Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:14:02 -0500 From: christopher chase-dunn Subject: [Fwd: call for papers] To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Reply-to: chriscd@jhu.edu This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------5C8D8D00D2F8898FEB5C76D1 --------------5C8D8D00D2F8898FEB5C76D1 chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (ORCPT rfc822;chriscd@jhu.edu); Wed, Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:53:20 +0100 (MET) From: Volker Bornschier Subject: call for papers To: chriscd@jhu.edu Dear Chris - here is a call for paper of interest to the world-system studies community. May I ask you to be helpful in distributing it among interested colleagues in North America. Would it be possible to posit it also on the world-system archives? Thank you very much for your help. Yours - Volker -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESA 4th European Conference of Sociology of the European Sociological Association, 1999, 18-21. August, Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Conference under the general theme "Will Europe Work?" Call for papers for the stream on EUROPE'S WORKING IN THE WORLD co-convenors Volker Bornschier, University of Zurich, Sociological Institute, Raemistr. 69, CH-8001 Zurich/Switzerland, Fax: 0041/1/634-49-89, e-mail: vobo@soziologie.unizh.ch Nikolai Genov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology, 13A, Moskovska Str., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria, Fax: 0035/9/2280-37-91, e-mail: NBGEN.MOST.RISK@datacom.bg While the other streams at the conference rather focus on analyses of processes, structures and institutions "in" Europe in a perspective from within the stream EUROPE'S WORKING IN THE WORLD puts emphasis on analyses "of" Europe in a comparative as well as world system perspective. For these sessions we invite abstracts of proposed papers that examine the diverse phenomena implied by such a comparative and world system perspective, such as: *European integration: A model for the world society? *Europe in global politics; Europe and the future of hegemonic rivalry *European institutions in comparative perspective (especially in the triad - Western Europe, USA, Japan) *Europe in the process of globalisation and its position in the world economy (technological competition, work organisation, migration, markets) *Europe's extending borders, Europe's new boundaries (enlargment, differenciation or fragmentation of the European Union) *European colonial heritage and development policies Please forward this call for paper also to interested colleagues and submit abstracts of proposed papers to both co-convenors as early as possible but not later than 15. January 1999. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- ------------------------------------ Volker Bornschier University of Zurich, Sociological Institute Raemistrasse 69 CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland Tel. ++41/01/634 21 50 (office) Fax. ++41/01/634 49 89 (office) E-mail: vobo@soziologie.unizh.ch Web sites: www.unizh.ch/wsf/bornschier.html www.unizh.ch/suz/bornschier.html ------------------------------------ --------------5C8D8D00D2F8898FEB5C76D1--