COUNTER-CURRENTS AND MAINSTREAMS IN WORLD HISTORY
Sponsored
by the
University of California World History Workshop
Organized by Prof. Richard von Glahn
at
University of California, Los Angeles
Travel and Lodging
Information
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6
8:30-9:00: Light Breakfast & Registration
9:00-9:15: Welcome
9:15-11:00: Panel 1: Counter-Currents in World History (I)
Andrew Apter, UCLA
Creole Divides: Race, Class and Ritual Stratification in Afro-Caribbean
Religions
Shobana Shankar, New School for Social Research/University of Connecticut
Conversion and the Problem of World Religion in Nigeria
Wade Graham, UCLA
Environmental Stress and Social Evolution: Two Experiences of
Settlement from Molokai, Hawai'i
Commentator: Ray Kea, UC Riverside
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30: Panel 2: Women in the Twentieth-Century World
Alexandra Epstein, UC Irvine
Looking West: California Women and Visions of the World
Elena Shulman, UCLA
The Makings of a New Motherland: Women's Labors on the Soviet
Frontier, 1937-1939
Commentator: Barbara Keys, California State University, Sacramento
12:30-2:00: Lunch Break
2:00-3:45: Panel 3: Macrohistorical Perspectives (I)
Christopher Chase-Dunn & Daniel Pasciuti, UC Riverside
City and Empire Growth/Decline Phases in the Ancient Mesopotamian
and Egyptian World-Systems
Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez, University of the Pacific
Path Dependence, Time Lags and the Birth of Globalisation: A Critique
of O'Rourke and Williamson
David Christian, San Diego State University
"What is History?" Revisited
Commentator: Kenneth Pomeranz, UC Irvine
3:45-4:00: Break
4:00-5:45: Panel 4: Early Modern Peregrinations: A Social Biographical Approach
Maia Ramnath, UC Santa Cruz
The Tale of George Thomas: Mercenaries, Mayhem and Statebuilding in
Post-Mughal India
Kevin McDonald, UC Santa Cruz
'A Man of Courage and Activity': Thomas Tew, Anglo-American Piracy,
and the New York-to-Madgascar Trade Network, 1690-1720
Anders Otterness, UC Santa Cruz
'El quatro se llama Estevanico; es negro alarabe, natural de Azemmour':
Estevan, North African, Iberian, and Native Slavery in the North
American Southwest, 1528-1540
Commentator: Randy Head, UC Riverside
6:00-7:30: Dinner
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7
8:30-9:00: Light Breakfast
9:00-10:45: Panel 5: Counter-Currents in World History (II)
Alan Christy, UC Santa Cruz
Being Non-Viable: Okinawa and World History
Martin Lewis, Stanford University
Cores, Peripheries, and Counter-Cores: The Philippines in World
History
Luke Clossey and Chad Denton, UC Berkeley
The Student Perspective on the Global Perspective: Reflections on an
Undergraduate Seminar on the Early Modern World
Commentator: Richard von Glahn, UCLA
10:45-11:00: Break
11:00-12:15: Panel 6: Macro-Historical Perspectives (II)
Alexis Álvarez, UC Riverside
Clash of Civilizations: Cycles of Primacy in Afroeurasia, 200-1850 CE
George Bryan Souza, University of Texas, San Antonio & Indiana University
Dyeing Red: Southeast Asian Sappanwood in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries
Commentator: Steven Topik, UC Irvine
12:15-12:45 Business Meeting