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