Scholarly Activities
Speakers and Lectures
2011
John Strachan, professor of History, Lancaster University UK
John Strachan, professor of history, Lancaster University UK, presents "Fernand Braudel's Imperial Unconscious" at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 21, in the Fernand Braudel Center, AA-330. Strachan is a historian of modern France and the French overseas empire. He is currently conducting research on the relationship between nation, empire and the writing of history in 20th-century France. The lecture is sponsored by the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations.
Wendy Wolford, Polson Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University
Wendy Wolford, Polson Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University, spoke on "From Mosquitoes to Marx: The Changing Dynamics of State and Society in Brazilian Landform." This public lecture was held at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, at the Fernand Braudel Center, AA-330. The talk was sponsored by the Fernand Braudel Center.
Herbert Bix, professor of History and Sociology, Binghamton University
Herbert Bix, professor of History and Sociology, presented a public lecture on "Middle East-North African Revolts Shake the World: On the Transition from Dictatorship to Procedural Democracy" at 4:30 p.m. at the Fernand Braudel Center, AA-330. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations, and the Binghamton University departments of Anthropology, History, and Sociology.
Harpur College Dean’s Speakers Series
2009-10
The Contemporary State
Coordinators:
Thomas M. Wilson, Anthropology
Denis O’Hearn, Sociology
Thursday, April 15, 2010, Don Kalb: University Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest; and Senior Researcher, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Author of Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850-1950
“Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class: The State as Fact and Fantasy in Contemporary Europe (and elsewhere)”
4:30 pm
Fernand Braudel Center
Free and Open to the Public
Fernand Braudel Center Annual Distinguished Lectures
The First Annual Distinguished Lecture was given on September 29, 2003 by Prof. Franco Moretti, Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English Literature, Stanford University. His presentation was entitled "Literature through a Long-Distance Lens: Evolutionary Theory and World Systems Analysis."
The Second Annual Distinguished Lecture was given on September 20, 2004 by Michael Bérubé, Paterno Family Professor in Literature, Pennsylvania State University, "The Left at War: Cultural Studies and Cultural Crisis After September 11."
The Third Annual Distinguished Lecture, “Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledge,” was presented on October 24, 2006 by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal) and Distinguished Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
The Fourth Annual Distinguished Lecture was presented on October 2, 2007 by David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, CUNY, “Uneven Geographical Development.”
The Fifth Annual Distinguished Lecture, “Refiguring Imperial Terrains: On Comparison, Gradations of Sovereignty, and Ruination,” was presented on November 6, 2008 by Ann Laura Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School in New York.
The Sixth Annual Distinguished Lecture, “Capitalist Crises, the Labor Movement, and Industrial Disinvestment,” was presented on November 11, 2009 by Staughton Lynd, Historian, Author, and Activist.
