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History Matters: Conference
| Location: | New York, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2002-05-04 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2002-04-16 |
| Announcement ID: |
130277 |
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"History Matters: Area Studies, Cultural Values, and the History of Uneven Development"
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School University
May 4, 2002
Conference Program
9:45 AM to 11:45 AM Historical Studies Conference Room, 80 Fifth Avenue, Fifth Floor
Panel: Uneven Development: The Local/Global Nexus
Christopher A. Vaughan, Rutgers University: Communication Revolution and the Vortex of Cultural Production: The U.S. and the Philippines
Nelly Bekus-Goncharova, Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Science: Belarus in the World: The Experience of Detaching
Yingshun Zhao, University of Louisville: Urban Quasi-Clan Culture in Modern China
Douglas McArthur, University of British Columbia: Alternatives to Human and Social Capital Theory in Explaining Poverty Among Canada's First Nations People
9:45 AM to 11:45 AM Machinist Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue, Mezzanine Level
Panel: Working in the City: Geographies of Urban Labor
Joseph Varga, Graduate Faculty: Chasing Capitals: Uneven Development and Urban Reform in Progressive Era New York
Guadalupe Correa Cabrera, Graduate Faculty: Explaining Trends in American Unionism: The XX Century; Economic vs. Political Causation
Michael F. Gretz, Graduate Faculty: Labor Aristocracies vs. Lumpenproletarians: A Marxist Theory of Political Agency for the Post-9/11 World
Stacy K. McGoldrick, Graduate Faculty: Vigilante: Police and Political Culture in New Orleans
9:45 AM to 11:45 AM Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor
Panel: Fabricating Authenticity: Tastes, Values, and Lifestyles
Sam Binkley, Graduate Faculty: Lifestyle Differentiation and the New Middle Classes of the 1970s: A Moral Boundaries Approach
Rachel Schwartz and Eric Friedman, Graduate Faculty: Slow Food: Are We How We Eat?
M. Kelleen MacIntyre, Scripps College: Viva Las Venice: Do the "Place-Themed" Casinos of Las Vegas Act as Vehicles in U.S. Cultural Imperialism?
Rixa Ann Spencer Freeze, Ohio University: It Ain’t About Truth or Lies: Vernacular Culture and the Creation of History
12:00 Noon to 1:30 PM Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue, First Floor
David Harvey, City University of New York: Globalization in Fragments: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographic Development
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM Lunch Break
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue, First Floor
Orlando Patterson, Harvard University: The Problem of Continuity in History and Sociology
Respondent: Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics
4:15 PM to 6:15 PM Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor
Panel: Latin America: Neo-Colonial Representations
Marcela Echeverri, New York University: Historical Representations of Neo-Colonialism in Latin America: From Economic Dependency to Cultural Globalization
Kathleen A. Tobin, Purdue University Calumet: Class, Culture, and Population Policy: U.S. Fears of Uncontrolled Breeding in Latin America
Jadwiga E. Pieper, Montclair State University: The Limits of "Cultural Imperialism": Global Guidelines, Local Actors, and the Making of Domestic Family Planning Policies in Chile
4:15 PM to 6:15 PM Machinist Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue, Mezzanine Level
Panel: Alternatives to Western Developmentalism: History and Theory
Avery Plaw, McGill University: Contextual Historicism, Pluralism, and the Development Debate
Alexei Pimenov, University of Maryland: What do they Hate Us For? The Neo-Traditionalist Response to the West
Florian Arun Taeube, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University: Culture, Innovation, and Economic Development: The Case of the South Indian ICT Clusters
Grace Cheng, Hawaii Pacific University: One Country, Two Cultures? Prospects for Integrating the Vietnamese Economy
6:15 PM Reception, Cafeteria, 65 Fifth Avenue, First Floor
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Peter Nekola
International Labor and Working-Class History
New School University
80 Fifth Ave., fifth fl
New York, NY 10011
Email: ilwch@newschool.edu
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