World
History Workshop
A University of California Multicampus Research Group
Conference:
"Between the Local and the Global in the Pre-Modern World"
May 7-8, 2005
Organized
by David Ringrose, UCSD
Saturday, 8:30-10:45
PANEL I: The Atlantic World and the Larger World
Dan Rood, UCI
Atlantic History in the Age of Freedom Fries: Some Comments on Historiography and History
Thomas Reifer, University of San Diego
The Social Origins of Global Conflict and Cooperation: Elite Conflict, Integration and Globalization from Pre-Modernity to the Present
Theme: Anarchism in the Atlantic World
Ilham Makdisi, Northeastern University
Migration Networks, Anarchism, and Globalization: Italians
In Egypt, 1880-1914
Pete Valceschini, UC Santa Cruz
Italian Anarchists and the Great War
Jose C. Moya, UCLA
1900: Anarchism and the Atlantic World
Comment: Laura Mitchell, UCI
Saturday, 11:00-12:30
PANEL II: Identity, Gender and Perception
Ian Chambers, UCR
English local and global understanding of space as seen in the historical and fictional writing of Daniel Defoe
J. Michelle Molina, UC Irvine
Jesuits and "Indians": The Devil is in the Details
Ghislaine Lydon, UCLA
Does One Carry Stones to the Mountain?: Reflections on Gender in the History of Trans-Saharan Trade
Saturday, 12:30-1:30 Lunch in adjoining room
Saturday, 1:30-3:15
PANEL III: Overlooked Global Connections
Fabio Lopez-Lazaro, Santa Clara University
Spanish Piracy in Asian Waters: The Cast of "Alonso Ramirez"
Chipasha Luchembe
Between the Global and Local in pre-colonial Southern Africa: The case of Northern Rhodesia/Zambia
Kevin McDonald, UCSC
Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves: Making an Indo-Atlantic Trade World, 1645-1730
Jeremy Prestholdt, Northeastern Universit
The Global Repercussions of Nineteenth Century East African Consumerism
Saturday, 3:30-5:30
PANEL IV: Cities, Trade, and Large Networks
Guillermo Algaze, UCSD
The Sumerian Takeoff
Ray Kea, U.C. Riverside
The Western Sudan World-System in the Oikumene: State Systems, Cities, and World-Historical Change (8th-13th Centuries)
Christopher Chase-Dunn, UCR, and Alexis Alvarez, Hiroko Inoue, Richard Niemeyer and John Rogers
East/West Urban and Empire Synchrony
Denis Flynn, UOP and Arturo Giraldez, UOP
Born Again: Globalization's Sixteenth-Century Origins (a rejoinder to O'Rourke and Williamson about the birth date of globalization)
Saturday, 6 PM : DINNER AT THE UCSD FACULTY CLUB
Sunday, 8:30-9:30
Ross Dunn, SDSU
Teaching World History
Sunday, 9:45-12:30
PANEL V: Science and Medicine
PART I (9:45-11:00)
David Christian, SDSUScience in World History
Adrian Lopez Denis, UCLA
Immunities, Empire, Citizenship: Smallpox Vaccination in Colonial Cuba.
Paula de Vos, SDSU
Ginger's World Odyssey: A Case of Economic botany in the Spanish Empires
PART II (11:10-12:30)
Sherry Fields, UCD
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial
Mexico
Soyoung Suh, UCLA
The Rise and Fall of "Local Botanicals" in Seventeenth-Century Choson Korea
Fred Knight
Indigo production in the Anglo-American colonies
COMMENT:
Ravi Rajan