Center for Social Theory and Comparative
History
Colloquium
Series for Winter-Spring 2002
East
and West
Meetings
are on Mondays 2:00pm to 5:30pm in the History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
February 11 The War on
Terrorism
Co-sponsored by Burkle Center for International Relations
Alexander Cockburn
Author of: Corruptions of Empire
Senior Editor, Atlantic Monthly
25 February Politics of the Subcontinent:
Neo-liberalism, Religious Conflict, and Regional Strife
Aijaz Ahmad
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
Delhi
Gyan Pandey
Department of Anthropology
Johns Hopkins University
11 March Islamic Fundamentalism: Religion and Politics
Olivier Roy
Humanities & Social Sciences
CNRS
Sami Zubaida
Center of Near and Middle Eastern Studies
SOAS
Discussant:
Nikki Keddie, Department of
History, UCLA
29 April Israel and the Palestinians
Department
of History
UCLA
Discussants:
Department of History
Center of Area Studies
Al Quds University (Jerusalem)
Department of History
Cal Poly Pomona
Yoav Peled
Department
of Political Science
Tel
Aviv University
Department
of History
UCLA
“China
and Japan: Where Are They Headed?”
Author of: Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from
Los Angeles to Beijing
Karel van Wolferen
The Enigma of Japanese Power
William J. F. Jenner
Author of: The Tyranny of History: The
Roots of China's Crisis
20 May East becoming West? The US and East Asian
NICs
Visiting Scholar, Center for Southeast
Asian Studies
UCLA
Wu Yu-shan
Department of Political Science
Taiwan National University
Discussant: Chalmers Johnson, Author
of: Blowback: the Costs and Consequences of American Empire
3 June The Great Divergence?: The Roots of
Economic Development and Underdevelopment in China and Europe
Department of History
UCLA
Cameron Campbell
Department of Sociology
UCLA
Jack Goldstone
Department of Sociology
UC Davis
Philip Huang
Department of History
UCLA
Chris Isett
Department of History
University of Minnesota
James Z. Lee
Department of History
Caltech
Department of History
UC Irvine
Department of Sociology
UC Irvine
Department of Anthropology
Stanford University
CENTER EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
Robert
Brenner, Director • Perry Anderson, Assistant Director
Richard
Ashcraft (1938-1995) • Ivan Berend • Rogers Brubaker • Saul Friedländer • Carlo
Ginzburg • Michael Mann • Carole Pateman • Maurice Zeitlin
Tom Mertes, Administrator
The Center for Social Theory and Comparative History,
4355G Public Policy Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Phone: (310)
206-5675.
Fax: (310) 206-4453.
E-mail: Mertes@ucla.edu, World Wide Web:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/cstch