Aristide Zolberg and African Studies - by Jon Soske - Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility

Aristide Zolberg and African Studies – by Jon Soske

Among scholars of sub-Saharan Africa, Zolberg will be remembered primarily for two ground breaking books on West Africa politics, One Party Government in the Ivory Coast (1964) and Creating Political Order (1966). It’s not just that these works remain engaging and thought-provoking almost half a century after their publication—no small feat as several schools of African political science have swelled and crashed in their wake. It’s that Zolberg’s scholarship combines an effort to analyze African political parties in universal terms (that is, as politics, confronting some of the same dilemmas as mass movements or machine politicians anywhere) with deep suspicion towards the universalizing theories of 1960s social science and their pseudo-biological notion of development.

ASA International Migration section announces the Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award

July 10, 2015

The American Sociological Association International Migration announces the Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award: Ariela Schachter for “A Change of Heart or Change of Address? The Geographic Sorting of Whites’ Attitudes towards Immigrants.” Other ASA International Migration section awards are: Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award: FitzGerald, David and David Cook-Martín. 2014. Culling the Masses: The Democratic

The New School for Social Research launches Zolberg Center on Global Migration

March 5, 2014

Press Release THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH LAUNCHES ZOLBERG CENTER ON GLOBAL MIGRATION Launch Celebrated on March 5 with Address by Kenneth Prewitt: “What is Your Race? And Why Does the State Want to Know?” NEW YORK, March 4, 2014 – Building on its position as a leader in challenging contemporary thought on the

Migration, Citizenship, and Development Book Launch

October 31, 2013

Migration, Citizenship, and Development: Diasporic Membership Policies and Overseas Indians in the United States Book Launch and Discussion with Author Daniel Naujoks WHEN: Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 6-8PM WHERE: Klein Conference Room (A510), 66 W 12th St., Fifth Fl., New York, NY Welcome reception with refreshments will begin at 5:30pm. Seating is limited – please

Dwelling in Diaspora – CfP ACLA 2014 – New York University

October 13, 2013

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/53314 Dwelling in Diaspora – ACLA 2014 – New York University (Deadline: November 1, 2013) Elizabeth Syrkin (University of Muenster), Khachig Tölölyan (Wesleyan University) contact email: elizabeth.syrkin@uni-muenster.de American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 20-23 March 2014, New York University Seminar title: Dwelling in Diaspora Seminar Organizers: Elizabeth Syrkin (University of Muenster), Khachig Tölölyan (Wesleyan University)