Sassen To Speak On Globalization
Sociologist Saskia Sassen will deliver a public lecture, “The Global City: A New Frontier Zone,” on Wednesday, January 30 at 7 p.m., Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Friday, January 18, 2008 01:59 PM
The event, co sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program and the Center for Ethics, is free and open to the public.
Sassen is one of the nation’s leading scholars of globalization. She is now the Helen and Robert Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a member of the newly established Committee on Global Thought, after a decade at the University of Chicago. She is also a Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her new books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She has just completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement for which she set up a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://www.eolss.net ]. Other recent books are the 3rd fully updated Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2006), the edited Deciphering the Global (Routledge 2007), and the co-edited Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order (Princeton University Press 2005). The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages.
Sassen serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities and was chair of the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (U.S.A.). She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International,Vanguardia, Clarin, and the Financial Times, among others. The Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program makes available each year twelve or more distinguished scholars who visit 100 colleges and universities with chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. They spend two days on each campus, meeting informally with students and faculty members, taking part in classroom discussions, and giving a public lecture open to the entire academic community. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the institution by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students. Now entering its 52nd year, the Visiting Scholar Program has sent 542 Scholars on 4,552 two-day visits since it was established in 1956.
Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society. It has chapters at 276 colleges and universities, and over 600,000 members.
For more information on this program or other Center for Ethics programs, please visit www.muhlenberg.du/cultural/ethics.
Muhlenberg College gratefully acknowledges the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation’s support of the Center for Ethics.
