Debating the Global Crisis, Social Movements and Revolts

Debating the Global Crisis, Social Movements and Revolts - part 1



Debating the Global Crisis, Social Movements and Revolts - part 2



The University of Nicosia honours Immanuel Wallerstein

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Debating the Global Crisis, Social Movements and Revolts

Three videos on two important political events taking place in Nicosia during the days of the great Turkish-cypriot rally for communal existence (March 2, 2011)
The Bi-communal Peace Initiative United Cyprus organized the event
“Debating the Global Crisis, Social Movements and Revolts”
taking place on Friday, March 4 2011 at Goethe Centre, Nicosia:

Speakers:
- Sener Elcil, General Secretary of KTOS, teachers trade union
- Nicos Gregoriou, European Affairs Officer, PEO trade union
- Niyazi Kizilyurek, Professor, University of Cyprus
- Nicos Trimikliniotis, Ass. Professor, University of Nicosia/PRIO Cyprus Centre
- Ari Sitas, Professor, University of Cape Town
- Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scholar, Yale University

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University of Nicosia honours Immanuel Wallerstein

University of Nicosia honoured renowned thinker, sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, Professor Emeritus at Yale University and coordinator of the research team studying the polarization of the global system over the past 500 year.
The University of Nicosia honoured Prof. Wallerstein for his pioneering contribution to the social sciences at a special event on Thursday, March 3 at 7.30 pm at hall UNESCO. On this occasion, the influential thinker and author of important books such as «The Modern World System», lectured on "Global Crisis, Social Movements and Revolts." The lecture was open to the public.

Biographic note

Wallerstein first became interested in world affairs as a teenager in New York City, and was particularly interested in the anti-colonial movement in India at the time। He attended Columbia University, receiving a B.A. in 1951, a M.A. in 1954 and a Ph.D. degree in 1959, and subsequently taught until 1971, when he became professor of sociology at McGill University. As of 1976, he served as distinguished professor of sociology at Binghamton University (SUNY) until his retirement in 1999, and as head of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations until 2005. Wallerstein held several positions as visiting professor at universities worldwide, was awarded multiple honorary degrees, intermittently served as Directeur d’études associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and was president of the International Sociological Association between 1994 and 1998. During the 1990s, he chaired the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. The object of the commission was to indicate a direction for social scientific inquiry for the next 50 years. In 2000 he joined the Yale Sociology department as Senior Research Scholar. In 2003 he received the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association.