An ippr event with Professor Charles H Tilly

31 May 2006 -

1:30pm - 2:30pm

At this ippr event Charles Tilly will discuss his latest research on trust networks in transnational migration.

Tilly's work focuses on large-scale social change and its relationship to contentious politics, especially in Europe since 1500.

His most recently published books include:Trust and Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 (Paradigm Publishers, 2005, revised paperback edition of 1995 book), Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties (Paradigm Publishers, 2005), Why? (Princeton University Press, 2006), The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis (co-edited and co-authored with Robert Goodin, Oxford University Press, 2006)

He is currently writing Democracy (publisher pending). He is also helping run the Russian Academy of Sciences (U.S.) National Academy of Sciences joint project on conflict in multi-ethnic polities.

Speakers

Charles H. Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, University of Columbia.

Contact

Ruth Eldridge - r.eldridge@ippr.org