Welcome!

Welcome to the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History (CSTCH) Home Page. CSTCH is under the direction of Robert Brenner (Prof. History, UCLA), and is locally administered at ISSR by Thomas Mertes. CSTCH wishes to acknowledge the generous support received from the UCLA Miller-Clarke fund as well as the Albert & Elaine Borchard Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

New Paper: Robert Brenner on the Origins of the Present Crisis

Upcoming Events

Monday, 30 January 2012 "Greece and the Crisis of the Eurozone"

Stathis Kouvelakis
Department of French
Kings College

Stergios Skaperdas
Department of Economics
UC Irvine

History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2:00-5:00 pm

 

Monday, 13 February 2012 "Egypt: Whither the Revolution?"

Joel Beinin
Department of History
Stanford University

Hazem Kandil
Department of Sociology
UCLA

History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2:00-5:00 pm

 

Monday, 27 February 2012 “China: Capitalist Development and Popular Resistance”

Ching Kwan Lee
Department of Sociology
UCLA

Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Department of History
UC Irvine

Iam-chong Ip
Department of Cultural Studies
Lingnan University

History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2:00-5:00 pm

 

Monday, 12 March 2012 "Occupy"

Jasper Bernes
Center for the Humanities
UC Berkeley

Mark Greif
Department of Literary Studies
New School

History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2:00-5:00 pm