World Historical Systems- New Orleans Panels

Date:

Wed, 2 May 2001 17:36:14 GMT0BST

From:

"Barry Gills" <B.K.Gills@newcastle.ac.uk>

Organization:

Department of Politics

To:

Alf_H@luetnfs.etn.lu.se, alker@usc.edu, arrighi@jhu.edu,

cgilb@msn.com, b.k.gills@ncl.ac.uk, buzanb@wmin.ac.uk,

jdc@asu.edu, chews@axe.humboldt.edu, denemark@udel.edu,

eermolae@shepherd.wvnet.edu, cioffi@colorado.edu,

chriscd@mail.ucr.edu, thall@depauw.edu, jonathan.friedman@ehess.fr,

jonathan.friedman@soc.lu.se,

Dear World Historical Systems (ISA) section member,

This is a notice concerning preparations for submitting panel

proposals for the ISA meetings in New Orleans, 24-28 March, 2002.

The conference theme is "Dissolving Boundaries: The Nexus Between

Comparative Politics and International Relations"

Firstly, I trust that those colleagues who committed themselves

to organising panels for us at the business meeting in Chicago will

have made some progress towards this goal. Panel proposals are due to

the Programme Chairs by 1 June 2001. That means we have one month

remaining to prepare our submission.

We had an excellent meeting in Chicago, with five successful

panels. The business meeting dealt primarily, as is our custom,

with ideas for next year's panels. The following proposals were made

in Chicago;

1. Southwest Asia (Millennial) panel: convenor: David Wilkinson

(dow@ucla.edu)

2. World system environment: global environmental crisis (possibly

Sing Chew to convene?- or Dimitris Stevis?)

3. 'Contestations' : Alternating world systems : Convenor Anita Weiss

(aweiss@oregon.uoregon.edu)

4. Cultures and World Systems- Convenor Al Bergesen

(Albert@email.arizona.edu)

5. Global Religious Movements: Universalism and Particularism ;

Convenor: fred Riggs (fredr@hawaii.edu)

6. Cyberspace and World system

7. "The Modernity of Antiquity and the Antiquity of Modernity"

8. Historicising Globalisation, Convenor Barry Gills

(b.k.gills@ncl.ac.uk)

9. The World System, Historical Materialism and Gramsci : Re-visiting

the agency-structure problematique (perhaps Bill Robinson to convene?

or Arrighi?

10. Gender and the World System ( perhaps Joya Misra to convene?)

I will also accept individual paper proposals and see if I can place

them on a panel. Those submitting such a paper proposal should also

plan to submit it to the ISAdirectly if I cannot find a suitable WHS

panel for the paper.

Remember deadline is 1 June this year!

Email submissions to the ISA proramme chairs can be made at:

isaprog@emory.edu

Web submissions can be made at the 2002 Convention website at:

www.isanet.org/neworleans/submit.html

Fax submissions can be made at:

(001) 208 575 5610

By mail to: Suzanne Werner and David R. Davis (2002 Programme Chairs)

Dept. of Political Science

Emory University

1555 Pierce Drive

Atlanta, GA 30322, USA

Full proposals need full information: including names, complete

addresses, phone, fax, email, affiliation, paper title(s) and

abstracts of 150 words (per paper)

Convenors should keep me informed on progress of the organisation of

panels but be prepared to submit the finished proposal directly to

ISA programme chairs. Please send me a copy of the proposal by 1

June.

Yours faithfully,

Barry K. Gills

Convenor: World Historical Systems (ISA)