[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Arrighi celebration this week in Madrid

[Patrick Bond]

Dynamics of the Global Crisis, Antisystemic Movements, and New Models of 
Hegemony

May 25th-29th

Public Programmes. Thought and Debate
International Conference

A meeting in honour to Giovanni Arrighi

International meeting in honour to Italian economist and sociologist 
Giovanni Arrighi, in which we will analyse the characteristics of the 
current systemic crisis of capitalism, the regional responses put 
forward by States, social classes, antisystemic movements and dominant 
elites in order to engage its consequences, the prospective scenarios 
opened up in the wake of the creation of new models of global hegemony, 
and the challenges and consequences derived from the arrival
of a new, fair and egalitarian world order.

Programme
Mon 25
10.00 h
Presentation by
Manuel Borja-Villel, Director of the Museum.
10.30 h
Opening session: “Dynamics of the Global Crisis, Antisystemic Movements 
and New Models of Hegemony Reflections on the work
of Giovanni Arrighi”.
Samir Amin, Perry Anderson, Robert Brenner, David Harvey, Ho Fung Hung 
and Beverly J. Silver
12.30 h
Counterpoint:
Giovanni Arrighi
17.30 h
“The Global Financial System: From Bretton Woods to the Current Crisis 
and the Search for Fair and Sustainable Alternatives”. Amiya Kumar 
Bagchi, Marcello de Cecco and Theotonio Dos Santos
Tue 26
10.00 h
“The Financial and Military Basics of the Global Relationships of Power” 
Robert Brenner, Ravi Arvind Palat and Tom Reifer
12.30 h
“The Elites’ Hegemonic Projects and the Anti-Systemic Movevements’ 
Popular and Subordinated Strategies”. Gillian Hart, William Martin and
Ravi Sundaram
17.30 h
“The Impact of the Current Crisis on Global Inequality and the 
Development Strategies of Emerging Economies”. Roberto Patricio 
Korzeniewicz, Carlos Eduardo Martins and Luis Sandoval Ramírez
Wed 27
10 h
“Regional Perspectives on the Current Crisis and Future Alternatives: 
Africa” Siba N. Grovogui, Gillian Hart, William Martin
and John S. Saul
12.30 h
“Regional Perspectives on the Current Crisis and Future Alternatives: 
Asia”. Ho Fung Hung, Lu Aiguo and Ravi Sundaram
17.30 h
“Regional Perspectives
on the Current Crisis
and Future Alternatives:
Latin America”.
Luis Sandoval Ramírez, Theotonio dos Santos and Roberto Patricio 
Korzeniewicz
Programme
Thu 28
10 h
“Regional Perspectives
on the Current Crisis
and Future Alternatives: Europe and North America”.
Perry Anderson, Marcello de Cecco and David Harvey
12.30 h
“Implications of Pre-Colonial Social Structures For the Future 
Alternative Paths of Development”. Siba N. Grovogui,
Takeshi Hamashita
and Ravi Arvind Palat
16.30 h
“South-South Relations:
Is a New Bandung Possible?” Samir Amin, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Walden Bello and
Emir Sader
Fri 29
10 h
Closing conference:
“For a New Socio-Economic and Political Paradigm. Strategic Perspectives 
for Avoiding Systemic Chaos and Building a Fair and Sustainable World”. 
Giovanni Arrighi
12.30 h
Final Round Table
Giovanni Arrighi
Lecturer in Sociology at the
John Hopkins University, Baltimore. Author of The Geometry of 
Imperialism (1978), The Long 20th Century (1994), Chaos and Order in the 
Modern System-World (1999) [with Beverly J. Silver] and Adam Smith in 
Beijing (2007)
Samir Amin
Director of the Third World Forum, Dakar (Senegal) and one of the most 
highly reputed contemporary economists. Author, among others, of Du 
capitalisme à la civilisation (2008)
Beverly J. Silver
Lecturer in Sociology at the John Hopkins University, Baltimore. Author 
of Forces of Labor. Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870 (2003)
David Harvey
Lecturer in Geography at the
City University of New York (CUNY). Among his many publications, Spaces 
of Capital (2001), and Paris, Capital
of Modernity (2003)
Ravi Arvind Palat
Lecturer in Sociology at
the Department of Sociology
of the State University of
New York in Binghamton.
Author, among others, of Capitalist Restructuring
of the Pacific Rim (2004).
Emir Sader
Lecturer in Social Politics and Public Policies at the State University 
of Rio de Janeiro and Executive Secretary of CLACSO. Author of Ensayo 
brasileño contemporâneo (2004)
Participantes
Walden Bello
Director of Focus on Global South and Lecturer in Sociology and Public 
Administration at
the University of the Philippines
Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Lecturer in Economics and Director of the Institute of Development 
Studies of Calcuta. Notable among his works is Capture and Exclude:
Developing Economies and
the Poor in Global Finance
(with Gary A. Dymski) (2007)
Gillian Hart
Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Berkeley and 
Honorary Lecturer at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Author of 
Disabling Globalization. Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa 
(2002)
Takeshi Hamashita
Lecturer in Chinese Economic History. Currently he is Dean of the School 
of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Universtiy of Zhongshan in Guangzhou 
(China) and Research Fellow at the Universtiy of Ryukoku in Kyoto 
(Japan). Author of The Resurgence of East Asia (2007)
Ho-Fung Hung
Lecturer at the Department
of Sociology at the University
of Indiana, Bloomington.
In 2009, he has published
China and the Transformation
of Global Capitalism.
Tom Reifer
Lecturer at the Department of Sociology at the University of San Diego. 
He is currently working on a series of books, among which are US 
Militarism, Hurricane Katrina & The Challenges of the 21st Century
Participantes
Marcello De Cecco
Lecturer at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Notable among his many 
publications is L’oro di Europa. Monete, economia e politica nei nuovi 
scenari mondiali (1999)
Ravi Sundaram
Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 
(CSDS), Delhi.
Author of Pirate Modernity. Media Urbanism in Delhi (2009)
John S. Saul
Professor Emeritus of Political Sciences at the York University, 
Toronto. He is author of countless books, notable among which are Essays 
on the Political Economy of Africa (with G. Arrighi) (1973) and 
Decolonization and Empire: Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of 
Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond (2008)
Luis Sandoval Ramírez
He currently works at the Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, UNAM, 
Mexico DF. Author, among other works,
of Dulce espejismo del capitalismo (2005)
Carlos Eduardo Martins
Doctor of Sociology (USP) and Research Fellow in Public Policies (LPP) 
and at the UNESOCO/UNU Chair on Globalisation and Sustainable 
Development (REGGEN)
in Rio de Janeiro
Participantes
Perry Anderson
History Lecturer at UCLA.
Author of Passages From Antiquity to Feudalism (1974), Lineages of the 
Absolutist State (1974), In the Tracks of Historical Materialism (1985), 
English Questions (1992), A Zone of Engagement (1992), The Origins of 
Postmodernity (1998) and Spectrum (2007). He has been editor of the New 
Left Review
Robert Brenner
Lecturer in History and Head
of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA and one 
of the most
highly reputed economic historians of his generation. Author, among 
other works, of Merchants and Revolution (1993) and The Economy
of Global Turbulence (2009)
Theotonio Dos Santos
He currently works at the UNESCO/UNU Chair on Globalisation and 
Sustainable Development (REGGEN) and
has taught at universities
and academic institutions in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, the United States, 
France and Japan.
He has authored more than forty books, notable among which
are Democracia e socialismo
no capitalismo dependente (1991) and Teoría de la dependencia (2003)
Silba N. Grovogui
Lecturer in International Relations and International Law at the John 
Hopkins University. Author of Sovereigns, Quasi-Sovereigns, and Africans 
(1996) and Beyond Eurocentrism
and Anarchy (2006)
Participantes
Lu Aiguo
Currently Senior Fellow at the State University de New York (SUNY), 
Binghamton. Author, among other works, of China
and the Global Economy since 1840 (1999)
William Martin
Lecturer at the Department of Sociology of the State University of New 
York Binghamton since 1999. Author, among other works, of Out of One, 
Many Africas: Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa (co-edited 
with Michael West, 1999)
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz
Lecturer at the Department
of Sociology of the University of Maryland. World Bank and ILO 
consultant. Author, among other works, of Latin America in
the World-Economy (1996)
Participantes
Dates
May 25th-29th 09
Organised by
Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
and Universidad Nómada
With the collaboration of
Fundación por la Europa
de los Ciudadanos
and CLACSO, Latin-American Council of Social Sciences.
Venue
Nouvel Building,
Lecture Hall 200
Admittance

Free Admittance until
seating is full
Validation
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Complutense University, Madrid
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