Friday, April 11
4pm - 5pm - Reception
Foyer, David Lawrence Conference Center
Welcoming remarks:
• Patrick Manning, conference director
• Larry Feick, Director, University Center for International Studies
• John Cooper, Dean of Arts & Sciences
• Alison Candela, widow of Andre Gunder Frank
5pm - 7pm - Plenary 1
Room 120
Barry K. Gills (University of Newcastle)
"The Contributions of Andre Gunder Frank to Global History"
Anibal Quijano (University of San Marcos and Binghamton University)
"From Dependency to Coloniality of Power: Andre Gunder Frank in the Latin American Debate"
John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh)
"Dependency Theory and Cultural Studies: Lessons from Latin America"
Albert Bergesen (University of Arizona)
Frankian Triangles
Saturday, April 12
8:30am - 10:15am – Concurrent Sessions 1
1.1. Changing Structure of the World System [World accumulation and world system]
Room 104
J. B. Owens (Idaho State University)
"What Kind of a System Is It?"
Raymond Dezzani (University of Idaho) and Salvatore Babones (University of Pittsburgh)
"Mobility in the Modern World-Economy"
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz (Univ. of Maryland) and Timothy Patrick Moran (Stony Brook University)
"Rethinking Stratification and Inequality"
Mustafa Saatci (Montgomery County Community College)
"Changing Patterns of Hegemony in the World-System: Accumulation, Rivalry, and Rationality"
1.2. Latin American Debates [Underdevelopment and dependency]
Room 105
Samuel Cohn (Texas A and M University)
"Gunder Frank and Furtado Duel It Out on the Beach: Underdevelopment and State-Centered Interpretations of International Programs to Increase Tourism Employment in Northeastern Brazil"
W. L. Goldfrank (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Visible and Invisible Chile in the Lifework of Gunder Frank"
Stefan Schmalz (University of Kassel)
"The Rise and Decline of New Dependency in Latin America: The Case of Brazil"
1.3. Asia and the West [East Asia in the world economy]
Room 106
Richard J. Smethurst (University of Pittsburgh)
"The Japanese Industrial Policy Debate of the 1880s and Its Implications"
John Gulick (Akita International University)
"Regional Formation in the Northeast China-Russian Far-East Geo-economy: Were Gunder Frank’s Insights on Target?"
1.4. Africa and World History [World accumulation and world system]
Room 107
Margo Nankoe (Ithaca College) and Hakiem Nankoe (Cornell University)
"AfroEurAsia and the Rise of the 'Modern' World"
Kwame Nimako (University of Amsterdam)
"Regional Groupings in Africa and the Contemporary World Economy"
Jeremiah I. Dibua (Morgan State University)
"Neoliberalism, Africa’s Development Crisis, and the Salience of the Dependency and Underdevelopment Paradigm"
Gustave Muhoza (Morgan State University)
"The Legacy of Incorporation into the World System: The Experience of Rwanda"
1.5. Globalization and Health [Contemporary analysis]
Room 120
Shree Mulay, chair
Haejoo Chung (Johns Hopkins) and Carles Muntaner (University of Toronto)
"Employment Relations and Population Health in the World-System: A Typological Approach"
Lisa Eckenwiler (George Mason University)
"Ecological Knowing": Understanding the Transnational Flow of Care Workers and Addressing Global Health Inequalities"
Ted Schrecker (University of Ottawa)
"Health equity, social policy and the global disciplinary function of financial markets"
10:15am - 10:30am - Break
10:30am - 12:30pm - Plenary 2
Room 120
Tom Rawski (University of Pittsburgh), chair
Giovanni Arrighi (Johns Hopkins University)
"The Regional Foundations of Development Theories: The Historical Sociology of Andre Gunder Frank"
Kenneth Pomeranz (University of California, Irvine)
"World Regions and Regional Worlds: Developmental Trajectories in
Global and Comparative Perspective"
Kaoru Sugihara (Kyoto University)
"The East Asian Miracle and the Future of Global Economic History"
12:30pm – 1:45pm - Break for lunch
1:45pm - 3:30pm – Concurrent Sessions 2
2.1. ReOrient: The Nineteenth Century — A.G. Frank’s Posthumous Book [East Asia in world economy]
Room 104
Robert Denemark (University of Delaware)
"ReOrient: The Nineteenth Century -- A.G. Frank’s Posthumous Book"
2.2. Migration [Social movements]
Room 105
Kazim Bayçar (Bogaziçi University)
"Intercontinental Population Movements in the Age of Mass Migrations"
Huei-Ying Kuo (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)
"After Chinese Hegemony: Maritime China and the Making of Transnational Public Sphere"
David Victor Fazzino, II (University of Florida)
"Traditional Foods, Cultural Memory and Economics on the Tohono O’odham Nation"
2.3. East Asian Ascent [East Asia in the world economy]
Room 106
Tom Reifer (University of San Diego)
"Asian Regionalism and Global Power in the longue durée"
Hae-Yung Song (University of London)
"The Korean Developmental State and Neo-Liberal Transition in the World System"
Ganesh Trichur (St. Lawrence University)
"Contradictions of China’s Expanded Reproduction and East Asian Resurgence"
Miin-wen Shih (West Chester University)
"Why Did Reform Take Place in China? Mao Died and Vietnam Defeated the U.S."
2.4. Underdevelopment in Theory [Underdevelopment and dependency]
Room 107
Kuldip Singh (Guru Nanak Dev University)
"Analyzing Globalization of the Indian Economy in A. G. Frank's Mould of 'Underdevelopment'"
Arturo Arias (University of Texas at Austin)
"Redrawing the Region: Edelberto Torres Rivas, Subaltern Theory, and the Construction of Central America’s Social Identity"
Jason W. Moore (University of North Carolina)
"Ecology, Crisis, and the Development of Underdevelopment: The Nature of World Accumulation, 1492-1789"
Jerome Branche (University of Pittsburgh)
"The Maafa/Pachacuti Paradigm, the Decolonial, and "our" America: Revisiting underdevelopment as Verb"
3:30pm - 3:45pm - Break
3:45pm - 4:30pm - Plenary 3A
Room 120
Patrick Manning (University of Pittsburgh), chair
Alison Candela (Yale University)
"Memories of Gunder and his Friends"
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm - Plenary 3B
Room 120
Salvatore Babones (University of Pittsburgh), chair
Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale University)
"A Left Agenda for the Next 25 Years"
Christopher Chase-Dunn (University of California, Riverside) and Thomas D. Hall (DePauw University)
"Human Sociocultural Evolution, Hegemonic Transitions and Global State Formation"
Sunday, April 13
9am - 10:45am – Concurrent Sessions 3
3.1. Social Movements [Social Movements]
Room 120
Boris Kagarlitsky (Institute for Globalization Studies and Social Movements) and Jeffrey Sommers (Raritan Valley College)
"Tides of Hegemony: Waves of Rise and Decline"
Debojyoti Das (University of London)
"Neoliberalizing the Grassroots: The Politics of Decentralization and Capacity Building though Peoples Participation in Nagaland "
Greg Eklics (University of Windsor)
"Prison Riots in a Comparative Perspective: Need for a Synthesized Approach "
3.2. 5,000-year World System [5,000-year world system]
Room 104
Boris Stremlin (Wright State University)
"The 5,000-year World System and the Structures of Knowledge"
Zhang Weiwei (Nankai University)
"Great Divergence or Great Convergence? East Asia in Global History from a Noncentric and Multi-thousand-year World System Perspective"
Kirk S. Lawrence (University of California, Riverside)
"Entropy Displacement and Ecological Rent in the World System: Extending Andre Gunder Frank's Analysis"
3.3. World Systems Incorporation and the Structure of Society [World accumulation and world system]
Room 105
Eric Vanhaute (Ghent University)
"Development, Underdevelopment, and the Fate of Rural Societies"
Chris Harris (independent scholar)
"Deciphering the Mythology of Subsistence Agriculture in Economics and History"
3.4. Dependent Development in the Contemporary World [Underdevelopment and dependency]
Room 106
Bjorn Surborg (University of British Columbia)
"Is it the "Development of Underdevelopment" All Over Again? Internet Development and Uneven Geographies in Vietnam"
Kevan Harris (Johns Hopkins University)
"Reorienting Iran: Following Gunder Frank's Advice One Decade at a Time"
David Smith (University California - Irvine)
"Revisiting 'Old' Gunder: Dependency and Capitalist
Underdevelopment and Structural Images of the World-System"
3.5. Money and Finance in the World System [World accumulation and world system]
Room 107
Alejandra Irigoin (College of New Jersey)
"Bringing the New World Back into Global History: The Supply, Circulation and Intermediation of Spanish American Silver, 1500-1850s"
Ximena de la Barra (development consultant) and Richard A. Dello Buono (Autonomous University of Zacatecas)
"New Challenges to Latin America Dependency: The Emerging Regional Agenda for Financial Sovereignty"
Aiqun Hu (Arkansas State University)
"The Global Social Insurance Movement since the 1880s"
Luis D. Rosero and Bilge Erten (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
"Regional Financial Integration: A World-Systems Analysis of the Changing Global Structure"
10:45am - 11:15am - Break
11:15am - 1pm – Concurrent Sessions 4
4.1. Debates on Dependency [Underdevelopment and dependency]
Room 104
John Kraniauskas (Birkbeck College)
"Political Marxism: Notes on Laclau and Gunder Frank"
Jesse Salah Ovadia (York University)
"Contemporary Notions of Dependency and the Expropriation of Economic Surplus in Mainstream and Critical Thought: The Legacy of Andre Gunder Frank and Paul A. Baran"
Cristián Doña–Reveco (Michigan State University)
"Can we Talk of Schools in Dependency Theory? Presbish, Cardozo and Falleto; and Gunder Frank"
4.2. Ecology [Contemporary political and economic analysis]
Room 105
Carylanna K. Taylor (University of South Florida)
"Natural Resource Conservation in the Wake of Emigration: Implications for Rural Honduran Communities Caught in the Tides of Transnational Migration and Remittance Dependency"
Abubakar Momoh (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Conceptualizing Oil-Based Accumulation in Nigeria"
4.3. Historical Asian World System [East Asia in the world economy]
Room 106
Jonathan Skaff (Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania)
"Steppe-Sown Borderlands as Avenues of Eurasian Cultural and Economic Exchange: The Case of China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907)"
Sungho Kang (Sunchon National University)
"Reorienting Reorient: East Asia and 15th-19th-century Korea"
Stewart Gordon (independent scholar)
"Social Network Analysis and the World System: East Asia"
Juanjuan Peng (Georgia Southern University)
"Yudahua: the Emergence of an Early-Twentieth-Century Chinese Business Group"
4.4. Historical Analyses in World System Context [World accumulation and world system]
Room 107
Jan-Frederic Abbeloos (University of Ghent)
"Explaining the Spatial Transformations of the World Copper Market During the Long Twentieth Century"
Raf Verbruggen (Loughborough University)
"The World-System (1250-1650): Interstate System or Transnational City Network?"
Mark Metzler (University of Texas at Austin)
"Re-Orienting the First Great Depression, 1873–1896"
1:00pm – 1:15pm – Break
1:15pm – 2:00pm – Plenary 4
Room 104
Directions of the Next Generation: Roundtable on Graduate Student Presentations
Patrick Manning (University of Pittsburgh)
Isaac Curtis (University of Pittsburgh)
Piotr Konieczny (University of Pittsburgh)
The audience
In this session, a faculty member (in history) and two graduate students (in history and sociology) will comment on graduate student presentations and lead a general discussion on expected trends for the next generation of social-science analysis.
Graduate student presentations at the conference are by Abbeloos (4.4), Baycar (2.2), Das (3.1), Dona-Reveco (4.1), Eklics (3.1), Harris (3.4), Lawrence (3.2), Muhoza (1.4), Ovadia (4.1), Rosero & Erten (3.5), Song (2.3), Surborg (3.4), Taylor (4.2), and Verbruggen (4.4).
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