-12:30

1. Trajectory of the World-System: Order Out of Chaos?

ch: Immanuel Wallerstein (Fernand Braudel Center)

Samir Amin (Forum du Tiers-Monde, Dakar): "Globalism, or Apartheid on a Global Scale?"

Chris Chase-Dunn (Institute for Research on World-Systems, Univ. of California, Riverside): "Through the Sticky Wicket(s) and on to Global Socialism"

Bart Tromp (Political Science, Leiden Univ.): "Europe: Integration or Dissolution?"



12:30 - 2:30 Lunch

cash basis in following dining halls: University Union, Susquehanna Room ; Dickinson Dining Hall; College-in-the-Woods Dining Hall



2:30-5:30

2. Changing Structures of Knowledge: The Two Cultures in Question?

ch: Richard Lee (Fernand Braudel Center)

Randall Collins (Sociology, Univ. of Pennsylvania): "Commonality and Divergence of World Intellectual Structures in the Second Millennium C.E."

Mahmood Mamdani (Institute of African Studies, Columbia Univ.): "Area Studies and Local Knowledge in the Post-Cold War Era"

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Centro de Estudos Sociais, Univ. Coimbra): "The Not-Yet: Toward a Sociology of Absences and a Theory of Translation"



6-7:30 Dinner

$30 by pre-reservation only in Chenango Room (located at the SE corner of Science I)



7:30-10:30

3. Opening the Social Sciences: Scholarship and Reality, 1945-2000

ch: Heinz Sonntag (CENDES, Venezuela)

Janet Abu-Lughod (Sociology, New School University, Emerita): "Peripheral Vision and the End of American Provincial Scholarship"

Maurice Aymard (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris): "Does One Represent Reality or Does One Explain It?"

Immanuel Wallerstein (Fernand Braudel Center): "The Scholarly Mainstream and Reality: Are We at a Turning-Point?"



10:30 Transportation to Hotel provided by OCC Transport - the Blue Bus



Saturday, November 3

8:00-9:00 Transportation from hotel to conference provided by OCC Transport - the Blue Bus

9:00-12

4. Creating and Transforming Households: Class, Gender, and Race

ch: William G. Martin (Fernand Braudel Center)

Joan Smith (Sociology, Univ. of Vermont): "Gender and Race in the World-System: What Changes in the Last 25 Years?"

Michel-Rolph Trouillot (Anthropology, Univ. of Chicago): "Race, Class, and Gender: The Particular Histories of Universal Categories"

Claudia von Werlhof (Political Science, Univ. Innsbruck): "Using, Producing, and Replacing Life: Alchemy as Theory and Practice in Capitalism"



12-1:30 Lunch at PSPC



1:30-4:30

5. Antisystemic Movements: Past Tendencies, Future Prospects

ch: Melvyn Dubofsky (Fernand Braudel Center)

Giovanni Arrighi (Sociology, Johns Hopkins Univ.): "Antisystemic Movements and Gramsci's 'Piedmontese Function'"

Pablo González-Casanova (Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México): "Present Systemic Trends and Antisystemic Movements"

Marcel van der Linden (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiednis, Amsterdam): "'Proletarian Internationalism': A Long View and Some Speculations"

4:30 Transportation to hotel provided by OCC Transport - the Blue Bus


Registration

Pre-registration by mail is strongly recommended.

(Registration form)

Fee: Faculty $15

Students $5

To attend Fri. dinner and Sat. lunch, you must pre-register.

(Friday lunch, cash basis in various dining halls)

Friday dinner: $30

Saturday lunch buffet, included in registration fee

Receipt Deadline: October 10, 2001



Please send conference Registration Form to:

25th Anniversary Conference
Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University
P.O. Box 6000
Binghamton NY 13902-6000

Lodging

For those attending the conference, reduced rates are available at:

Holiday Inn Arena

2-8 Hawley St., Binghamton NY 13901

607-722-1212

$69 per room, single king, or 2 doubles; smoking or non

Deadline for guaranteed rooms is

October 10, 2001



Please send Hotel Reservation Form directly to the hotel or register online at http://holidayinnbinghamton.com



Parking

Friday: Parking is available in the Paid Visitor Lot and Paid Garage for $3

Saturday: Paid Garage - $1, Paid Visitors Lot - $2, or free in regular campus parking lots.



Information

Write to:

25th Anniversary Conference
Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University
P. O. Box 6000
Binghamton NY 13902-6000

phone 607-777-4924

fax 607-777-4315

email: devoist@binghamton.edu

http://fbc.binghamton.edu


Fernand Braudel Center 25th Anniversary Conference

Conference and Meal Registration Form

Receipt Deadline: October 10, 2001 (Please Print)

Name_________________________________________

Institution______________________________________

Department_____________________________________

Mailing Address_________________________________

______________________________________________

Email__________________________________________

Registration Fee: $______________

($15 faculty; $5 students)

Friday Dinner_____ at $30 $______________

Total amount enclosed $__________

Please send check in US currency by Oct. 10, 2001 payable to:

"Fernand Braudel Center"
Binghamton Univ.
P.O. Box 6000
Binghamton NY 13902-6000


Fernand Braudel Center, 25th Anniversary Conference

Hotel Reservation Form

Send directly to:

Holiday Inn Arena
2-8 Hawley St.
Binghamton NY 13901

607-722-1212

FAX: 607-722-6063

Online Reservations: http://holidayinnbinghamton.com

Deadline: October 10, 2001

Name_________________________________________

Address________________________________________

______________________________________________

Telephone______________________________________

Accommodations needed__________________________

Date/time of arrival_______________________________

Date/time of departure____________________________

_____Please guarantee reservation past 4 p.m.

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Signature_______________________________________

Fernand Braudel Center