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Giovanni Arrighi(1937-2009)
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Giovanni Arrighi, the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Sociology and renowned authority in the fields of world systems analysis and historical sociology, has died after a year-long battle with cancer. Giovanni died at home peacefully on June 18, 2009, his son, Andrea, and his wife and partner in scholarship, Beverly Silver, at his side. A retrospective interview on his intellectual trajectory was published in the March/April 2009 issue of New Left Review. It is a gem. [PDF] Autobiography, prepared for The Encyclopedia of Comparative Arrighi began his career teaching in Zimbabwe (1963-1966) and Tanzania (1967-1969), where he wrote landmark works on the political economy of Africa—works that set the terms of the scholarly debates in the field for decades. His most famous work was a recently completed trilogy on the origins and transformations of global capitalism, which began in 1994 with a book that reinterpreted the evolution of capitalism, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times. The book is a classic in the field, published in at least ten languages; Giovanni completed a second edition of it earlier this year. In 1999, he published Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System, and two years ago, he published Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century, comparing Western and East Asian economic development and exploring China’s rise as an economic world power. Giovanni, who was born in Milan in 1937 and received his doctorate in economics from the Universitá Bocconi in 1960, came to Johns Hopkins in 1998 to anchor the Sociology Department’s comparative-historical group. He served as director of the Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power and History from 1999 to 2002 and as department chair from 2003 to 2006. The School of Arts and Sciences has been enriched immeasurably by Giovanni, as have those of us who knew him personally. A wonderful colleague, world-class scholar, and dedicated mentor, Giovanni will be missed terribly. Our thoughts and sympathies remain with Beverly, Andrea and Giovanni's extended family; the community of faculty, staff, and students in the Sociology Department; and his innumerable and devoted friends, colleagues, and former students around the world.
Also see Memorial Website Fourth Brazilian Colloquium on Political Economy of World-Systems: The Developmentalist Illusion and the Work of Giovanni Arrrighi: Implications for Latin America / August 30, 2010 9:00 AM - August 31, 2010 5:00 PM Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), , 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”, honors the Italian sociologist through the presentation of papers under three sub-themes: 1) The work of Giovanni Arrighi and its contribution to the Political Economy of World-Systems; 2) The contributions of Giovanni Arrighi for the study of development; 3) The contributions of Arrighi and World-Systems Analysis to the study of Latin American development (Brazil, in particular) in the past and present and in relation to the neo-developmentalist project. Since the Colloquium has the goal of gathering researchers interested in the Political Economy of World-Systems, we also encourage submission of papers generally speaking to world-systems studies, even if from a critical perspective. Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail, have a maximum of one page and include name, affiliation and e-mail of authors. Deadline for abstract submission: June 7th of 2010 Organization: Research Group in Political Economy of World-Systems – Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC).
"Arrighi in Padova": A Workshop on the Work of Giovanni Arrighi at the University of Padova in Italy On June 3, 2010 a one-day workshop on Giovanni's work with be held at the University of Padova. It is organized by Storelint and the Departments of International Studies and History and History, University of Padova, Italy. (Link to more information) A plenary session on Giovanni's work was held at the 34th Annual Political Economy of the World System conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Florida, April 22-23, 2010. The session was entitled "An Arrighian Perspective on Land and Labor Rights in the World System". Beverly J. Silver was the plenary speaker. "The Quickening Pendulum: Capitalism and the Long Duree", Two Sessions in Honor of Giovanni Arrighi at the Annual Meeting of the American Geographers Association, Mariott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC / April 17, 2010 From the original call for papers: "We have recently lost an important thinker, Giovanni Arrighi, whose legacy lives on in innumerable works that continue to vitally influence the fields of economic, political, and critical geography. The panels seek to pay tribute to Arrighi through an engagement with those dimensions of radical political economy most indebted to his work. The importance of such work is paramount in this historical moment, where we find ourselves in need of a deep understanding of capital's crises in order to make sense of this juncture and move forward from it" The first session included papers by: Anders Lund "Giovanni Arrighi in Shanghai: Financial Fluidity and its Uneven Developments", Laurel Mei Turbin, "Militarization in Hawai'i: Nature, History and Imperialism ", Thomas Reifer, "Capital's Cartographer: Arrighi's Geohistorical Capitalism and the Current Crisis " and Jason W. Moore, "Ecology and the World-Historical Method: Capitalism as World-Ecology Discussant". The second session was a panel discussion on Giovanni's work with Jason W. Moore, Beverly Silver, Neil Smith, Peter J. Taylor and Salimah Valiani. "Remembering Giovanni Arrighi", 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 Graduate Center; "Commemorating the Life and Work of Giovanni Arrighi", Paper session at Rethinking Marxism Conference, University of Massachussets, Amherst / November 7, 2009 Memorial for Professor Giovanni Arrighi, Friday October 30, 2009 The Johns Hopkins University Department of Sociology remembered Professor Giovanni Arrighi and celebrated his life and work at a memorial event on Friday, October 30th, in the Sherwood Room of Levering Hall on the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus. Giovanni honored at World Economic History Congress/August 2009 On August 4, 2009 The World Economic History Congress hosted a panel in Utrecht composed of eminent specialists and leading global historians on Giovanni's "Adam Smith in Beijing". Giovanni honored at ASA annual meeting / August 2009 Giovanni was further honored at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting with a session titled “From Rhodesia to Beijing: Reflections on the Scholarship of Giovanni Arrighi” on Saturday, August 8, 2009 in San Francisco. Madrid conference held in Giovanni's honor / May 2009 A major international conference was held in his honor in late May in Madrid, http://madrid2009arrighi.blogspot.com. The week-long conference, “Dynamics of the Global Crisis, Anti-Systemic Movements and New Models of Hegemony,” featured several of the field’s top scholars in an exploration of the insights of Giovanni’s work. Message from Dean Adam Falk about Giovanni Arrighi / June 2009
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