The international conference on Global Disasters and World Society: The Ecological Dimension of Modern World-System Crises, hosted by the Research Group on Political Economy of the World-System, was co-organized by the University of California Disaster Resilience Network (UC DRN) and took place from March 25 to March 27, 2024, in Florianopolis, Brazil.
Presenters:
Andrey Korotayev, HSE University and Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, “6th century CE global climatic disaster, origins of Islam, and its world-systems consequences.”
Daniel de Pinho Barreiros, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Pandemic, complexity and world systems: a study on the Antonine Plague (165-180 CE).”
Daniel Ribera Vainfas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Climate in 14th Century England, catastrophic change, social strategies and the origins of capitalism.”
Roberto J. Ortiz, California State University, Long Beach, USA, “The Rise and Ongoing Demise of Fossil-Fueled Development: Late Capitalism and State Socialism in World-Ecological Perspective.”
Fred Spier, University of Amsterdam, Holand, “How did humanity get itself into its current ecological predicament?”
Presider: Janete Josina de Abreu, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
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