CIAO DATE: 06/2009
July 2008
The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs
This paper, presented at the Memorial Conference in Honor of Hayward R. Alker, Jr., combines three of Alker’s abiding interests in modeling world politics: dialogics as method, world civilizations as substance, and dramaturgy as form. In the form of a play, the paper explores a central theme in Alker’s scholarship: e.g., how do we understand and communicate with each other when civilizations have such different understandings of what the world is and how we relate to it?
Resource link: A Fairy Tale of Science: Playing with Hayward Alker [PDF] - 97K