Time: 4:00pm
Location: Voorhies Hall 126
The renowned scholar of global power, Giovanni Arrighi, will be visiting for a public talk on May 14, 2008. Professor Arrighi’s work, bridging world-systems theory and Marxian analysis, has been foundational for a current generation of historians, sociologists, literary scholars and cultural critics, and more. His most well-known volume, The Long Twentieth Century, provides a superbly synthetic, clear and trenchant account of mutating cycles of global domination extending back to the 14th century.
His current work turns toward the swiftly-developing future of the world-system and particularly East Asia and Africa, including the remarkable new volume Adam Smith in Beijing, from which he’ll draw his talk here at Davis.
Giovanni Arrighi is Professor of Sociology at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He is the author of The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (Verso 1994) and co-author with B. J. Silver of Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (University of Minnesota Press 1999). His latest book is Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century (Verso 2007).
This lecture is supported by the CHSC and the DHI; by the Departments of English, Sociology, History and Anthropology; and by the Programs in Asian American Studies, and East Asian Studies.
Contact: Joshua Clover <jclover@ucdavis.edu >