Tentative Schedule
Friday, May 9
8:30am - Breakfast
9:00am Welcome
Julia Adams, Yale University and Mounira Charrad, University of Texas
9:15am Session I
Ivan Ermakoff, University of Wisconsin/Madison, "Patrimony and Collective Capacity. A Theoretical Outline"
(abstract)
John R. Hall, University of California/Davis, "Patrimonialism under the Sign of Modernity: The Case of the U.S. Public Domain from Colonial Times to the Late 19th Century"
(abstract)
Vivek Sharma, Yale University, "War, State Formation and Territorial Formation in Europe"
Commentator -- Peter Stamatov, Yale University
11:00am Break
11:15am Session II
Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania, "Patrimonial Alliances and State Penetration: An Historical
Dynamic with Applications to Revolutionaries, Gangs, and Mafias"
(abstract)
Stephen Hanson, University of Washington, "Plebiscitarian Patrimonialism in Putin's Russia: Legitimating Authoritarianism in a Post-Ideological Era"
(abstract)
Edgar Kiser, University of Washington & Audrey Sacks, University of Washington, "African Patrimonialism in Historical Perspective: Assessing Decentralized and Privatized Tax Administration"
(abstract)
Commentator -- Malik Martin, Yale University
12:45pm Lunch
1:45pm Session III
Ho-Fung Hung, University of Indiana,"Grandpa State instead of Bourgeois State Fictitious Patrimonial Politics in China’s Age of Commerce, 1644-1839"
(abstract)
Suad Joseph, University of California/Davis, "Political Familialism in a Stalemate State: A View from the Ground in Lebanon"
(abstract)
Paul McLean, Rutgers University, "Patrimonialism and Constitutionalism in Late Eighteenth Century Poland"
(abstract)
Commentator -- Katherine Verdery, City University of New York
3:30pm Break
3:45pm Session IV
Daniel Goh Pei Siong, University of Singapore, "Neopatrimonialism and the Postcolonial Periphery: Colonialism, Culture and Class Struggle in the Making of the Third World"
(abstract)
Kerry Ward, Rice University, "Patrimonial Politics and Imperial Networks at the Cape, c1652-1795"
(abstract)
John Padgett, University of Chicago, "Open Elite?
Social Mobility, Marriage, and Family in Florence, 1282-1494"
(abstract)
Commentator -- Julia Adams, Yale University
7:30pm Dinner
Scoozi Trattoria & Wine Bar
1104 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut
Saturday, May 10
8:30am Breakfast
9:00am Session V
Gary Hamilton, University of Washington, "Family Firms: The Institutional Origins of East Asian Economic Organization"
(abstract)
Pavla Miller, RMIT University, "Antipodean Patrimonialism?"
(abstract)
Romain Bertrand, Institute of Political Studies of Paris, "Locating the 'Family-State'. The Forgotten Legacy of Javanese Theories of the State as a Public Domain (17th-20th c.)"
Commentator -- Eiko Ikegami, The New School for Social Research
10:45am Break
11:00 Wrap-Up
Richard Lachmann, University at Albany, "American Patrimonialism: The Return of the Repressed"
(abstract)
Commentator -- Ivan Szelenyi, Yale University
Concluding Remarks
Julia Adams, Yale University and Mounira Charrad, University of Texas
1:00pm Closing Lunch