Theorizing the Dynamics of Core-Periphery Relations

January 30 –31, 2004– at the Clark Library


Friday, January 30 ______________________________

9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10:00 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Peter H. Reill, UCLA
              
Session 1 — Chaired by Gail Kligman, UCLA

Herman van der Wee, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The Core-Periphery Problem during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Robert Brenner, UCLA
What Is Underdevelopment? Historical Perspectives

12:30 p.m. – Lunch
2:00 p.m.
Session 2 — Chaired by Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA

Daniel Chirot, University of Washington, Seattle
Theories and Realities: What Are the Causes of Backwardness?

Eugen Weber, UCLA
At the Interface of Periphery and Center


4:30 p.m. – Reception

Saturday, January 31 ______________________________

9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10:00 a.m.—
 
Session 3 — Chaired by Teofilo Ruiz, UCLA

Eric Hobsbawm, Birkbeck College, University of London
From West European to World Science: Academic Research in the Era of Globalization, Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

Iván T. Berend, UCLA
Globalization and Its Impact on Core-Periphery Relations

Michael Mann, UCLA
Commentary

1:00 p.m. – Lunch
2:00 p.m. —


Session 4 — Chaired by David Sabean, UCLA

Jürgen Kocka, Freie Universität Berlin/Wissenschaftcentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Cores, Peripheries, and the History of Civil Society in Europe

Iván Szelényi, Yale University
The Rise and Fall of the Second Bildungsbürgertum: Making Capitalism with Capitalists

Perry Anderson, UCLA
Commentary


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