Fall Colloquium 2009
Thursdays 4:00-5:30 p.m. (8 Prospect Place, Room 119)
September 17
September 17th 4pm: 5:30pm 2009 Colloquium: Eiko Ikegami 8 Prospect Place (Room 119)
(week 1 of 12):
Eiko Ikegami
New School
“Politics of Aesthetic Communications: Poetry, Performative Arts and Japanese Society”
September 24
September 24th 4pm: 5:30pm 2009 Colloquium: Stephen Whitefield 8 Prospect Place (Room 119)
(week 2 of 12):
Stephen Whitefield
Pembroke College - University of Oxford
“Being Unequal and Seeing Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe”
October 1
October 1st 4pm: 5:30pm 2009 Colloquium: Charles Perrow 8 Prospect Place (Room 119)
(week 3 of 12):
Charles Perrow
Yale University
“Organizations and Global Warming”
October 8
October 8th 4pm: 5:30pm 2009 Colloquium: Rogers Brubaker 8 Prospect Place (Room 119)
(week 4 of 12):
Rogers Brubaker
UCLA
“Transborder Membership Politics in Cold War and Post-Cold War Germany and Korea”
October 15
October 15th 4pm: 5:30pm 2009 Colloquium: Dietrich Rueschemeyer 8 Prospect Place (Room 119)
(week 5 of 12):
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Brown University
“The Present Position and Prospects of Social and Political Theory (Recalling the Grand Debate of Merton and Parsons Two Long Generations Ago)”
October 29
October 29th 4pm: 5:30pm 2009 Colloquium: David Inglis 8 Prospect Place (Room 119)
(week 7 of 12):
David Inglis
University of Aberdeen
“Durkheim and Tönnies Go Global: Reconstructing and Learning From Two Classical Accounts of Globalization and Globality”
November 5
November 5th 4pm: 5:30pm 2009 Colloquium: Anthony King 8 Prospect Place (Room 119)
(week 8 of 12):
Anthony King
University of Exeter
“The Elementary Forms of the Military Life: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Armies of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries”
November 12 (Canceled)
November 12th 4pm: 5:30pm 2009 Colloquium: Peter Stamatov 8 Prospect Place (Room 119)
(week 9 of 12):
Peter Stamatov
Yale University
“ Activist Religion, Empire, and the Genesis of Modern Long-Distance Advocacy. ”
November 19
November 19th 4pm: 5:30pm 2009 Colloquium:Phil Gorski 8 Prospect Place (Room 119)
(week 10 of 12):
Phil Gorski
Yale University
“ The American Civil Religion: From John Winthrop to Barack Obama”
December 3
December 3rd 4pm: 5:30pm 2009 Colloquium:Ron Eyerman 8 Prospect Place (Room 119)
(week 11 of 12):
Ron Eyerman
Yale University
“Political Assassination and Cultural Trauma: A Social Drama in Six Acts”
December 10
December 10th 4pm: 5:30pm 2009 Colloquium:Immanuel Wallerstein 8 Prospect Place (Room 119)
(week 12 of 12):
Immanuel Wallerstein
Yale University
“The Modern World-System: Reflections on a Project”