annual report - The Committee on Global Thought

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ANNUAL REPORT
2010-2011
Academic
Year
I. Introduction
About the Committee on Global Thought
Committee Members
Summary of Activities 2010-2011
II. New Committee Members
III. Post-Doctoral Research Scholars
2010-2012 Cohort
2011-2012 Cohort
IV. Visiting Scholars
V. New Course Offerings
Fall 2010
Spring 2011
IV. Events
Invited Guests
Fall 2010
Spring 2011
Co-Sponsors
2010-2011 Events Listing
Fall 2010
Spring 2011
Conference and Recurring Events
Colloquium on Governing Interdependence
Cities and Eco-Crises
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Long-Term Investors: a
New Form of Capitalism?
‘Impossible Narratives’ Historicizing Mass Trauma
What Does ‘Imperialism’ Mean in an Age of Global Finance?
Power and Pressure in the African Media
The Arrow Lecture
The Art of Citizenship in African Cities
VII. The Masters in Global Thought
VIII. Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Long-Term Investors
IX. The World and Africa
X. 2011-2012 Preview
Preliminary 2011-2012 Events
On-Going Events in 2011-2012
XI. Contacts
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Annual Report prepared by Sasha de Vogel
ANNUAL
REPORT
2010-2011
Academic
Year
I. INTRODUCTION
About the Committee on Global Thought
The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University was
established in 2006 as part of a larger effort to engage the University
in the study of our increasingly complex global world. At the root of
this larger effort is the recognition that many of the world’s problems,
from poverty and inequality to issues of governance and justice, fall
increasingly in the spaces between academic disciplines. The
Committee uses its research and programs to connect law, the social
sciences, humanities, public health, architecture, journalism and the
natural sciences, to deepen our understanding of our increasingly
global society.
CGT explores global modernity from an innovative,
interdisciplinary perspective. The Committee is designed to
reconceptualize the theories and methodologies required to confront
the challenges stemming from globalization. Columbia University’s
President Lee Bollinger appointed distinguished Columbia University
faculty from multiple disciplines to the Committee on Global Thought
to explore and conceptualize global conditions and processes that are
inherently interdisciplinary.
CGT’s programs focus on questions and issues that cannot be
studied through a single discipline but require novel combinations of
existing and emerging types of research and knowledge. By cutting
across disciplines, the Committee develops new conceptual categories
for gathering and interpreting knowledge of the contemporary world.
Co-chaired by Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate University
Professor, and Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology,
CGT has developed critical perspectives on global governance and
finance, the political economy of development, governing
interdependence, cultural dimensions of major global processes, and
cities as a frontline for major transformations.
Through collaborative workshops, seminar courses, and
community events, the resulting analysis and research is shared with
and developed by the Columbia community. In so doing, the
Committee on Global Thought augments Columbia’s role as a Global
University by fostering a community of scholars and practitioners who
integrate and synthesize academic engagement with globalization.
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS
CO-CHAIRS
Saskia Sassen
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology
Joseph Stiglitz
University Professor
President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue
MEMBERS
Akeel Bilgrami
Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities
Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy
Carol Gluck
George Sansom Professor of History
Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Patrick Bolton
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of
Business and of Economics
Michael W. Doyle
Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs,
Law and Political Science
Co-Director, Center on Global Governance,
Columbia Law School
Partha Chatterjee
Professor of Anthropology
José Antonio Ocampo
Professor of Professional Practice at the School
of International and Public Affairs
Co-President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue
John Coatsworth
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs
Interim Provost, Columbia University
Professor of International and Public Affairs
and of History
Richard G. Parker
Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Director, Center for Gender, Sexuality, and
Health
Mamadou Diouf
Director, Institute for African Studies at the
School of International and Public Affairs
Leitner Family Professor of African Studies
Katharina Pistor
Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law
Director, Center on Global Legal Transformation
Nicholas Dirks
Executive Vice President, Arts and Sciences
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Sudhir Venkatesh
William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology
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SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES
2010-2011
In 2010-2011, CGT developed its
membership, welcoming Richard Parker, Professor
of Anthropology and Professor of Sociomedical
Sciences, and Sudhir Venkatesh, William B.
Ransford Professor of Sociology, to the
Committee. Post-doctoral research fellows
Etienne Smith and Antara Haldar joined the
Columbia University community for two-year
appointments, and the 2010 Post-Doc search
yielded two top candidates, Hannah Appel and
Daniel Immerwahr, who will join CGT in Fall 2011.
CGT faculty and scholars offered new courses on
postcolonial Africa, political reform in China and
overcoming trauma in the Middle East.
CGT continued to host high-profile series of
public, multi-disciplinary conversations during the
2010-2011 academic year. “The World and Africa,”
a year-long series of panels, conferences,
workshops, film screenings and other events
examined Africa’s place in the world through
illuminating important features of Africa’s
globalization, in historical perspective. Visitor
invitations included: Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
of Ethiopia, Kofi Annan, Louis Kasakende, Paul
Isenman, Albert Sachs, and Collin Sekajugo among
others. Panel topics included: Locating Africa
within the Financial Crisis, Prospects for 21st
Century African Agriculture, Global Aid in Africa,
Art and Social Justice in South Africa, Power and
Pressure: The Media Influence in Africa
Saskia Sassen hosted her second annual
conference analyzing cities and acute challenges.
This year, “Cities and Eco-Crises” explored the
relationship of cities with acute ecological crises.
The conference looked at such diverse topics as
land-grabs and their consequences, forced
migration to cities and environmental refugees,
climate change and systems resilience to climate
variability, engineering and technology of
flooding, urban services and the challenges of
waste management.
In October 2010, CGT hosted a 2-day
conference exploring how sovereign wealth funds
can capitalize on their long-term horizon by
investing in public goods. “Sovereign Wealth
Funds and Other Long-Term Investors: a New
Form of Capitalism?” brought together academics,
policymakers, economic thinkers and fund
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managers for a uniquely interdisciplinary set of
panel discussions. Keynote addresses from Vice
President Al Gore and George Soros were opened
to the students, in conjunction with the World
Leaders Forum. Panel topics included:
Benchmarking and Performance Standards,
Fostering Development through Socially
Responsible Investment, Managing Risk During
Macroeconomic Uncertainty, Sovereign Wealth
Funds and World Governance.
In light of the popular uprisings in the
Middle East and North Africa in Spring 2011, the
Committee assembled a series of panels to
interrogate the events in Egypt. The first panel,
“Egypt Arising” was held the day before the
resignation of Hosni Mubarak. The subsequent
panels placed the Egyptian transition in the
broader context of democratic transitions and the
longer-term political and economic challenges
faced by the nation.
As CGT continues to expand its influence at
the University and tackle new intellectual and
interdisciplinary horizons, CGT has submitted, for
review, a proposal for a MA degree in Global
Thought. Drawing on the strengths of the
Committee’s faculty, its interdisciplinary nature
and the popular course rubric is has developed
over the years- this degree offering will expand,
existing research and take the lead in this
emerging field of study. Modeled partly on the
degree offerings of the Committee on Social
Thought at the University of Chicago, one of its
core aims is to develop new categories for thinking
about and for interpreting existing data sets. A key
stepping stone for this program is the focus on
questions and issues that cannot be studied
through a single discipline but require novel
combinations of existing and emerging types of
research and knowledge. This project cuts across
the humanities, the social sciences, the natural
sciences, law, public health, architecture and
planning. The proposed program will consist of an
academic year of study, including a thesis and
three core courses, Global Governance, Global
Political Economy, and Global Culture and Politics,
which will address foundational questions of
substance, method, data and interpretation to 6
provide an intellectual framework.
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II. NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS
University President Lee Bollinger appointed two new professors to the committee in the 20102011 academic year. Their membership broadens the scope of the committee’s work to include the
public health sector, and deepens its research in sociology
Richard Parker
Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and
Director, Center for Gender, Sexuality, and
Health
Sudhir Venkatesh
William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology
Professor Parker currently serves as Co-Chair
of Sexuality Policy Watch, a global collective of
activists, researchers and policymakers, and as
President/Director of the Brazilian
Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), the
leading civil society organization focusing on
HIV/AIDS-related policy, research and advocacy
in Brazil. He is a medical anthropologist, whose
research focuses on the social and cultural
construction of gender and sexuality, the social
aspects of HIV/AIDS, and the relationship
between social inequality, health, and disease.
He has conducted long-term research in Brazil
since the early 1980s, as well as comparative
studies in Asia, Africa, North America, and
other parts of Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Professor Venkatesh is a researcher and
writer on urban neighborhoods in the United
States. His most recent book is Gang Leader
for a Day (Penguin Press). Gang Leader
received a Best Book award from The
Economist, and is currently being translated
into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German,
Italian, Polish, French and Portuguese. His
previous work, Off the Books: The
Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
(Harvard University Press, 2006) about illegal
economies in Chicago, received a Best Book
Award from Slate.com (2006) as well as the
C. Wright Mills Award (2007). His first book,
American Project: The Rise and Fall of a
Modern Ghetto (2000) explored life in
Chicago public housing.
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III. POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
SCHOLARS
Post-doctoral Research Scholars are selected annually from an international fellowship search.
Emerging scholars who are awarded a fellowship have the opportunity to engage with the
Committee and take part in developing and shaping our research agenda.
A. 2010-2011 Cohort
2009 – 2011 Post-Doctoral
Research Scholars
CGT’s 2009-2011 Post-Docs are
moving on to exciting new
positions in New York City and
beyond.
Rosalind Fredericks
Rosalind Fredericks is currently an
Assistant Professor at the Gallatin
School of Individualized Study,
NYU. She earned her Ph.D. in the
Department of Geography at the
University of California, Berkeley
and a MSc. in Geography and
Development Studies at the
London School of Economics and
Political Science.
Thomas Hill
Thomas Hill received his PhD in
History from Trinity College,
Cambridge. His research focuses
on representations of collective
memories of violence, transitional
justice and truth and
reconciliation discourses,
particularly in the Middle East and
with respect to the PalestinianIsraeli conflict. Tom will continue
his research at Columbia
University.
In Fall 2010 CGT welcomed an incoming cohort of post-doctoral
research scholars. These fellows are signed to renewable twoyear contracts and have engaged in teaching, planning and
organizing events as well as their own publishing and research.
Antara Haldar See Antara's Profile on the CGT Website
Antara Haldar received her PhD in Law from Trinity College,
University of Cambridge in 2010. She has studied both law and
economics, holding a BA in Economics from St. Stephen's
College, University of Delhi (2004) and a BA in Law from Trinity
College, University of Cambridge (2006). Her doctoral research
critically examined the importance of formal property rights for
economic development using two prominent credit access
programs targeted at poverty alleviation—land-titling in Peru
and microfinance in Bangladesh. In her post-doctoral research,
she studies the interactive dynamics of formal and informal law
as played out in the recent financial crisis, constructing case
studies based on events in both the US and the UK.
Etienne Smith See Etienne's Profile on the CGT Website
Etienne Smith received his PhD in Political Science from Sciences
Po Paris in Summer 2010. His research involves ethnographies of
Senegalese immigrants, comparing political theories of
nationalism, ethnicity and intellectual traditions. Etienne is CGT’s
representative to the International Network to Expand Regional
and Collaborative Teaching initiative, and has participated in
their discussions and programming culminating in the INTERACT
conference (April 2011). Over the past year he also participated
in their “World and Africa” programming. Additionally he
designed and taught a course entitled The Politics of Identity in
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Africa.
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III. POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
SCHOLARS
B. 2011-2012 Cohort
In January we selected the scholars for the incoming 20112012 post-doctoral research scholar cohort. Two scholars
were selected out of a pool of 500 of the brightest emerging
global scholars from around the world.
Hannah Appel
Hannah Appel will receive her PhD in Anthropology from
Stanford University in June 2011. A scholar of African politics
and economic infrastructure her dissertation “Crude Fictions:
Oil and the Making of Modularity in Equatorial Guinea”
provides a strong research foundation for the start of her
fellowship with CGT. Hannah was a presenter at the May 2011
CGT conference, “The Art of Citizenship in African Cities”.
Daniel Immerwahr
Daniel Immerwahr will receive his PhD in US History from the
University of California Berkeley. His research has centered
around three themes: the history of the United States in the
world, intellectual history, and the history of capitalism. In
addition, he is interested in the methodological aspects of
teaching and writing history. His desertion is entitled "Quests
for Community: The United States, Community Development,
and the World, 1935-1965." Following his fellowship term
with CGT, he will assume an assistant professor position in
the history department at Northwestern University. In Spring
2012, he plans to teach the graduate-level course
International Development In History.
Anush Kapadia
Anush Kapadia is currently a
Lecturer on Social Studies at
Harvard University. He received
his PhD in anthropology from
Columbia University. At CGT he
examined comparative financial
systems, focusing on the postwar American financial system.
Ethan Kaplan
As of August 2011, Ethan Kaplan
will be an Assistant Professor of
Economics at the University of
Maryland at College Park. Before
his arrival at CGT, he held an
appointment at the Institute for
International Economic Studies
at Stockholm University.
See profiles of past research scholars on the CGT Website
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IV. VISITING SCHOLARS
CGT hosted two visiting scholars in Spring 2011. Visiting scholars present at events, deliver guest
lectures in courses and participate in private seminars.
Partha Dasgupta
Sir Partha Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Professor
Emeritus of Economics at the University of
Cambridge. His research interests have covered
welfare and development economics, the
economics of technological change, population,
environmental and resource economics, the
theory of games, the economics of
undernutrition, and the economics of social
capital. CGT hosted Professor Dasgupta in April
2011, during which time he delivered guest
lectures on the sustainable development in
undergraduate and graduate courses and
presented the Fourth Annual Arrow Lecture on
the topic “Time and Persons in the Welfare
Economics of Climate Change”. He also
conducted a small seminar with Professors
Joseph Stiglitz and Kenneth Arrow for
economics PhD candidates.
Prabhat Patnaik
Prabhat Patnaik is a professor at the Centre for
Economic Studies and Planning in the School of
Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University,
where he specializes in macroeconomics and
political economy. He also serves as ViceChairman of the Kerala State Planning Board.
CGT hosted Professor Patnaik in March 2011.
Professor Patnaik delivered five lectures,
speaking at “What Does ‘Imperialism’ Mean in
an Age of Global Finance?” and “India During
and After the Global Financial Crisis”.
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V. NEW COURSE OFFERINGS
FALL 2010
Postcolonial African Cities - W3951
Rosalind Fredericks
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies - Undergraduate
Though the course focuses mainly on the contemporary era, our explorations will consider African
cities in historical perspective. This will entail attention to the legacies of colonialism and the strategic
role that African cities have played in globalization and empire, past and present. We will begin the
course with a brief exploration of the colonial history of African cities as we set up the key lines of
inquiry. This will help us to locate urban Africans in today's most recent era of globalization. Then,
considering a wide-range of contexts across the continent from a variety of disciplinary perspectives,
we will delve into some crosscutting themes in the study of African cities.
Comparative Politics and Reform China- INAF U8616
Yuen Yuen Ang
School of International and Public Affairs - Graduate
In this seminar, we examine how the case of reform-era China enriches or challenges major theories in
comparative politics and political economy. Our objectives are: (a) to survey existing literature in the
China field on selected core themes in political science; (b) to consider how abiding issues in the
comparative literature manifest in a non-democratic and transitional context like China; and (c) assess
the theoretical and methodological challenges of doing comparative research using China as a major
case. The course aims to prepare graduate students to develop research projects specifically on
contemporary China and more broadly on projects that seek to integrate area studies with
comparative approaches.
Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in the Middle East- HIST G8716
Thomas Hill
History - Graduate
An introduction to the wide variety of processes and discourses that have emerged in the Middle East
in recent years under the rubric of “truth and reconciliation,” in the broad sense of the narration of
political violence, and the main issues arising from it. The region provides a range of potent case
studies for thinking about the complexity and variety of memory politics – and, in particular, for the
respective roles of the state, civil society, and international idioms in suppressing, promoting, and/or
co-opting collective memories of violence, which are increasingly conceived of as a key – and highly
problematic – means of political contestation. Country studies include Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq,
Israel/Palestine, and Sudan.
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V. NEW COURSE OFFERINGS
SPRING 2011
The Politics of Identity in Africa- W3911
Etienne Smith
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies - Undergraduate
Throughout the different case studies, the seminar will focus on the following cross-cutting issues :
• the political thought of some key African leaders (Senghor, Nyerere, Kaunda, Nkrumah, Kenyatta,
Sankara...) and their political language for national and local audiences, grounded in cultural
contexts; the importance of choices made by the leadership weighed against the micro-logics of
identification, accommodation practices and political imaginations at the grassroots level, as well as
the long-term historical processes and social make-up both constraining and enabling the official
"policies of identity".
• the political uses of the past in the reimagination of the present by competing narratives, the
resizing (aggrandizement and shrinking) of imagined communities, the work of retrospective
imagination of "traditions", all intellectual and political agencies replaced in their wider historical
and globalized context.
• the global arena of ideas, in which racial fantasies, historiographies, political models, media
stereotypes circulate and merge with local spheres of understanding reprocessing the global flows;
the articulation between increasingly intense diasporic mobilities and localized politics of
autochthony and exclusion.
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V. EVENTS
During the 2010-2011 academic year, CGT held a total of 37 events including the extremely successful
conference, “Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Long-Term Investors: a New Form of Capitalism?”. In
addition to large events like “Prospects for 21st Century African Agriculture” (200-450 people) and the
“Cities and Eco-Crises” Conference (360 people), CGT also hosted smaller events such as screenings of
the films "The Market Maker” and “Freddy Ilanga: Che’s Swahili Interpreter” (30-70 people) and
roundtable sessions limited to guests, faculty and post-docs.
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INVITED GUESTS
CGT’s events feature speakers from around the world as well as from the Columbia University
community. Alongside prominent academics, CGT invited heads of state, Nobel laureates,
economists, visual artists, psychologists, film directors and journalists to campus.
FALL 2010
• Yuen Yuen Ang, Columbia University
• Cheikh Kane, Entrepreneur
• Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary-General
• Louis Kasekende, Bank of Uganda Deputy
Governor
• Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University
• Pranab Bardan, University of California, Berkeley • Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University
• Glenn-Marie Lange, World Bank
• Shannon Beebe, Assistant Army Attaché, US
Mission Angola
• Daniel Large, University of London
• Patrick Bolton, Columbia University
• Perry Merhling, Barnard College
• Deborah Brautigam, American University in
Cairo
• Adam McKeown, Columbia University
• Olivier de Schutter, Columbia University
• Shanta Devarajan, World Bank
• Akbar Noman, Columbia University
• Jose Antonio Ocampo. Columbia University
• Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University
• Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spanish Prime
Minister
• Marc Francis, Documentary Filmmaker
• Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University
• Nick Francis, Documentary Filmmaker
• Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
• Howard French, Columbia University
• Jose Scheinkman, Princeton University
• Al Gore, Generations Asset Management
• Juliet B. Schor, Boston College
• Sandy Grossman, QFS Asset Management
• Collin Sekajugo, Ivuka Arts Kigali
• Jean-Marie Guehenno, Columbia University
• George Soros, Open Society Institute
• Katrin Hansing, CUNY Baruch
• Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University
• Brent E. Huffman, Northwestern University
• Jomo Kwame Sundaram, United Nations
• Paul Isenman, Independent Consultant in
International Trade and Development
• Tang Xiaoyang, New School
• Abdoulie Janneh, United Nations
• Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics
• Johannes Urpelainen, Columbia University
• Paige West, Barnard College
• Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister
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SPRING 2011
• Tony Barclay, Columbia University
• Scott Barrett, Columbia University
• Kaushik Basu, Ministry of Finance of India
• Tendai Biti, Finance Minister of Zimbabwe
• Aaron Brown, Broadcast Journalist
• C.P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru
University
• Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Former Finance Minister
of Poland
• Loren B. Landau, University of the
Witwatersrand
• Theo Lubke, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Karina Nagin, Columbia University
• Sahar Nasr, World Bank
• Alex Nicholls, Oxford University
• Paul Collier, Oxford University
• Jose Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University
• Viye Diba, Artist
• Prabhat Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Michael Doyle, Columbia University
• Katharina Pistor, Columbia University
• Juan Cole, Journalist
• Linda Polman, Journalist
• Mona El-Ghobashy, Barnard College
• Nicole Pope, Journalist
• Hamid El-Said, Manchester Metropolitan
University Business School
• Andrzej Rapaczynski, Columbia University
• Abdelaziz Ezzelarab, American University in
Cairo
• Y.V. Reddy, Indian Administrative Service
• Jean-Pierre Filiu, Sciences Po
• Albie Sachs, Constitutional Court of South Africa
• Duncan Foley, The New School
• Anya Schiffrin, Columbia University
• Timothy Frye, Columbia University
• Aurelia Segatti, University of the Witwatersrand
• Carol Gluck, Columbia University
• Amartya Sen, Harvard University
• Peter Goodman, The New York Times
• Alfred Stepan, Columbia University
• David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Center
• Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University
• James Hoge, Human Rights Watch
• Sean Jacobs, The New School for Social
Research
• Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
• Sanjay Reddy, The New School
• Eelco Runia, University of Groningen
• Miriam Ticktin, The New School for Social
Research
• Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
• Mabel Wilson, Columbia University
• Sitaram Yechury, Communist Party of India
• Mirjam Kunkler, Princeton University
Note: This list does not include conference speakers.
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CO-SPONSORS
CGT works with organizations at Columbia University, in New York City and internationally to
ensure a global, interdisciplinary perspective at each event.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
• Center for African Education at Teacher's College • The Harriman Institute
• Center on Global Governance at Columbia
University Law School
• Center on Global Legal Transformation at
Columbia Law School
• Heyman Center for the Humanities
• Institute for African Studies
• Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
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• Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and
Religion
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• Columbia University Press
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• Columbia University Alliance Program with
•
Science Po
International Media, Advocacy and
Communications Specialization at SIPA
ISERP
Mailman School of Public Health
The Middle East Institute
• Department of Middle East, South Asian and
African Studies
• Office of the President
• Department of Sociology
• School of International and Public Affairs
• Earth Institute
• Weatherhead East Asian Institute
• East Central European Center
• World Leaders Forum
• Program for Economic Research
• Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation
EXTERNAL
• CNRS/NYU Center for International Research in
the Humanities & Social Sciences, UMI 3199
Transitions
• Demos
• Museum for African Art
• The New Press
• Sovereign Wealth Fund Research Initiative ,
Universite Paris-Dauphine
• Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Global
Health Initiative
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EVENTS LISTING
FALL 2010
September 13, Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay:
India and China
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/talk_on_india_and
_china/
This lecture was given by PRANAB BARDHAN,
Professor of Economics at the University of
California, Berkeley who has conducted theoretical
and field studies research on rural institutions in
poor countries, on political economy of
development policies, and on international trade.
September 22, The Current Global Economy and its
Impact
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/prime_minister_m
eles_zenawi_keynote_address/
His Excellency Prime Minister MELES ZENAWI of
the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
presented this keynote address to launch CGT's
The World and Africa series.
September 20, Film Screening: Burning in the Sun
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/burning_in_the_su
n/
Burning in the Sun tells the story of Daniel
Dembele as he returns to his homeland in Mali to
start a local business building solar panels – the
first of its kind in the sun drenched nation.
September 23, Listening There: Scenes from Ghana
Exhibition
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/listening_there_sc
enes_from_ghana_exhibition/
This collaboration between Mabel Wilson and
Peter Tolkin is an exhibition of photographs and
videos by SideProjects that cuts a spatial and
temporal section through the west African nation’s
architecture, its cities, peoples, and social spaces.
Co-presented with African Film Festival, Inc.
Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation
September 21, The New Economic Order and the
Millennium Development Goals
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/prime_minister_of
_spain_jose_luis_rodriguez_zapatero/
This event featured an address by Prime Minister
of Spain, JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO
followed by a question and answer session with
the audience.
Co-sponsored by the World Leaders Forum
September 29, Global Aid in Africa
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/global_aid_in_afri
ca/
PAUL ISENMAN, LOUIS KASEKENDE, and JOSEPH
STIGLITZ engaged in a conversation specifically
aimed at highlighting the important ways that
global aid in Africa has been reconfigured during
the recent financial crisis.
Co-sponsored by the World Leaders Forum
Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the
Earth Institute
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October 1, Conference: Cities and Eco-Crises
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cities_and_eco_cri
ses/
This conference convened by SASKIA SASSEN
brought together a diverse group of scholarurbanists, biologists, nanotechnologists, and
sustainable cities activists- to address the relation
between environment and cities.
October 8, The Strategy of Sustainable Energy
Transitions
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/the_strategy_of_s
ustainable_energy_transitions/
JOHANNES URPELAINEN investigated the strategic
logic of sustainable energy transitions, defined as
extensive deployment of clean energy to reduce
the environmental burden of a national economy.
October 11, Prospects for 21st Century Agriculture
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/prospects_for_21s
t_century_african_agriculture/
October 5, SWF and Other LTI: A New Form of
http://cgt.columbia.edu/videos/prospects_for_21s
Capitalism? Enacting Sustainable Capitalism
t_century_agriculture_with_kofi_annan_and_jeffe
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/al_gore_keynote/ ry_sac/
This event featuring former Vice President Al Gore In this panel, KOFI ANNAN and JEFFREY SACHS
was part of the larger sovereign wealth funds
sought to explore the possibilities for boosting the
conference. An audience of international fund
productivity, profitability, and sustainability of
managers and Columbia University students
African agriculture in the 21st century. MAMADOU
listened to Al Gore speak about how we can
DIOUF served as moderator.
combat global warming through investment.
Co-sponsored by the Earth Institute
Co-sponsored by the World Leaders Forum and the
SWF Research Initiative
October 15, Film Screening: Independence Era
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/film_screening_ind
October 5, SWF and Other LTI: A New Form of
ependence_era/
Capitalism? The Sovereign Debt Problem
Mortu Nega and Il etait une fois, l'independence,
http://cgt.columbia.edu/papers/the_sovereign_de two films dealing with the history of the
bt_problem_george_soros/
independence of Africa were screened.
George Soros spoke during the sovereign wealth
funds conference to an audience of international
Co-sponsored by the Institute for African Studies
fund managers and Columbia University students
about sovereign debt risk in Europe.
October 18, The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon:
Human Security and the New Rules of War and
Co-sponsored by the World Leaders Forum and the Peace
SWF Research Initiative
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/the_ultimate_wea
pon_is_no_weapon_human_security_and_the_ne
October 7, Film Screening: Our Friends at the Bank w_rules_of_w/
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/film_screening_ou In this provocative, ground-breaking book,
r_friends_at_the_bank/
Lieutenant Colonel SHANNON BEEBE and MARY
For fourteen months, Peter Chappell followed
KALDOR collaborate from opposing political
negotiations between the World Bank and Uganda perspectives to argue that security is no longer
in order to understand and describe the obscure
achievable by traditional military strength, even for
and abstract mechanisms that shape the reality of countries with massive militaries. JOSE ANTONIO
North-South relations, as well as the future of
OCAMPO and JEAN-MARIE GUEHENNO also spoke
millions of people.
on the topic.
Architecture, Planning and Preservation and ISERP
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October 21, Film Screening & Discussion: Freddy
Ilanga, Che’s Swahili Translator
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/Hansing/
This debut documentary of KATRIN HANSING tells
the story of Freddy Ilanga, an African man whose
life was abruptly transformed through a chance
encounter with one of the great icons of the 20th
Century.
November 15, Global Power City Index 2010
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/global_power_city
_index_2010/
A strategic tool for assessment of urban
competitiveness, The Global Power City Index
(GPCI), produced by the Mori Memorial
Foundation, is now recognized as one of the major
city indexes in the world.
October 22, CGT Seminar: The Bureau-Contracting
State in China
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cgt_seminar_the_b
ureau-contracting_state_in_china/
In her research, YUEN YUEN ANG argues that China
has developed an unusually high-powered but
opportunistic public organization, a model that she
labels as bureau-contracting.
November 3, Locating Africa Within the Financial
Crisis
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/locating_africa_wit
hin_the_financial_crisis/
This panel connected CGT’s financial crisis series
during the 2009-2010 academic year (A New
(dis)Order?) and built upon the Global Aid in Africa
panel (part of the World and Africa Series), to
locate Africa within the current financial
crisis. JOSEPH STIGLITZ, JOMO KWAME
SUNDARAM, CHEIKH KANE, and SHANTA
DEVARAJAN served as panelists and AKBAR
NOMAN moderated.
November 18, Film Screening & Discussion: Black
Gold
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/film_screenings_bl
ack_gold/
This film by NICK and MARC FRANCIS investigates
the trade challenges faced by the 74,000 struggling
Ethiopian coffee farmers facing bankruptcy.
November 29, Third Annual Arrow Lecture:
Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/third_arrow_lectur
e_speculation_trading_and_bubbles/
JOSE SCHEINKMAN spoke on “Speculation, Trading,
and Bubbles” and PATRICK BOLTON, SANDY
GROSSMAN, KEN ARROW and JOSEPH STIGLITZ
served as discussants in 2010’s Arrow Lecture.
Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Press and
the Program for Economic Research
December 1, A Walk Through Kigali: A Talk with a
Rwandan Artist
Co-sponsored by the Institute for African Studies,
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/a_walk_through_ki
the Program for Economic Research, and the
gali_a_talk_with_a_rwandan_artist/
School of International and Public Affairs
COLLIN SEKAJUGO credits a large part of his
success to the opportunities he has had to work
November 8, Film Screening: The End of Poverty
alongside other professional artists; and now that
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/film_screening_the he has successfully "come of age" in the art world,
_end_of_poverty/
he is helping others do the same.
This film is a daring, thought-provoking and very
timely documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies,
Philippe Diaz, revealing that poverty is not an
the Museum for African Art, and the Center for
accident.
African Education at Teacher's College
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December 1, The Rebirth of Rwanda
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/ivuka_arts_exhibit
ion/
This month-long exhibition presented pieces from
a number of pioneering young artists from Ivuka
Arts, including COLLIN SEKAJUGO, to illuminate
the important ways that Rwandans are creatively
rebuilding their country. The exhibition reception
was held on December 13.
December 2, Film Screenings & Discussion: When
China Met Africa & The Colony
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/film_screening_w
hen_china_met_africa_the_colony/
BRENT E. HUFFMAN and DANIEL LARGE were
available to answer questions from the audience
following the screenings of these two films
investigating Chinese investment in Africa.
The Art of Collin Sekajugo
Sekajugo, the founder and director of Ivuka Arts Kigali,
a project that aims to develop Rwanda’s contemporary
cultural heritage by honing the skills of promising
young artists and providing platforms for their
exposure, exhibited his work in Low Library
December 3, Asia in Africa: New Connections in
Historical Perspective
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/asia_in_africa_ne
w_connections/
This panel sought to explore the possibility of
building mutually beneficial partnerships that
couple Asia’s growing interests in the region with
sustainable economic growth and poverty
reduction for Africans. Speakers included
HOWARD FRENCH (moderator), DEBORAH
BRAUTIGAM, ABDOULIE JANNEH, DANIEL LARGE,
and TANG XIAOYANG.
and the School of International and Public Affairs
December 7, Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why the
GDP Doesn’t Add Up
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/launch_mismeasu
ring_lives/
In place of GDP, Mismeasuring Our Lives
introduces a bold new array of concepts, from
sustainable measures of economic welfare, to
measures of savings and wealth, to a “green GDP.”
Panelists included GLENN-MARIE LANGE, ALAN B.
KRUEGER, JULIET B. SCHOR, and JOSEPH STIGLITZ.
Co-sponsored by Demos, the Program for
Economic Research, and the New Press
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EVENTS LISTING
SPRING 2011
January 26, Environment and Object: Exploring
Urban Topographies
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/environment_and_
object_exploring_urban_topographies/
Prominent Senegalese artist VIYE DIBA discussed
his recent work created using found objects and
materials from cities including his home city of
Dakar. The lecture was presented in French with
English translation and was followed by a Q&A
session.
February 10, Egypt Arising
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/egypt_arising/
This event featuring SASKIA SASSEN, JUAN COLE,
MONA EL-GHOBASHY, JEAN-PIERRE FILIU, and
RASHID KHALIDI explored the unrest in Egypt and
the Middle East as it was occurring.
Co-sponsored by the Alliance Program, MESAAS,
the Heyman Center for the Humanities, and the
Middle East Institute
Co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies
and the Museum for African Art
February 17, Conference: ‘Impossible Narratives’ –
Historicizing Mass Trauma
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/impossible_narrati
February 2, Grzegorz W. Kolodko on Truth, Errors, ves_historicizing_mass_trauma/
and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World This full-day conference explored individual and
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/grzegorz_w._kolod social memory of mass trauma. EELCO RUNIA and
ko_on_truth_errors_and_lies_politics_and_econo CAROL GLUCK presented keynote addresses.
mics_in/
Organized by CAROL GLUCK, THOMAS J.W. HILL
GRZEGORZ W. KOLODKO, one of the world's
and DENNIS PESCHANSKI.
leading authorities on economics and
development policy, discussed his new book,
Cosponsored by CNRS/NYU Center for
Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a International Research in the Humanities & Social
Volatile World. He was introduced by PATRICK
Sciences, UMI 3199 Transitions, and the Middle
BOLTON and ANDRZEJ RAPACZYNZKI.
East Institute.
Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Press
and the East Central European Center
February 3, Film Screening & Discussion: Promised
Land
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/film_screening_dis
cussion_promised_land/
This film explores how the new South Africa is
rebuilding itself after years of living under the
racist, violent system of apartheid.
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February 17, Locating Social Enterprise in
Development
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/locating_social_en
terprise_in_development/
This panel on social enterprise and sustainability
featured TONY BARCLAY, PAUL COLLIER and ALEX
NICHOLLS, moderated by KARINA NAGIN and JOSE
ANTONIO OCAMPO.
Cosponsored by SIPA and the Earth Institute.
February 18, Contemporary Migration to South
Africa: A Regional Development Issue
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/contemporary_mi
gration_to_south_africa/
This event was an attempt to unpack the approach
to international migration that has informed South
Africa's migration policies in the post-apartheid
period from a regional development
perspective. It featured speakers LOREN B.
LANDAU, AURELIA SEGATTI, and SEAN JACOBS and
MIRIAM TICKTIN.
March 28, Conference: What Does ‘Imperialism’
Mean in an Age of Global Finance? - A Symposium
over Two Evenings
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/what_does_imper
ialism_mean_in_an_age_of_global_financea_sym
posium_over/
This symposium, over two evenings, explored
current issues with global finance, featuring C.P.
CHANDRASEKHAR, DUNCAN FOLEY, JAYATI GHOSH,
DAVID HARVEY, JOMO KWAME SUNDARAM,
PRABHAT PATNAIK, SITARAM YECHURY.
Cosponsored by the Heyman Center for the
Humanities.
March 30, India During and After the Financial
Crisis
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/india_during_and
_after_the_global_financial_crisis/
This panel discussion explored current issues in
the Indian economy, featuring JOSEPH STIGLITZ,
AMARTYA SEN, Y.V. REDDY, KAUSHIK BASU and
PRABHAT PATNAIK.
Cosponsored by The Institute for African Studies.
March 3, Film Screening: The Market Maker
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/film_screening_di
scussion_the_market_maker/
This film, hosted by anchor AARON BROWN, tells
the dramatic, intimate story of an Ethiopian
woman on a mission – and a world of trouble
standing in her way.
Cosponsored by the Heyman Center for the
Humanities.
April 12, The Fourth Annual Arrow Lecture: “Time
and Persons in the Economics of Climate Change”
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/the_fourth_annua
l_arrow_lecture_time_and_persons_in_the_econo
mics_of_c/
The Fourth Annual Arrow Lecture, in honor of
March 8, The Egyptian Transition in Context
Kenneth J. Arrow, was delivered by SIR PARTHA
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/the_egyptian_tran DASGUPTA, whose lectured focused on the
sition_in_context/
weakness in customary formulations of the idea of
This event explored the wider experience of
intergenerational well-being, and the resulting
countries that are attempting democratic
literature on the economics of climate change,
transitions, including in Eastern Europe and the
with discussants GEOFFREY HEAL, SCOTT BARRETT,
comparable events in other parts of the Islamic
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ and KENNETH J. ARROW.
world. Speakers included MONA EL-GHOBASHY,
TIMOTHY FRYE, MIRJAM KUNKLER, and ALFRED
Cosponsored by Columbia University Press and the
STEPAN; moderated by MICHAEL DOYLE.
Program for Economic Research.
Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of
Democracy, Toleration and Religion, and the
Center on Global Governance.
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April 18, Egypt’s Transition to Democracy: Political
and Economic Challenges
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/egypts_transition_
to_democracy_political_and_economic_challenges
/
The panel explored the critical political and
economic challenges faced by Egypt in its transition
to democratic governance. Speakers included
HAMID EL-SAID, ABDELAZIZ EZZELARAB, SAHAR
NASR and LORI WALLACH, with moderator
KATHARINA PISTOR
the Media Sector Relate to Economic
Development’. The line up of speakers included
ANYA SCHIFFRIN and JOSEPH STIGLITZ.
Cosponsored by the International Media, Advocacy
and Communications Specialization at SIPA.
April 28, What is Wrong With Humanitarian Aid?:
IMAC Brownbag with Linda Polman and Nicole
Pope
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/what_is_wrong_wi
th_humanitarian_aid_imac_brownbag_with_linda_
April 20, Columbia Goes Global: Getting from 2011 polman_an/
to 2051
LINDA POLMAN and NICOLE POPE will discuss
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/columbia_goes_gl media coverage during crisis situations as well as
obal_getting_from_2011_to_2051/
Polman’s recent book, The Crisis Caravan: What's
This Columbia Global Centers and INTERACT
Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?.
conference brought together faculty and students
from across the university to discuss what is
Cosponsored by the International Media, Advocacy
Columbia's global mission and what institutional
and Communications Specialization at SIPA.
innovations will advance it. Speakers include LEE C.
BOLLINGER, CAROL GLUCK and KENNETH PREWITT. May 6-7, Conference: The Art of Citizenship in
African Cities
April 25, Art and Social Justice: Albie Sachs and the http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/art_of_citizenship_
Making of Constitution Hill
in_african_cities/
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/albie_sachs_lectur This conference focused on the art of citizenship—
e/
or the specific imaginaries and creative solidarities
This discussion between ALBIE SACHS and JAMES
through which urban Africans understand, order,
HOGE explored the ways in which healing and hope and stake claims around the rights, rewards, and
were expressed by both the architecture and the
spaces of the city. The event was convened by
art collection of South Africa’s new Constitutional
MAMADOU DIOUF and ROSALIND FREDERICKS, and
Court building and included a screening of A Light featured over thirty speakers.
on a Hill: A Tour of the Constitutional Court of South
Africa.
Cosponsored by Gallatin School of Individualized
Study, Global Health Initiative, Graduate School of
Cosponsored by the Institute of African Studies
Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Institute
for African Studies, Institute for Religion, Culture
April 27, Conference: Power and Pressure: Media
and Public Life, MESAAS (Department of Middle
Influence in Africa
Eastern, South Asian and African Studies) and the
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/panel_on_africa_ School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia
media/
University.
This series of panel discussions discussed the
changing role of the media in Africa, including
Couldn’t be there?
topics on ‘Media and the Extractive Sector’,
Watch videos of past events
‘Transparency and Governance in Africa: The Work
on the CGT website.
of NGOs’, ‘African Media, Social Change and the
Politics of Representation’ and ‘How Do Changes in
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CONFERENCES
AND RECURRING EVENTS
COLLOQUIUM ON GOVERNING INTERDEPENDENCE
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/colloquium_on_governing_interdependence/
http://cgt.columbia.edu/about/news/2010/09/07/the_first_meeting_of_the_colloquium_on_governing_
interdependence/
This seminar series sought to bring together researchers from various disciplines with a common interest
in the governance of interdependence to share and discuss their insights from their specialized fields of
inquiry and to explore what form the governance of interdependence takes or should take in our
increasingly globalized and interconnected world.
This series was organized by Katharina Pistor and former CGT post-doctoral research scholar Rachel
Harvey.
September 15, 2010 – Saskia Sassen, “Emergent Global Governance Assemblages”
September 29, 2010 – Perry Mehrling, “Governing Money: An Introduction”
October 27, 2010 – Olivier de Schutter, “Reforming Global Governance of Food Security: Double-Loop
Accountability”
November 10, 2010 – Paige West, “From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive”
November 17, 2010 – Adam McKeown, “Globalizing History and the Politics of Newness”
March 1, 2011 – Tonya Putnam, “Clashing Titans: Extraterritorial Regulation and Its Implications for
Global Antitrust Governance”
March 22, 201 – Horatia Muir Watt, “Governing Interdependent Legal Systems: Is Private International
Law Still a Relevant Tool?”
April 5, 2011 – Monica Varsanyi, “Neoliberalism and Nativism: Local Anti-Immigrant Activism and an
Emerging Politics of Scale”
April 19, 2011 – Josh Whitford, “Network Failures and Industrial Policy”
April 26, 2011 – Dennis Bogusz, “Corporate Governance or Corporate Governments? Voluntary Firm
Practices on Paths to Regulation”
Co-sponsored by the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia Law School
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CITIES AND ECO-CRISES
October 1, 2010
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cities_and_eco_crises/
This conference brought together a diverse group of scholars—urbanists, biologists, nanotechnologists,
and sustainable cities activists, to address the relation between cities and acute ecological issues. The
conference looked at such diverse topics as land-grabs and their consequences, forced migration to
cities and environmental refugees, climate change and systems resilience to climate variability,
engineering and technology of flooding, urban services and the challenges of waste management. This
conference builds on the discussion begun a year before at “Cities and the New Wars” (September,
2009), which looked closely at asymmetric war. In 2011, the annual cities conference will address China,
its super-cities and migration.
This event is part of an annual series, organized by Saskia Sassen.
Opening Keynote: War and Its Consequences on Environments and People
Arthur H. Westing, Westing Associates in Environment, Security, & Education
Cities and Eco-Disasters: What We Can Do
• Ties Rijcken, Researcher in Integrated Water Infrastructure Development, Delft University of
Technology, Netherlands
• Shiv Someshwar, IRI/Earth Institute, Columbia University
• Richard Matthew, Director, Center for Unconventional Security Affairs, University of California, Irvine
'Living Technology' and the Built Environment
• Rachel Armstrong, Co-Director, AVATAR (Advanced Virtual And Technological Architectural Research)
in Architecture & Synthetic Biology, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
• Greg Lindsay, Fast Company contributing writer, co-author of Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next
• P. Michael Pelken, Center of Excellence Fellow, Assistant Professor of Architecture for Design and
Technology, Syracuse University School of Architecture
• Klaus Jacob, Special Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Professor of
International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Organizing for a Better Eco-Urban Relation: Disaster Preparedness, Applied Technologies, Inter -City
Networks
• Irwin Redlener, President, Children's Health Fund Director, National Center for Disaster
Preparedness, Columbia University
• Lindsey Hoshaw, SENSEable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Noah Toly, Director of Urban Studies, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations,
Wheaton College
• Dana R. Fisher, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
• Amit Srivastava, Coordinator, India Resource Center
Co-sponsored by Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and ISERP
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SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS AND OTHER LONG-TERM INVESTORS:
A NEW FORM OF CAPITALISM?
October 4-5, 2010
http://cgt.columbia.edu/conferences/sovereign_wealth_funds_a_new_form_of_capitalism/summary/
"Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Long-Term Investors: A New Form of Capitalism?" convened 200
scholars, policymakers, fund managers and economic thinkers to explore how sovereign wealth funds
(SWFs) and other long-term investors can leverage their unique long-term investment horizons to
confront and profit from complex global challenges. The conference explored how SWFs and long -term
investors can utilize innovative investment strategies to mitigate risk caused by financial instability,
shortened investment time horizons, and multiple potential ecological, social, and demographic crises.
This conference was by invitation only, except 2 keynotes (Al Gore and George Soros) which were
opened to students in conjunction with the World Leaders Forum.
This event was organized by Patrick Bolton, and also featured CGT members Saskia Sassen, Joseph
Stiglitz, Katharina Pistor and Jose Antonio Ocampo.
Keynote Speakers:
• Franco Bassanini, President of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (Italy), Financing Long Term Investments after
the Crisis: A View from Europe
• Augustin de Romanet, Chairman and CEO of Caisse des Depots (France)
• Al Gore, Chairman of the Board of Generation Investment Management and former Vice President of
the United States, Enacting Sustainable Capitalism
• Pierre-Louis Lions, Co-Director of the SWF Research Initiative and recipient of the Fields Medal
• George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management and Founder and Chairman of the Open Society
Institute, The Sovereign Debt Problem
• Andres Velasco, former Minister of Finance for Chile on the Chilean stabilization fund and
commodity price volatility
• James Wolfensohn, Chairman of Wolfensohn & Company, LLC and former President of the World
Bank, What Sovereign Wealth Funds Can Do to Help Alleviate Global Poverty
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Panels:
The State of Sovereign Wealth Funds
• José Antonio Ocampo (moderator), Professor of Professional Practice in International & Public
Affairs, Columbia University, School of International & Public Affairs, Committee on Global Thought
• Antoinette Schoar, Michael Koerner '49 Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
• Gordon Clark, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
• Adair Morse, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
• Luc Laeven, Deputy Division Chief, Research Department, International Monetary Fund
• Rachel Ziemba, Senior Research Analyst of Middle Eastern and Asian Economies, Roubini Global
Economics
Benchmarking and Performance Standards
• Pierre-Andre Chiappori (moderator), E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics,
Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Eric Parrado, Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Business School
• Andrew Ang, Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business, Columbia University, Business School
• Shari Spiegel, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
• Bob Litterman, Co-Developer, Black-Litterman Global Asset Allocation Model
Fostering Development through Socially Responsible Investment
• Stephany Griffith-Jones (moderator),Financial Markets Program Director, Columbia University,
Initiative for Policy Dialogue
• Augustin Landier, Professor of Finance, Toulouse School of Economics
• Antony Bugg-Levine, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation
• Arnaud Ventura, Co-Founder and Vice President, PlaNet Finance
• Dag Dyrdal, Chief Strategic Relations Officer, Norges Bank Investment Management
• Gavin Wilson, Chief Executive Officer, International Finance Corporation, Asset Management
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Expanding Investment Horizons: Opportunities for Long-Term Investors
• Patrick Bolton (moderator), Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia University,
Business School, Committee on Global Thought
• Javier Santiso, Director, Telefonica International, Professor of Economics, Business School, ESADE
• José Scheinkman, Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University
• Frederic Samama, Head of Financial Solutions, Amundi I.S., Head of SWF Research Initiative, IEF,
Université Paris Dauphine
• Martin Skancke, Director General, Asset Management Department, Norwegian Ministry of Finance
Reducing Climate Risk
• Peter Goldmark (moderator), Director, Climate and Air Program, Environmental Defense Fund
• Roger Guesnerie, Professor of Economics, Collège de France
• Philippe Aghion, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• David Jhirad, Professor and Director, Energy, Resources & Environment Program, Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies
• Paul Dickinson, Chief Executive Officer, Carbon Disclosure Project
• Stefan Heck, Director, Leader of Global Clean Tech Practice, McKinsey & Company
Managing Risk during Macroeconomic Uncertainty
• Joseph Stiglitz (moderator), University Professor, Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought
• Rob Johnson, Director of the Economic Policy Initiative, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
• Oliver Fratzscher, Executive Vice-President and Chief Economist, Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du
Québec
• Min Zhu, Special Advisor to the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
• Andrés Velasco, Sumitomo Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard University,
Kennedy School of Government, Former Minister of Finance of Chile
Managing Commodity Price Volatility
• Geoffrey Heal (moderator), Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility,
Columbia University, Business School
• Ignacio Briones, Head of International Finance, Ministry of Finance, Chile, Pension Reserve and Social
and Economic Stabilization Fund
• Marie Brière, Head of Fixed Income, FX and Volatility Strategy, Amundi Asset Management
• Jukka Pihlman, Asset Management Advisor, International Monetary Fund
• John Sfakianakis, Chief Economist, Saudi Fransi Bank
Sovereign Wealth Funds and World Governance
• Saskia Sassen (moderator), Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, CGT Co-Chair
• Edward Greene, Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP
• Anna Gelpern, Associate Professor of Law, American University
• Adrian Orr, Chief Executive Officer, New Zealand Superannuation Fund
• Ronald Gilson, Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business, Columbia University, Law School
• Katharina Pistor, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, Columbia University, Law School, Committee on
Global Thought
Co-Sponsored by Sovereign Wealth Funds Research Initiative, Universite Paris-Dauphine and the World
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Leaders Forum. Funded by Amundi Asset Management and Credit Agricole CIB.
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‘IMPOSSIBLE NARRATIVES’ HISTORICIZING MASS TRAUMA
February 17, 2010
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/impossible_narratives_historicizing_mass_trauma/
What are the conditions for individual memory of the kinds of mass historical experience now generally
labeled "traumatic" to become social memory — i.e. both capable of and amenable to persuasive
public narration? What factors prevent or delay the process — psychological, political, or social — and
through what mechanisms does such social memory emerge? This workshop examined ‘impossible
narratives' of such experiences, especially inasmuch as they are incongruent with competing narratives
of self, state or society represented as essential or primordial in the wake of mass trauma; the ways in
which their "impossibility" persists for long periods of time; and how it might be overcome.
This event was organized by Thomas J.W. Hill and Carol Gluck.
Opening Keynote: Of Two Minds. Why the Concept of Dissociation Might Help to Understand History
• Eelco H. Runia, Department of History, University of Groningen
Obstacles to Memory
• Moderator: Brigitte Sion, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Program in Religious Studies, New York
University
• Adam D. Brown, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine
• Denis Peschanski, Senior Researcher, CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Patrick Weil, Senior Researcher, CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Visiting Professor of
Law, Yale Law School
Public Secrets
• Moderator: Carol Gluck, Committee Member, Committee on Global Thought; George Sansom
Professor of History, Columbia University
• Jens Meierhenrich, Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, London School of
Economics
• Florent Brayard, Senior Research Fellow, CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Selma Leydesdorff, Professor of Oral History and Culture, University of Amsterdam; Fellow,
Remarque Institute, New York University
Traumatic Memory in the Middle East
• Moderator: Salim Tamari, Professor of Sociology, Bir Zeit University; Arcapata Visiting Professor,
Center for Palestine Studies/Middle East Institute, Columbia University
• Thomas J.W. Hill, Research Scholar, Committee on Global Thought; Lecturer, Department of History,
Columbia University
• Peter Lagerquist, Writer and Journalist
• Sinan Antoon, Assistant Professor, Gallatin School NYU - Arabic Literature
Concluding Remarks: Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by CNRS/NYU Center for International Research in the Humanities & Social Sciences, 29
UMI
3199 Transitions, and The Middle East Institute, Columbia University
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WHAT DOES ‘IMPERIALISM’ MEAN IN AN AGE OF GLOBAL FINANCE?
March 28 and 29, 2011
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/what_does_imperialism_mean_in_an_age_of_global_financea_sympo
sium_over/
This two-day symposium brought together prominent scholars from economics, anthropology and the
public sector to discuss the relationship between imperialism and global finance.
This event was co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities.
Speakers:
• C.P. Chandrasekhar (Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
• Duncan Foley (Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research)
• Jayati Ghosh (Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
• David Harvey (Department of Anthropology, City University of New York)
• Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), United Nations)
• Prabhat Patnaik (Department of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
• Sitaram Yechury (Communist Party of India)
POWER AND PRESSURE IN THE AFRICAN MEDIA
April 27, 2011
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/panel_on_africa_media/
This half-day day conference at Columbia University looked at the state of the media in Africa, as well
as how the media is covering two of the most pressing issues currently facing the continent: the
growing role of the extractive sector in the region’s economy and the elections taking place this year.
Speakers include reporters from African newspapers, bloggers, representatives from NGOs – including
Human Rights Watch, Internews and Revenue Watch Institute – and professors from Columbia
University.
This event was organized by Anya Schiffrin
Opening Remarks, Anya Schiffrin, director, International Media, Advocacy and Communications
specialization at SIPA and Lecturer in Discipline.
Media and the Extractive Sector
• Moderator: Rachel Boynton, independent film director
• Angelo Izama, Knight Fellow at Stanford University
• Peter Rosenblum, Liett, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professor of Human Rights Law at
Columbia Law School
• Arvind Ganesan, director of Human Rights Watch’s business and human rights program
• Ramata Sore, Fulbright scholar and blogger
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Transparency and Governance in Africa: The Work of NGOs
• Moderator: Eamon Kircher-Allen, Columbia University
• Alexandra Gillies, governance advisor at Revenue Watch Institute
• Ian Gary, senior policy manager, Extractive Industries, Oxfam America
• Michael Jarvis, senior private sector development specialist at the World Bank Institute
African Media, Social Change, and the Politics of Representation
• Moderator: Karen Attiah, MIA candidate, SIPA
• Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global
Thought, Columbia University
• Ben Akoh, project manager for the Global Connectivity Program of the International Institute for
Sustainable Development (IISD)
• Dayo Olopade, Nigerian-American journalist and Bernard Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
How Do Changes in the Media Sector Relate to Economic Development?
• Sanjukta Roy, an economist, Internews Network / World Bank Institute Media Map Project
• Michael Behrman, MA candidate in Quantitative Methods in Social Science, Columbia University.
Closing Remarks by Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University.
Co-Sponsored by International Media, Advocacy and Communications Specialization at SIPA and
Institute for African Studies
THE ANNUAL ARROW LECTURE
November 29, 2010; April 13, 2011
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/third_arrow_lecture_speculation_trading_and_bubbles/
http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/the_fourth_annual_arrow_lecture_time_and_persons_in_the_econom
ics_of_c/
The Arrow Lecture, held twice this academic year, honors the scholarly work and teaching of Nobel
Laureate Kenneth J. Arrow by inviting prominent economists to expand on his work.
Speculation, Trading and Bubbles
• Jose Scheinkman, Princeton University
• Patrick Bolton, Columbia University
• Sandy Grossman, QFS Asset Management
Persons and Time in the Welfare Economics of Climate Change
• Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
• Scott Barrett, Columbia University
• Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University
Co-Sponsored by Columbia University Press and the Program for Economic Research
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THE ART OF CITIZENSHIP IN AFRICAN CITIES
May 6-7, 2011
http://cgt.columbia.edu/conferences/conference_the_art_of_citizenship_in_african_cities/
This conference brought together some of the leading established scholars with promising new
academic voices in the study of African urbanisms and presented fresh, innovative research into
emergent expressions of citizenship in diverse African cities across the continent. This conference
focused on the art of citizenship—or the specific imaginaries and creative solidarities through which
urban Africans understand, order, and stake claims around the rights, rewards, and spaces of the city. It
aimed to interrogate the intersections between the physical infrastructure and planning of African cities
with the social infrastructure contained in forms of collective action and cultural imaginaries. Beyond
shedding new light on how we understand these cities, this endeavor strove to recalibrate knowledge
of how the city works, the contours of fundamental city-ness, and what it means to be a citizen in Africa
and beyond.
This event was organized by Rosalind Fredericks and Mamadou Diouf.
The Arts of Representation I: Aesthetic and Textual Representations
• Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University)
• Catherine Cole (UC Berkeley)
• Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga (Université de Lille 1)
• Jinny Prais (West Virginia University)
The Politics of Infrastructure I: Rights to the City
• Discussant: Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford University)
• Antina von Schnitzler (The New School)
• Michael Ralph (NYU)
• Rudolf Gaudio (Purchase College, State University of New York)
• Kenda Mutongi (Williams College)
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Environment and Public Health Discourses
• Discussant: Edward Ramsamy (Rutgers University)
• David Simon (Royal Holloway, University of London)
• Claire Laurier Decoteau (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Rosalind Fredericks (NYU / Columbia University)
• Emily Brownell (University of Texas, Austin)
Sacred Cities
• Discussant: Gregory Mann (Columbia University)
• Ruth Marshall (University of Toronto)
• Eric Ross (Al Akhawayn University)
• Cheikh Guèye (ENDA)
• Adedamola Osinulu (UCLA)
The Politics of Infrastructure II: Producing Cities
• Discussant: Mabel Wilson (GSAPP, Columbia University)
• Martin Murray (University of Michigan)
• Giles Omezi (Department of Geography, University College London)
• Garth Myers (University of Kansas)
• Hannah Appel (Stanford University)
Community/Membership/Belonging I: Collective Action across Space and Scale
• Discussant: Janet Roitman (The New School)
• Andy Clarno (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Juan Obarrio (Johns Hopkins University)
• Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam)
• AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Community/Membership/Belonging II: Placing Insiders and Outsiders
• Discussant: Mike McGovern (Yale University)
• Ciraj Rassool (University of the Western Cape)
• Thomas Fouquet (Iris – Ehess (Paris, France)
• Christine Ludl (University of Bayreuth)
• Ramah McKay (Princeton University)
The Arts of Representation II: Representing Dakar
• Discussant: Mohamed Mbodj (Manhattanville College / Columbia University)
• Abdoulaye Niang (Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis)
• Leslie Rabine (UC Davis)
• Allen Roberts (UCLA)
• Joanna Grabski (Denison University)
• Ndiouga Benga (UCAD, Dakar)
Co-Sponsored by Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Department of Middle
Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, Global Health
Initiative, Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, Department of Anthropology, and NYU Gallatin
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School of Individualized Study.
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VI. THE MASTERS IN
GLOBAL THOUGHT
I n 2 0 1 1 , t h e C o m m i t t e e d e v e l o pe d a n d p r o p o s e d t h e e s t a b l i s h m e nt o f
a m a s t e r ’s d e g r ee i n g l o b a l t h o u g h t . T h e c u r r i cu lu m i s c u r r e n t ly u n d e r
r e v i e w, a n d C G T h o p e s t o w e l c o m e i t s f i r s t c l a s s i n 2 0 1 3 .
Modeled partly on the Committee on
Social Thought at the University of Chicago, one of
its core aims is to develop new categories for
thinking about the global, and for interpreting
existing data. A key stepping stone for this
program is the focus on questions and issues that
cannot be studied through a single discipline but
require novel combinations of existing and
emerging types of research and knowledge. This is
a project that cuts across the humanities, the
social sciences, the natural sciences, law, business,
public health, architecture and planning, while
emphasizing the conceptual development of new
categories for gathering and interpreting
knowledge of the contemporary world.
In its conferences, debates and courses,
CGT has taken the first critical steps towards crossdisciplinary work among Committee members on
particular subjects, notably critical perspectives on
global governance and on finance, the political
economy of development, governing
interdependence, secularism and religion, cultural
dimensions of major global processes, Africa as a
strategic space for exploring many of these
questions, and cities as a frontline where major
current transformations take on acute forms and
become urgent. The Committee’s work on these
subjects is the platform from which to launch the
Masters in Global Thought.
Columbia University stands among the
most prestigious universities in the nation in its
depth and breadth of scholarship and course
offerings relating to modern and contemporary
globalization and is home to some of the leading
scholars on the subject. Increasing the scope and
space of global study is a rapidly evolving trend
among many universities in the country. The
curriculum of the Masters in Global Thought will
be part of Columbia’s expansive new global
programming, including the Global Centers, the
World Leaders program, the INTERACT initiative,
and the undergraduate Global Core. It will also
feed into and benefit from such existing crossdisciplinary programs engaging some of the
world’s major challenges in the Mailman School of
Public Health and the Earth Institute.
The proposed Master’s program will
consist of one academic year of study. Three core
courses will address foundational questions of
substance, method, data, and interpretation to
provide the intellectual framework for the
program. These three courses are: Global
Governance, Global Political Economy, and Global
Culture and Politics. To connect this intellectual
framework to the world of practice we will
examine pressing conditions and challenges in the
world today. Beyond required coursework, the
M.A. expects its students to be engaged deeply
with one topic of their choice, to do rigorous
research and writing about the topic in their
Master’s thesis. To anchor this work in concrete
regional examples, the program will have a
prerequisite of proficiency in a language in
addition to English.
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VII. SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS
AND OTHER LONG-TERM
INVESTORS
In 2010, CGT, led by Committee Member
Patrick Bolton, partnered with the Sovereign
Wealth Funds Research Initiative at Universite
Paris-Dauphine (SWFRI), sponsored by Credit
Agricole Group (CA-CIB and Amundi), to
coordinate a series of conferences and working
sessions with sovereign wealth fund managers,
academics and policymakers. The SWF and Other
LTI project aims to develop strategies for SWFs to
capitalize on their long-term investment horizon
and mandate to consider inter-generational wellbeing, while mitigating climate risk and global
financial instability.
The project’s inaugural event, “Sovereign
Wealth Funds and Other Long-Term Investors: A
New Form of Capitalism?” held in October 2010,
featured keynote addresses from Joseph Stiglitz,
Al Gore, George Soros, James Wolfensohn and
others. Representatives from 30 funds attended,
representing more than $7 trillion in assets under
management. Unlike other conferences organized
for SWF managers, SWF and Other LTI brings
together an innovative mix of academics,
investors, policymakers and non-governmental
organizations, including the UN and the Carbon
Disclosure Project. CGT Members Katharina Pistor,
Jose Antonio Ocampo and Saskia Sassen all
participated.
CGT has compiled and edited a conference
proceedings volume to be released in 2012,
bringing together the groundbreaking work in this
relatively new and unexplored subject matter.
During the Summer 2011, several smaller,
selective working groups will be hosted to
operationalize new investment tools for fund
managers. PhD students in Columbia University’s
Department of Economics, under the leadership
of former CGT post-doc Dr. Rachel Harvey, are
carrying out original research about SWF
investment strategies and obstacles.
In October 17-18, 2011, CGT and SWFRI
will host a second annual conference at ESCP,
Paris, France. “SWF and Other LTI: From Savings
Glut to Sustainable Growth” will feature keynote
addresses from Al Gore and Christine Lagarde.
CGT is also developing an executive
education program for fund managers, to address
funds’ human capital issues, to launch in
2012/2013.
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VIII. THE WORLD AND AFRICA
http://cgt.columbia.edu/conferences/world_and_africa_series/
“The World and Africa” was series of
panels, art and film exhibitions, and conferences
offering a multi-faceted examination of the
features and consequences of Africa's
globalization, in historical perspective.
Perspectives which locate Africa off the
map of global integration profoundly underplay
the continent’s past and present embeddedness
in the world. Instead, an analysis of the terms of
Africa’s global connections is crucial for a
consideration of what lies ahead for African
citizens, as global citizens. In light of this
challenge, CGT hosted a series of public, multidisciplinary conversations to examine Africa’s
place in the world through illuminating important
new features and consequences of Africa’s
globalization, in historical perspective.
A central element of “The World and
Africa” involved a critical appraisal of African
economies that takes stock of important new
dynamics, actors, and institutions shaping African
development trajectories. Key subjects included
the future of African agriculture, the explosion of
Asian investment on the continent, the evolving
contours of global aid to Africa, and the impact of
the financial crisis on the region. This element of
the agenda aimed to shed new light onto some
classic and innovative debates considering
patterns of uneven development and prospects
for growth on the continent.
In addition to the economic analyses, the
series included a much broader inquiry into novel
flows of people, ideas, cultures, and capital
between the world and Africa. In this light, it
interrogated how Africa recalibrates
understandings of the world on a range of key
topics, including: urbanism, migration,
secularism, and citizenship. Precisely through
exploring these concerns, the series probed the
concept of “Africa” as a category of analysis and
the limits implied by conventional discourses
used to describe it. This served to advance critical
understandings and open up new avenues for
future research considering Africa’s relationship
to the world, as reflected through a number of
disciplinary perspectives.
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“The World and Africa” took shape around a
series of interconnected events on specific subthemes, including a variety of complementary
formats, such as: a series of high-profile
roundtables and panel discussions, full-day
academic conferences, an African film series
drawing from contemporary and historical films
and documentaries, as well as workshops,
speeches, concerts and an art exhibit. These
different for a invited diverse perspectives in
order to foster a deeper reflection on Africa’s
place in the world
Events included:
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Prospects for 21st Century African Agriculture
Locating Africa Within the Financial Crisis
Film Screening: Burning in the Sun
Film Screening: The End of Poverty
Film Screening: Independence Era
Film Screening: Our Friends at the Bank
Film Screening & Discussion: Freddy Ilanga
Che’s Swahili Translator
Film Screenings & Discussion: Black Gold
Film Screening and Discussion: When China
Met Africa & The Colony
Asia in Africa: New Connections in Historical
Perspective
A Walk Through Kigali: A Talk with a Rwandan
Artist
The Rebirth of Rwanda
Environment and Object: Exploring Urban
Topographies
Film Screening & Discussion: Promised Land
Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A
Regional Development Issue
Film Screening: The Market Maker
Art and Social Justice: Albie Sachs and the
Making of Constitution Hill
Power and Pressure: The Media in Africa
Conference: The Art of Citizenship in African
Cities
This series was coordinated by post-doctoral
scholar Rosalind Fredericks.
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IX. 2011-2012 PREVIEW
In 2011-2012, CGT will continue to expand its programming, offering new courses and developing
the new MA curriculum, sponsoring post-doctoral research fellows, building effective partnerships
with sovereign wealth fund to tackle global issues and fostering global debates at Columbia
through public events.
PRELIMINARY EVENTS
Transitional Governments in the Middle East and North Africa
How are the newly-formed transitional governments in the Middle East and North Africa formed and
how do they operate? From where does a transitional government derive authority? Should they be
able to incur debts, of which future generations will bear the burden?
Youth Unemployment, Neoliberalism and Economic Growth
Africa and the Middle East are experiencing a youth bulge. In the majority of African countries, the
median age has dropped between 14 and 24. In the Middle East, Central Asia and India, the median
hovers between 20 and 30. Recently, unemployment sparked a wave of unrest across North Africa and
the Middle East. How are these population bulges changing these regions, and what effect will they
have on the economy? How will they affect geopolitical stability?
Responsibility to Protect and New Standards of International Governance
This event will explore the recent use--or lack thereof--of the right to protect in regard to the ongoing
events of the Arab Spring. What role can, or should, the international community play? When should
the right to protect be acted upon, and how?
Ethics of Expulsion and the Limits of Immigration Policy
When and why is expulsion justifiable? How are recent population flows different from what we’ve
experienced in the past, and how do they expose flaws in immigration policy?
RECURRENT EVENTS IN 2011-2012
In October 2011, the SWF and Other LTI project will present a two-day conference at ESCP in Paris,
France, featuring speakers Christine Lagarde and Al Gore. In November 2011, Saskia Sassen will host
her third annual conference on urban issues, focusing on China’s super-cities and migration. In Spring
2012, an innovative economist will deliver the Fifth Annual Arrow Lecture.
Join the CGT email list at cgt.columbia.edu, friend us on Facebook
or follow us on Twitter to stay updated on our 2011-2012 events.
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X. CONTACTS
THE COMMITTEE ON GLOBAL THOUGHT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
2960 Broadway
Mail Code 5780
New York, NY 1002
Phone: (212) 851-7293
Fax: (212) 851-1859
http://cgt.columbia.edu
cgtmail@gmail.com
STAFF
ROBIN B. STEPHENSON
Director
rbs2136@columbia.edu
(212) 851-7292
SASHA DE VOGEL
Program Coordinator
sld2121@columbia.edu
(212) 851-7294
The 2010-2011 staff also included
Rebekkah Hogan, Adam Robbins and Tomas Diaz.
Special thanks to the CGT Interns:
Estelle Drent
Lelia Ledain
Zach Levine
Emma McGlennen
Vighnesh Subramanyan
Chanda Wong
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