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

Petrolia

 


David Rieff

Author of: The Ends of Humanitarianism

New York City

 


Benjamin Schwarz

Senior Editor, Atlantic Monthly

CSTCH Fellow 2002


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

NOTE ROOM CHANGE: California Room, Faculty Center, Cosponsored with Center for Near Eastern Studies

 


David Myers

Department of History

UCLA

Discussants:

Saul Friedländer

Department of History

UCLA
Issar Nassar

Center of Area Studies

Al Quds University (Jerusalem)

 

Mahmood Ibrahim

Department of History

Cal Poly Pomona
Yoav Peled

Department of Political Science

Tel Aviv University

 
Gabriel Piterberg

Department of History

UCLA


 

6 May China and Japan: Counter-Hegemons?

Cosponsored with the Center for Japanese Studies and Center for Chinese Studies

 

 

“China and Japan: Where Are They Headed?”

 


Ian Buruma

Author of: Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing


Karel van Wolferen

Author of:

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

Co-sponsored with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies

 


Walden Bello

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

Special Time 1:00-5:30 pm


Robert Brenner

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


 

Kenneth Pomeranz

Department of History

UC Irvine

 

Wang Feng

Department of Sociology

UC Irvine

 
Arthur Wolf

Department of Anthropology

Stanford University



Center Fellow 2002: Benjamin Schwarz, Senior Editor, Atlantic Monthly

 

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