Though it is imagined and experienced from different vantage points, the modern world-system is perhaps for the first time in human history a coherent and integrated object of analysis. Focusing upon transnational historical processes, courses in this thematic area will help students learn to analyze the politics of global encounters and the cultural contradictions of empire and modernity. Possible topics for courses and research may include: the legacies of Enlightenment universalism; imperial conquest, slavery and subaltern struggles, migration, hybridity and diasporic identities, North/South relations, and technology, mass media, and global culture.
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Please feel free to visit the website for the conference I recently convened at Stony Brook, along with University of Exeter’s Joseph Melling, December 13-15, 2008, on “Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing World.”
Among the results of the conference are a planned edited volume, as well as a proposal for a Code [...]
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Mark your calendars for two major conferences being sponsored by the History Department in 2008-2009.
I. “The Eighteenth Century Cosmopolis: Global Cities and Citizens in the Age of Sail.”
October 23-24, 2008 at Stony Brook Manhattan
Co-sponsored with the Stony Brook Humanities Institute.
Click on this web link for more information. Conference poster (links to PDF).
II. “The Worlds of Lion [...]