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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.

Upcoming Events

 

Monday, 9 March 2009 “Economic Meltdown: Causes and Consequences”
Co-sponsored with Center for European and Eurasian Studies

Robert Brenner
Department of History
UCLA

Gary Dymski
Department of Economics
UC Riverside

2:00-5:30 pm
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche

Monday, 6 April 2009 “Climate Change: Causes, Consequences and How To Respond”
Diana Liverman
Institute of the Study of the Planet Earth
University of Arizona

Glen MacDonald
Department of Geography
UCLA

2:00-5:30 pm
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche

Monday, 11 May 2009 “Globalization and Living Standards in the Advanced Economies”
Co-sponsored with Institute of Research on Labor and Employment

Richard Freeman
Department of Economics
Harvard University

Edward Leamer
Anderson School of Management
UCL

Monday, 1 June 2009 “Peak Oil ad the Future of Energy?”
Co-sponsored with Center for European and Eurasian Studies

Vaclav Smil
Department of Environment & Geography
University of Manitoba

David Goodstein
Department of Physics and Applied Physics
CalTech

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