Borocz: CV and List of Publications

CURRICULUM VITAE

József Böröcz Professor of Sociology Rutgers University 54 Joyce Kilmer Ave Piscataway, NJ 08854-8045 U.S.A. phone (home): +1(732)729-7884 fax (office): +1(732)445-0974 email: [email protected] http://borocz.net

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Citizen of the United States and Hungary (European Union)

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Holder of “Person of Indian Origin” (permanent resident) card in India

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Laureate of the “Knight Cross of the Merit of Honour of the Republic of Hungary,” bestowed, “in recognition of the recipient’s scholarly excellence”, by the President of the Republic in August 2005

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Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University

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President, Advisory Board, Institute for Political Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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Member, Public Corporate Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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Executive Board Member and Faculty Affiliate, Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University

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Past director (1995-2007) of the Institute for Hungarian Studies at Rutgers University

EDUCATION / DEGREES: 2004: D.Sc.: Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Doctor Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae) 1992: Ph.D. (1987, M.A.) Sociology (with certificate in Comparative International Development), The Johns Hopkins University. Dissertation title: Leisure Migration under Capitalism and State Socialism: An Austro-Hungarian Comparison. 1990: Translator's Diploma in the Social Sciences, (Hungarian-English), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. 1976 - 1982: M.A. Diploma and Teacher's Certificate, Linguistics, Literature and Public Education (1982), Kossuth Lajos University of Arts and Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary 1965-76: 11 years of training classical piano and composition, Budapest School of Music

 

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1970 - 1974: High School Diploma (1974), Petőfi Sándor Gimnázium, Budapest, Hungary ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS: 2011: Honorable Mention, The European Union and Global Social Change, 2011 book award competition of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association 2006: Immanuel Wallerstein Chair in Global Ethics for 2005-2006, University of Ghent, Belgium. 1996: Presidential Nominee, Hungarian Sociological Association (nomination respectfully declined). 1991: Recipient, Dean's Teaching Fellowship Award, The Johns Hopkins University 1986 - 1992: University tuition waiver and stipend, The Johns Hopkins University

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED: 2012: Fellow, Zentrum für Höhere Studien (Center for Advanced Studies) / Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (Humanities Center for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe), Leipzig University, Germany, January –July. 2009-10: Visiting Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 12 August 2009—31 July 2010 2009: Residential Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies / Collegium Budapest, Hungary, 6 February—30 June 2009 2007-2009: Resource Faculty, Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching Program for Junior University Teachers in the Social Sciences, Russian Federation (funded by the Higher Education Support Project of the Open Society Foundation). 2008-9: “Micro-Macro-Histories of State Socialism.” Field research grant, (funded by the Faculty Research Council of Rutgers University) ($2,000). 2002: January-May: Visiting Senior Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Social Analysis, Cologne, Germany 2001: Translation Subvention to subsidize the French publication of Böröcz’s book manuscript Social Change by Fusion: Understanding Institutional Creativity, Faculty Research Council, Rutgers University ($2,000). (Subvention lapsed because of the publisher’s inability to secure additional funding) 1999-2000: Faculty Fellow, Seminar on Beginnings and Endings at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University (two courses released, $2,500 in research funding). 1999-2000 Eastern Enlargement of the European Union, Faculty Research Council, Rutgers University ($ 2,500).

 

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1998: Support for the scholarly activities of the Institute for Hungarian Studies at Rutgers University. Special Funds of the Minister of Culture and Education, Republic of Hungary. ($ 100,000 for the first year, renewable). 1998: Recipient, Mellon Research Grant, Zimmerli Museum ($ 2,000 for integrating museum materials into the Sociology Department’s standard required undergraduate course on Classical Sociological Theory). 1997: Visiting Fellow, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Center for Research in Recent History), Potsdam University, Germany 1996—2007 Institutional funding for Visiting Lecturer in Hungarian Studies at the Rutgers Institute for Hungarian Studies, Hungarian Fulbright Commission. (Net cca. $ 35,000 p.a.). 1995-98: (with Róbert Péter, Angelusz Róbert, and Tardos Róbert) Társadalmi hálózatok a rendszerváltás után (Social Networks after the Transition). Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alap (National Science Research Fund), in May 1994, Hungary. (HUF 3,142,000) 1995: (with Wilhelm Braumüller Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Vienna, Austria) Translation subsidies for the German version of Böröcz’s book Leisure Migration: A Sociological Comparison in preparation for its publication in Austria. Österreichisches Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft (Austrian Federal Ministry of Science) (ATS 65,000.) 1994 -- 1999 (with Russell J. Dalton, Harry Eckstein and Rein Taagepera) Democratization and Democratic Politics: A Graduate Research Training Program. National Science Foundation. ($ 500,000). 1993 September-December: Social Network Capital and Elite Formation after the Collapse of State Socialism. Funds to hire a Research Assistant for data analysis. ($ 2,854). University of California Center for German and European Studies, Berkeley. June, 1993 - December, 1994 (extended to December, 1995): Tulajdon-átalakulás és privatizációideológiák (Property Change and Privatization Ideologies). Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alap (National Science Research Fund), Hungary. (HUF 350,000) January, 1992: Privatization in Hungary. Short-term grant, The Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. ($ 2,400). May 15, 1989 - January 31, 1990: Leisure Migration and (Under)Development under Capitalism and State Socialism: An Austro-Hungarian Comparison. Dissertation fieldwork research grant, funded jointly by Österreichische Fremdenverkehrswerbung (Austrian Tourist Office), Országos Idegenforgalmi Hivatal (National Tourist Office, Hungary), and Magyar Közvéleménykutató Intézet (Hungarian Institute for Public Opinion Research). (ATS 175,000 + HUF 45,000). 1989 April-May: Effects of SSRC Advanced Research Grants on Latin American Studies: Secondary Analysis of a Survey of Previous Grant Recipients. Funded by Joint Committee for Latin American Studies, Social Science Research Council. ($ 600). Summer, 1988: Preliminary Dissertation Fieldwork Research Fellowship. Funded jointly by the Program in Comparative International Development and the Program in Atlantic History and Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University. ($1,500)

 

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LANGUAGES: Magyar (Hungarian): English: Russian: Polish: German: French: Bengali:

Mother tongue Main working language, professional translator’s certificate English / Magyar University second-year qualifying exam (concluding 10 years of studies, Hungary) Mid-level proficiency certificate (Hungary) “Mittelstufe 2B” (Goethe-Institut, Budapest), several extended stays for scholarly work in Germany, fluent in reading Fluent in reading Rudimentary

TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE: Since July 1, 1995: Associate to Full Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University. 2000, 2001 and 2002: Recurrent Guest Professor, “The Construction of Europe” Summer Seminar: Université François Rabelais – Université Européenne – Rutgers University, Tours, France. December 7-9, 2001: “Európa-Birodalom. Mesterkurzus a Társadalomelméleti Kollégiumban.” 12-hour special seminar on Europe and Empire at the Social Theory College of the Budapest University of Economics. July 1–19, 1996: Contributing Guest Professor, ‘Actors or Structures? Obstacles to Stabilization of New Democracies’. Summer Course at Central European University, Budapest College. July 1, 1992—June 31, 1995: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. Graduate courses taught / scheduled to teach: § § § § § § § § § § § § §

 

Classical Sociological Theory Global Structures, Postcolonial Engagements (co-taught) Global Structures Socialisms: A Historical Sociology of Utopias and Geopolitics Global Structures, Nationhood and Statehood ‘Eastern Enlargement’ of the European Union: A Research Seminar Globalization: Nationhood and Markets Comparative-Historical Methods Social Change Economic Sociology Property and Control Readings in Recent/Contemporary Social Theory (student requested core course in the graduate program in Social Relations at the University of California at Irvine), Research Practicum in the Sociology of Economic Knowledge

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Undergraduate courses taught / scheduled to teach: o o o o o o o o

Development of Sociological Theory (Classical Theory, a required third-year course) Global Structures and Change (third-year and fourth-year versions) ‘Europe’ and the Rest of the World (third-year) Economic Sociology (third-year) World-Systems Analysis (senior-year seminar) East-Central European Societies (third-year) 'The Other Europe' (upper-division writing course on East European film and prose fiction) Economic Sociology--with a Central European Accent (course taught in the University of California / Wisconsin Program in Central European Studies in Budapest)

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global structures: political economy, geopolitics and representations sociology of supra-state public authority in Europe historical-comparative sociology social and economic institutions and change sociology of borders and cross-border flows economic sociology international development and its discourses micro-macro-sociology (history as the intersection between large-scale social change and lived experience) sociology of economic knowledge state socialism and its legacies

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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS PUBLISHED / UNDER CONTRACT József Böröcz. 2009, 2010. The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis. Oxford, UK: Routledge. Hardback and e-book: 2009; paperback: 2010. /*Note: “Honorable Mention” in the 2011 book award competition of the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association/ /*Note: This book is forthcoming in Hungarian as Az európai államiság és globális átalakulás geopolitikai gazdaságtana. L’Harmattan Hongrie. Publisher’s letter of intent received, translation subsidies are currently sought by publisher./ József Böröcz and Melinda Kovács (eds.). 2001. Empire’s New Clothes: Unveiling EUEnlargement. E-Book, a Central Europe Review imprint. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~eu/Empire.pdf , 3 December. ISBN 1-84287-009-2. /*Note: This book was also published in Hungarian as Böröcz József és Kovács Melinda (szerk.). 2001. EU-birodalom. Thematic bloc in Replika. 45-46 (November): 23151./ József Böröcz. 1996. Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press (An Elsevier Science Imprint). Hard cover. David A. Smith and József Böröcz (eds.) 1995. A New World Order? Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century. Greenwood Press (A Praeger Imprint). Hard cover and paperback. BOOKS IN PROGRESS József Böröcz. The Re-Emergence of Capitalism: Eastern Europe after Socialism. Letter of interest from The Johns Hopkins University Press. József Böröcz: Social Change by Fusion. Understanding Institutional Creativity. Under revision for Cambridge University Press.

OTHER EDITED WORK József Böröcz and Katherine Verdery (eds.). 1994. Gender and Nation. Thematic Block. East European Politics and Societies. 8:2(Spring):223-316.

 

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ARTICLES József Böröcz. 2012. “Notes on the Geopolitical Economy of Post-State-Socialism.” Chapter in Dorothy Solinger and Nina Bandelj (eds.) Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged. Eastern Europe and China (1989-2011). New York: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. József Böröcz. 2011. “European Integration: Global Strategy for Waning Powers.” Perspectives on Europe, 42,1: 35-39. József Böröcz. 2009. “The ‘Rise of China’ and the Changing World Income Distribution.” Chapter 5 (pp. 86-108) in Hung, Ho-fung (ed.) China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. /*Note: An earlier version of this paper was published in Hungarian as 2005. „Globális mobilitás és geopolitika: 1989-2001.” (Global Mobility and Geopolitics: 19892001.) Pp. 251-66 in Bayer József és Guba László (szerk.) Kritikus leltár. A rendszerváltás másfél évtizede. Tanulmányok. (Critical Stock Taking: Studies on One and A Half Decades Since the System Change), Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Politikai Tudományok Intézete (Institute for Political Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)./ /*Note: An earlier version of this paper was published in Hungary, in English, as 2007. ”Global Mobility of States and Geopolitics: 1989-2001.” Pp. 237-252 in József Bayer and Jody Jensen (ed.) From Transition to Globalization. New Challenges for Democracy, the Media and Civil Society. Budapest: Institute for Political Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences./ József Böröcz. 2008. “Beljenje zgodovin,” (“Whitening Histories”.) Oddogodenje zgodovine primer Jugoslavije: prispevki z mednarodne konference, Ljubljana, 2008: tematska številka ob 60. obletnici revije Borec (Un-Eventment of History – the Case of Yugoslavia: Papers from the International Conference “Un-Eventment of History – the Case of Yugoslavia”; Thematic Issue for the 60th Anniversary of the Journal Borec, Ljubljana, Slovenia) pp. 163-178. Böröcz József. 2008. „A Nagy Hálózati Játszma: Adalékok a nyugat-európai államiság globális, történeti politikaszociológiához.” (The Great Network Game: For a Global, Historical Political Sociology of West European Statehood.) Politikatudományi Szemle (Review of Politial Science, journal of the Hungarian Poltical Science Association.) XVII,1: 41-63. József Böröcz. 2006. “Goodness Is Elsewhere: The Rule of European Difference.” Comparative Studies in Society and History. 48, 1:110-38. József Böröcz and Mahua Sarkar. 2005. “What Is the EU?” International Sociology, 20,2: 153-73. /*Note: This paper has also been published in Hungarian as 2005. “Mi az Európai Unió?” Translation by József Böröcz. Politikatudományi Szemle (Review of Political Sciences). 3:151-77./ /*Note: This paper has been re-published in English as 2005. “What Is the EU?” in Tamás Krausz and Péter Szigeti (eds.) Eszmélet – Consciousness. Selected Essays. Budapest: Eszmélet Foundation. 6-25. /*Note: This paper has also been published in Belarusian as 2006. „Што такое Эўрапейскі Зьвяз?” ARCHE (Minsk), 1,2 (41,42):38-51./

 

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/*Note: A revised and updated version of this paper has been re-published in English as 2008. “What Is the EU? Three Years After the ‘Big Bang’ Enlargement.” Pp. 97118. in Josef Langer (ed.) Forces Shaping the EU--Social Science Approaches to Understanding the European Union. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / New York./ József Böröcz. 2005. “Redistributing Global Inequality: A Thought Experiment.” Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai, India), 26 February: 886-92. /*Note: This paper has also been published in Hungarian as 2005. “Gondolatkísérlet a globális elosztásról.” Hungarian translation by József Böröcz. Eszmélet. 66: 6170./ /*Note: This paper has been re-published as 2008. “Redistributing Global Inequality: A Thought Experiment.” Pp. 217-38. in Ethics in an Era of Globalization. Ed. by M. S. Ronald Commers, Wim Vandekerckhove and An Verlinden. London: Ashgate./ József Böröcz. 2003. “East European Entrants to EU: Diffidently Yours.” The Polish Foreign Affairs Digest, 3, 4(9): 47-58. /*Note: This paper has also been published in Polish as 2003. “Wschodnioeuropejscy Kandydacy do Unii Europejskiej: Z objawami niepewności.” (Transl. by Katarzyna Sochacka). Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny. 3,6(16): 51-68./ /*Note: This paper has also been published in German as 2004. “Die Osteuropäischen Beitrittsländer der EU.” (Transl. by Martin Prochazka.) Ost-West Gegeninformationen. 16,1:3-6./ /*Note: This paper has also been published in Russian as 2004. “Восточноевропейские участники ЕС: неуверенно Ваши.” (Transl. by A. Gorlov) Европа, 4,3(12):53-68./ /*Note: This paper has also been published in French as 2005. « Les nouveaux entrants d’Europe de l’Est dans l’U.E.: différemment vôtres.» (Transl. by Bruno Drweski.) Pp. 163-74 in Claude Karnoouh et Bruno Drweski (eds.) La grande braderie à l’Est, ou le pouvoir de la kleptokratie. Paris: Le temps des cerises./ /Note: This paper has been re-published in English as 2006. Pp. 153-64 in Salvatore Engel-diMauro (ed.) The European’s Burden: Global Imperialism in EU Expansion. New York: Peter Lang./ Böröcz József. 2002. “A határ: társadalmi tény.” (The Border Is A Social Fact.) Replika, 47-48 (június): 133-42. József Böröcz. 2001. “Change Rules.” American Journal of Sociology. 106,4(Jan 2001): 1152-68. József Böröcz. 2001. “Introduction: Empire and Coloniality in the ‘Eastern Enlargement’ of the European Union.” Pp. 4-50. in József Böröcz and Melinda Kovács (eds.). 2001. Empire’s New Clothes: Unveiling EU-Enlargement. E-Book, a Central Europe Review imprint. http://www.ce-review.org/ and http://www.mirhouse.com/ce_review/Empire.pdf. /*Note: This paper has been published in Hungarian as 2001. “Birodalom, kolonialitás és az EU keleti bővítése.” Replika, 45-46(November): 17-33. /*Note: This paper has been re-published in Russian as part of Империи: Сравнительная история, Саратовский Межрегиональный Институт Общественных Наук, (Empires:

 

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Comparative History; Saratov Inter-Regional Institute of Social Sciences, Russia), online resource, http://mion.sgu.ru/empires/docs/Europa.doc . Böröcz József. 2001. “Döntés és indoklása – avagy miként szivárog a szubsztancia a formális jogba az Európai Unió keleti bővítése kapcsán.” (A Decision and Its Rationales: How Substance Enters into Formal Law in the Eastern Enlargement of the EU) Replika. 43-44 (június):193-220. József Böröcz. 2000. “The Fox and the Raven: The European Union and Hungary Renegotiate the Margins of ‘Europe.’” Comparative Studies in Society and History. 42, 4(Oct): 847-75. /*Note: This paper has been re-published as 2001. “The Fox and the Raven: The European Union and Hungary Renegotiate the Margins of ‘Europe.’” Pp. 51-110 in József Böröcz and Melinda Kovács (eds.). Empire’s New Clothes: Unveiling EU-Enlargement. E-Book, a Central Europe Review imprint. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~eu/Empire.pdf ./ /*Note: An earlier version of this paper was published in Hungarian as 1998. “Térkép e táj. Az EU-magyar ‘párbeszéd’.“ (This Landscape Is A Map. The EU-Hungarian ‘Dialogue’.) Kritika. 4:2-9./ /*Note: this paper has been re-published as required university course reading material in European identity in an edited collection by Open University Press, UK./ József Böröcz. 2000. “Informality and Nonprofits in Central European Capitalism.” (Keynote Address Presented at the Voluntas Conference on Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector in Prague, Fall 1999.) Voluntas. 2(Summer): 123-40. József Böröcz. 2000. “Informality Rules.” East European Politics and Societies. 14, 2(Spring): 348-80. /*Note: A substantially revised version of this paper has been published in Hungarian as 2000. “Kistársadalom-kiskapuk.” Hungarian translation: József Böröcz. 2000, július-augusztus: 3-15./ Böröcz József. 2000. “Ezredeleji beszélgetés Böröcz József szociológussal.” (Conversation with Sociologist József Böröcz on the Brink of the Millennium). 2000. november, 4-9. Edited transcript of 45-minute television interview on globalization.

/*Note: This interview has been re-published in Monori M. András – Tillmann J.A. 2003. Ezredkezdet. Beszélgetések. Budapest: Palatinus., Pp. 9-20./ Böröcz József. 1999. “A túl jó léttől a nyers realitásig: Válasz a Demográfia körkérdésére.” Demográfia (Demography). XLII,3-4:210-9. Invited contribution linking Hungary’s declining life-expectancy-at-birth to the country’s peripheralization and the collapse of state socialist redistributive institutions.

Böröcz József. 1999. “Ki kit ír le? Tartózkodó módszertani műbírálat.” 2000, December: 15-9. Invited contribution to a debate on the role of dichotomies in the discourse of social change in Hungary.

Ákos Róna-Tas and József Böröcz. 1999. “Business Elites in Central and Eastern Europe: Continuity and Change, Pre-Socialist and Socialist Legacies.” in John Highley and György Lengyel (eds.) Elites after State Socialism: Theory and Analysis. Rowman and Littlefield.

 

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József Böröcz. 1999. “From Comprador State to Auctioneer State: Property Change, Realignment and Peripherialization in Post-State-Socialist Central Europe.” Chapter 10 (pp. 193-209.) in David A. Smith, Dorothy Solinger, and Steven Topik (eds.) States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy. London: Routledge. József Böröcz. 1999. “Reaction as Progress: Economists as Intellectuals.” Pp. 245-62. in András Bozóki (ed.) Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press. József Böröcz. 1998. “Informalität: Morbus Hungaricus?” (Informality: A Hungarian Disease?) Ost-West Gegeninformationen (Graz, Austria). 4:6-9. /*Note: This paper has been re-published as 1998. “Informalität: Morbus Hungaricus?” Reprinted (in German original) in Álláspontok. Az MSZP Budapesti Pártszövetség keretében működő Közgazdasági Tagozatának műhelytanulmányai. Magyar Szocialista Párt, Budapest, 1999./ József Böröcz and Caleb Southworth. 1998. "'Who You Know . . .': Earnings Effects of Formal and Informal Social Network Resources under Late State Socialism, Hungary, 1986-87." Journal of Socio-Economics. 27,3:403-27. Judit Bodnár and József Böröcz. 1998. “Housing Advantages for the Better-Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Network Effects in Late State-Socialist Housing Inequalities.” Social Forces. 76(4): 1275-1304. Böröcz József. 1997. “Amerikai anzix.” (Postcard from America.) Szociológiai Figyelő, 1:176-84. Böröcz József. 1997. “Anthony Giddens: Szociológia.” (A book review essay.) BUKSZ--Budapesti Könyvszemle (Budapest Review of Books). Ősz (Fall):341-5. /*Note: This review has been published in English as 1997. “Sociology Is Elsewhere. A Review of Anthony Giddens: Szociológia.” Budapest Review of Books – English Edition. 7,3(Fall):118-23./ József Böröcz. 1997. “Social Change with Sticky Features and the Failures of Modernizationism.” Innovation. 10,2: 161-70. József Böröcz. 1997. “Социальное изменение и модернизационные модели” (Social Change and Modernization Models). Pp. 28-40. In Boris L. Goubman (ed.) Горизоны  культуры   накануне  XXI.  века (Horizons of Culture on the Eve of the 21st Century: Collection of Scholarly Works.). Tver’, Russia, Tver’ State University. József Böröcz. 1997. “Stand Reconstructed: Contingent Closure and Institutional Change.” Sociological Theory. 15,3: 215-48. Róna-Tas Ákos és Böröcz József. 1997. “Folyamatosság és változás az államszocializmus utáni bolgár, cseh, lengyel és magyar üzleti elitben.” (Continuity and Change in the Bulgarian, Czech, Polish and Hungarian Business Elites after State Socialism.) Szociológiai Szemle, (Sociological Review, Journal of the Hungarian Sociological Association). Ősz(Fall): 49-75. József Böröcz and Caleb Southworth. 1996. "Decomposing the Intellectuals' Class Power: Conversion of Cultural Capital to Income, Hungary, 1986." Social Forces, 74, 3(March): 797-821.

 

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József Böröcz and Ákos Róna-Tas. 1995. "Small Leap Forward: Emergence of New Economic Elites." Theory & Society, 5:751-81. /*Note: This paper has been published in Polish as 1995. “Nowe elity gospodarcze: Porównanie polsko-węgiersko-rosyjskie”. (“New Economic Elites: A PolishHungarian-Russian Comparison) In Iván Szelényi, Don Treiman i Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński (eds.) Elity w Polsce, w Rosji i na Węgrzech: Wymiana czy reprodukcja? (Elites in Poland, Russia and Hungary: Circulation or Reproduction?) Warszawa: Instytut Badań Politycznych, Polska Akademia Nauk (Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences)./ József Böröcz and David A. Smith. 1995. "Introduction: Late Twentieth-Century Challenges for World-System Analysis." Pp. 1-15. in David A. Smith and József Böröcz (eds.) A New World Order? Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century. Greenwood Press. Böröcz József and Caleb Southworth. 1995. "Kapcsolatok és jövedelem: Magyarország, 1986-87" (Ties and Income: Hungary, 1986-87). Szociológiai Szemle. (Sociological Review, Journal of the Hungarian Sociological Association.), 2:25-48. Böröcz József. 1993. "Kapcsolataink rétegei. Könyvismertetés-esszé Angelusz Róbert és Tardos Róbert: Hálózatok, stílusok, struktúrák című könyve kapcsán" (Strata of Ties. Book review essay à propos Networks, Styles and Structures by Róbert Angelusz and Róbert Tardos). BUKSZ--Budapesti Könyvszemle (Budapest Review of Books). 1993. Tél:444-9. József Böröcz. 1993. "Simulating the Great Transformation: Property Change under Prolonged Informality in Hungary." Archives européennes de sociologie / Europäisches Archiv für Soziologie / European Journal of Sociology. XXXIV,1(May):81-107. /*Note: This paper has been published in Hungarian as 1995. "Színlelt nagy átalakulás? Informális kiút az államszocializmusból." (Hungarian version by József Böröcz, based on a translation prepared by Katalin Farkas.) Politikatudományi Szemle. (Review of Political Science). 3(Ősz):19-39./ József Böröcz. 1993. "Informality and the Second Economy in East-Central Europe." Pp. 215-44. in Gregory K. Schoepfle and Jorge Pérez-Lopez (eds.) Work Without Protections: Case Studies of the Informal Sector in Developing Countries, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, Washington, D.C. József Böröcz. 1992. "Travel-Capitalism: The Structure of Europe and the Advent of the Tourist." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 34,4:708-41. József Böröcz. 1992. "Dual Dependency and the Informalization of External Linkages: The Case of Hungary." Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, 14:189-209. /*Note: This paper has been published in Hungarian as 1993."Kettős függőség és a külső kötések informálissá válása." Hungarian translation by József Böröcz. Eszmélet, 18-19:74-88./ /*Note: This paper has been re-published as 1997. "Dual Dependency and the Informalization of External Linkages: The Case of Hungary." Pp. 93-116. in Tamás Krausz (ed.) Consciousness. Budapest: Eszmélet Publishers and London: Labor Focus on Eastern Europe Publishers. / József Böröcz. 1992. "Dual Dependency and Property Vacuum: Social Change on the State Socialist Semiperiphery." Theory & Society, 21:77-104. /*Note: A revised version of this paper has been published in Hungarian as 1992. "Kettős függőség és tulajdonvákuum: társadalmi átalakulás az államszocialista

 

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félperiférián." Hungarian version by József Böröcz. Szociológiai Szemle. (Sociological Review, Journal of the Hungarian Sociological Association). 3:320./ József Böröcz. 1991. "Vanguard of the Construction of Capitalism: The Hungarian Intellectuals' Trip to Power." Critical Sociology, 18, 1(Spring):111-6. Böröcz József. 1990. "A kádárizmustól a parlagi kapitalizmusig: a fejlett informalizmus építésének időszerű kérdései." (From Kádárism to Cruel Capitalism: Current Questions of the Construction of Advanced Informalism). Invited paper in Mozgó Világ, Special Issue on the Post-State-Socialist Transition in Hungary. 8:61-7. József Böröcz. 1990. "Explaining Tourist Flows: Hungary as a Destination, 1960 - 1984." Annals of Tourism Research, Special Issue on Tourism in Centrally Planned Economies. 17,1:1937. József Böröcz. 1990. "Deutsch, das bedeutet (mir)..." (What German Means to Me). Essay. Zeit/Schrift, 1:13-9. Alejandro Portes and József Böröcz. 1989. "Contemporary Immigration: Theoretical Perspectives on Its Determinants and Modes of Incorporation." International Migration Review. 1. (Silver Issue.) 87,Vol.23,(Fall):606-30. /*Note: A revised version of this paper was published in Hungarian as 1990. "Keserű kenyér: a munkaerő nemzetközi migrációjának szociológiai problémái." Hungarian Version by József Böröcz. Szociológia (Journal of the Hungarian Sociological Association), 1:11-32./ /*Note: This paper was published in Spanish as 1992. "Immigración contemporánea: perspectivas teóricas sobre sus determinantes y modos de acceso." Alfoz. Territorio, Economía y Sociedad. (Madrid.) 91-92:20-34./ /*Note: This paper was reprinted as 1996. “Contemporary Migration: Theoretical Perspectives on Its Determinants and Modes of Incorporation.” Pp. 156-80. in Robin Cohen (ed.) Theories of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, UK./ /*Note: The Spanish version of this paper was reprinted as 1998. "Immigración contemporánea: perspectivas teóricas sobre sus determinantes y modos de acceso." Pp. 43-74. in Algesini, Graciela (Comp.). Cruzando fronteras. Migraciones en el sistema mundial. Barcelona: Icaria Fundación Hogar del Empleado./ /*Note: The Hungarian version of this paper was reprinted as 2001. "Keserű kenyér: a munkaerő nemzetközi migrációjának szociológiai problémái." Hungarian Version by József Böröcz, in Sik Endre (ed.) A migráció szociológiája. Budapest: Szociális és Családügyi Minisztérium./ József Böröcz. 1989. "Mapping the Class Structures of State Socialism in East-Central Europe." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 8:279-309. Böröcz József. 1989. "A posztmodern társadalomtudomány: Marx--tótágast." Valóság, XXXIII, 6: 38-48.

 

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Böröcz József. 1988. "Két szék között: Motívumok egy társadalomképhez." Valóság, XXXII, 11: 72-82. Alejandro Portes and József Böröcz. 1988. "The Informal Sector under Capitalism and State Socialism: A Preliminary Comparison." Social Justice, 15,3-4,(Fall-Winter):17-28. József Böröcz. 1987. "Name Language Shift in Árpádhon, Louisiana: A Content Analysis of Tombstone Inscriptions." Hungarian Studies, 3,1-2:227-41. Böröcz József. 1986. Világrendszer és vállalkozói szocializmus: elméleti és kisérleti koncepció." (World-System and Entrepreneurial Socialism: Theoretical versus Experimental Approaches) Valóság, XXIX(5):95-105. József Böröcz. 1983. "Young Foreign Tourists in Hungary" Leisure Newsletter (Publication of Research Committee 13 of the International Sociological Association), X,2(Summer):3441. Böröcz József. 1983. "Határjárás '81. Kutatási munkabeszámoló." (Border Survey '81: A Research Report) Idegenforgalmi Közlemények, (Tourism Reports) 2: 5-44. Böröcz József. 1983. "Gondolatok az ifjúsági turizmusról. Részletek." (On Youth Tourism. Excerpts.) In: Studium. Acta Iuvenum Universitatis Debreceniensis de Ludovico Kossuth Nominatae. XII. Debrecen. Böröcz József. 1983. "Az úticél: Magyarország. A hazánkban turistáskodó fiatal külföldiek összetétele, turista-mintái és igényei." (Let's Go: Hungary. Composition, Tourist Patterns and Demand of Young Foreign Tourists in Hungary.) In: Studium. Acta Iuvenum Universitatis Debreceniensis de Ludovico Kossuth Nominatae. XIV. Debrecen. Böröcz József. 1983. "Külföldi fiatalok Magyarországon. Áttekintés egy empirikus vizsgálat nyomán." (Young Foreigners in Hungary: Assessment Following an Empirical Study.) In: Folklór-Társadalom-Művészet, 15. Kul-Turizmus. Népművelési Intézet (Institute for Culture), Budapest. /*Note: This paper has been published in English as 1984. “Young Foreigners in Hungary.” English translation by József Böröcz. Pp. 44-50. In Fejős Zoltán (ed.) CUL/TOURS. Folklór-Társadalom-Művészet sorozat, Budapest: Népművelési Intézet./

INVITED ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES József Böröcz and Mahua Sarkar. 2012. “Colonialism.” Mark Juergensmeyer and Helmut Anheier (eds.) Encyclopedia of Global Studies, New York: Sage. Forthcoming. József Böröcz and Mahua Sarkar. 2012. “Empires.” Mark Juergensmeyer and Helmut Anheier (eds.) Encyclopedia of Global Studies, New York: Sage. Forthcoming

 

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WORKING PAPERS, RESEARCH REPORTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES József Böröcz. 2000. “Hungary Ten Years After: Permanence of Liminality.” East European Studies Newsletter, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution. Fall: 4-10. József Böröcz. 1992. "Informality and the Second Economy in East-Central Europe." Discussion paper 7, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., September. József Böröcz. 1992. "Hungary Re-Linking: State Socialism and the Transformation of External Linkages." Working Paper Series, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. József Böröcz. 1989. Vienna's Hungarian Visitors: A Profile. Research Report. Österreich Werbung, Vienna, Austria. Mimeo. Böröcz József. 1989. Társadalmunk és idegenforgalmunk. Háttértanulmány az idegenforgalomfejlesztési koncepcióhoz (Society and tourism. Background study to a tourism development policy). Országos Idegenforgalmi Hivatal (Hungarian National Tourism Office), Budapest. Hungary. József Böröcz. 1989. "Turning Marx on Top of His Head: Postmodernism and International Development. A Review Essay." Working Paper, Program in Comparative and International Development, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University. József Böröcz. ed. 1988. Mass Communication and National Identity. A Selected Bibliography. International Association for Mass Communication Research and Mass Communication Research Center, Budapest. József Böröcz. ed. 1986. Communication Technology, Development and the Third World. A Selected Bibliography. International Association for Mass Communication Research and Mass Communication Research Center, Budapest.

SHORTER PIECES AND INTERVIEWS 2006 “Városálom.” Népszabadság, Vélemények-rovat. 11 November. 2006 “A Világ és Mi. Interjú Böröcz Józseffel.” (The World and US. Interview with József Böröcz.) Anthrop o l i s (Hungarian cultural anthropology journal), 3,1:96-101. 2006 “On Globalization, Combined and Uneven.” International Sociological Association EBulletin, 3(Spring):42-50. 2005 “A magyar komp, avagy: Hogyan juthatunk el Dél-Koreából Írországba, Brazília érintésével?” (Interpreting Hungary’s recent trajectory in the world-system through the analogies of South Korea, Brazil and Ireland) Népszabadság, augusztus 13. 2004 “Baloldaliságteszt” (On what “left” orientation means today) Heti világgazdaság, szeptember 9. Vélemények-rovat. 2004

 

“A félperifériás kapitalizmus.” (On the dynamics of Hungary’s fluctuating GDP/capitaand declining GDP-figures) Népszabadság, március 6, szombati melléklet.

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/*Note: This piece was re-published on the scholar-activist website of ATTAC-Hungary at http://attac.zpok.hu/article.php3?id_article=161 / 2003 “A két Magyarország.” (On political implications of the life expectancy gap between Romanies and non-Romanies in Hungary) Heti világgazdaság, június 28, Véleményekrovat. 2003

“Sweeping Ambiguity: Hungary’s Referendum on EU-Enlargement.” Council for European Studies Newsletter, XXXII, Nos 5/6, June. http://www.europanet.org/newsletters/200306/esn200306_bo.pdf /*Note: The German version of this paper was published as 2003 “Eindeutige Vieldeutigkeit: Ungarns Referendum über den EU-Beitritt” Ost-West Gegeninformationen, 15,1(Juni):56-7. /

2002 “Sociolog: EU er et nyt imperium.” Interview in Jyllands-Posten, October 11. 2002 “Budapest, élève modèle de l’Europe. Miracle européen: Hongrois, mais on n’est pas sûr.” (On the political effects of Hungary’s impending accession to the European Union.) Bastille-République-Nation. Le journal. 17 décembre, 17:5. /*Note: The English original of this paper was published as 2003. “Hungary: Ambivalent Resistance to EU.” Economic and Political Weekly, 25 January. 283-4./ /*Note: This paper has been published in Albanian as 2003 “Kushërintjë e varfër trokasin në derën e BE-së.” Shekulli, 1 February./ 2001 “Szem és Öldök.” (On the welfare state and the cultures of health care). Kritika, XXX, 2:12-3. 2001. “Birodalom és keleti bővítés. Böröcz József szociológus az Európai Unió és a csatlakozó országok dilemmáiról.” Népszabadság, december 8. 1998 “Egy kis séta.” (on the clash between the civic and class notions of “bourgeois-ness” and their political discourse in Hungary today.) Heti Világgazdaság, XX, 29, 1000(július 25):52-3. 1998

“Szép, új identitásvilág.” (on identity politics in north American academia.) Élet ÉS Irodalom, XLII,7(február 13):8.

1994

"Kettős képmutatás." (on the traps of mixing the discourses of the social sciences and politics). Heti Világgazdaság, 48:108-9.

1994

"'Harmadik utas a halál'" (contribution to a debate on the "third road" of central Europe à propos the work of Iván Szelényi). BUKSZ--Budapesti Könyvszemle (Budapest Review of Books). Tél (Winter): 1-2.

1994 with Katherine Verdery: "Introduction." Gender and Nation. Special Block of Papers. East European Politics and Societies. 8:2(Spring):223-4. 1993 "Modernizáció--múltidőben." (on the outdatedness of the political rhetoric of modernization). Heti Világgazdaság. 1993 with Judit Bodnár: "A racionális terminológia-választásról." (contribution to a debate on the Hungarian terminology of 'rational choice theory') BUKSZ--Budapesti Könyvszemle. (Budapest Review of Books). Ősz (Fall):267.

 

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1993 "Világ világa" (on the colonial discourse of American advertizing using Hungarian 'couleur locale') Magyar Narancs. 1993 "Miként ne kapjunk amerikai ösztöndíjat: Módszertani segédanyag" (on the culture of admittance to graduate school in America) Magyar Narancs. 1992 "Szélsőjobbhorog" (on far-right political provocations in Hungary) Heti Világgazdaság, 39, szeptember 26:88. 1991

"Édes vita" (on assumptions of modernization in social science debates in Hungary) Heti Világgazdaság, augusztus 10:74.

1991

"Magyar szociológiai szauna" (report on the annual conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association) Magyar Narancs, III, 14, július 11:4.

1991

"Tetszettek volna forradalmat csinálni..." (text of presentation at the conference 'Csendes? Forradalom? Volt?' [Was It? A Silent? Revolution?] on the outer-directedness and nonrevolutionary nature of the political transition in East-Central Europe) Magyar Nemzet, június 10:7. Re-published as pp. 26-9. in the conference proceedings volume András Bozóki, Tamás Csapody, Ervin Csizmadia and Miklós Sükösd (eds.) Csendes? Forradalom? Volt? (Az ELTE Jogszociológiai Tanszék, az ELTE Szociológiai Intézet és a Bibó István Szakkollégium 1991. június 5-6-I konferenciájának előadásai és vitája). TTwins, Budapest.

1991

"Jászi a Moszkva-téren." (on formal and informal strategies of Central European integration) Magyar Narancs, III, 12, június 13: 5.

1991

"Warspeak." (on the discourse of the Gulf War) Magyar Narancs, III, 6, március 21:7.

1990

"Ön-érdekegyeztetést!" (on contradicitons of corporatism and ownership under poststate-socialism) Heti Világgazdaság, 51.

1990

“Szavazzon S aki tud?” (on sufferage for Hungarian citizens living abroad) Heti Világgazdaság, július 27:67.

1990

"Mély(magyar)pont" (on newly-emerging nationalism and antisemitism in Hungary) Magyar Narancs, 21.

1990

"A kapitalizmus építésének élcsapata..." (mini-essay on the political role of the intelligentsia in post-state-socialism) Magyar Nemzet, October 25.

1990

"Azok a boldog, szép napok! Emlékezés a választási kampányra." (sketch on the aesthetics of the first freely contested election campaign in Hungary) Magyar Narancs, május 3. Reprinted as pp. 270-2. in Bozóki, András (ed.) 1992. Tiszta lappal. A FIDESZ a magyar politikában. 1988-1991. FIDESZ, Budapest.

1990

"Liberty, Love" (on the colonial sexism of Playboy advertizing about Hungary) Élet és Irodalom, May.

1989

"Cseberből-vederbe." (on problems of privatization under post-state-socialism) Heti Világgazdaság, 48.

 

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BOOK REVIEWS 2006 “Mit mondjak – ez nem egy európai könyv!” (Review of Attila Melegh: On the East/West Slope: Globalization, Nationalism, Discourses and Eastern Europe) Régió, 17, 1: 246-8. 2003 Book review of Faruk Tabak and Michaeline A. Crichlow (eds): Informalization. Process and Structure.” American Journal of Sociology, 109, July:267-9. 2003 “Book review of Stephen Crowley and David Ost: Workers after Workers’ States: Labor and Politics in Postcommunist Eastern Europe.” American Journal of Sociology. 108,4(January):924-6. 2000 “Book review of György Csepeli: National Identity in Contemporary Hungary. Atlantic Research and Publications.” American Ethnologist. 27,4:962-3. 2000 “Háború és történetírás.” Book review of Krausz Tamás (szerk.) A Balkán-háborúk és a nagyhatalmak. Rigómezőtől Koszóvóig. Történeti-politológiai előadások. Politikatörténeti füzetek XIII. Napvilág kiadó, Eszmélet: 44:142-7. /*Note: This review was re-published on the scholar-activist website of ATTAC-Hungary at: http://attac.zpok.hu/article.php3?id_article=160 / 1998 Book review of Walter D. Connor: Tattered Banners: Labor Conflict, and Corporatism in Postcommunist Russia. Boulder, CO: Westview, and Mark Lupher: Power Restructuring in China and Russia. Westview (Social Change in Global Perspective Series). Contemporary Sociology, 27,1(Jan):41-3. 1996 Book review of Bruce Grant: In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas. Princeton University Press. American Journal of Sociology. 102,2(September): 613-4. 1996 Book review of Kemény István és Gábor László (eds.) XXX. 1963-ban alakult meg a Szociológiai Kutatócsoport. MTA Szociológiai Kutatóintézete és MTA Társadalmi Konfliktusok Kutató Központja. BUKSZ--Budapesti Könyvszemle. Tavasz:95-6. 1995 Book review of G.A. Bryant and Edmund Mokrzycki (eds.) The new great transformation? Change and continuity in East-Central Europe. London and New York: Routledge. and Gregory S. Alexander and Grażyna Skąpska (eds.) A Fourth Way? Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economies. Routledge. Contemporary Sociology, 24,3: 357-8. 1994 Book Review of Jan Winiecki and Andrzej Kondratowicz (eds.) Macroeconomics of Transition. Routledge, Work and Occupations. 21,2(May):238-40. 1993 Book Review of Pavel Câmpeanu: Exit. Toward Post-Stalinism. M.E. Sharpe. Slavic Review. 52,2:375-6. 1990 "Szükségtelen illúziók..." Book Review of Noam Chomsky: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, CBC Massey Lectures, CBC Enterprises. Jel-Kép, 3.

 

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KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AND SYMPOSIA 2010

“Intimate Internationalism: The Performing Arts Ensemble of the Hungarian People’s Army Visits the People’s Republic of China in the Autumn of 1956.” The Harpur College Dean’s Speaker Series, Binghamton University, November 11.

2009

“The Collapse of State Socialism in the ‘Soviet Bloc’ and Global Labour Migration.” Keynote address, Labour and Social Justice conference, Ghent University, November 20.

2009

“Intimate Internationalism: Micro-Macrohistories of State Socialism.” Department of Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 18.

2008

“Muscling-In: Western Europe’s Longue-Durée Geopolitics of Economic Weight and the Colonial Network.” Keynote address, Conference of the Social Theory College, Budapest. 21 March 2008. By teleconference.

2008

Conveyor, Symposium on “Global Structures and Change,” Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching Program for Junior University Teachers in the Social Sciences, Ruza, Russian Federation, July 28-August 1.

2007

“’We Were China’s Guests’: Intimate Internationalism and Histories of the Socialist Self.” Opening keynote address, Conference on the “Uneventment of History,” Ljubljana University, Slovenia, 19 October 2007.

2006

“A Global Perspective on the EU: Colonial Legacy, Territorial Limits, ‘Enlargement.’” International Lecture Series on Borders in Global Comparison, Institute for World History, University of Vienna, 8 June 2006.

2006

“The ‘Rise of Asia’, Global Inequality, and the New Challenges to Global Relations.” The Immannuel Wallerstein Lecture 2005-2006, Ghent University, March 14, 2006.

2006

“Coloniality and the EU: Speaking Through the Switch and the Broadband—Strategies of Inferiorization When It Is Not ‘OK’ to Inferiorize.” Alexander von Humboldt Lecture Series on Post-Colonizing Europe: The Geopolitics of Globalization, Empire, and Borders: Here and There, Now and Then, Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. March.

2004

“Redistributing Global Inequality: A Thought Experiment.” Keynote address, Closing Plenary Session, International Conference on Development and Regionalism: Karl Polányi’s Ideas on World System Transformation, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Corvinus University, Budapest, November 4-6.

1999

“Informality, Nonprofits and East-Central European Capitalism.” Keynote address at “Ten Years After: Civil Society and the Third Sector in Central and Eastern Europe,” The 1999 Voluntas Symposium, Charles University, Prague, October 15-16.

INVITED PAPERS, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS AND MEDIA APPEARANCES 2011 “Gazda(g)ság és geopolitika” (Wealth and Geopolitics). Balpop Műhely (Workshop of a Hungarian NGO oriented toward critical global issues), Budapest, June 6.

 

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2011

“Whitened Histories: Reaction, Revision and Race in the Post-Socialist Politics of History in Hungary.” Soyuz 2011 Conference, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 12, 2011.

2010

“Intimate Internationalism. The Hungarian People’s Army Performing Arts Ensemble Visits the People’s Republic of China in the Autumn of 1956.” Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, November 8. /*Note: This paper has also been presented • at the Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Studies) on April 25, 2009. • in the Cultural Sociology Seminar, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 11 June, 2007. • at the Eisenstein Cine Club, Gorky Sadan, Kolkata, India, 12 July 2007./

2009

“Could Global Distribution of Income Be Humanised?” Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 11.

2009

“Reduction to the Absurd: The Geopolitical Economy of Post-State-Socialism.” 1989: Twenty Years After, International Conference, Center for Democracy, Departments of Sociology and Political Science, University of California at Irvine, Laguna Beach, November 6-9. /*Note: This paper has also been presented in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2011./

2009

“The Collapse of State Socialism in the ‘Soviet Bloc’ and Global Labour Migration”. Third Critical Studies Conference on ‘Empire, States and Migration.’ Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, September 11-12.

2009

“Whitening Histories: Reaction, Revision and Race in the Post-State-Socialist Politics of History in Hungary.” International Workshop “Do We Need Historians’ Expertise and Historical Knowledge for Contemporary Policies?” Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, August 28.

2008 “Eastern Europe on the Post-Colonial, Post-Imperial Map.” II. European Congress in World- and Global History. Dresden, 4 July. Organised by the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Leipzig.. 2007

“Szegénység és globális egyenlőtlenség.” (Poverty and Global Inequality). Védegylet Akadémia (Training Program of the “Protect the Future” Alter-Globalist Movement), Budapest, 30 November 2007.

2007

“Whitened Histories, Global Colours.” Conference on the “Uneventment of History,” Ljubljana University, Slovenia, 20 October 2007.

2007

“The Nation: Global Fiction.” Ballygunge Shiksha Sadan, Kolkata, India. 10 July 2007.

2007

“Kuba a világrendszerben.” (Cuba in the World-System) Guest lecture, Social Theory College, Corvinus University, Budapest.

2006

“Eastern Europe on the Map of De-Colonial Studies.” Featured presentation in the workshop on Coloniality at Large: From the Peripheries to the European Union (Romania, Hungary and Ireland), Duke University, 29 September.

 

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2006

“Global Economic Weight, Socialisms, and the ‘Rise of Asia’.” Paper presented in the Political Economy of the World System Session on “China and Global Capitalism” at the Annual Meetings of the ASA in Montréal, on 12 August. /*Note: an earlier version of this paper was presented as “Geopolitics of Global Economic Weight, Socialism and ‘Asia’s Rise’,” Confronting Entangled Hegemonies—Conference of the journal Eszmélet / Consciousness, Budapest, 14-16 October 2005.

2006

“EU-Rope: Consequences of European Integration for an Increasingly Unequal World.” Panel on Global Politics, Multiple Modernities, and Local Politics, International Sociological Association Conference, Durban, South Africa. 27 July.

2006

“Geopolitics of Property Relations: State Socialism under Global Capitalism.” International Sociological Association Conference, Durban, South Africa. 26 July.

2006

“How Size Matters: The EU as a Geopolitical Animal.” International University Bremen, March 10. /*Note: earlier versions of this paper have been presented at: • •

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the international conference on Europe in Translation—Reimagining Europe in a Global Age, University of Iowa, Iowa City, March 6, 2006. The European Union and the World: Asia, Enlargement and Constitutional Change. Conference of Research Committee 3 of the International Political Science Association, Beijing, May 5-6, 2005. Council for European Studies Conference in Chicago, March 11-13, 2004, the panel on the European Union, international conference on Development and Regionalism: Karl Polányi’s Ideas on World System Transformation, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, November 4-6, 2004. the panel on Power and Hierarchy in the Postcolonial World at the Third Conference on Power and Hierarchy in Civilizations, Institute for Regional and Civilizational Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Moscow Humanities University, Moscow, June 21, 2004. the joint workshop of the Harriman Institute and the Institute on the Study of Europe at Columbia University, 19 November 2003./

2005

“Arany-Emberek.” Kossuth Rádió, Budapest. 30-minutes-long portrait-interview on Hungarian National Radio, on the occasion of the national award received earlier that year. December 15.

2005

“Elasticity of Size and the Geopolitics of European Integration.” Political Economy of the World System Section panel, 2005 Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia.

2005

“Economic Weight and the Longue-Durée in West European Geopolitics.” What Counts? Calculation, Representation, Association, the 17th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, Central European University, Budapest, 1 July.

2005

“Pursuit of Economic Weight–Or, How the EU Fits the Longue-Durée of West European Geopolitics.” Annual Conference of the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 14-16.

2005

“Goodness Is Elsewhere: The Rule of European Difference.” The 6th Annual Meeting of the International Social Theory Consortium, National University of Singapore, 8-11 June 2005.

 

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/*Note: this paper has also been presented •

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  2004

as the opening address at the International workshop on the Politics of Globalization and Community in East Central Europe. Organized by Genevieve Zubrzycki and Michael D. Kennedy (Dept of Sociology, University of Michigan); Collegium Budapest, May 12-15. at the joint workshop of the Harriman Institute and the Institute on the Study of Europe at Columbia University, November 22, 2004./--

“Foreign Direct Legislation, Informality, and the Iron Fist of Liberalism after the End of European State Socialism.” Invited presentation at the Inaugural workshop of the Amsterdam Research Centre for Corporate Governance Regulation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, December 17-18. “Globalisation and the EU's Geopolitics.” Teach Europe Seminar, Sponsored by the Delegation of the European Union, Rutgers University, November 12.

2004

“Modernity and Socialisms.” Workshop in the Department of Political Science, Columbia University, October 19.

2004

“The Switch and the Broadband: Modalities of Coloniality in European Geopolitics.” Invited contribution at the Conference on Symbolic Geographies of Europe, Central European University, Budapest, May 27-29, 2004.

2003

“What Is the EU?” Workshop on Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Confronting New Unknowns at the Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies, co-sponsored by the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and the Institute for Comparative Migration Studies at the University of California at San Diego, 22-24 May.

2003

“Goodness, Europe.” EU-Topias conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigne, 12 April.

2003

Commentator, workshop on the Unintended Consequences of the EU’s Eastern Enlargement, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 11 February.

2002

“Empire, Coloniality and the Rhetoric of ‘Eastern Enlargement.” Euroland and Eastern Europe: Assessing the New Integration Process: An International Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, 22 March.

2002

“Goodness Is Elsewhere: For a Sociology of Imperial Kitsch.” Panel on “Europe, Goodness” at the 2002 Conference of Europeanists, Chicago. 14-15 March.

2001

“Európa, birodalom, kolonialitás.” (Europe, Empire, Coloniality). Social Theory College Seminar, Budapest University of Economics, October 2.

2001

“What Is the EU? Toward a Sociology of the Strategic, Virtual, Networked, Exclusionary State.” Visions and Divisions, the Fifth European Conference of Sociologists, European Sociological Association, Helsinki, August 29-September 2.

2001

“The European Union and Its Eastward Expansion. Faculty Workshop on Teaching Modern Europe: The European Union.” April 27. Rutgers University.

2001

“EU-Rope: Is a Relational, Subcontracted and Benign Empire Possible?” Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, February 8.

 

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2000

“State Making by Condescension: The Commission of the EU Reads the ‘Eastern’ Applications for Membership in the Core.” Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, October 18.

2000

Ezredelő. Beszélgetés Böröcz József szociológussal. (New Millennium. Interview with sociologist József Böröcz). M2, July 29, 10:05pm. (45-minute portrait on Channel M2 of the Hungarian National Television).

2000

“Rationales for a Choice: How Substance Enters Formal Law in the ‘Eastern Enlargement’ of the European Union.” Joint session of the Comparative-Historical Sociology and the Sociology of Law Sections, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C., August. 16. /*This paper has also been presented at: • • • •

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Visions and Divisions, the Fifth European Conference of Sociologists, European Sociological Association, Helsinki, August 29-September 2, 2001, Department of Sociology and Mario Einaudi Center for Comparative Analysis, Cornell University, November 8, 2000, 2nd International Conference of East Central European International Studies Association, Warsaw, June 16, 2000, on the Problems and Eastern Enlargement of the European Union at the Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, April 15, 2000, Comparative European Studies Workshop at the Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies, Rutgers University, April 5./

2000

“Hungary 10 Years After: Suspension in Liminality.” Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. March 8.

1999

"Closing the Economy/Culture Gap: A Multi-Narrative 'Case'." Presented at the Conference Toward Culture and Cognition, Rutgers University, November 12-13,

1999

“Sticky Features.” Seminar on Beginnings and Endings, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, September 21.

1999

“Informality and Change: How Central European Patterns Could Re-Orient ComparativeHistorical Sociology.” Paper presented at the Department of Social Science, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. May 4.

1999

“For A Style Grammar of Closure: EU Expert Knowledge (Dis)Covers ‘the East’.” Conference on Dialogues in Culture and Cognition, Princeton University, April 17.

1999

“The Fox and the Raven: The European Union and Hungary Renegotiate the Borders of ‘Europe.’” Annual Meetings of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University School of International Studies, New York, April 16.

1998

“Social Change by Fusion.” Department of History, Central European University, Budapest College, November 25.

1998

“Egy tévé-hirdetés kozmosza.” (The Cosmos of a TV-Commercial) Conference of the Strategic Research Project on the Image of Hungary Abroad, Institute of Sociology and History, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest. November 20.

1998

Informality Rules.” Invited paper presented at the International Conference on The Transformation of the Informal, Universität Potsdam, Germany, October 7-9.

 

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1997

“Reaction as Progress: Economists as Intellectuals.” Brownbag Lecture Series, Department of Political Science, Central Europan University, Budapest. December 2.

1997

“Lehetséges-e a határok szociológiája?” (Is A Sociology of Borders Possible?) Migráció és Mobilitás. Konferencia a Központi Statisztikai Hivatal Népesedéstudományi Kutatóintézetében, (Migration and Mobility. Conference at the Institute for Research in Demography of the Cenral Bureau of Statistics), Budapest, November 10-11.

1997

“Doors on the Bridge: The State Border as Contingent Closure.” Paper presented in a panel on ‘Migration Research and Sociological Theory’ (organizer: Alejandro Portes) at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, August 12.

1997

“Reaction as Progress: Economists as Intellectuals.” Paper presented in a panel on ‘Intellectuals in the House of Power’ (organizer: Charles Camic) at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, August 9.

1997

“From Comprador State to Auctioneer State: Property Change, Realignment and Peripheralization in Post-State-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe.” Invited paper presented at the conference on State and Sovereignty in the World Economy, University of California, Irvine, February 21-23, Laguna Beach.

1997

“Stand Reconstructed: Toward a Comparative-Historical Sociology of Social Closure.” Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. January 16.

1996

“Comparative Social Analysis in Central Europe after Socialism and Modernizationism.” Arbeitsstelle für Vergleichende Gesellschaftsgeschichte, Freie Universität Berlin. December 2.

1996

“Comparative Social Change under State Socialism in East-Central Europe.” Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, November 26.

1996

“Reaction as Progress: Economists as Intellectuals.” Invited paper presented at Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium. Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas. 19-24 August 1996, University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

1996

with Ákos Róna-Tas “Formation of New Business Elites in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland: Continuity and Change, Pre-Communist and Communist Legacies.” Paper presented at the conference on “Democracy, Markets, and Civil Societies in Post-1989 East-Central Europe, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, May 1719, Cambridge, Mass.

1996

“Hungarian? Studies?” Paper presented in the panel entitled “Hungarian Institutes: A Progress Report,” Annual Meetings of the American Hungarian Educators’ Association, Montclair State University, April 27.

1996

with Ákos Róna-Tas “Musical Chairs: Economic Elite Selection under Managerial Hegemony in Four PostState-Socialist Societies.” Paper presented at the conference of the European Studies Association, March 14-16, Chicago.

1995

“Modernization Theory, Multiculturalism, and Our Failures to Explain the Changes after State Socialism.” Euroconference on Multiculturalism and Migration, London School of Economics, August 30-September 2, 1995.

 

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1995

“Social Change by Fusion?” XXXII. Conference of the International Institute of Sociology, Università degli Studi, Trieste--Gorizia, July 3-6.

1994

with Ákos Róna-Tas "The New and Old Economic Elites: Hungary, Poland and Russia Compared." Section on Post-State-Socialist Elites. Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Philadelphia. November 18.

1994

with Ákos Róna-Tas "Elitcsere a gazdaságban?" (Economic Elite Change?) I. Országos Jelenkortörténeti Konferencia (First Nationwide Conference on Contemporary History). Szeptember 2, Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem - Debreceni Akadémiai Bizottság, Debrecen (Hungary).

1994

"The Triple Crisis: State, Class and Nation in Central Europe after the Collapse of Dual Dependency." Political Economy of the World System Panel on the Transition from State Socialism. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. August, Los Angeles, August 9.

1994

with Ákos Róna-Tas "The New Business Elite in East and Central Europe." Regular Session (Social Stratification): Circulation and Reproduction of Post-Communist Elites. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Los Angeles, August 6.

1994

"Social Capitalism? Lessons from the Economic Sociology of the Transition from State Socialism in Hungary." Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz. January 31.

1993

"Social Networks as Resources in the Transformation." Panel on the Theoretical Aspects of the Transition from State Socialism, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu. November 19-21.

1993

"Capitalist Development, Leisure Migration and Representation: Austria and Hungary, 1870-1985." Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Baltimore.

1993

with David A. Smith "Dependent Development in East-Central Europe: Lessons from Other Semiperipheries." Roundtable, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami Beach.

1993

"The Great Simulation: Myth and Reality of Privatization in Hungary." Center for Slavic and East European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. February 12.

1992

"Hungary's Double Globalization." Invited contribution, panel on Economic Integration and Cultural Identity, First European Conference of Sociology, Vienna, August 26-29.

1992

"Transition from State Socialism under Informality." Foreign Economic Research Division, U.S. Department of Labor. Washington, D.C.

1991

"Hungarian Privatization: The Discourse of 'Plan-versus-Market' and the Practice of Informality." Panel on "Social and Political Obstacles of Privatization in Central Europe", American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Miami, November 22-25.

1991

"Borders, Linkages and State Socialism: The Hungarian Pendulum." Program in Comparative International Development Colloquium Series, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, September 25.

1991

"Bringing the State Back Out: Discourses versus Practices of Privatization in Post-StateSocialist Hungary." Junior Scholars' Training Seminar, The Eastern Europe Program at

 

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the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars and the American Council of Learned Societies, Wye Plantation, August 15-18. 1991

"Dual Dependency and the Informalization of External Linkages." Annual Meetings of the Hungarian Sociological Association, Budapest, June.

1991

"Tetszettek volna forradalmat csinálni..." (You Oughtta Have Made A Revolution...) Csendes? Forradalom? Volt? (Was It? A Silent? Revolution?) Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association, the Bibó István College and the Institute for Sociology of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, June.

1990

"Dual Dependency and Property Vacuum: Social Change on the State Socialist Semiperiphery." Section on the Socialist States and the World Economy, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 11-15, 1990.

1990

"Post-State-Socialist Transformation." University of Chicago Benton Fellowship Program Study Tour Lecture, Budapest.

1989

"Hungary from State Socialism to Neither." Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, November 15.

1989

"Leisure Migration and (Under)Development." Program in Comparative International Development Colloquium Series, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. April 19.

1988

with Alejandro Portes "Contemporary Immigration: Theoretical Perspectives on Its Determinants and Modes of Incorporation." Conference on International Migration: An Assessment for the '90s, on the twentieth anniversary of the International Migration Review, Bellagio, Italy.

1988

"Mapping the Class Structure Under State Socialism: East-Central Europe Since 1949." Program in Comparative International Development Colloquium Series, The Johns Hopkins University. February 17.

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