Chaos and Governance in the 21st Century: Prospects and Challenges to Peace and Justice in the Age of US Hegemonic Decline
An Arrighi Center for Global Studies sponsored conference
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL USA
February 18-19, 2016
Sponsors:
Arrighi Center for Global Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Peace Studies Program, Florida Atlantic University
Conference Information:
All conference activity will take place in the FAU Student Union’s House Chambers located on the FAU Boca Raton Campus. The conference is open to student, faculty, staff and the public. There is no fee for participation.
Email phough2@fau.edu for further questions or inquiries.
Conference Schedule
Thursday, February 18, 2016
| Time | Description | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:10 | Welcoming Remarks | Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University |
| 10:10-10:40 | Opening Keynote Speaker: “Revisiting Chaos and Governance in the Modern World-System in the 21st Century” | Beverly Silver, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University |
| 10:40-10:50 | Discussion | |
| Panel 1: Financialization, Geopolitics and Global Governance in the 21st Century | Chair: Daniel Pasciuti, Johns Hopkins University | |
| 11:00-11:20 | “Financialization, Geopolitics and State-Seeking Movements in Capitalist World Economy, 1450-Present” | Sahan Savas Karatasli, Princeton University |
| 11:20-11:40 | “Cultivating Chaos: Neoliberal Cultures of Law, Corporate Immunities, and Property” | Siba Grovogui, Cornell University |
| 11:40-12:00 | “Southeast Asia between United States and China: Capitalist Archipelago or Locus of Interstate Capitalist Competition?” | Bruno Hendler, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) |
| 12:00-12:10 | Comments | Thomas Reifer, University of San Diego |
| 12:10-12:45 | Discussion | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch | FAU cafeteria, Boca Raton campus |
| Panel 2: New Modalities of Capital Accumulation, Domination and Resistance in the 21st Century | Chair: Simon Glynn, Florida Atlantic University | |
| 2:00-2:20 | “Reframing Food Regimes: China, Human-Nature Labor Ecologies, and Contemporary Agrifood Politics,” | Mindi Schneider and Alexander F. Day, International Institute of Social Studies and Occidental College |
| 2:20-2:40 | “Chaos and Governance Realized: Emerging Powers and the Breakdown of the Neoliberal Project at the WTO” | Kristen Hopewell, University of Edinburgh |
| 2:40-3:00 | Comments | Sefika Kumral, Johns Hopkins University |
| 3:10-3:45 | Discussion | |
| 4:00-5:30 | Synthesis and Discussion of First Day Panels | Initial comments by: Richard Lachmann, SUNY-Albany, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, University of Maryland, Manuela Boatca, Free University of Berlin |
| 6:00 (approximately) | Dinner | The Farmer’s Table Restaurant – Wyndham Hotel Boca |
Friday, February 19, 2016
| Time | Description | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Panel 3: Changing Hierarchies of Wealth and Power: Global Inequality and the North-South Divide | Chair: Richard Tardanico, Florida International University | |
| 9:00-9:20 | “Rethinking Cycles of Accumulation and Cycles of Hegemony: Empirical Data and Theoretical Speculation” | Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, University of Maryland |
| 9:20- 9:40 | “Urban Crises and Hegemonic Transitions, 1400 to the Present” | Daniel Pasciuti, Johns Hopkins University |
| 9:40-10:00 | “The Political Economy of Financialization: Some Reflections on “the BRICS Transformation” | Marcos Centurion Vicéncio, Université Grenoble-Alpes |
| 9:40-10:00 | “The Political Economy of Financialization: Some Reflections on “the BRICS Transformation” | Marcos Centurion Vicéncio, Université Grenoble-Alpes |
| 10:00-10:10 | Comments | Sahan Savas Karatasli, Princeton University |
| 10:10-10:45 | Discussion | |
| Panel 4: World-Scale Capital Accumulation, Class, Status and Resistance | Chair: Farshad Araghi, Florida Atlantic University | |
| 11:00-11:20 | “Negative Moment or Negative Movement?: The Politics of the Socially Excluded at the Dawn of the 21st Century” | Philip Lewin, Florida Atlantic University |
| 11:20-11:40 | “Capital Accumulation and the Long Term Reproduction of the Dual Nature of Labor in Southern Africa: From Dutch to US Hegemony and Beyond” | Ricado Jacobs, Johns Hopkins University |
| 11:40-12:00 | “Historical Privilege and Global Accumulation: The Colonial Entail of Whiteness and Citizenship” | Manuela Boatca, Free University of Berlin |
| 12:00-12:10 | Comments | Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University |
| 12:10-12:45 | Discussion | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch | FAU cafeteria, Boca Raton campus |
| Panel 5: Hegemonic Crisis, State Repression and Violence | Chair: Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University | |
| 2:00-2:20 | “Criminalizing Dissent: State Repression, Video Activism, and Counter-Summit Protesting” | Chris Robé, Florida Atlantic University |
| 2:20-2:40 | “The Ballot or the Bullet’: Nonviolence and Violence in Advancing Workers’ and Colonial Subjects’ Rights in an Age of High Imperialism” | Douglas McGetchin, Florida Atlantic University |
| 2:40-3:00 | “Dynamics of Hegemonic Crisis and the Rise of Fascism” | Sefika Kumral, Johns Hopkins University |
| 3:00-3:10 | Comments | Richard Lachmann, SUNY-Albany |
| 3:10-3:45 | Discussion | |
| 4:00-5:00 | Closing Synthesis and Discussion | Initial comments by: Siba Grovogui, Cornell University, Thomas Reifer, University of San Diego, Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University |
| 5:30 | Conference Reception and Light Dinner | FAU Sociology Department, Culture and Society Building, Boca Raton campus |
Organizing Committee:
Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University; Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University; Sefika Kumral, Johns Hopkins University; Sahan Savas Karatasli, Princeton University; Daniel Pasciuti, Johns Hopkins University
Email phough2@fau.edu for further questions or inquiries.