Immanuel Wallerstein and the reception of world-system analysis in the German-speaking area

Location: University of Vienna – hybrid (live and online),
Time: November 6th and 7th 2020,
on-site participants are requested to register in advance (limited number of participants) with the organizers.

University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, Seminar room History 2 (staircase 9, 2nd floor)

Conference will be held in German.

Organizers:

Andrea Komlosy (andrea.komlosy@univie.ac.at), Klemens Kaps (klemens.kaps@jku.at)

An event of the Association for the History of the World System (VGWS) in cooperation with the Institute for Economic and Social History and the research focus on global history at the University of Vienna

Online link to join the video conference

Since the death of Immanuel Wallerstein in August of last year Klemens Kaps and Andrea Komlosy are preparing an issue of the magazine for world history on Wallerstein's world system analysis and its reception in the German-speaking area. The workshop serves for discussion among the authors and commentators and is open to all interested parties.

In terms of content, the focus is on the diverse influences and debates that Wallerstein's concept of the world system has triggered in European history. A broad spectrum of topics is to be dealt with - from value transfer to households and feminist perspectives to inner peripheries. We concentrate on the reception and debates in the German-speaking area, even if we selectively include other European and non-European areas that are important for the world system concept, such as Eastern Europe, South and East Asia. The participants come from the historical sciences as well as other disciplines that have taken up world system models. The aim is to include the adoption of the approaches, their further development, but also criticism and distancing.