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
Monday, 1 June 2015 "Mexico: Popular Resistance, the Narco-state and the US"
Daniel Hernandez
VICE News
Mexico City
Christy Thornton
Department of History
NYU
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2:00-5:00 pm
Monday, 4 May 2015 "Black Lives Matter"
Co-sponsored with Bunche Center for African American Studies and Gary Nash Chair in US History
Melina Abdullah
Pan-African Studies
Cal-State Los Angeles
Michael Brown
Black Lives Matter
Long Beach
Justin Hansford
School of Law
St. Louis University
Cheryl Harris
School of Law
UCLA
Discussant: Robin D.G. Kelley
Department of History
UCLA
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2:00-5:00 pm
Monday, 18 May 2015 "After Marikana: The State, the ANC, and the Future of the Labor Movement in South Africa"
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and The Center for African Studies
Trevor Ngwane
Department of Sociology
University of Johannesburg
Gay Seidman
Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin
Dinga Sikwebu
Coordinator of NUMSA United Front
Johannesburg
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2:00-5:00 pm
Monday, 20 April 2015 "The Challenge of Podemos"
Co-sponsored with Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Isidro López
Observatorio Metropolitano
Madrid
Raimundo Viejo
Department of Political Science
University of Girona
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2:00-5:00 pm
Monday, 9 February 2015 "Russia/Ukraine: Geopolitical Conflict, Movements from Below, and the Putin Regime"
Co-sponsored with Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Daniel Treisman
Department of Political Science
UCLA
Tony Wood
Department of History
New York University
Volodymyr Ishchenko
Department of Sociology
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Discussant: Perry Anderson
History and CSTCH
UCLA
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2-5:30 pm
Monday, 23 February 2015 "Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement in Regional Perspective"
Co-sponsored with Center for Chinese Studies
Au Loong Yu
China Labor Net
Hong Kong
Joshua Wong Chi-fung
Convener, Scholarism
Hong Kong
Jieh-min Wu
Academia Sinica
Taiwan
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2-5:30 pm
Monday, 9 March 2015 "Syriza and Greece"
Co-sponsored with Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Stathis Kouvelakis
Department of French
Kings College
Stergios Skaperdas
Department of Economics
UC Irvine
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2-5:30 pm
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