Final Program

 

 

"Global Social Movements in World Historical Perspective."

 

A Conference of the

World History Workshop

A UC Multi-Campus Research Group

 

University of California, Santa Cruz

 

April 26-27, 2003

 

Stevenson Fireside Lounge

Stevenson College

University of California, Santa Cruz

 

 

 

Saturday, April 26

 

8:30-9:00         Light Breakfast

 

I.              Religion and Social Movements

9:00 � 10:30 a.m.

 

John R. Hall, �Religious Social Movements and Violence: Trans-societal Processes in Comparative Perspective�

 

David Lindenfeld, �Indigenous Responses to Christian Missionaries in China and West Africa, 1800-1920: A Comparative Study�

 

Paul Lubeck and Ronnie Lipschutz, �Islam and Globalization�

 

Comment: Terry Burke (History, UCSC)

 

 

II.            Teaching Indigeneity & Empire, Proposals and Problems

10: 45 a.m. � 12:45 p.m.

 

Owen Jones (History, UCR), �Colonial Latin America�

 

Tim Watson (History, UCR), �Late Roman Empire, 300-600 C.E.�

 

Karen Wilson (History, UCR), �The African Diaspora�

 

Ian Chambers (History, UCR), �Native American History�

 

Comment: Sasha Haugh (History, UCSC)

 

 

LUNCH BREAK                                                                              12:45-2:00 p.m.

 

III.         Global Social Movements: Anarchism

2:00 � 4:00 p.m.

 

Jaime Becker (Sociology, UCD)     �Globalization and Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution�

 

Alex Day (History, UCSC), �The Global Circulation of Struggle in China at the Beginning and End of the Twentieth Century�

 

Enrique Sanabria (History, University of New Mexico), �Republican messages/Anarchist Understandings�

 

Comment: Arturo Giraldez (Economics and History, University of the Pacific)

Saturday, April 26th

 

 

IV.          Modernity�s Histories: South Africa, Russia, the U.S.

4:15 -5:45 p.m.

 

Robert M. Johnson (History, UCSB)         "Globalizing Cultural Pluralism: The Progressive Encounter with Alternative Nationalisms in the 1920s."

 

David Anthony (History, UCSC) �Towards a History of 'Black Work' in the South African Y.M.C.A�

 

Laura J. Mitchell (History, UCI), �On the Land: Family and Property in VOC-Era South Africa�

 

Nigel Raab (History) �American and Imperial Russian Volunteer Fire Departments in a Cross-Cultural Perspective�

 

Comment: Ray Kea (History, UCR)

 

 

DINNER: 6:00

 

 

 

Sunday, April 27, 2003

 

8:30- 9:00 Light Breakfast

 

 

V. Early Modern Religion and Social Movements

            9:00 � 10:30 am.

 

Gang Zhou (History, UCD), "The Chinese Renaissance: A Transcultural Reading"

 

Ben Marschke (History, UCLA) �German Pietism in Early Modern World History, late 17^th/ early 18^th century�

 

Luke Clossey (History, UCB) �The Early-Modern Jesuit Missions as a Global Movement�

 

Comment: Randy Head (History, UCR)

 

11:00 � 12:00 noon    BUSINESS MEETING