Bielefeld 13-14 May 2006
Saturday, 13 May
14:00 Introduction and welcome/coffee
14:30 Friedrich Kratochwil, European University Institute, “Systems theory between explaining and understanding
15:30 Oliver Kessler, Bielefeld, “Systems theory and the problem of change in international law”
16:30 Coffee
17:00 Mathias Albert, Bielefeld, “Modern Systems Theory and World Politics”
18:00 Dan Nexon, Georgetown, “The relational alternative to systemic theorizing”
19:30 Dinner
Sunday, 14 May
10:00 George Thomas, Arizona State, Differentiation, Rationalization, and Actorhood in New Systems and World Culture Theories
11:00 Brian Min/Andreas Wimmer, UCLA/Harvard, “From Napoleon to Milosevic: The ethno-nationalization of war in the modern world”
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Barry Buzan, The English School as a New Systems Theory of World Politics
14:30 Hans-Martin Jäger, University of Central Florida, “Modern Systems Theory and/as Historical Discourse Analysis”
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Bear Braumoeller, Harvard, “Systemic Theory in the Macroeconomic Tradition”
16:30 Coffee
17:00 Lars-Erik Cederman, ETH Zürich, “Complexity and Change in World Politics: Resurrecting Systems Theory”
19:00 Dinner
