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4/23/07
SLU HOSTING CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL ROLE OF ASIA
CANTON - "Asia and the World-System" is the theme for the 2007 Political Economy of the
World System (PEWS) Conference, which will be at St. Lawrence University May 11 and 12.
The conference brings together scholars from around the world to give presentations
on and to discuss the meaning of "Asia."
Historically, Asia marks continental and maritime spaces whose particular development
suggests alternatives to prevailing chronologies, geographies and identities.
In a contemporary era marked by regional and global tensions and cooperations,
Asian geographies appear as economic miracles and fractal order(s), developmental
states and quasi-states dependent upon migrant laborers and feminized work forces.
Yet Asia is also a concept that is not bound by geography. It includes political
and economic networks formed by Asians who have left their traditional ethnic
homelands for locations around the world.
The keynote speaker is World-Systems founder Immanuel Wallerstein, senior research
scholar at Yale University. His talk is titled "The Politics of Geopolitics: The
Case of Northeast Asia." In addition, two other speakers will address the entire
gathering:
- Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University,
on "Chinese Conceptions of 'Rights': From Mencius to Mao - and Now"
- Dorothy Sollinger, professor of political science at the University of
California at Irvine and senior adjunct research scholar at the Weatherhead
East Asian Institute of Columbia University, on "Globalization and Labor's
Losses: Insights from China, France, and Mexico"
The conference also features panel discussions on topics including "Geopolitics
and New Developmental Visions"; "Women, Migrants, Diasporas, and Class Struggles";
"Culture, Science, Religion and Ideological Formations"; and "Asian
Environments and Historical Trajectories."
Information on registration and the program can be found at
http://stlawu.edu/global/conference-2007
or by contacting Joyce Sheridan, Global Studies Department, St. Lawrence University
(jsheridan@stlawu.edu or 315 229-5965).
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