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Résumé Wolf Schäfer Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York 11794-4348 631-632-7488 Voice, 631-632-7367 Fax [email protected] Areas of Research and Teaching: Global Studies; Comparative World Regions; Global History; History of Science and Technology; Historical Geography and Cartography 2011 Associate Dean for International Academic Programs and Services (IAPS) 2009 Publisher, Long Island History Journal (LIHJ) 2008 Founding Director, Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies (SBIGS) 2006 Founding Editor, Globality Studies Journal. Global History, Society, Civilization (GSJ) 2005 Trustee Toynbee Prize Foundation. Board of the Center for the Study of the United Nations Systems and the Global Legal Order (SUNSGLOW) 2003 Founding Director, The Center for Global History, Stony Brook University. Renamed Center for Global & Local History in 2009 (after assuming the publication of the LIHJ) 1991 Professor, Department of History, Stony Brook University 1991/92 SEL-Stiftungsprofessor (Guest Professor), Technical University Darmstadt 1989-91 Associate Professor, Department of History, Stony Brook University 1987 Visiting Scholar, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT 1985-88 Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, FH Darmstadt 1984/85 Research Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University 1983/84 Visiting Scholar, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT 1982-84 Project Director, Sociology of Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt 1983 Dr. phil., History of Science and Technology and Social History, University of Bremen 1982 Visiting Scholar, History of Science Department, Harvard University 1981 Visiting Scholar, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University 1973-81 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Senior Research Associate), Max Planck Institute for the Study of the Conditions of Life in the Scientific-Technical World, Starnberg, directed by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Jürgen Habermas 1970-72 Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Munich 1970 M.A., History, International Politics, and Philosophy, University of Munich 1965-70 Universities of Marburg, Bonn, London (King’s College), Munich, and Bremen 1960-65 Freelance Painter Schäfer 2011, page 2 PUBLICATIONS & TALKS Books and Editions 1971 Wilhelm Weitling: Das Evangelium des armen Sünders. Die Menschheit, wie sie ist und wie sie sein sollte. Edited and introduced. Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt. 1972 Ferdinand Lassalle: Arbeiterlesebuch und andere Studientexte. Edited and introduced. Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt. 1978 Starnberger Studien 1: Die gesellschaftliche Orientierung des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts. Frankfurt, Suhrkamp Verlag (with G. Böhme, W. v.d.Daele, R. Hohlfeld, W. Krohn, T. Spengler). 1983 Neue soziale Bewegungen. Konservativer Aufbruch im bunten Gewand? Edited, introduced, and co-authored. Frankfurt, Fischer Perspektiven. 1983 Finalization in Science: The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress. Edited and co- authored. Dordrecht, Boston, and London, D. Reidel Publishing Co. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 77.) 1985 Die unvertraute Moderne. Historische Umrisse einer anderen Natur- und Sozialgeschichte. Frankfurt, Fischer Wissenschaft. 1994 Ungleichzeitigkeit als Ideologie. Beiträge zur historischen Aufklärung. Frankfurt, Fischer Sozialwissenschaft. 2007 Encyclopedia of Globalization. Editors-in-chief: Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte. Associate Editors: Fantu Cheru, Christine Chinkin, Ken Conca, Robert Holton, Wolf Schäfer, Otávio Velho, Ingrid Volkmer, and Wang Ning. New York and London, Routledge. 4 volumes. 2010 New Asias: Global Futures of World Regions. Co-edited with Hyun-Chin Lim and Suk- Man Hwang. Seoul, Seoul National University Press (SNU Series in Asian Studies, vol. 1). work in progress 2012 Toward Pangaea2: Connected Essays on Global History (working title). SUNY Press. 2013 Global Challenges in Asia: New Development Model and Regional Community Building. Co-edited with Hyun-Chin Lim and Suk-Man Hwang. Articles and Chapters (and some occasional texts) 76 2011 Limits to Popular Wisdom: Apropos “Galileo got outvoted for a spell.” Globality Studies Journal, Views & Reviews, October 29. 75 2010 Reconfiguring Area Studies for the Global Age. Globality Studies Journal, no. 22, December 22, 2010. 74 2010 Concepts of Globalization, Globalism and Globality and the Method of Lean Globality Studies: A Critical Adjustment. In New Asias: Global Futures of World Regions, ed. by Hyun-Chin Lim, Wolf Schäfer, and Suk-Man Hwang, 23-48. Schäfer 2011, page 3 73 2010 The New Asias and the Rise of Global Regions. Introduction with Hyun-Chin Lim to New Asias: Global Futures of World Regions, ed. by Hyun-Chin Lim, Wolf Schäfer, and Suk-Man Hwang, xi-xxiii. 72 2009 Music of the Spheres. The New York Times, Science Times, 15 December 2009, p. D4. See Letter to the Editor. 71 2009 Long Island: Global, National, and Local. Long Island History Journal, vol. 21:1. 70 2009 Toward a Global Critical Theory: Our Sisyphean Task. A Review of Eduardo Mendieta, Global Fragments. Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008. Globality Studies Journal, Views & Reviews, June 30. 69 2008 Unnatural Disasters. Globality Studies Journal, Views & Reviews, May 23. Originally published as an op-ed in Newsday (New York), Sunday May 18, 2008, p. A57. The GSJ version is corrected and slightly expanded with cuts of the op-ed restored; it has been reprinted in TsuInfo Alert, a bi-monthly publication on behalf of the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program published by the Washington Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Earth Resources, vol. 10, no. 3, June 2008, p. 20f. 68 2008 Of Science, Experience, and Obama. Globality Studies Journal, Views & Reviews, March 28. 67 2007 Lean Globality Studies. Globality Studies Journal, no. 7, May 28. 66 2007 Knowledge and Nature: History as the Teacher of Life Revisited, Nature and Culture, vol. 2, no. 1 (Spring 2007), 1-9. See www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/PDF/NCSchafer.pdf 65 2007 Global History. Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte et al. New York and London: Routledge, vol. 2, 516-521. See www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/PDF/GlobalHistory.pdf. 64 2007 Maps. Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte et al. New York and London: Routledge, vol. 2, 750-754. See www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/PDF/Maps.pdf. 63 2006 Big History, the Whole Story, and Nothing Less? Review article of D. Christian, Maps of Time (2004), and S. Mithen, After the Ice (2004) in Canadian Journal of History / Annales Canadienne d’Histoire, 41 (Autumn 2006), 317-28. See www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/PDF/ChristianMithen.pdf. 62 2006 From the End of European History to the Globality of World Regions: A Research Perspective. Globality Studies Journal, no. 1, June 5. 61 2005 Review of John H. Bodley, The Power of Scale: A Global History Approach. Armonk, M.E. Sharpe, 2003. In: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 36:2 (Autumn 2005), 241-243. See www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/PDF/PowerOfScale.pdf. 60 2005 How To Approach Global Present, Local Pasts, and Canon of the Globe. In Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society: Toward a New Political Culture in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Soma Hewa and Darwin Stapleton. New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, and Moscow: Springer, 33-48. Schäfer 2011, page 4 59 2005 Ptolemy’s Revenge: A Critique of Historical Cartography, Coordinates. Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, Series A, no. 3, www.sunysb.edu/libmap/coordinates/seriesa/no3/a3.htm. 58 2005 The Uneven Globality of Children, Journal of Social History 38, no. 4 (Summer 2005), 1027-1039. See muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v038/38.4schafer.html. 57 2005 We Can Learn A Lot From Europe, Newsday, op-ed, April 14, A43f. See www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/PDF/NewsdayEurope.pdf. 56 2004 Global History and the Present Time in Wiring Prometheus: Globalisation, History and Technology, edited by Peter Lyth and Helmuth Trischler. Aarhus University Press, 103-125. See http://www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/PDF/GHAndThePresentTime.pdf. 55 2004 Global Civilization and Local Cultures: A Crude Look at the Whole. In: Rethinking Civilizational Analysis, ed. by Said Arjomand and Edward Tiryakian. London: SAGE, 71-86. (See #49 below) 54 2004 How Global is Tehran? Tangential Remarks on the Globality of Cities. In New Global History and the City, edited by Elliott Morss. New Global History Press, 175-180. See www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/PDF/Tehran.pdf. 53 2003 Making Progress with Global History (a response to my critics), Erwägen Wissen Ethik 14 (April): 128-135. See www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/PDF/Replik.pdf. 52 2003 The New Global History: Toward a Narrative for Pangaea Two, Erwägen Wissen Ethik 14 (April): 75-88. See www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/PDF/Hauptartikel.pdf. 51 2003 Learning From Recent History. On Iraq and preventive war, online at www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/PreventiveWar.shtml. 50 2002 Global Technoscience: The Dark Matter of Social Theory, online at www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/GT.html. 49 2001 Global Civilization and Local Cultures: A Crude Look at the Whole, International Sociology, vol. 16 (3): 301-319. See www.stonybrook.edu/globalhistory/Civ.html 48 1998 Zweifel am Ende des Baconschen Zeitalters, in: Naturerkenntnis