VIDEOS: 2004 San Francisco Meetings of the ASA | Global Sociology, Live!
Global Sociology, Live! (Soc. 185--Spring, 2011) is an experimental course in pursuit of the idea of a global sociology. It involves conversations between sociology students at the University of California, Berkeley and scholars from around the world. Each week the conversation is recorded and then made available to a global audience through the International Sociological Association. The videos can be viewed here. There is also a blog associated with the course that can be found at http://globalsociologylive.blogspot.com/. ^
Michael Burawoy Michael Burawoy introducing Global Sociology
David Harvey David Harvey: The History of Neoliberalism
Michael Watts Michael Watts: Oil, Dispossession and Violence
Ananya Roy Ananya Roy: Poverty Capitalism and Micro-Finance
Walden Bello Walden Bello: Global Institutions and Civil Society
Ching Kwan Lee Ching Kwan Lee: The Enigma of Chinese Capitalism
Sari Hanafi Sari Hanafi: Politics of Spacio-cide in Palestine
Laleh Behbehanian Laleh Behbehanian: State Counter-terrorism as a Global project
Peter Evans Peter Evans: Counter-Hegemonic Globalization
Edward Webster Edward Webster: Global Labor from a Southern Perspective
Amita Baviskar Amita Baviskar: Politics of Environmentalism: An Indian Perspective
Erik Wright Erik Wright: Real Utopias in and Beyond Capitalism
César Rodriguez-Garavito César Rodriguez-Garavito: Social Minefields in Latin America
Burawoy & Behbehanian Burawoy and Behbehanian: What have we learned about Global Sociology?

 

2004 San Francisco Meetings of the ASA ^

W.E.B. DuBois W.E.B. DuBois: Lessons for the 21st Century
  • Aldon Morris, Northwestern University
  • Patricia Hill Collins, University of
     Cincinnati
  • Gerald Horne, University of Houston
  • Manning Marable, Columbia University
Immanuel Wallerstein Speaking to Powers: A Global Conversation
  • Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
  • Paul Starr, Princeton University
  • Johan Galtung, Transcend
  • Alain Touraine, EHESS, Paris
Mary Robinson Speaking to Powers: Human Rights
  • Mary Robinson,
     Former President of Ireland and UN
     High Commissioner for Human Rights
Michael Burawoy For Public Sociology
  • Michael Burawoy,
     ASA President, and Professor
     at the University of California, Berkeley
Bernice Pescosolido Speaking to Publics: Limits and Possibilities
  • Bernice Pescosolido, Indiana University
  • Barbara Ehrenreich, Journalist and author
  • William Julius Wilson, Harvard University
  • Frances Fox Piven, CUNY
  • Eric Wanner, Russell Sage Foundation
Arundhati Roy Public Power in the Age of Empire
  • Arundhati Roy, Public intellectual-at-large,
     activist, and writer
Fernando Cardoso & Paul Krugman Speaking to Publics: Limits and Possibilities
  • Juliet Schor, Boston College
  • Paul Krugman, Princeton and The New York Times
  • Fernando Cardoso, Former President of Brazil