Mentoring, Methods and Movements:
A Colloquium in Honor of Terence K. Hopkins
Thursday August 15, 1996
New York Hilton & Towers
The Green Room
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10019
Students and colleagues will honor Professor
Terence K. Hopkins' four decades of contribution to
scholarship and graduate education on the occasion
of his official retirement from the Sociology
Department at SUNY-Binghamton. The colloquium
sessions focus on three of the central intellectual
preoccupations that have marked Hopkins' life-work.
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Session I: Graduate Education: the
Formation of Scholars (10 a.m.-12:00 noon)
Panelists: Giovanni Arrighi, Walter Goldfrank,
William G. Martin, Ravi Palat, Immanuel Wallerstein
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12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. Break for Lunch
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Session II: Methods of World-Historical
Social Science (1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.)
Panelists: Richard Lee, Resat Kasaba,
Philip McMichael, Betty Petras, Beverly Silver
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3:30-4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
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Session III: Scholars and Movements
(4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.)
Panelists: Rod Bush, Nancy Forsythe, Patricio
Korzeniewicz, Aiguo Lu, Cedric Robinson, Evan Stark
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TERENCE K. HOPKINS is a product of the
Columbia University Sociology Department in its
heyday of the 1950's. He was an assistant to
Merton and to Goode, and in his spare time was an
integral member of the team of Karl Polanyi's vast
project on comparative economic systems. He
wrote the 'theoretical' essay for Trade & Markets in
Early Empires. And he completed a brilliant
dissertation on small groups (!) in 1959. He joined
the Columbia faculty in 1958 and remained there
until 1970.
In the 1960's, he conducted research in Uganda,
and spent two years teaching at the University of
the West Indies in Trinidad. He was a member of
the Executive Committee of the Ad Hoc Faculty
Group at Columbia during the 1968 rebellion. He
came to Binghamton in order to found its program
of graduate studies in sociology, and he remained
its Director for two decades. He created a very
original pedagogical and intellectual structure which
has been the strength and the fame of the
Binghamton department.
One of the founding fathers of world-systems
analysis, he has been generally considered its
methodologist-in-chief . A member of the
Executive Board of the Fernand Braudel Center
since its establishment in 1976, he has been a
coordinator of a large number of its research
projects, and has had a profound and lasting
influence both on the research of the FBC and on
the work of graduate students in sociology.
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Colloquium sponsored by the Binghamton Sociology
Graduate Student Alumni Association (in-formation).
For additional information contact:
Resat Kasaba: kasaba@u.washington.edu
Bill Martin: wgmartin@uiuc.edu
Beverly Silver: silver@jhu.edu
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