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DISSERTATION WORKSHOPS -- 1992-2003

University of California, Berkeley

1. The Organization of Work and the Organization of Protest 
April 23-26, 1992 
Faculty:
Gillian Hart, City and Regional Planning 
Michael Johns, Geography 
Paul Lubeck, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz, 
Carolyn Nordstrom, Peace and Conflict Studies 
Nancy Peluso, Energy and Resources (now ESPM)
David Szanton, IAS

2. Place, Time, and Movement: History and Migration as Sources of Social and Cultural Identity 
May 14-17, 1992
Milton Azevedo, Spanish and Portuguese 
Jean Lave, Social and Cultural Studies, School of Education 
David Szanton, IAS

3. The Politics of Social Entitlements: Education, Health, and Welfare 
December 10-13, 1992 
Carole Joffe, Sociology, UC Davis 
Jane Mauldon, Public Policy 
Maresi Nerad, Graduate Division 
Ann Robertson, UCSF School of Public Health
David Szanton, IAS

4. The Political Economy of Development 
April 15-18, 1993 (with the College of Natural Resources)
Louise Fortmann, School of Forestry 
David Goodman, UCSC Environmental Studies 
Gillian Hart, City and Regional Planning
Frank Hirtz, Development Studies 
David Szanton, IAS
Michael Watts, Geography 

5. States, Communities, and Economies 
April 29-May 2, 1993
Kiren Chaudhry, Political Science, 
Robin Einhorn, History
Peter Evans, Sociology
David Szanton, IAS

6. Art as Politics: Expression, Legitimation, and Critique
December 9-12, 1993
Nezar AlSayyad, Architecture
Susanna Barrows, History
Arthur Quinn, Rhetoric 
Blair Ruble, Kennan Institute, Washington DC
David Szanton, IAS

7. The Cultural Construction of Health and Disease 
December 8- 11, 1994 (with School of Public Health)
Lawrence Cohen, Anthropology
Denise Hird, Public Health
William Satariano, Epidemiology
David Szanton, IAS 12/94 

8. Sustainable Development in Latin America 
January 26-28, 1995 (with the Center for Latin American Studies)
Michel LaGuerre, Ethnic Studies
Enrique Riveros-Schafer, Latin American Studies
Rachel Schurman, ERG 
David Szanton, IAS 


9. Art as Politics: Expression, Legitimation, and Critique II 
February 3-5, 1995
Gwen Kirkpatrick, Spanish and Portuguese
David Szanton, IAS

10. Environment, Politics, and Resource Control in African Development 
December 6-10, 1995 (Rockefeller Foundation)
Bonnie Campbell, Political Science, U of Quebec, Montreal 
Tabitha Kanogo, History
Donald Moore, IIS
David Szanton, IAS
Michael Watts, Geography
Ed Wilmsen, Anthropology
Fred Zimmerman, Economics, Stanford 

11. Higher Education and Social Change 
January 19-21, 1996
(with the Center for Studies in Higher Education)
Evelise Meyer, Center for Studies in Higher Education
Ray McDermott, Education
Maresi Nerad, Graduate Division
David Szanton, IAS 
Barrie Thorne, Sociology

12. African Development: Prospects, Practices, and Policies I 
May 12-16, 1996 (with the Center for African Studies)
Tabitha Kanogo, History
Robert Launay, Anthropology, Northwestern
Martha Saavedra, Center for African Studies
David Szanton, IAS
Michael Watts, Geography

13. Nationalism and Ethnic Identities in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 
August, 1996 (with the Center for Slavic and East European Studies)
Mark Beissinger, Political Science, Wisconsin
Ian Bremmer, Society for the Study of Nationalities, Stanford Donna Bahry, Political Science, Vanderbuilt
Kathryn Verdery, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins
Edward Walker, Center for Soviet & Post Soviet Studies

14. Research and Social Action 
September 13-15, 1996
Louise Fortmann, ESPM
Gillian Hart, Geography
Pedro Noguera, Education
David Szanton, IAS
Richard Walker, Geography


15. African Development: Prospects, Practice, and Policies II
February 5-9, 1997 (with the Center for African Studies) 
Oladimeji Aborisade, Political Science, NC State
Abeeku Essuman-Johnson, Political Science, NC A&T
Louise Fortmann, ESPM
Donald Moore, IIS
Abdi Samatar, Geography, Minnesota
David Szanton, IAS
Michael Watts, Geography

16. Globalization, Culture, and Urbanism: The Social Construction of Cities 
February 27 - March 2, 1997
Nezar AlSayyad, Architecture
Lawrence Cohen, Anthropology
Michael Johns, Geography
Alice O'Connor, History UCSB
David Szanton, IAS

18. Work, Workers, and Worker Organization in the Global Economy 
March 23-27, 1997
Harley Shaiken, Social and Cultural Studies, School of Education
Kirsten Spalding, Institute of Industrial Relations 
David Szanton, IAS 
Kim Voss, Sociology

19. Taking Gender Seriously: Engendering Social Analysis 
October 24-26, 1997
Gillian Hart, Geography
Thomas McClendon, History
Karin Sanders, Scandinavian
Carol Stack, Women's Studies
David Szanton, IAS

20. Contested Claims: Cultural Identities and Local Resources
December 15-18, 1997
Bruce Braun, Geography
Melanie DuPuis, Sociology, UCSC
Nancy Peluso, ESPM
Suzana Sawyer, Anthropology, UC Davis
David Szanton, IAS

21. African Development: Prospects, Practices, and Policies III
February 19-22,1998
Bruce Berman, Political Science, Queens U, Ontario
Abeeku Essuman-Johnson, Political Science, NC A&T
Tabitha Kanogo, History
Gerald Mare, Sociology, U of Natal
Richard Roberts, History, Stanford U
Thembisa Waetjen, Sociology, U of Oregon
Michael Watts, Geography

22. Human Rights, Social Justice, and International Intervention
April 2-5, 1998 (with the Human Rights Center)
Richard Claude, University of Maryland
Gilles Peress, Magnum Photos, Paris
Eric Stover, Human Rights Center
David Szanton, IAS

23. Taking Gender Seriously: Engendering Social Analysis II
August 16-18 1998
Doctoral Students Only

24. Rethinking Illness, Dying, and Death
October 29 - November 2, 1998 (with the Townsend Center for the Humanities)
Christina Gillis, Townsend Center
Jodi Halpern, Public Health
Tom Laqueur, History
Irena Paperna, Slavic Languages and Literature 
David Szanton, IAS

25. Identity and Community in a Globalizing World (with UC Davis)
December 10-13, 1998
John Hall, Sociology, UC Davis
William Hagen, History, UC Davis
Priya Joshi, English
Raka Ray, Sociology
Suzana Sawyer, Anthropology, UC Davis
David Szanton, IAS

26. Modernity in Question - Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop
(with UC Davis) April 2-4, 1999
John Hall, Sociology, UC Davis
Jean Lave, Social and Cultural Studies, UCB
Barbara Metcalf, UC Davis 
David Szanton, IAS, UCB

27. The State of the Welfare State December 9-12, 1999
(with the IIS MacArthur Multilateralism project)
David Szanton, IAS
Steven Weber, Political Science
Margaret Weir, Sociology
Nicholas Ziegler, Political Science

28. Power, Culture, and History in South and Southeast Asia 
February 3-6, 2000 (with the Institute of International Studies and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCB, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA)
Vasudha Dalmia, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB
Douglas Hollan, Anthropology, UCLA
Barbara Metcalf, History, UC Davis
David Szanton, IAS, UCB 
Peter Zinoman, History, UCB

29. Interrogating the Modern: Urban Forms and Urban Cultures 
March 30 - April 2, 2000 (with the Center for Middle East Studies)
Nezar AlSayyad, Architecture
David Henkin, History
Sharon Marcus, English
Ananya Roy, City and Regional Planning/Women's Studies
David Szanton, IAS

30. The Agrarian Question and the Politics of Land 
September 7-10, 2000 (with the IIS MacArthur Multilateralism project)
Gillian Hart, Geography
Nancy Peluso, ESPM-RIP&M
Hugh Raffles, Anthropology, UCSC
David Szanton, IAS

31. Comparative Diasporas 
December 7-10, 2000 (with African- American Studies UCB, and African Studies York University)
Gina Dent, African-American Studies
Ruth Gilmore, Geography
Pablo Idahosa, African Studies, York University
Tiya Miles, Ethnic Studies
David Szanton, IAS
Rinaldo Walcott, African Studies, York University

32. Reconstructing Communities in Crisis 
April 12-15, 2001
(with the Institute of International Studies and the Human Rights Center)
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, UC Hastings School of Law 
Laurel Fletcher, Boalt School of Law, UCB
Susana Kaiser, IIS
Joseph Nevins, IIS
Pamela Reynolds, Anthropology UCB/UCT
David Szanton, IAS

33. Environmental Justice and Ecological Democracy 
January 24-27, 2002 (with the Institute for International Studies)
Rohan D’Souza ESPM
Nancy Peluso, ESPM-R&PM
Ruth Gilmore, Geography
Julie Guthman, IAS & Geography
Frank Hertz, Sociology, UC Davis
David Szanton, IAS
Michael Watts, Geography & IIS

34. Popular Culture in Africa and the African Diaspora 
February 4-7, 2002 (with the Center for African Studies and Diaspora Studies Program of the Department of African-American Studies)
Paulla Ebron, Stanford
Percy Hintzen, African American Studies
Donald Moore, Anthropology
David Szanton, IAS

35. Diasporas, Exiles, and Refugees 
April 4 – 7, 2002 Institute of International Studies
David Biale, History, Davis
Sara Davis, South and Southeast Asina Studies, UCLA
Frank Hirtz, Sociology, UCDavis
Hala Nassar, IIS
John Roosa, IIS
Michael Watts, IIS
Diane Wolf, Sociology UC Davis

36. Sexual Culture: Sexualities on the Move 
April 25-28, 2002 (with the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture and the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality)
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Demography
Caren Kaplan, Women's Studies
Michael Lucey, French 
David Szanton, IAS
Linda Williams, Film Studies, Rhetoric

37. Tangled Strands: The Dynamics of Race and Gender 
September 5-8, 2002. The Center for Race and Gender
Caverlee Cary, ICAI
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies 
Ruth Gilmore, Geography
Paola Bacchetta, Woman’s Studies
Herthe Sweet Wong, English
Elaine Kim, Ethnic Studies

38. Transnational Perspectiveson Urbanism and Urbanization in the Developing World
 February 27 – March 2, 2003 The Center for Middle East Studies
Nezar Alsayyad, Architecture
Mia Fuller, Italian Studies
Anthony King, SUNY/Binghamton
Ananya Roy, City and Regional Planning 
David Szanton, ex-IAS

39. Rewriting South Asian History 
April 17 – 20, 2003 Center for South Asian Studies, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, the Chair in Tamil Studies
Vasudha Dalmia, South and Southeast Asian Studies 
George Hart, South and Southeast Asian Studies,
Thomas Metcalf, History 
Raka Ray, Sociology
David Szanton, ex-IAS


40. Democracy, Community and Citizenship 
April 24 – 27, 2003
Institute of International Studies
Amita Baviskar, Sociology, Institute of International Studies
Wendy Brown, Political Science
Barbara Epstein, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Ming—Chen Lo, Sociology, UC Davis
Tamir Moustafa, Institute of International Studies
Ike Okanta, Political Science, Institute of International Studies
David Szanton, ex-IAS

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