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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