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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.

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

Upcoming Events

Monday, 13 May 2013 "Crisis and Resistance in Greece and the Eurozone"

Stathis Kouvelakis
Department of Political Theory
Kings College

Costas Lapavitsas
Department of Economics
SOAS

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

Monday, 29 April 2013 "China in the Global Economic Crisis: Social Dislocation, Government Response, and Prospects for Transformation"

Wen Tiejun
Dean of the School of Agronomics and Rural Development
Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies for Sustainability
Renmin University

Discussant: Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Department of History
UC Irvine

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

Monday, 15 April 2013 "The New Global Revolutions"

Paul Mason
BBC Newsnight, Economics Editor
London

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

Monday, 11 March 2013 "After Occupy Which Way Forward for the 99%?"

Javier Armas
Advance the Struggle
Oakland, CA

Joel Jordan
Former Director of Special Projects
United Teachers Los Angeles

Jackson Potter
Staff Coordinator/Organizer
Chicago Teachers Union

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

Monday, 25 February 2013 "The Economic Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and What's Next"

Frank Partnoy
School of Law
University of San Diego

L. Randall Wray
Department of Economics
University of Missouri, Kansas City

Robert Brenner
Department of History
UCLA

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

Monday, 19 November 2012 "Egypt’s Power Structure in Light of Revolution" - Special Lecture

Hazem Kandil
Department of Sociology
Cambridge University
Author of Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen: Egypt’s Road to Revolt (Verso 2012)

History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall
3:00-5:00 pm

Monday, 3 December 2012 "The Forgotten Cold War" - Special Lecture

Jon Wiener
Department of History
UC Irvine

Discussant: Robin D. G. Kelley
Department of History
UCLA

History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall
3:00-5:00 pm

 

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
Townsend Center for the Humanities
UC Berkeley

Mark Greif
Department of Literary Studies
New School

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

 

Monday, 16 April 2012 "Wisconsin and the Assault on the Public Sector"

Dan LaBotz
Writer and Teacher
Cincinnati, Ohio

Matt Rothschild
Editor, The Progressive
Madison, Wisconsin

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

 

Monday, 30 April 2012 "Rebellion and Repression on the Arabian Peninsula"

Tariq Ali
Political writer, novelist, and filmmaker
London

Fred Lawson
Department of Government
Mills College

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

 

Thursday, 10 May 2012, Conference: “Settler Colonialism in US History in the Wake of Recent Books”

Aziz Rana
School of Law
Cornell University

Craig Yirush
Department of History
UCLA

Respondents: Lorenzo Veracini
Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Swinburne University

Patrick Wolfe
Research Fellow
La Trobe University

History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
2:30-6:00 pm