Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension (IUCSSRE), Mahatma Gandhi University is organizing The First Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Lecture on 30 September 2021 in association with the Institute for Global South Studies and Research (IGSSR).
The inaugural Lecture will be delivered by Dr. PRABHAT PATNAIK, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on the theme “Three Decades of Economic Liberalization,” at 6.30 PM (IST) on Thursday, 30 September 2021 on Google Meet.
Dr. K.N. HARILAL, Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram will chair the session.
Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/iox-ftfb-iot?hs=224
6.30 PM (IST), Thursday, 30 September 2021
IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN (1930-2019) is best known for having developed World-Systems Analysis, a macrohistorical approach to understanding capitalism. He first became interested in world affairs, particularly the anticolonial movement in India, as a teenager living in New York City. As a result of his intellectual roots in Africana studies, national liberation, core-periphery relations, and critiques of Eurocentrism continued to be central concerns of his work. He attended Columbia University, where he received a B.A. in 1951, an M.A. in 1954 and a Ph.D. degree in 1959, and subsequently taught until 1971, when he became professor of sociology at McGill University. As of 1976, he served as distinguished professor of sociology at Binghamton University (SUNY) until his retirement in 1999, and as head of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations until 2005. Wallerstein held several positions as visiting professor at universities worldwide, was awarded multiple honorary degrees, intermittently served as Directeur d’études associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and was president of the International Sociological Association between 1994 and 1998. During the 1990s, he chaired the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. The object of the commission was to indicate a direction for social scientific inquiry for the next 50 years. In 2000 he joined the Yale Sociology department as Senior Research Scholar. In 2003 he received the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association. He remained at SUNY Binghamton until his retirement in 1999 and since 2000 was Senior Research Scholar at Yale University. Wallerstein died on 31 August 2019 at his home in Branford.
