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FALL 2006

WILLIAM GAMSON
Thinking about Elephants: Toward a Dialogue with George Lakoff

HARRIET FRIEDMANN
Scaling up: food system organizing in Toronto, Ontario
Tuesday October 10 2006
The shooting star of Codex Alimentarius
Wednesday October 11 2006

HOWARD ZINN
The Uses of History and the War on Terrorism
Thursday October 5 2006

ERNST FEHR
The Neural mechanisms of altruistic behavior and norm compliance
Tuesday September 26 2006

SPRING 2006

MUSTAFA BARGHOUTI
Peace and Democracy: The Reality of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Democracy in Palestine: The Role of Civil Society
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

GREG WILPERT
The Meaning of 21st Century Socialism for Venezuela
Tuesday April 11, 2006
Autocracy and Democracy in the Venezuelan Conflict
Wednesday April 12, 2006

MARIA HADJIPAVLOU
Crossing to the Other Side in a Divided Cyprus: Who is the Guest and Who the Visitor?
Tuesday March 28, 2006
Dismantling Walls, Building Community / Citizenship: Cypriots across and against the Divide
Wednesday March 29, 2006

FALL 2005

MARGUERITE MENDELL AND NANCY NEAMTAN
The Social Economy in Quebec: An Agenda for Economic Democracy
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
The Social Economy in Quebec: Constructing a New Paradigm
Wednesday, December 7, 2005

SI KAHN AND ELIZABETH MINNICH
The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy
Tuesday, November 29, 2005

CHRIS BERTRAM
Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol.
Democracy, capability and the sufficiency threshold
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Challenges to sufficiency as a criterion for justice
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

WALTER JOHNSON
Department of History, NYU.
'The Negro Fever,' the South, and the Effort to Re-open the Atlantic Slave Trade
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Freedom's Servant: Slavery, Freedom and Reparations as a Theory of History
Wednesday October 5, 2005

NICOLAS LYNCH
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
Transition and Regression in Peruvian Democracy
Monday, September 19, 2005
The Politics of Education and Reform in Peru
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

GEORGE GALLOWAY
Minister of Parliament, Britain.
Stand Up and Be Counted: No to War and Occupation
Sunday, September 18, 2005
WPR coverage during leadup to Galloway's UW-Madison visit
video of lecture (coming soon)

ROBERT CONNELL
Department of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Men, masculinities and gender justice in global context
Tuesday September 13th, 206 Ingraham.
The northern theory of globalization: a critique from the far south
Wednesday September 14th, 206 Ingraham.

SPRING 2005

SANDRA HARDING
Philosphy, UCLA
Science and Multiple Modernities (mp3, 25Mb)
Wednesday, April 27, 8417 Social Science
Have Women Ever Been Modern? Political and Scientific Issues (mp3, 26Mb)
Thursday, April 28, 8417 Social Science

SHEILA JASANOFF
Science Studies and Science Policy, Harvard University
The Imagined Earth: Reflections on the Human Place in Nature (mp3, 24Mb)
Friday, April 22, 2005, 1100 Grainger Hall.

EMILY MARTIN
Anthropology, NYU
Taking the Measure of Moods (mp3, 27Mb)
Wednesday, April 13, 4:00 pm, 8417 Social Science
Transcribing Emotions in Everyday Life (mp3, 31Mb)
Thursday, April 14, 4:00 pm, 8417 Social Science

PETER GALISON
History, Harvard University
The Assassin of Relativity (mp3, 30 Mb)
Thursday, March 31, 4:00 pm, 8417 Social Science

MICHAEL LYNCH
Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
SCIENCE, LAW, AND CRIMINAL IDENTITY
DNA Testing, Fingerprinting, and the Credibility of Expert Evidence (wma)
Wednesday, February 16, 2004
Administrative Objectivity: Settling a Legal/Scientific Controversy with Administrative Proxies (wma)
Thursday, February 17, 2004

FALL 2004

MICHAEL ZWEIG
Economics, Center for Study of Working Class Life, State University of New York-Stony Brook
WHAT’S CLASS GOT TO DO WITH IT? AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Connecting Values and Interests: Are Working Class Values different from Capitalist Values? (wma)
Monday November 15, 2004
The Place of Class in Economics: The Challenge of Working Class Studies (wma)
Tuesday November 16, 2004

FRANCES FOX-PIVEN
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York
"ELECTIONS AND PROTEST MOVEMENTS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY"
HAVENS CENTER LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION TO CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD LECTURE"
Thursday, November 11, 2004
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RICHARD FLORES
Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
THE REGROUNDING OF CULTURAL ANALYSIS
On Effective Cultural Critique (wma)
Monday, November 1, 2004.
We’re Texas: Modernity and the Occidental Imagination (wma)
Tuesday , November 2004.

CHERYL TOWNSEND GILKES
African American Studies and Sociology, Colby College
MY MOTHER’S GOD IS MINE: WOMEN’S VOICES AND THE CREATION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SACRED
My Mother’s Song Is Mine: Sacred Musics as Discourses of Psychic Survival (wma)
Monday, October 18, 2004
A Case Study in Cultural Narrative and Critique: The Music of Shirley Caesar (wma)
Tuesday, October 19, 2004

PABLO LEVÍN
Economics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSITIONAL PLANNING
Commodity and Money (wma)
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Capital and Capital-differentiation (wma)
Wednesday, October 13, 2004

ALF HORNBORG
Human Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
WORLD-SYSTEM PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT IN ANTHROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY
Ecology and Unequal Exchange in Environmental History and Development Theory (wma)
Tuesday October 5, 2004
A World-System Perspective on Ethno-genesis and Social Stratification in Prehistoric Amazonia (wma)
Tuesday October 5, 2004

SPRING 2004

MARGARET LEVI
Political Science, University of Washington
THE LENIN PROBLEM: TRANSFORMING ECONOMISM
Inducing Preferences within Organizations: The Case of Unions (wma)
Tuesday April 20, 2004
Labor Power and Mobile Capital: The Market Geography of Solidarity (wma)
Wednesday April 21, 2004

DAVID LAITIN
Political Science, Stanford University
RATIONALITY AND CULTURE
An Equilibrium Theory of Culture (wma)
Tuesday April 13, 2004

JULIA ADAMS
Sociology, University of Michigan
UTILITARIANISM GOES PO-MO
Post-structuralist Foundations of Social Theory, or the Unknown James Coleman (wma)
Tuesday April 6, 2004
Patriarchy and Strategy in Early Modern European Politics (wma)
Wednesday April 7, 2004

RICHARD BIERNACKI
Sociology, University of California, San Diego
CULTURE AND HUMAN ACTION
Back to Sociology’s Origins: Contracts in the Protestant Ethic (wma)
Tuesday March 23, 2004
Contradictory Schemas of Action: Manufacturing Intellectual Property (wma)
Wednesday March 24, 2004

WOLFGANG SCHLUCHTER
Sociology, University of Heidelberg
THE PLACE OF RATIONALITY IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Action, Order, and Culture: An Outline of the Weberian Research Program (wma)
March 2, 2004.
Ancient Judaism and the Disenchantment of the World: An Example of Application (wma)
Wednesday March 3, 2004.

MARIA HELENA MOREIRA ALVES
Founding member of the PT (Worker's Party)
Lula's first year in office: assessing the challenges and successes (wma)
March 2, 2004. 90 min.

FALL 2003

ROBERT F. GARCIA
Peace Advocates for Truth, Justice and Healing (PATH) - Philippines
Project for Critical Asian Studies, University of Washington
CAN A REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT OVERCOME ITS AUTHORITARIAN TENDENCIES? (wma)
Internal Purges and the Struggle for Democracy within the Philippine Left"
Recorded November 25, 2003. 85 min.

ROBERT FISK
Foreign Correspondent, The Independent (London)
REPORTING THE MIDDLE EAST (wma)
Recorded November 14, 2003. 92 min.

DAN CLAWSON
Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Labor Unions in Crisis: The Collapse of the New Deal System and the Emerging Alternatives (wma)
Recorded November 12, 2003. 89 min.

LINDA SMITH
Nat'l Institute of Research Excellence in Maori Development and Advancement, University of Auckland, New Zealand
INDIGENOUS ACTIVISM: DECOLONIZING INSTITUTIONS
The Multiple Layers of Struggle by Maori for Social Justice in New Zealand (wma)
Recorded November 4, 2003, 85 min.
Researching the Native in the Knowledge Economy: Power, Dialogue and Ethics (wma)
Recorded November 5, 2003, 85 min.

AMIRA HASS
Haaretz Staff Editor
REPORTING THE MIDDLE EAST (wma)
Recorded October 30, 2003, 130 min.

RICHARD MILLER
Philosophy, Cornell University
GLOBALIZATION, AID AND EMPIRE
Globalization Moralized (wma)
Recorded October 21, 2003
mp3, 83min, 24Mb, 40kbps
The Ethics of Empire (wma)
Recorded October 22, 2003, 87 min.

NILUFER GOLE
Sociology, School for Higher Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris
ISLAMIC VISIBILITIES IN PUBLIC SPACES
Islam as a Social Imaginary (wma)
Recorded October 14, 2003, 97 min.
Islamism as a Voluntary Adoption of Stigma Symbols (wma)
Recorded October 15, 2003, 91 min.

DAVID GARLAND
Law and Sociology, New York University
Capital Punishment and American Culture (wma)
Recorded October 7, 2003
mp3, 86 min, 24.5Mb, 40 kbps
Social Change, Cultural Adaptation and the New Penal Politics (wma)
Recorded October 8, 2003, 86 min.

MAURICE ZEITLIN
Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Black and White, Unite and Fight (wma)
Recorded September 23, 2003, 97 min.
The War at Home Cont'd (panel discussion) (wma)
Recorded September 23, 2003, 77 min.

2002 AND BEFORE

ABRAM DE SWAAN
Social Science, University of Amsterdam
The World Language System: the Political Economy of Language Conflict and Accomodation (RealAudio) November 5, 2002
The more Languages, the more English: The Language Politics of India, South Africa, and the EU Compared (RealAudio) November 6, 2002

NIRA YUVAL-DAVIS
Gender & Ethnic Studies, University of Greenwich
ENGENDERING THE POLITCS OF BELONGING
Gender, Nation, and the notion of ‘Human Security’ (RealAudio) February 17,
Boundaries, Borders and the Situated Imagination (RealAudio) February 19,

RICHARD DELGADO
School of Law, University of Colorado at Boulder
CRITICAL RACE THEORY: LEGAL ORIGINS, NEW FRONTIERS
The Future of Radical Racial Thought (RealAudio) September 18,

LUCIUS OUTLAW 
African American Studies/Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
US AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND THE CHALLENGES OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY
US American Democracy and the Challenges of Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Through the Eyes of Tocqueville  (RealAudio) November 19,

RICHARD SENNETT
Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
THE CULTURAL ECONOMY OF CAPITALISM
The Cultural Economy of Capitalism: Work (RealAudio) December 3,
The Cultural Economy of Capitalism: Welfare (RealAudio) December 4,