http://cgt.columbia.edu//rss/ Keep track of all upcoming events sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought en Copyright 2009 Committee on Global Thought - Columbia University 2009-10-30T15:48:24-05:00 http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/social_choice_and_individual_values/?link=rss http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/social_choice_and_individual_values/ December 11, 2009 - Amartya Sen, recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics and Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, will speak on "Social Choice and Individual Values." Kenneth Arrow, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics, and Eric Maskin, recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics, will serve as Respondents. Joseph Stiglitz, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, will chair. 2009-09-11T11:55:38-05:00 http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/can_human_action_be_explained/?link=rss http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/can_human_action_be_explained/ November 10, 2009 - Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize and the 2008 Kyoto Prize speaks on "Can Human Action Be Explained?" 2009-09-11T11:49:50-05:00 http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/global_cities_power_index_presentation_of_a_research_project/?link=rss http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/global_cities_power_index_presentation_of_a_research_project/ November 10, 2009 - Presentation of Research Findings Speakers include: Heizo TakenakaDirector, Global Security Research InstituteKeio UniversityChair, Board of The Mori Memorial FoundationFormer Minister of Economy and Finance, Japan Hiroo IchikawaDean Graduate School of Public PolicyMeiji University Saskia SassenRobert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, andCommittee on Global ThoughtColumbia University Takayuki Kubo, JIAArchitect and ResearcherThe Mori Memorial Foundation The speakers will discuss the research findings and larger implications of the Global Cities Power Index project, produced by the Institute for Urban Strategies of The Mori Memorial Foundation (Tokyo). The report, released in October 2009, examines 35 global cities through 69 indicators covering Economy, Research & Development, Cultural Interaction, Livability, Ecology & Natural Environment, and Accessibility. One implication of the growth of intercity networks is the emergence of an urban geopolitics. Many of our major governance challenges become concrete and urgent in these cities. Urban leaderships -political, corporate, economic- are under more immediate pressure to act on these conditions than national governments. Cosponsored by ISERP and the Mori Memorial Foundation **NOTE: Event location changed to Avery Hall** 2009-10-30T10:48:24-05:00 http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/a_bretton_woods_moment/?link=rss http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/a_bretton_woods_moment/ November 09, 2009 - Registration (above) is required for this event. Panelists will be asked to reflect upon the role of governments and central banks in overseeing a new financial architecture, and whether new institutional innovations, such as a new global reserve currency, are required. Some of the central questions to be explored include: Are the current international institutions, such as the IMF and BIS, sufficient to engage in global regulation? Are new institutional innovations required? At what institutional level, i.e. local, national, global, should cross-border financial transactions be regulated? Should central banks have an increased role in regulating the financial sector? Is a world of unrestrained global capital flows and financial innovation at odds with economic stability? Should the dollar be replaced by a global reserve currency? Is global economic stability possible if there is a generalized division of labor between producing and consuming nations? How has the crisis challenged both Monetarist and Keynesian macroeconomics? Benjamin J. Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to his current position he worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1962-1964), and taught at Princeton University (1964-1971), and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1971-1991). A specialist in the political economy of international money and finance, he serves on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and is the author of twelve books, including most recently Global Monetary Governance and International Political Economy: An Intellectual History (2008). Michael Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science and a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. His publications include Alternatives to Monetary Disorder (Council on Foreign Relations/McGraw Hill) which he wrote with Fred Hirsch and Edward Morse; New Thinking in International Relations Theory (Westview) edited with G. John Ikenberry and Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (Princeton Press, 2008). José Antonio Ocampo is Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs from September 2003 to June 2007. Dr. Ocampo is author or editor of over 30 books and has published over 200 scholarly articles on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history. Adam S. Posen is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and is also a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. His research focuses on macroeconomic policy and performance, European and Japanese political economy, central banking issues, and the resolution of financial crises. He is the author of editor and part-author of three collected volumes: The Euro at Ten: The Next Global Currency? (PIIE, 2009); The Euro at Five: Ready for a Global Role? (PIIE, 2005); and The Japanese Financial Crisis and its Parallels with U.S. Experience (PIIE, 2000; Japanese translation, 2001). His new book, The Limits of Export-Led Growth: Germany and the Future of Capitalism, will be published by the Institute in early 2010. Joseph E. Stiglitz is a University Professor of Economics and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and a Nobel Prize recipient. His book Globalization and Its Discontents (Norton, 2003) has sold more than one million copies worldwide. His most recent book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (Norton), with Linda Bilmes of Harvard University, was published in 2008. 2009-10-01T12:29:06-05:00 http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/please_vote_for_me/?link=rss http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/please_vote_for_me/ November 04, 2009 - A screening of the documentary by director Weijun Chen Featuring a discussion with: Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science, Columbia University Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University Further information and a trailer for the film can be found at http://www.pleasevoteforme.org/ No reservations required     2009-10-06T13:09:26-05:00 http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/the_great_recession/?link=rss http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/the_great_recession/ October 14, 2009 - This roundtable will be the second in the series A New (dis)Order? and will explore the similarities of the "Great Recession" to past crises. Some of the central themes to be explored are: Considering past crises, to what degree did economic theory shape regulatory policy both before and after the financial collapse? Has the most recent crisis fundamentally altered the battle of ideas regarding the proper role of states and markets? Will current regulatory proposals be as far reaching as the New Deal and other depression era legislation? Is the current relationship between the real economy and financial markets different from what it was in the Great Depression and other crises? How has the interconnected nature of the modern world shaped the impact of the current downturn? What tenets of economic theory, if any, are challenged by the current economic downturn? Participant Bios: Alan Brinkley is Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He was Provost of Columbia University from 2003-2009 and has previously taught at MIT, Harvard and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of many books on American history and the Great Depression, including Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award. He has two forthcoming books, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Oxford, 2009); and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (Knopf, 2010). Patrick Bolton is the David Zalaznick Professor of Business at Columbia University.  His research and areas of interest are in contract theory and contracting issues in corporate finance and industrial organization. His recent publications include his co-authored book with Mathais Dewatripont, Contract Theory, and his co-edited book with Howard Rosenthal, Credit Markets for the Poor.   Harold James is joint Professor of History at Princeton University and of International Affairs in Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. He studies economic and financial history and modern German history, and his recent published works include The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle (Harvard, 2009), Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model (Harvard, 2006), and The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression (Harvard, 2002).   Perry Mehrling is Professor of Economics at Barnard College.  His research interests include the economics of money and banking, monetary theory and policy, and the history and foundations of monetary economics.  His book, Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance was named the Best Book of 2007, by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and his forthcoming book, The New Lombard Street, deals with the financial crisis.   Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of an acclaimed three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (Hopes Betrayed, Penguin, 1983; The Economist as Saviour, 1992; and Fighting for Britain, 2000). He currently writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate, “Against the Current.” His most recent book, Keynes: The Return of the Master (PublicAffairs, 2009) is an account of the current economic crisis.   Joseph E. Stiglitz is a University Professor of Economics and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and a Nobel Prize recipient. His book Globalization and Its Discontents (Norton, 2003) has sold more than one million copies worldwide. His most recent book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (Norton), with Linda Bilmes of Harvard University, was published in 2008. 2009-08-28T15:29:17-05:00 http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cultural_identity_and_politics/?link=rss http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cultural_identity_and_politics/ September 28, 2009 - Speakers include Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize and the 2008 Kyoto Prize; Alan Montefiore, Emeritus Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford; and Emmanuel Picavet, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Paris.   Please note that the event time has been changed to 6:15 PM! 2009-09-11T11:25:15-05:00 http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cities_and_new_wars/?link=rss http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cities_and_new_wars/ September 25, 2009 - The The conference addresses two major subjects: The multiple meanings of the new urban wars: asymmetric armed conflict, US Army training for the "urban enemy," forms of economic violence that kill, cities and urban space as a technology for war, reapropriating the city of fear, civil war refugees and their flight from and to cities, measuring human rights violations during war. The limits of power and of war: the role of the civic, war and law, the growing global web of interdependencies -- all can contest the most powerful states and all can undermine the idea of victory in war. Conditions under which powerlessness becomes complex and transcends mere victimhood. Friday: 1pm-630pm, reception 630-730pm Saturday: 11am-630pm. A detailed conference program can be found under the related papers tab on the right side of this page. Dictionary of War Videos are now available: Urban Warfare - Gar SmithRe-appropriating the City of Fear - Fiona JeffriesWounded Cities - Ida Susser and Jan SchneiderWhen a Riot Becomes a War - Suketu MehtaExplosion Implosion: War in our Time - Susan CrileWar Games - Ashley DawsonVirtuous War - James Der DerianThe Wall - Richard SennettAnnexpression - Tony ConradMarketing War - Danny KaplanPigeon - Gediminas UrbonasNot-Not-War - Rosalnd C. MorrisInformation - Ted ByfieldCold War Planning - Jennifer S. Light   Speakers: Arjun Appadurai, The New School; Elazar Barkan, Columbia University; Ted Byfield, Parsons the New School of Design; Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University; video artist Tony Conrad; artist Susan Crile; Claire Cutler, University of Victoria; Ashley Dawson, College of Staten Island/CUNY; James Der Derian, Brown University; Environmentalists Against War (Gar Smith); Yasmine Ergas, SIPA Columbia University; Karen Jacobsen, Tufts University; Fiona Jeffries, CUNY Grad Center; Danny Kaplan, Bar Ilan University; Jennifer S. Light, Northwestern University; Peter Marcuse, Columbia University; writer Suketu Mehta; Rosalind C. Morris, Columbia University; Les Roberts, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University; Saskia Sassen, Columbia University; Jane Schneider, CUNY Grad Center; Richard Sennett, NYU and LSE; Jessica Stern, Harvard University; Ida Susser, CUNY Grad Center; Gediminas Urbonas, MIT Visual Arts Program; Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University; Stephen Graham, University of Durham; Architect Eyal Weizman; and the Dictionary of War Project (Florian Schneider and Susanne Lang) in their first US presentation. Speaker bios are availible under the related papers tab, on the right side of this page.       2009-08-19T11:53:21-05:00 http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/financial_crisis/?link=rss http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/financial_crisis/ September 15, 2009 - As signs increasingly point to a recovery in both the financial system and the real economy, it increasingly appears that a repeat of the Great Depression has been averted.  The prevention of complete economic collapse appears to be one of the few certainties.  Critical issues such as the reasons for the collapse, the nature of the recovery, and even an assurance that the recent crisis will not be repeated are far from resolved.  Financial Design in the Aftermath, a conversation among some of today’s most prominent economic thinkers, will examine these issues by exploring five central questions: Have the central factors behind the crisis been identified?  Do the current proposals for a new financial design sufficiently address the causes of the credit freeze? Are the conditions for a new financial crisis building?  Will the recovery be characterized by a V, U, or W growth pattern?  If the U.S. does not recover in a U or V pattern, what implications will this have for the global economy?   With Emanuel Derman, Columbia University; Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University; Yu Yongding, Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; and Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago.   Video of this event can be found in our "Videos" section. 2009-08-25T10:55:12-05:00 http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/aijaz_ahmad/?link=rss http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/aijaz_ahmad/ April 29, 2009 - Leading Marxist thinker and critic Aijaz Ahmad will be speaking on global Islamist jihadi groups. Aijaz Ahmad is a Professorial Fellow at the Centre of Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi and visiting Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto. In In Theory: Nations, Classes Literatures (Verso, 1992), Ahmad discusses the role of theory and theorists in movements against colonialism and imperialism and responds to critical tendencies to homogenize "Third World" literatures and cultures. He is also the author of On Communalism and Globalization: Offensives of the Far Right (Three Essays, 2003) and Afghanistan, Iraq and the Imperialism of Our Time (LeftWord, 2004). Ahmad is a Senior News Analyst for The Real News Network and a Senior Editorial Consultant for the news magazine "Frontline". This event is free and open to the public. 2009-04-17T10:48:28-05:00