The Conference "History & Society. The Work of Michael Mann" organized by Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto (ICS-UL) that will be held June the 8th, will cover the most importtant works of the renowned UCLA Social Scientist, Michel Mann.

Program

11h-12h30m The Future of Capitalism. The End May Be Nigh. But For Whom? by Michael Mann (UCLA)
14h Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (ICS-UL), Introduction. On Networks of Power

14h20m António Costa Pinto (ICS-UL), On Fascists

14h40m Diogo Ramada Curto (FCSH-UNL), On the Rise of the West

15h Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro (ICS-UL), On State and Society

15h20m Tiago Fernandes (FCSH-UNL), On Social Forces, Democracy and Dictatorship

15h40m Filipe Carreira da Silva (ICS-UL), Time is of the Essence. Remarks on Michael Mann's The Sources of Social Power

16h Concluding remarks by Michael Mann

16h20m Debate


BIO: Michael Mann é um renomado cientista social, cujos interesses intelectuais se centram no campo da Sociologia Histórica e Comparativa, na Sociologia Política e na Teoria Social. É o autor da obra-prima The Sources of Social Power (Volume I: A History of Power from the Beginning to 1760 A.D., in 1986; Volume II: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914, in 1993), que oferece uma história do poder nas sociedades humanas da pré-história até ao presente. Em 2003, publicou Incoherent Empire, que foi galardoado com o prestigiado prémio da Friedrich Ebert Foundation em 2004. Recentemente, Michael Mann publicou dois livros importantes: Fascistas (2004), um estudo comparativo de fascistas em seis países europeus, que foi traduzido para português pelas Edições 70 em 2011; e The Darkside of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing (2005), um estudo histórico e comparativo dos processos de "limpeza étnica", que recebeu o prémio Barrington Moore da Associação Americana de Sociologia. Em breve, publicará o terceiro volume de The Sources of Social Power, intitulado Globalizations.

Michael Mann is a distinguished Social Scientist, interested in Comparative and Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, and Social Theory. He is the author of the magnus opum The Sources of Social Power (Volume I: A History of Power from the Beginning to 1760 A.D., in 1986; Volume II: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914, in 1993), covering the history of power in human societies from prehistory to the present. In 2003, he published Incoherent Empire, which was the winner of the prestigious 2004 Friedrich Ebert Foundation award for political books. He recently finished two important books: Fascists (2004), a comparative study of fascists in six European countries, which was translated to Portuguese by Edições 70 (2011); and The Darkside of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing (2005), a comparative and historical analysis of murderous cleansing, which received the Barrington Moore Award the American Sociological Association. He is now working on Vol. III of The Sources of Social Power, entitled Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945, which will be published soon.