Center for Social Theory and Comparative History

Colloquium Series for Winter-Spring 2001

Globalization II

Meetings are on Mondays 2:00pm to 5:30pm in the History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche

12 February Boom, Bubble, Bust? The American Economy Today

Edward Leamer Department of Economics UCLA

Peter Warburton Author of Debt and Delusion London

William Wolman Chief Economist Business Week

26 February Why is Global Culture Made in the USA?

Co-sponsored with Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies

Arif Dirlik Department of History Duke University

Lydia Liu Department of Comparative Literature UC Berkeley

Donald Sassoon Department of History University of London

12 March After the Cold War: Democratic Peace or US Hegemony?

Co-sponsored with The Burkle Center for International Relations

Chalmers Johnson Japan Policy Research Institute San Diego

John Mearsheimer Department of Political Science University of Chicago

9 April Where is the Anti-Globalization Movement Going?

Co-sponsored with Center for Globalization and Policy Research

Juliette Beck Global Exchange San Francisco

Naomi Klein Author of No Logo Toronto

Kim Moody Labor Notes Detroit

23 April European Unity: The Triumph of Neoliberalism?

John Grahl Global Business Management University of North London

David Soskice Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozial Forschung

Discussant: Perry Anderson, Department of History, UCLA

7 May Does Globalization Reduce Ethnic Conflict?

David Laitin Department of Political Science Stanford University

Linda Melvern Department of International Politics University of Wales, Aberystywyth

Discussant: Michael Mann, Department of Sociology, UCLA

21 May Whither China?

Co-sponsored with Center for Chinese Studies and Joint UCLA-USC East Asian Studies

Hu Angang Center for China Study Qinghua University

Lo Dic Department of Economics SOAS

Roderick MacFarquhar Department of Government Harvard University

4 June Globalization: Process or Policy?

Robert Gilpin Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University

Peter Gowan Department of International Relations University of North London

Discussant: Robert Brenner, Department of History, UCLA

Center Fellow for 2001: Christopher Layne, University of Miami

CENTER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Robert Brenner, Director

Perry Anderson, Assistant Director

Richard Ashcraft (1938-1995) • Ivan Berend • Rogers Brubaker • Saul Friedlander • 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.

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