PEWS XXI

Tue, 4 Mar 1997 08:02:38 -0800
wally@cats.ucsc.edu

For those who didn't notice it buried in the East-West
controversy, here is the provisional schedule for the
upcoming PEWS conference. Suggestions for lodging and
other arrangements for non-presenters--who are very
much welcome to attend and participate--can be obtained
at this email address.

PEWS XXI: THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT & THE WORLD-SYSTEM
UC Santa Cruz, April 3-5, 1997
(contact: Wally Goldfrank: wally@cats.ucsc.edu)

Provisional schedule for PEWS XXI

Thursday, April 3rd

7:15pm: Keynote lecture, "Ecology and Capitalist Costs of Production:
No Exit." Immanuel Wallerstein, Binghamton U

Kresge Town Hall

9:00pm: Reception

Howling Cow Cafe

Friday, April 4th
Stevenson Fireside Lounge

9:30am-12:00 Session I: HISTORICAL STUDIES

"Economic Ascent and the Global Environment: World Systems
Theory and the New Historical Materialism," Stephen G. Bunker, U.
of Wisconsin, Madison and Paul S. Ciccantell, Kansas State U

"Ecological Relations in the Rise and Decline of Kingdoms and
Civilizations, 2500BC to 500BC," Sing C. Chew, Humboldt State U

"Commodity Frontiers, Ecological Transformation, and
Industrialization: Rethinking the Expansion of the Early Modern
World-economy," Jason W. Moore, UC Santa Cruz

Environmental Factors in the Decline of the Pre-Columbian
Caribbean Societies and its Consequences for the
Emerging World-system,"
Hakiem Nankoe and Margo Nankoe. Johns Hopkins U

12:00-1:00, Lunch

1:00-3:00 Session II: INDUSTRY AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE 20TH CENTURY

"Politics of Space and the Political Economy of Toxic Waste,"
Robert Futrell, U of Kansas

"World Systems Environmental Effects of the Gulf War," Claire W.
Gilbert, Blazing Tattles

"Hungary and the Discourse of Waste," Zsuzsa Gille,
UC Santa Cruz

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:30 Session III: AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE 20TH CENTURY

"Environmental and Political Development in the Circumpolar
North after Europeanization," Ilmo Massa, U of Helsinki

"Food, Water, Power, People: Dams and Affluence in Late 20th
Century East and Southeast Asia." Gavan McCormack, Ritsumeikan
U (Kyoto) & Australian National U

"The Role of New Arid-adapted Crops in Breaking the Cycle of
Grazing Land Degredation in Patagonia." Jorge A. Zavala, U
of Buenos Aires

7:00pm, Dinner for participants

Saturday, April 5th
Stevenson Fireside Lounge

10:00am-12:00 Session IV: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES

"How Toxic is the World-System?" Albert Bergesen and Laura
Parisi, U of Arizona

"World-Systems Theory and the Global Environment: an Exploration"
Peter E. Grimes, Johns Hopkins U, and J. Timmons Roberts,
Tulane U

Capitalism and Biospheric Collapse, Peter E. Grimes, Johns
Hopkins U

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-4:00 Session V: ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS

"Global Green Praxis: A Typology of Environmental Movements,"
Richard Hutchinson, U of Arizona

"Success and Impasse: Environmental Theory and Movement Practice
in the United States and Around the World," Robert Schaeffer,
San Jose State U

"The Emergence of South Korean Environmental Movements: A
Response (and Challenge?) to Semiperipheral Industrialization," Su-
Hoon Lee, Kyungnam U (Seoul), and David A. Smith, UC Irvine

"Impacts of the Global System on Environmental Regulations and
Social Movements in the New South Africa." Christine Root and
David Wiley, Michigan State U