SAVE THE DATE: More information to come.

This conference is a mix of Zoom and in-person lectures and panels. All lectures and panels can be attended virtually. Some can also be attended in person. The Zoom link is the same for all sessions. In-person sessions are all in the Sociology Colloquium Room 2432 Posvar Hall. See individual lecture or panel information for more details.

Wednesday, Jan 25:
Total 48
Non-Pitt Faculty: 14
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 30
Community: 4

Thursday, Jan 26: 10:30 AM
Total: 26
Non-Pitt Faculty: 10
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 14
Community: 2

Afternoon Session: 1:00
Total: 15
Non-Pitt Faculty: 8
Pitt Faculty/Ph.D.: 6
Community: 1

3-4:00 PM Session:
Total: 12 Virtual
Hybrid
Virtual:
Non-Pitt FAculty: 6
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 6
Community 1

4:30-5:30 PM
Total: 11
Non-Pitt Faculty: 5
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 5
Community: 1

Friday, Jan 27, 2023
Total: 20
Non-Pitt Faculty: 9
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 10
Community: 1

Panel I
Total: 23
Non-Pitt Faculty: 12
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 10
Community: 1

Panel II: Hybrid
Total: 14
Non-Pitt Faculty: 6
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 8
Community: 0

Roundtable: 18
Non-Pitt Faculty: 12
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 6
Community:

This one and a half hour, in-person lecture is part of the conference on Democracy in Europe, Democracy Beyond Europe. The speaker is Amber Reed, Spelman College. This session will be moderated by Joshua Bloom, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

This one and half hour virtual panel on Histories of Democracy will be moderated by Mark Philp of the University of Warwick, UK

The speakers and their topics are:
--Eduardo Posada-Carbo, University of Oxford, UK "Simon Bolivar"
--Guy Thomson, University of Warwick, UK, "Benito Juarez"
--Stephen Sawyer, American University in Paris, France, "Napoleon II and the Third Republic"

Joanna Inness, University of Oxford, UK, will be the Commentator.

Lunch will be served for those watching the session in the Colloquium Room.

In this talk, historian Victor Seow will be introducing his recently published book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia. This book uses the story of what was once the largest coal mine in East Asia—the Fushun colliery in southern Manchuria—to examine how the different Chinese and Japanese states that had owned and operated this enterprise in the first half of the twentieth century came to embrace fossil-fueled visions of development and mobilized various extractive technologies toward that end. In so doing, it presents a panorama of a site that well serves as a microcosm of the wider world that carbon made, the legacies of which we still grapple with today.

Victor Seow is a historian of technology, science, and industry, specializing in China and Japan in global contexts and in histories of energy and work. He is the author of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press, 2022), and is currently writing a new book on the history of industrial psychology in China.

If you plan to attend this lecture via Zoom, please register here.

In this one and a half hour, in-person panel, Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh, will discuss "Globalization and the Future of Democracy Today?"
Ben Manski, George Mason University, will discuss "The Other World That Is Necessary: The Imperative of Next System Studies." The discussion will be moderated by Nathan Katz, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.

This in-person, one and a half-hour roundtable includes the following Pitt faculty members and concludes the conference.
--John Markoff, Department of Sociology
--Diego Holstein, Department of History
--Michael Goodhart, Department of Political Science
--Mohammed Bamyeh, Department of Sociology
This roundtable will be moderated by Randall Halle, Department of German and the European Studies Center.

Information session for Pitt undergraduate students. We will provide information on the CAS certificate, African culture and languages, and scholarship and travel opportunities.