Text Box: Text Box: The Critical Criminologist Text Box: Page # Text Box: Call for Papers The 25th Annual Conference of the Political Economy of the WorldSystem Section will be held at Virginia Tech University, April 1921, 2001. The Conference Theme is “The WorldSystem in the 21st Century” Selected papers must reflect the conference theme, and they must encompass an international or global level of analysis. Priority will be given to those papers which are grounded in the worldsystem perspective in some way. Virginia Tech University will subsidize the lodging and some meals for most paper presenters. Selected papers from the conference will be published in the annual series edited through Greenwood Press. Paper proposals are invited about any of these topics: 1. Crises at the Periphery and Semiperiphery (e.g., the debt crisis, future warfare) 2. Crises Facing the World's Women and Children 3. Crises of 21st Century Cities 4. Ecological Crises and Environmental Racism 5. Effective Strategies for Antisystemic Movements and Political Praxis in the 21st Century 6. The Future of the NationState and World Governance 7. The Future of Socialist, Communist, and PostCommunist Regions 8. The Future of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 9. International Labor Solidarity Movements 10. The Political Economy of World Health 11. The Political Economy of the WorldSystem in the 21st Century [i.e., How will the political economy of the 21st century worldsystem differ from the past? How is the current phase of “globalization” different from earlier transformations?] 12. Population Crises, Immigration, and Refugees 13. Racism, Ethnic Conflict and Ethnonationalism in the 21st Century 14. Structures of Knowledge, Science and Technology in the 21st Century The deadline for submission of papers or detailed abstracts is DECEMBER 15, 2000. Include mailing address and email address with your submission. Please submit materials to: Prof. Wilma A. Dunaway Department of Sociology Virginia Tech University Blacksburg, VA 240610137. If you have questions, contact wdunaway@vt.edu Consult the conference website for updated information. http://fbox.vt.edu/W/wdunaway/pews2001.htm Text Box: The Perp Walk: Due Process and the Presumption of Innocence v. Freedom of Speech By James Ruiz, Penn State Harrisburg School of Public Affairs On June 7, 2000 the Associated Press reported that a tourist, looking for fossilized sea creatures in the sands near Ain Sokhna Road in Egypt, stumbled across cave drawings dating back to 7000 B.C. depicting scenes of men hunting animals with bows and dogs. Archeologists claim that petroglyphs such as these were meant to communicate the story of the hunt as well as act as trophies of the hunt itself. Moreover, they state that these rock paintings and carvings were believed by early man to be sources of great power. This early form of communication is found in nearly every part of the world from North America to Australia as well as Europe and the Middle East.