Recent Tributes

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  • 09/21/2010: New Story added: IV Brazilian Colloquium on Political Economy of World-Systems: The Developmentalist Illusion and the Work of Giovanni Arrrighi: Implications for Latin America

    Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, BRAZIL Call For Papers: The theme the fourth Brazilian Colloquium on the Political Economy of World-Systems, “The Developmentalist Illusion and the Work of Giovanni Arrrighi: Implications for Latin America”, ...

  • 06/04/2010: New Story added: Arrighi in Padova: A Conference on the Work of Giovanni Arrighi

    On June 3, a one-day workshop on Giovanni's work with be held at the University of Padova. It is organized by Storelint, Dipartimento di Studi Internazionali, Università di Padova / Department of International Studies, University of Padua and ...

  • 04/18/2010: New Story added: The Quickening Pendulum: Capitalism and the Long-Duree (Session[s] In Honor of Giovanni Arrighi)

    Room 2, Exhibition Level of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road, NW, Washington DC The Quickening Pendulum: Capitalism and the Long-Duree: Two Sessions In Honor of Giovanni Arrighi Two sessions will be held in Giovanni's honor at ...

  • 04/17/2010: New Story added: A Celebration of the Life of Giovanni Arrighi

    President's Reception Lounge, Anderson Center, Binghamton, NY, 13902 Friends: On behalf of the Sociology Department at Binghamton University we invite you to join us in celebrating the life of Giovanni Arrighi on Friday April 16, 2010. For over ...

  • 04/08/2010: New Story added: IV Brazilian Colloquium on Political Economy of World-Systems celebrates the work of Giovanni

    With the theme "The Developmentalist Illusion: The Work of Giovanni Arrighi and its Implications for Latin America", the fourth annual Brazilian Colloquium on the Political Economy of the World System will take place in ...

  • 02/16/2010: New Story added: Giovanni's 1st visit to China, October 1970

  • 11/17/2009: New Story added: In Memory of Giovanni Arrighi

      In memory of Giovanni Arrighi Deniz Yukseker, Koc University, Istanbul Published in New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 41 (2009): 5-8.   A colleague for some and a teacher and mentor for others associated with New Perspectives on ...

  • 11/08/2009: New Story added: Two Sessions on Giovanni's work at Rethinking Marxism Conference and at the 2010 Left Forum

    Left Forum, Pace University, New York City, March 21, 2010 A panel dedicated to a discussion of Giovanni's work was held at the Left Forum at Pace University in New York on Sunday, March 21, 2010.  The panelists were: David Harvey, CUNY ...

  • 10/31/2009: New Story added: Memorial at Johns Hopkins University

    3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD, 21218 For more details including directions to campus and a campus map, go to: http://www.soc.jhu.edu/ Location URL | View Map

  • 10/29/2009: New Story added: Intellectual Psychotherapy

    I first met Giovanni Arrighi when, as a struggling doctoral student, I took a pilgrimage to Baltimore. The trip had been arranged by my graduate thesis advisor, Erik Wright, who I believe saw it as a last resort.  Erik’s insistence ...

  • 10/25/2009: New Story added: A liberal giant (by Ho-fung)

    I refer to Giovanni as a 'liberal' giant not in the sense of his political inclination but his approach to engaging with other intellectuals and mentoring students (I think I'm not the first one to discover Giovanni's 'liberal' disposition). Being ...

  • 10/14/2009: New Story added: Obituary by David Harvey, published in The Guardian (UK)

    Giovanni Arrighi: Political economist and historian of global capitalism by David Harvey Thursday, October 8, 2009, Guardian.co.uk The Italian scholar of political economy and sociology Giovanni Arrighi, who has died of cancer aged 71, was an ...

  • 10/03/2009: New Story added: Best Giovanni Quotes... (Phillip Hough)

    I think people often remember Giovanni as a great mind, but he was also hilarious! Just some funny memories that come to mind: I was walking back to the JHU sociology department following a mini-conference on 'Rethinking African Development' with ...

  • 09/24/2009: New Story added: From Giovanni's Father-In-Law

    GIOVANNI ARRIGHI A kind and gentle man but with the brain of a genius, who was compelled to work everyday to continually produce those ideas stored within him to illuminate the past, present and future. I speak from the heart and soul of one who ...

  • 09/24/2009: New Story added: Tribute written by Mark Blyth, published in the Review of International Poltical Economy

    One of the most important figures in the field of International Political Economy, Giovanni Arrighi, passed away 18 June 2009. His contributions across multiple fields during a career of over 40 years touched the intellectual lives of almost all ...

  • 09/24/2009: New Story added: Tribute written by Ben Turok, South African Member of Parliament

    Giovanni Arrighi, one of the world’s most distinguished progressive economists, passed away on 18 June 2009 in the United States. Born in Italy, he spent many years teaching in Africa, and was part of a group of international scholars who ...

  • 09/14/2009: New Story added: Giovanni, Africa and Me

    Arrighi and Africa: Farewell Thoughts by John S. Saul From May 26 to May 29 of this year a group of us, convened by Carlos Prieto del Campo, came together in Madrid to celebrate the work of Giovanni Arrighi. The plan was that Giovanni himself, ...

  • 08/09/2009: Stephen Plank added a comment to American Sociological Association’s annual meeting session titled “From Rhodesia to Beijing: Reflections on the Scholarship of Giovanni Arrighi”

    I'm a member of the JHU sociology department and we're all missing Giovanni greatly but also inspired by memories of his intellectual greatness and personal warmth. I attended the ASA session yesterday (along with the standing-room-only crowd that ...

  • 08/09/2009: New Story added: American Sociological Association’s annual meeting session titled “From Rhodesia to Beijing: Reflections on the Scholarship of Giovanni Arrighi”

    San Francisco, CA From his early writings on the political economy of Africa to his most recent book examining the lineages of the 21st century, Giovanni Arrighi’s scholarship has had a profound and lasting impact, both within sociology and ...

  • 08/08/2009: New Story added: Walks and Talks with Nanni

    LE NOSTRE PASSEGGIATE   Questa è la foto che preferisco di quelle fatte con Nanni. Non è una bella foto, ma mi ricorda momenti tra i migliori di quelli passati insieme: le passeggiate durante i nostri soggiorni a Crans (a Natale ...

  • 08/06/2009: New Story added: remembering Giovanni

      Giovanni liked a challenge. Not because he always triumphed (though in my view I think he triumphed more than his humility allowed), but because it inspired him to take intellectual risks and think things through in a quite distinctive way. ...

  • 08/05/2009: New Story added: World Economic History Congress: Arrighi in Beijing. A roundtable on Giovanni Arrighi's 'Adam Smith in Beijing. Lineages of the twenty-first century

    Maskeradezaal (Academy Hall), Utrecht, Netherlands In 2007 Giovanni Arrighi published his long expected analysis of shifting global powers in the twenty-first century. In his The Long Twentieth Century. Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times ...

  • 08/04/2009: New Story added: My memories of Giovanni

    by Jose Itzigsohn I first became acquainted with Giovanni and his work when Beverly joined the faculty at John Hopkins. I was then a graduate student there and although I was never Giovanni’s student nor do I work in the same area as ...

  • 07/28/2009: New Story added: A Computer Scientist Reminisces about Giovanni

      by Pat Loy   patrick.loy@jhu.edu      I first met Giovanni at a Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) conference at the University of Maryland in the spring of 1999.  At the time, I was teaching ...

  • 07/25/2009: New Story added: The Horror of Racism

    by Wally Goldfrank For many years I had read and admired, and then known and befriended Giovanni.  Once I sent him a paper I had published comparing 1920s & 30s Japan and Italy, which he rather liked, he wrote, but where, he asked, was ...

  • 07/24/2009: New Story added: A Small Token of Gratitude: Or, How Giovanni Helped His Junior Colleague Through the Tenure Process Without Knowing It

    by Stefanie DeLuca As is probably the case for many of us, losing Giovanni put me back to the time I first met him. I came to interview for my faculty position at JHU in 2001, a 26 yr old doctoral student eager to start my first academic job. Given ...

  • 07/18/2009: New Story added: Berlin-Baltimore-Cairo: a life trajectory and tribute to Giovanni

    by Amy Holmes In the interest of full disclosure: I have agonized over what to write for this short tribute to Giovanni, and encountered a type of writer’s block worse than anything I remember having during my dissertation.  I ...

  • 07/13/2009: New Story added: A global view from the margins

    by Ken Hammond I have been using Adam Smith in Beijing in a class I teach on the history of the global political economy here at New Mexico State University. We are located in southern New Mexico, a poor and rather marginal part of the country, ...

  • 07/12/2009: New Story added: From Felipe

    by Felipe Amin Filomeno In 2003, I found The Long Twentieth Century on a bookshelf in a Brazilian bookstore. The book was listed among those required for the official exam for admission to the diplomatic career in Brazil and, as this was my ...

  • 07/11/2009: New Story added: from a family friend

    by Omar Khan A few years ago I was home in Baltimore for a few months. Giovanni must have heard my parents talk about trying to keep me out of trouble. He suggested I attend a graduate seminar he was giving in the evenings.  Nicole ...

  • 07/07/2009: New Story added: Happy Birthday Giovanni

    by Nicole Aschoff I have wanted to write a fitting tribute to GIovanni but continually find myself at a loss for words. My thoughts wandered to him early this morning as I played with my daughter - it made me smile to think how Giovanni would have ...

  • 07/05/2009: New Story added: Giovanni Dancing (a social top ten)

    by Bill Martin There will be many tributes to Giovanni’s work and its long-term value for friends and scholars of many generations, on many continents.  What are perhaps less well known and shared are his everyday attributes that ...

  • 07/04/2009: New Story added: 永远的记忆

    by Lu Zhang This January, Giovanni and I were working on the final draft of an article for a forthcoming book. We had already done several rounds of revisions and the deadline had passed. One afternoon, Giovanni came to me and asked ...

  • 07/02/2009: New Story added: Tribute Published in Major Brazilian Newspaper, Folha de S. Paulo

    Fé no novo mundo Morto há dez dias, o sociólogo italiano Giovanni Arrighi apostava em um maior equilíbrio na geopolítica mundial CLAUDIA ANTUNES DA SUCURSAL DO RIO O sociólogo italiano Giovanni Arrighi ...

  • 07/01/2009: New Story added: Piero Pagliani's "Ricordo di Giovanni Arrighi"

    26/06/2009 Piero Pagliani, Ricordo di Giovanni Arrighi Permanent weblink: isintellettualistoria2.myblog.it/archive/2009/06/26/piero-pagliani-ricordo-di-giovanni-arrighi.html Ricordo di Giovanni Arrighi di Piero Pagliani Dopo una ...

  • 07/01/2009: New Story added: Samir Amin's Tribute Written for Le Monde

    Giovanni Arrighi, un éminent analyste de la mondialisation moderne   Né en Italie, décédé le 18 Juin à l’âge de 71 ans, Giovanni Arrighi compte parmi les plus éminents analystes ...

  • 07/01/2009: New Story added: Tribute by Gad Lerner to "Il mio maestro Giovanni Arrighi"

    Il mio maestro Giovanni Arrighi Venerdì, 19 Giugno 2009 il Bastardo Beverly, sua moglie, ha scritto stamattina da Baltimora agli amici che lui aveva in tutto il mondo: ...

  • 07/01/2009: New Story added: Tribute by old friends Bianca Beccalli and Michele Salvati entitled "Giovanni Arrighi: a masterpiece life" (una vita capolavoro) published in Il Manifesto, June 21, 2009

      Bianca Beccalli e Michele Salvati: Giovanni Arrighi una vita capolavoro (“il manifesto”, 21 giugno 2009   ...

  • 07/01/2009: New Story added: Published tributes by two former Binghamton graduate students

    Some former Binghamton graduate students have published tributes to Giovanni. Steve Colatrella's tribute in Counterpunch can be read here: http://www.counterpunch.org/colatrella06242009.html Salimah Valiani's tribute can be read  here: ...