Center for Social Theory and Comparative History

Colloquium Series for Winter-Spring 2003

 

North and South:

Conflict and Crisis

 

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

 

 

10 February   The US and Iraq

 

Perry Anderson

Department of History

UCLA

 

Michael Mann

Department of Sociology

UCLA

 

Eric Margolis

Foreign Editor

Toronto Sun

 

*February 14   A State of Denial: Israel and the Palestine Question

*2-4:00pm,  2355 Public Policy

 

Ilan Pappe

Department of Political Science

University of Haifa

 

 

24 February     Neo-liberalism: Causes, Character, Consequences

 

 

 

Robert Brenner

Department of History

UCLA

 

Mark Weisbrot

Center for Economic and Policy Research

Washington, DC

 

*February 27   Clash of Barbarisms

*2-4:00pm, ISSR Conference Room 4355 D Public Policy

 

Gilbert Achcar

Department of Politics and International Relations

University of Paris – VIII

 

 

28 April Culture: Post-Colonial or Neo-Imperial

 

Timothy Brennan

Department of English

University of Minnesota

 

Wang Hui

Tsinghua University

Beijing


 

5 May   Imperialism Today

 

Tariq Ali

Author of Clash of Fundamentalisms

London


 

Giovanni Arrighi

Department of Sociology

Johns Hopkins University

 

 

Walden Bello

Focus on the Global South

Bangkok

 

 

19 May               Africa: Failed States or Neoliberal Nightmare?

Co-sponsored with the James Coleman Center for African Studies

 
Njoki Njehu

50 Years is Enough

Washington DC

John Saul

Department of Politics

York University

 

 

2 June  Latin America in Crisis

 
Manuel Riesco

CENDA

Chile

Geisa Rocha

Latin American Studies

Rutgers University

 

Center Fellow 2003: Cyrus Bina, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Morris

 

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