Winter, 2018CURRICULUM VITAE

RICHARD E. LEE

Mail Professor, Department of SociologyBinghamton UniversityBinghamton, NY 13902-6000

[or]Director, Fernand Braudel CenterBinghamton UniversityBinghamton, NY 13902-6000

Tel. 607 777-4924FAX 607 777-4315

E-mail rlee@binghamton.eduWeb http://www2.binghamton.edu/sociology/people/richard.html

education 2015 M.M., MusicState University of New York at Binghamton Thesis: Salvaging the Italian Way: La lirica italiana from the giovane scuola to Mid-century, 2015

1995 Ph.D., SociologyState University of New York at Binghamton Dissertation: Herald or Hydra? English Cultural Studies in the Post-

1945 World-System, 1994.1990 M.A., Sociology

State University of New York at Binghamton 1987 B.A., Political Science

University of Texas at San Antonio

languages English, Italian, French--reading, writing and speaking fluencySpanish--reading and research competency

academic posts

honors

2006- Director, Fernand Braudel Center, BU2005- Professor, Sociology, BU2003-05 Associate Professor, Sociology, BU2002-05 Deputy Director, Fernand Braudel Center, BU2001-03 Assistant Professor, Sociology, BU

2012 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Hartford2011-12 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, BU

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service Binghamton University Campus

2016- Faculty Senate2012, 14-15 Fulbright Review Committee2011 Academic Development Fund Review Committee2011-13, 16 Senior Initiating Personnel Committee: Art History2011-12 Senior Initiating Personnel Committee: Sociology, Chair2010 Council Foundation Awards Committee2008-12 Binghamton University Advocacy Day, Albany, NY

Yearly meetings with NY State Legislators2007-08 Harpur College Dean Search Committee

Donald G. Nieman appointed 2010-12 Faculty Senate Executive Committee

Chair, Faculty Governance Leader2008-10 Faculty Senate Executive Committee2004-06 Faculty Senate Executive Committee

Chair, Faculty Governance Leader2002-04 Faculty Senate Executive Committee 2004-05 Director of Graduate Studies/Vice-chair, Sociology2011-122003-04 Harpur College Council2002-04 Experiential Education Advisory Committee2002 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Sociology

Scholarly Community

External reviews of promotion/tenure cases: 2005, 2006, 2011

Grant proposal reviews:National Science Foundation, USADanish Council for Independent Research

Referee forBook manuscript evaluations:

McGill-Queen’s UP, Roman and LittlefieldBook proposal evaluations:

Blackwell, Routledge, RoxburyJournal article and book chapter evaluations:

American Journal of Sociology, CurrentSociology, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, International Sociology, ISA Forum,Journal of Applied Systems Studies, Journal of World-Systems Research, Review, Sociological Quarterly, Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of Educational Media,Memory and Society

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Professional

2016

Colloquium Co-organizer, FBC-BU

(with Luiza Moriera)

World Literature: Premises and Problems2013

Colloquium Organizer, FBC-BU

Making Possible Futures in

Research: Working across the Disciplines2010- Book Series Editor: SUNY Press

Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science

2009 Colloquium Organizer, FBC-BU(with Dale Tomich and Philip McMichael)

Food, Energy, Environment: Crisis of the ModernWorld-System

2008                Colloquium Organizer, FBC-BU                                    The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis2008- Editorial Advisory Board

Journal of Philosophical Economics2006- Editor

Review2006 Session Organizer, ISA Thematic Session

Crises and Reconstruction: Africa in the World-System, Durban, South Africa

2004-06 Scientific Secretary, FBC Symposia: Stanford, Paris, BUChallenges to Dominant Modes of Knowledge

2004 Session Organizer, ASA Regular Session The Structures of Knowledge, San Francisco, CA

2002- Editorial BoardReview

2002 Session Organizer, ISA Ad Hoc Session OPEN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: The Continuing Discussion, Brisbane, Australia

2001-03 Organizer, Colloquium Series The Two Cultures and the World-System, FBC-BU

2000-04 EditorJournal of Sociocybernetics

1999- Associate EditorJournal of Applied Systems Studies

1999- Project ChairThe Categories of Social Knowledge, FBC-BU

1998-06 SecretaryResearch Committee 51International Sociological Association

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grants/funding

1996-99 Project Co-chairOvercoming the “Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System, FBC-BU

1993-96 Scientific SecretaryOpen the Social Sciences: Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social SciencesGulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences

2009 “Food Energy, Environment: Crisis of the Modern World-System.” FBC Colloquium, SUNY Conversations in theDisciplines, PI.

2003 Visiting Scholar Research Support: Maison des Sciences del'Homme, Paris, France, 1-28 Feberuary.

2002 “Turning-Point in the Trajectory of the Modern World-System: Capital Accumulation, Structures of Knowledge, andAntisystemic Movements.” MOST (UNESCO), Co-PI'sI. Wallerstein and W.G. Martin.

Dean’s Workshop SeriesUtopistics, 2006-07Science Studies (with Gerald Kutcher), 2005-07The “Two Cultures” and the World-System, 2001-03

Dean’s Travel Grants: 2006, World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July;2004, International Sociological Association Research CouncilConference, Ottawa, Canada, 28-30 May; 2004, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, SanFrancisco California, 14-17 August;2002, World Congress of the InternationalSociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, 7-13 July.

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publications Single-Authored Books

Knowledge Matters: The Structures of Knowledge and the Crisis of the Modern World-System (Brisbane, Aus.: Queensland University Press, 2010; New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 2011).

Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003).

Edited Collections

The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis , edited with an introduction by Richard E. Lee (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012).

Studies in World-Systems Analysis, Journal of Philosophical Economics: Special Issue, IV, 1 (2010), 1-211.

Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge I: Determinism, A Symposium coordinated by Aviv Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein, edited with an introduction by Richard E. Lee (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010).

Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge II: Reductionism, A Symposium coordinated by Aviv Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein, edited with an introduction by Richard E. Lee (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010).

Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge III: Dualism, A Symposium coordinated by Aviv Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein, edited with an introduction by Richard E. Lee (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010).

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Overcoming the Two Cultures: The Sciences versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System, co-coordinator Immanuel Wallerstein (New York: Paradigm, 2004). [Turkish Edition (Istanbul: Metis, 2007)]

World-System Analysis: Contemporary Research and Directions, co-editor Gerhard Preyer, Protosociology 20 (2004): 1-257.

Sociocybernetic Approaches to Social Change, International Review of Sociology (12, 2, 2002), 187-342.

Book Chapters

“Fernand Braudel and the Fernand Braudel Center.” Annales in Perspective: Designs and Accomplishments, edited by Filip Šimetin Šegvic (Zagreb: Zagreb University Press, forthcoming).

“Foreword.” Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition, by Dale Tomich. (Albany: SUNY Press, 2016), xiii.

“Postfazione/Afterword.” Passaggi in Pianura/Crossing the Plain, by Corrinna Cadetto (Udine, Italy: Kappa Vu, 2012), 61-63.

“The Structures of Knowledge: Conceptualizing the Socio-Cultural Arena of Historical Capitalism.” Handbook of World-Systems Analysis (New York: Routledge, 2012) 104-11.

“Introduction: Fernand Braudel, the Longue Durée, and World-Systems Analysis.” The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012), 1-7.

“The Longue Durée and the Status of ‘Superstructures’.” The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012), 161-70.

“The Structures of Knowledge in a World in Transition.”Worldviews, Science and Us: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Worlds, Cultures and Society, edited by Diederik Aerts, Bart D’Hooghe, Rik Pinxten, and Immanuel Wallerstein (Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2005), 164-80.

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“The Modern World-System: Its Structures, Its Geoculture, Its Crisis and Transformation.” Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture, edited by David Palumbo-Liu, Bruce Robbins and Nirvana Tanoukhi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), 27-40.

“Introduction.” Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge: Determinism, A Symposium co-coordinated by Aviv Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein (Albany: State

University of New York Press, 2010), 1-4.

“Introduction.” Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge: Reductionism, A Symposium co-coordinated by Aviv Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), 1-4.

“Introduction.” Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge: Dualism, A Symposium co-coordinated by Aviv Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), 1-4.

“Richard Hoggart and the Epistemological Impact of Cultural Studies.” Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies, edited by Sue Owen (London: Palgrave, 2008), 88-104.

“Science Wars: Whither the Two Cultures?” Cognitive Justice in a Global World: Prudent Knowledges for a Decent Life, edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2007), 71-86.

“Between Wert and Wissen: A Future for the Three Cultures?” Collection in the Humanities (Riga: Russian Baltic Institute, 2005), 131-45.

“Introduction: The Two Cultures,” co-author Immanuel Wallerstein. Overcoming the Two Cultures: The Sciences versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System, Richard E. Lee and Immanuel Wallerstein, coords. (New York: Paradigm, 2004), 1-5. [Turkish Edition (Istanbul: Metis, 2007), 9-14]

“Complexity Studies.” Overcoming the Two Cultures: The Sciences versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System, Richard E. Lee and Immanuel Wallerstein, coords. (New York: Paradigm, 2004), 107-17. [Turkish Edition (Istanbul: Metis, 2007), 139-52]

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“The 'Culture Wars' and the 'Science Wars’.” Overcoming the Two Cultures: The Sciences and the Humanities in the Modern World-System, Richard E. Lee and Immanuel Wallerstein, coords. (New York: Paradigm, 2004), 189-202. [Turkish Edition (Istanbul: Metis, 2007), 244-61]

“O destino das 'duas culturas': mais uma salva de tiros nas 'guerras da ciência'.” Conhecimento Prudente para uma Vida Decente: Um Discurso sobre as Ciencias Revisitado,

edited by Boventura de Sousa Santos (Porto: Afrontamento, 2003), 81-98. [Brazilian Edition (São Paulo: Cortez, 2004), 85-102]

“The 'Third' Arena: Trends and Logistics in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System.” Emerging Issues in the 21 st Century World-System , Vol. I, edited by Wilma A. Dunaway (Westport: Greenwood, 2003), 120-27.

“Bucking the System: The TimeSpace of Antisystemic Movements.” The Modern World-System in the 20 th Century , edited by Ramón Grosfoguel and Margarita Rodriguez (Westport: Greenwood, 2002), 21-32.

“The History on Sociocybernetics, RC51, of the International Sociological Association.” [Editors title; originally “The History, Goals, Accomplishments and Future Plans of the Research Committee on Sociocybernetics, RC51, of the International Sociological Association”] Understanding Complexity, edited by Jennifer Wilby and Gillian Ragsdell (London: Plenum, 2001), 41-3.

“Structures of Knowledge,” co-author Immanuel Wallerstein. The Blackwell Companion to Sociology, edited by Judith Blau (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2000), 227-35.

“The Incorporation of West Africa: A Numerical Analysis of Railroad

Expansion.” Space and Transport in the World-System, edited by Paul S. Ciccantell and Stephen G. Bunker (Westport: Greenwood, 1998), 152-68.

“Thinking the Past/Making the Future: Methods and Purpose in World-Historical Science.” Mentoring, Methods, and Movements: Colloquium in Honor of Terence K. Hopkins by his Former Students, edited by Immanuel Wallerstein (Binghamton: Fernand Braudel Center/Ahead, 1998), 63-8.

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“Structures of Knowledge.” The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World-System, 1945-2025, coordinated by Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein, et al. (London: Zed, 1996), 178-206. [Italian Edition (Trieste: Asterios Editore, 1997), 217-49] [Korean Edition (1998), 216-53] [Japanese Edition (1999), 227-64] [Turkish Edition (Istanbul: Avesta, 1999), 225-60] [Chinese Edition (Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2002), 192-224]

“Hegemonic Cities in the Modern World-System,” co-author Sheila Pelizzon. Cities in the World System, edited by Resat Kasaba (Westport: Greenwood, 1991), 43-54.

Articles in Journals

“Lessons of the Longue Durée: The Legacy of Fernand Braudel.” Historia Crítica (69, July-September, 2018).

“The Library of Congress of the United States: An Institutional Trajectory in the Geopolitics of Culture.” Review (XXXVIII, 2, 2015).

“Disciplines and the University, Today and Tomorrow.” Review (XXXVII, 1, 2014), 61-79.

“What Next for Knowledge Production in Crisis? Historical Social Science and the Social Humanities.” Dong Bang Hak Chi (156, December, 2011), 131-54. [Korean]

“Critiques and Developments in World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction to the Collection.” Studies in World-Systems Analysis, Journal of Philosophical Economics, Special Issue (IV, 1, 2010), 5-18.

“Economics, the Structures of Knowledge, and the Quest for a More Substantively Rational World.” Journal of Philosophical Economics (1, 1, 2007), 8-21.

“Legitimating Hierarchy and Constructing Consensus, or the ‘Cultural’ Aspect of the Modern World-System: The Morant Bay Uprising, the Irish Rebellion, and English Franchise Reform.” Review (XXX, 3, 2007), 215-29.

“Cultural Studies, Complexity Studies and the Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge.” International Journal of Cultural Studies (10, 1, 2007), 11-20.

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“Social Knowledge for a World in Transition: Sociocybernetics and the Contemporary Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge.” Kybernetes, Festschrift for Felix Geyer, edited by Vessela Misheva and Bernard Scott (35, 1/2, 2006), 457-66.

“Complexity and the Social Sciences. Review (XXIX, 1, 2006), 115-34.

“Introduction,” co-author Gerhard Preyer. Protosociology, Special Issue, edited by Richard E. Lee and Gerhard Preyer: World-System Analysis: Contemporary Research and

Directions (20, 2004), 6-12.

“A Note on Method with an Example—The ‘War on Terror’.” Protosociology, Special Issue, edited by Richard E. Lee and Gerhard Preyer: World-System Analysis: Contemporary Research and Directions (20, 2004), 71-84.

“Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again? The Structures of Knowledge

and the Future of the Social Sciences. Futures, Special Issue: The Future of the Future in the Social Sciences, edited by Bruce Tonn (35, 2003), 621-32.

“Sociocybernetic Approaches for a Changing World: An Introduction. International Review of Sociology (12, 2, 2002), 187-91.

“Imagining the Future: Constructing Social Knowledge after ‘Complexity Studies’.” International Review of Sociology (12, 2, 2002), 333-41.

“Sesión Inaugural.” Inaugural Address, Third International Conference on Sociocybernetics. Spanish-English Parallel Text, Journal of Sociocybernetics (2, 2, 2001/2), 43-8.[www.unizar.es/sociocybernetics]

“After History? The Last Frontier of Historical Capitalism.” Protosoziologie, Special Issue: On a Sociology of Borderlines - Social Process in Time of Globalization, edited by Gerhard Preyer and Mathias Bös (15, 2001), 87-104. [Reprinted in Borderlines in a Globalized World: New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System, edited by Gerhard Preyer and Mathias Bös, Social Indicators Series (London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002), 67-82]

“The Structures of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences: Two Postulates, Two Propositions and a Closing Remark.” Festschrift for Immanuel Wallerstein - Part II, Journal of World-Systems Research, edited by Giovanni Arrighi and Walter Goldfrank (VI, 3, 2000), 786-96. [http://csf.colorado.edu/jwsr; now, http://jwsr.ucr.edu]

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“Readings in the ‘New Science’: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography.” Review (XV, 1, 1992), 113-71. [Reprinted in Historical Social Research (18, 1, 1993), 26-70.]

Encyclopedia Entries, Reviews, Translations, Chapbooks, Proceedings, Mimeos, Website Publications, Videos, and other miscellany

Interview of Richard E. Lee “Fernand Braudel, four Questions.” Historia Crítica (69, July-September, 2018).

Review of Andre Gunder Frank and Global

Development: Visions, Remembrances, and Explorations (London: Routledge, 2011). Geschichte-transnational, 18 October 2013. http://geschichte-transnational.clio-online.net/rezensionen/id=17245

Review of The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009). Journal of World-Systems Research (18, 2, 2012), 280-84.

“An Emerging Historical Social Science and Its Methodology.” Crisis in Scholarship and the Reconstruction of Public Knowledge: Resources and Methodologies for Social Humanities. Proceedings of the Conference held at the Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2-3 June 2011, IKS (2011): 123-37.

Review of Culture and Power: A History of Cultural Studies, by Mark Gibson (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007). International Journal of Cultural Studies (11, 1, 2008), 123-124.

“Humanism.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, edited by William A Darity (Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson/Gale, 2007).

“Braudel Fernand (1902-1986 [sic]).” Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, edited by David S. Clark (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007), Vol. 1: 130-31.

“Letter from the Editor.” Review (XXIX, 1, 2006), iii.

Review of World Culture: Origins and Consequences, by Frank J. Lechner and John Boli (Malden MA: Blackwell, 2005). International History Review (XXIX, 2, 2007), 462-63.

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”Complexity and the Social Sciences.” Coleción: Conceptos Fundamentales de Nuestro Tiempo (México, D.F.: UNAM: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, 2007).

[http://maremival.sociales.unam.mx/conceptos/leer_trabajo.php?id_trabajo=50&categoria=c&b=con, 2005]

“Cognition and Intentionality: The Third Arena of Historical Capitalism.” Knowledge-based Economy: Its Achievements and Problems, Proceedings of the Conference held at Daegu University, Korea, 19 May 2006, KSESA (2006): 162-80.

Social Science and Social Policy: From NationalDilemmas to Global Opportunities,

co-authors, William J. Martin, Heinz R. Sonntag, Peter J. Taylor, ImmanuelWallerstein, and Michel Wieviorka (Paris: UNESCO, 2005).[English, French, and Spanish Editions]

Review of Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions, by Johann P. Arnason (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003). Contemporary Sociology (34, 2, 2005), 212-13.

“Events and Histories of Knowledge.” Translation of “Événements et Histoires de Savoir,” by Isabelle Stengers, in L'homme devant l'incertain, edited by Ilya Prigogine (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2001, 359-77). Review (XXVIII, 2, 2005), 143-69.

Review of World System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change, edited by Robert A. Denemark, Jonathan Friedman, Barry K. Gills and George Modelski (London and New York: Routledge, 2000). Journal of World-Systems Research (VIII, 3, 2002), 458-62.

“The Crisis of the Structures of Knowledge: Where Do We Go from Here?” Social Sciences and Transdisciplinarity: Latin American and Canadian Experiences, edited by Rosalind Boyd and Alberto Flórez-Malagon (Montréal: CDAS, 2000), 117-23. [Spanish translation in Desafíos de la transdisciplinariedad, edited by Alberto Flórez Malagón and Carmen Millán de Benavides (Bogotá: CEJA, 2002), 206-15]

“A Journal for Sociocybernetics,” co-authors Felix Geyer and Bernd Hornung. Journal of Sociocybernetics (1, 1, 2000), 1-6. [www.unizar.es/sociocybernetics]

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“Report on the RC51 Annual Meeting.” Newsletter, Research Committee on Sociocybernetics of the International Sociological Association (4, 2, 1999), n.p.

“Dilemmas of Identity.” Newsletter, Research Committee on Sociocybernetics of the International Sociological Association (4, 1, 1999), n.p.

“What is Chaos Theory?” Translation of “Qu'est-ce que la théorie du chaos?” from Le Chaos, by Ivar Ekeland (Paris: Flammarion, 1995). Review (XXI, 1, 1998), 137-50.

Complexity Studies and the Human

Sciences: Pressures, Initiatives andConsequences of Overcoming the Two Cultures (México, D.F.: CIIECH/UNAM, 1998).

Complexity Studies and the Human Sciences: Pressures, Initiatives and Consequences of Overcoming the Two Cultures, Videoteca de Ciencias y Humanidades, Colección: Las Ciencias y las Humanidades en los Umbrales del Siglo XXI (México, D.F.: CIIECH/UNAM, 1998).

“The Laws of Chaos.” Translation of Ch. 1 and 9 of Le leggi del caos/Les lois du chaos, by Ilya Prigogine (Rome/Paris: Laterza/Flammarion, 1993/1994). Review (XIX, 1, 1996), 1-11.

“Social Science Knowledge: A Report on Institutionalization” (Binghamton: Fernand Braudel Center, 1994).

“John Pinkard.” History of Freestone County Texas, II, by Freestone County Historical Commission (Winston-Salem: Hunter, 1989), 413.

“Robert Edwin Lee.” History of Freestone County Texas, II, by Freestone County Historical Commission (Winston-Salem: Hunter, 1989), 327-28.

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professional meetings Invited Lectures/Seminars/Workshops

“The Dance Photography of Barbara Morgan: Reading the Technology, Esthetics, and Social Life of the Image.”

Photographs through the Eyes of Others, Binghamton University Art Museum, 29 April 2015.

“Disciplines and the University, Today and Tomorrow: Historical Social Science, Social Humanities, and What Kind of Science.”

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.Binghamton University, 17 April 2013.

“The Structures of Knowledge and the Crisis of the Modern World-System.”Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems Research Group. Binghamton University, 10 October 2012.

“Knowledge Production: Institutions and Future.”Plenary Lecture funded by NEH and Harry Jack Gray grants. University of Hartford, Hartford, Conn., 3 October 2012.

“The Structure and Crisis of Knowledge Production.” Six seminars funded by NEH and Harry Jack Gray grants. University of Hartford, Hartford, Conn., 26-28 June 2012.

“The Fernand Braudel Center and the Structures of Knowledge: A Workshop.”Institute of Korean Studies. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 4 June 2011.

“Communications: What Revolution?” Technology, Entertainment, Design (TEDx) Conference. Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 2 April 2011.

“A Continuing Research Trajectory: Communications Technologies and the Structures of Knowledge.”

Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.

“Discovering the ‘Third Arena’: World-System Approaches to the Sociocultural Realm.”

Department of Sociology. Binghamton University, 27 February 2008.

“World-Systems Analysis, the Fernand Braudel Center, and the Development of Historical Social Science.” 

College of Social Science. Daegu University, Daegu, Korea, 18 May 2006.

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“The Contemporary Reordering of Social Knowledge: The Role of Systems Approaches and Complexity Studies.”

13th WOSC & 6th Sociocybernetic Congress. Maribor, Slovenia, 5-10 July 2005.

“Unthinking the Social Sciences: A Possible Future.”

Kongress zu Reproduktionsbedingungen und Perspektiven kritischer, Theorie Kritische, Wissenschaft, Emanzipation und die Entwicklung der Hochschulen. Universität Frankfurt am Main, Studierendenhaus, 1-3 July 2005.

“Complexity and the Social Sciences.”

75th Anniversary Conference of the Instituto de Investigacion

es Sociales, “Algunos conceptos fundamentales para el análisis de la sociedad contemporánea.” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 27 June-1 July 2005.

“A che cosa assomiglia la Guerra contro il terrorismo? Scelta un’analogia, scelto un futuro.”

Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy, 10 December 2003.

“Without Begging the Question: The Cultural Aspect of the Modern World-System.”

Coloniality Working Group, Fernand Braudel Center. SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, 6 December 2002.

“Sesión Inaugural.”Plenary Address, Third International Conference on Sociocybernetics: “The 21st Century and Possible Worlds.” Universidad Iberoamericana, León, Mexico, 24 June-1 July 2001.

“The History, Goals, Accomplishments and Future Plans of the Research Committee on Sociocybernetics, RC51, of the International Sociological Association.”

Plenary Address, World Congress of the Systems Sciences. Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto Canada, 16-22 July 2000.

“Los nuevos vínculos entre las ciencias y las humanidades?”Seminario sobre “Conceptos en Ciencias y Humanidades.” Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, UNAM, Mexico City, 14 October 1998.

“Civilizations, Cultures, Societies or Historical Social Systems?”5th European School of Systems Science. Centre interfacultaire d'études systémiques, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 7-11 September 1998.

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“World-Systems Analysis: A Genealogy.”

5th European School of Systems Science. Centre interfacultaire d'études systémiques, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 7-11 September 1998.

“Los estudios sobre la complejidad y las ciencias humanas.”

Seminario Permanente sobre “El Mundo Actual: situación y alternativas.” Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, UNAM, Mexico City, 19 March 1998.

Colloquia/Symposia

“Time for History: The Legacy

of Fernand Braudel.”The Transformation of Global History: 1963-1975. Princeton University, 9-10 October 2015.

“Crossing Disciplinary Borders and the Making of Scholarly Authority.”Making Possible Futures in Research: Working across the Disciplines, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 18-19 October 2013.

“Scholarly Journals in the Era of Electronic Publishing: Dilemmas and Prospective.”New Approaches to Scholarly Communications and Publishing, Bartle Library, Binghamton University, 15-16 April 2009.

“The Longue Durée and the Status of ‘Superstructures’.”The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis. Colloquium to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Fernand Braudel, “Histoire et sciences sociales: La longue durée.” Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 24-25 October 2008.

“The University and the Structuring of Values.”The Question of Ethics and the University. What Could Be Different? What Might Be Accomplished? Roundtable organized by Vikram Chaubey, Margaret Hendrickx, and Stephen David Ross, Binghamton University Downtown Center, 16 November 2007.

“World-System Analysis: An Approach to the ‘Cultural’ Realm.”World-Scale Ambitions? Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall, April 28, 2005.

“Whither the 'Two Cultures'? Another Volley in the 'Science Wars'.”Fernand Braudel Center Seminar #02, Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, 24 October 2002.

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Symposium, “Globalizing the Academy.”

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 16-17 November 2000.

“The Crisis of the Structures of Knowledge: Where Do We Go from Here?”Centre for Developing-Area Studies Workshop, “Social Sciences and Interdisciplinarity: Latin American and Canadian Experiences,” McGill University, Montréal, Canada, 23-26 September 1999.

“A World-Systems View of Systems Approaches to the Analysis of Social Change.”

FER Science Assessment Workshop, “Complex Systems Thinking Revisited,” Centre interfacultaire d'études systémiques, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 4-5 September 1998.

“Thinking the Past/Making the Future: Methods and Purpose in World-Scale Historical Science.”

“Mentoring, Methods and Movements: A Colloquium in Honor of Terence K. Hopkins,” New York, NY, 15 August 1996.

“Between Wert and Wissen: A Future for the Three Cultures?”Symposium, “Which Sciences for Tomorrow? Dialogue on the Gulbenkian Report: Open the Social Sciences,” Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2-3 June 1996.

“Remarks: On 'Thinking the Unthought'.”Symposium, “Which Sciences for Tomorrow? Dialogue on the Gulbenkian Report: Open the Social Sciences,” Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2-3 June 1996.

Conferences

“Understanding in the Historical Sciences: Lessons from the Longue Durée.”Beyond Modernity: Transepochal Perspectives on Spaces, Actors and Structures; Basel Graduate School of History, Institute for European Global Studies, Basel, Switzerland; 28-29 November 2014.

“Keeping Culture Alive! Anthony King, World-Systems Analysis, and the Fernand Braudel Center.”

Writing the Global City: A Tribute to Professor Anthony D. King, Binghamton University, 4-5 October 2013.

“An Emerging Historical Social Science and its Methodology.” Crisis in Scholarship and the Reconstruction of Public Knowledge: Resources and Methodologies for Social Humanities, Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2-3 June 2011.

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“Historical Social Science as a Science of Culture.”

Creative Destruction: Lessons for Science and Innovation Policy from the Rise of the Creative Industries, CCi/FEAST Joint Research Workshop (contributed), Brisbane, Australia, 27-8 March 2008.

“Cognition and Intentionality: The Third Arena of Historical Capitalism.”

Korea Social and Economic Studies Association, Daegu University, Korea, 18 May 2006.

“Richard Hoggart and the Epistemological Impact of Cultural Studies.”

The Uses of Richard Hoggart: An International, Interdisciplin

ary Conference on Richard Hoggart’s Work and Influence, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 3-5 April 2006.

“A Note on Method with an Example—The ‘War on Terror’.”International Sociological Association Research CouncilConference, Ottawa, Canada, 28-30 May 2004.

“The 'War on Terror': Braudelian Dust or Secular Sandstorm?”ISA XV World Congress of Sociology, “The Social World in the 21st Century,” Brisbane, Australia, 7-13 July 2002.

“The 911 World: Hegemonic Conflict or Transition Struggle?”Political Economy of the World-System 26th Annual Conference (PEWS XXVI), IROWS, UC-Riverside, Riverside, CA, 3-4 May 2002.

“Comment on Collins, Mamdani, and de Sousa Santos.”“The Modern World-System in the Longue Durée: A Conference to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Fernand Braudel Center,” Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 2-3 November 2001.

“Cases of Classes, Instances of Processes: Methodological Individualism, Systems, and Historical Social Science.”

Third International Conference on Sociocybernetics, Universidad Iberoamericana León, Mexico, 24 June-1 July 2001.

“Trends and Logistics in the 'Third' Arena: A Note on Conceptualization.”Political Economy of the World-System 25th Annual Conference (PEWS XXV), Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, 19-21 April 2001.

“Sociocybernetic Approaches to Social Change.”ISA Research Council Conference, “Social Transformations at the Turn of the Millennium: Sociological Theory and Contemporary Empirical Research,” Université de Monréal, Montréal, Canada, 28-30 July 2000.

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“Local Action, Global Consequences? Agency and Structure in Contemporary Social Change.”

World Congress of the Systems Sciences/International Society for the Systems Sciences 44th Annual Meeting, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada, 16-22 July 2000.

“The Contradictory Effects of a 'Globalization' Perspective: Methods and their Unanticipated Consequences.”

ISA RC51 World Congress on Sociocybernetics, Panticosa, Spain, 25 June-1 July 2000.

“Bucking the System: The TimeSpace of Antisystemic Movements.”

Political Economy of

the World-System 24th Annual Conference (PEWS XXIV), “The Modern World-System in the 20th Century,” Boston College, Boston, MA, 24-25 March 2000.

“'Us' and 'Them' in the Study of Long-Term, Large-Scale Social Change.”ISA RC51 World Congress on Sociocybernetics, Kolimbari, Crete, Greece, 26-31 May 1999.

“The Politics of Knowledge Formation: Social Movements and the Structures of Knowledge.”

Political Economy of the World-System 23rd Annual Conference (PEWS XXIII), “Inequality and Social Movements,” University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 26-27 March 1999.

“Imagining the Future: Constructing Social Knowledge after 'Complexity Studies'.”

ISA XIV World Congress of Sociology, “Social Knowledge: Heritage, Challenges, Perspectives,” Joint Session RC07 (Futures Research) and WG01 (Sociocybernetics and Social System Theory), Montréal, Québec, 26 July-1 August 1998.

“The Politics of Accumulation: Race, Nation and Gender in Victorian England.”

SISSI, “The Image of Class in Literature, the Media, and Society,” University of Southern Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, 12-14 March 1998.

“After Humanism, After Liberalism: Science and Literature at the 'End of History'.”

Conference, “Apocalypse, Millenarism, New Boundaries,” Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 2-4 May 1997.

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“Position Statement and Presentation.”

SLS '96 Panel, “You Just Don't Understand: Talking Across the Boundary at SLS,” Atlanta, GA, 10-13 October 1996.

“Cultural Studies as Geisteswissenschaften: Time, Objectivity, and the Future of Social Science.”

ACLA '96, “Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies,” University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 11-13 April 1996.

“The Incorporation of West Africa: A Numerical Analysis of Railroad Expansion.”

Political Economy of the World-System 20th Annual Conference (PEWS XX), “Space and Transport in the World-

System,” Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 19-20 April 1996.

“Cultural Studies and the De-Disciplining of Knowledge: The Classical Ballerina in the Service of International Advertising.”

Conference, “Literature and Popular Culture,” Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 21-22 April 1995.

“Transition and the Disciplines: A Historical Perspective on the Present Crisis.”ACLA '95, “Literature and Science: Historical and Global Perspectives,” University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 16-18 March 1995.

“Hegemonic Cities in the Modern World-System.”(with Sheila Pelizzon), Political Economy of the World-System 14th Annual Conference (PEWS XIV), “Cities in the World-System,” University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 29-30 March 1990.

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teachingCourses Offered

Graduate World-Systems AnalysisTheoretical StudiesStructures of KnowledgeImperialism

Undergraduate Sociology of MusicMusic of Historical CapitalismCulture and ImperialismLiberalism and AfterHistorical Social ScienceFoundations of Social TheorySocial Research MethodsUnthinking ScienceRace and Cultural Relations in the World Community: The Making and

Breaking of the Liberal Consensus, 1789-1989Cultural StudiesSocial Change: Global PerspectiveSociological Theories and Perspectives: Contemporary

DilemmasStructures of Knowledge/Cultures of PowerSocial Problems in the U.S.Issues in Contemporary Art (Department of Art History)Music, Literature and the Visual Arts in Society

Dissertations Chaired

Ryan MeadDispossession, Transformation, and Representation: Producing Capitalist Agriculture in the Lower Colorado River Borderlands, 1540-1911 (Defended, Sociology, BU, 2017).

Florence MolkThe Identity of Europe in the Modern World-System: Instituting Core Processes in the Space of Policing (Defended, Sociology, BU, 2016).

Reiko KoidePolitical Economy of Public Education: The Case of Japan (Defended, Sociology, BU, 2013).

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Sally DearLike Mother, Like Daughter? Factors Influencing the Transmission of Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behaviors about Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Mothering (Defended, Sociology, BU, 2011).

Sanem Guvenc-Salgirli

Class, Nation, and Purity: A Critical Approach to Theories and Practices of Eugenics in Early Republican Turkey (Defended, Sociology, BU, 2009).

Boris StremlinConstructing a Multiparadigm World History: Civilizations, Ecumenes,

and World-Systems in the Ancient Near East (Defended, Sociology, BU, 2005).

Robert OstertagPeople’s Movements, Peoples Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements in the United States (Defended, Sociology, BU, 2005).