The Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association will begin
this coming Wednesday in Chicago. The World Historical System
Sub-Section has a number of activities planned.
First, the IPE Section Meeting (we are formally a sub-set of that body,
and a show of support for our candidates, etc. at the regular business
meeting never hurts) will be held on Wednesday, Feb 22nd. at l2:30 pm in
onference Room 4C of the Chicago Hilton Hotel.
Second (IMPORTANT), our business meeting will be on Saturday, Feb 25th at
l2:20 in Conference Room 4G. Three issues of importance will be
discussed. A quick review of plans for our up-coming meeting in Lund,
Sweden will be presented. We will begin plans for our panels for the next
ISA meeting, scheduled for next April in San Diego CA. We will also be
looking for someone to coordinate our two or three panels at those
meetings. While I will be happy to act as go-beteen with the IPE section
and the ISA, I can't do the actual planning for next year. Anybody
feeling particularly altruistic? Two or three panels aren't that tough to
put together. Anybody need points for tenure&promotion or job search
files? Anybody have an intellectual agenda. . .
Third, we are sponsoring 3 panels. All are "D" panels that meet from
3:30 to 5:l5. I don't have room assignments yet.
l. Wednesday D-2: Roundtable: Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems
This panel is our now annual review of a soon to be published work. This
year Barry Gills' will chair the panel and Chris Chase-Dunn and Tom Hall
are presenting their _Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems_ to a
panel of discussants including:
William H. McNeill (Emeritis Chicago)
Matthew Melko (Wright State)
Jonathan Friedman (Lund)
George Modelski (Washington)
2. Thursday B-l0: Regional Power Struggles, Buffer States, and the Rise
of System Challengers
This panel is our 'grad student' panel. One of a couple of different
things we've been trying to keep life interesting. The chair and most
paper givers are grads.
Chair: Matthew Krain (Indiana)
Papers: David Kelly (Indiana)
"The Venetian-Genoese Regional Rivalry and the Rise of portugal
as a Global Power"
Elena Ermolaeva and Chris Chase-Dunn (Hopkins)
"A Buffer-Zone in the Ancient Hawaiian World System: The Polulu
Valley, Hawaii"
Thomas Reifer (SUNY-Binghamton)
"The Japanese Phoenix and the Transformation of East Asia:
World Economy, Geopolitics, and Asian Regionalism in the Long
20th Century"
Fengxiang Song (Kansas State)
"Impacts of Increasing Integration in the World Economy on
Regional Inequality and Well-Being in China in the Early
l990s"
Discussant: Kurt Burch (Delaware)
3. Friday D-6: Environmental Degradation in World Historical Systems
Perspective
Chair: Bob Denemark
Papers: Sing Chew (Humboldt State)
"Accumulation, Environmental Degradation, and Core-Periphery
Relations in theWorld System, 2500 BCE to l993 CE"
Albert Bergesen (Arizona)
"Species-Being to Eco-Being: The Rise of Post-World system
Morality"
Peter Grimes (Hopkins) and Timmons ROBERTS (Tulane)
"Emissions from Industrial Production in the Post-War Era: The
Political Economy of Energy Efficienty in the World System,
l950-l990"
David Smith (UC-Irvine)
"Global Restructuring and the Environment: Notes Toward a
World System Analysis"
Discussants: Aseem Prakash (Indiana)
J. M. Blaut (Illinois-Chicago)
I hope to see everyone in Chicago.