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2010-2011 ANNUAL REPORT Academic Year I. Introduction 3 About the Committee on Global Thought 3 Committee Members 4 Summary of Activities 2010-2011 5 II. New Committee Members 7 III. Post-Doctoral Research Scholars 8 ANNUAL 2010-2012 Cohort 8 2011-2012 Cohort 9 IV. Visiting Scholars 10 REPORT V. New Course Offerings 11 Fall 2010 11 2010-2011 Spring 2011 12 IV. Events 13 Academic Invited Guests 14 Fall 2010 14 Year Spring 2011 15 Co-Sponsors 16 2010-2011 Events Listing 17 Fall 2010 17 Spring 2011 21 Conference and Recurring Events 24 Colloquium on Governing Interdependence 24 Cities and Eco-Crises 25 Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Long-Term Investors: a 26 New Form of Capitalism? ‘Impossible Narratives’ Historicizing Mass Trauma 29 What Does ‘Imperialism’ Mean in an Age of Global Finance? 30 Power and Pressure in the African Media 30 The Arrow Lecture 31 The Art of Citizenship in African Cities 32 VII. The Masters in Global Thought 34 VIII. Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Long-Term Investors 35 IX. The World and Africa 36 X. 2011-2012 Preview 38 Preliminary 2011-2012 Events 38 On-Going Events in 2011-2012 38 XI. Contacts 39 Annual Report prepared by Sasha de Vogel 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. 3 COMMITTEE MEMBERS CO-CHAIRS Saskia Sassen Joseph Stiglitz Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology University Professor President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue MEMBERS Akeel Bilgrami Carol Gluck Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities George Sansom Professor of History Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Patrick Bolton Michael W. Doyle Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Business and of Economics Law and Political Science Co-Director, Center on Global Governance, Columbia Law School Partha Chatterjee José Antonio Ocampo Professor of Anthropology Professor of Professional Practice at the School of International and Public Affairs Co-President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue John Coatsworth Richard G. Parker Dean, School of International and Public Affairs Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Interim Provost, Columbia University Director, Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Professor of International and Public Affairs Health and of History Mamadou Diouf Katharina Pistor Director, Institute for African Studies at the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law School of International and Public Affairs Director, Center on Global Legal Transformation Leitner Family Professor of African Studies Nicholas Dirks Sudhir Venkatesh Executive Vice President, Arts and Sciences William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 4 SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES 2010-2011 In 2010-2011, CGT developed its Isenman, Albert Sachs, and Collin Sekajugo among membership, welcoming Richard Parker, Professor others. Panel topics included: Locating Africa of Anthropology and Professor of Sociomedical within the Financial Crisis, Prospects for 21st Sciences, and Sudhir Venkatesh, William B. Century African Agriculture, Global Aid in Africa, Ransford Professor of Sociology, to the Art and Social Justice in South Africa, Power and Committee. Post-doctoral research fellows Pressure: The Media Influence in Africa Etienne Smith and Antara Haldar joined the Saskia Sassen hosted her second annual Columbia University community for two-year conference analyzing cities and acute challenges. appointments, and the 2010 Post-Doc search This year, “Cities and Eco-Crises” explored the yielded two top candidates, Hannah Appel and relationship of cities with acute ecological crises. Daniel Immerwahr, who will join CGT in Fall 2011. The conference looked at such diverse topics as CGT faculty and scholars offered new courses on land-grabs and their consequences, forced postcolonial Africa, political reform in China and migration to cities and environmental refugees, overcoming trauma in the Middle East. climate change and systems resilience to climate CGT continued to host high-profile series of variability, engineering and technology of public, multi-disciplinary conversations during the flooding, urban services and the challenges of 2010-2011 academic year. “The World and Africa,” waste management. a year-long series of panels, conferences, In October 2010, CGT hosted a 2-day workshops, film screenings and other events conference exploring how sovereign wealth funds examined Africa’s place in the world through can capitalize on their long-term horizon by illuminating important features of Africa’s investing in public goods. “Sovereign Wealth globalization, in historical perspective. Visitor Funds and Other Long-Term Investors: a New invitations included: Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Form of Capitalism?” brought together academics, of Ethiopia, Kofi Annan, Louis Kasakende, Paul policymakers, economic thinkers and fund 5 managers for a uniquely interdisciplinary set of Thought. Drawing on the strengths of the panel discussions. Keynote addresses from Vice Committee’s faculty, its interdisciplinary nature President Al Gore and George Soros were opened and the popular course rubric is has developed to the students, in conjunction with the World over the years- this degree offering will expand, Leaders Forum. Panel topics included: existing research and take the lead in this Benchmarking and Performance Standards, emerging field of study. Modeled partly on the Fostering Development through Socially degree offerings of the Committee on Social Responsible Investment, Managing Risk During Thought at the University of Chicago, one of its Macroeconomic Uncertainty, Sovereign Wealth core aims is to develop new categories for thinking Funds and World Governance. about and for interpreting existing data sets. A key In light of the popular uprisings in the stepping stone for this program is the focus on Middle East and North Africa in Spring 2011, the questions and issues that cannot be studied Committee assembled a series of panels to through a single discipline but require novel interrogate the events in Egypt. The first panel, combinations of existing and emerging types of “Egypt Arising” was held the day before the research and knowledge. This project cuts across resignation of Hosni Mubarak. The subsequent the humanities, the social sciences, the natural panels placed the Egyptian transition in the sciences, law, public health, architecture and broader context of democratic transitions and the planning. The proposed program will consist of an longer-term political and economic challenges academic year of study, including a thesis and faced by the nation. three core courses, Global Governance, Global As CGT continues to expand its influence at Political Economy, and Global Culture and Politics, the University and tackle new intellectual and which will address foundational questions of interdisciplinary horizons, CGT has submitted, for substance, method, data and interpretation to 6 review, a proposal for a MA degree in Global provide an intellectual framework. 6 II. NEW COMMIT TEE MEMBERS University President Lee Bollinger appointed two new professors to the committee in the 2010- 2011 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 Sudhir Venkatesh Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology Director, Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Health Professor Parker currently serves as Co-Chair Professor Venkatesh is a researcher and of Sexuality Policy Watch, a global collective of writer on urban neighborhoods in the United activists, researchers and policymakers, and as States. His most recent book is Gang Leader President/Director of the Brazilian for a Day (Penguin Press). Gang Leader Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), the received a Best Book award from The leading civil society organization focusing on Economist, and is currently being translated HIV/AIDS-related policy, research and advocacy into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, in Brazil. He is a medical anthropologist, whose Italian, Polish, French and Portuguese. His research focuses on the social and cultural previous work, Off the Books: The construction of gender and sexuality, the social Underground Economy of the Urban Poor aspects of HIV/AIDS, and the relationship (Harvard University Press, 2006) about illegal between social inequality, health, and disease. economies in Chicago, received a Best Book He has conducted long-term research in Brazil Award from Slate.com (2006) as well as the since the early 1980s, as well as comparative C. Wright Mills Award (2007). His first book, studies in Asia, Africa, North America, and American Project: The Rise and Fall of a other parts of Latin America and the Modern Ghetto (2000) explored life in Caribbean. Chicago public housing. 7 7 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 In Fall 2010 CGT welcomed an incoming cohort of post-doctoral Research Scholars research scholars. These fellows are signed to renewable two- year contracts and have engaged in teaching, planning and CGT’s 2009-2011 Post-Docs are organizing events as well as their own publishing and research. moving on to exciting new positions in New York City and beyond. Antara Haldar See Antara's Profile on the CGT Website Antara Haldar received her PhD in Law from Trinity College, Rosalind Fredericks University of Cambridge in 2010. She has studied both law and Rosalind Fredericks is currently an economics, holding a BA in Economics from St. Stephen's Assistant Professor at the Gallatin College, University of Delhi (2004) and a BA in Law from Trinity School of Individualized Study, NYU. She earned her Ph.D. in the College, University of Cambridge (2006). Her doctoral research critically examined the importance of formal property rights for Department of Geography at the economic development using two prominent credit access University of California, Berkeley programs targeted at poverty alleviation—land-titling in Peru and a MSc. in Geography and and microfinance in Bangladesh. In her post-doctoral research, Development Studies at the London School of Economics and she studies the interactive dynamics of formal and informal law as played out in the recent financial crisis, constructing case Political Science. studies based on events in both the US and the UK. Thomas Hill Thomas Hill received his PhD in Etienne Smith See Etienne's Profile on the CGT Website History from Trinity College, Etienne Smith received his PhD in Political Science from Sciences Cambridge. His research focuses Po Paris in Summer 2010. His research involves ethnographies of on representations of collective Senegalese immigrants, comparing political theories of memories of violence, transitional nationalism, ethnicity and intellectual traditions. Etienne is CGT’s justice and truth and reconciliation discourses, representative to the International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching initiative, and has participated in particularly in the Middle East and their discussions and programming culminating in the INTERACT with respect to the Palestinian- conference (April 2011). Over the past year he also participated Israeli conflict. Tom will continue in their “World and Africa” programming. Additionally he his research at Columbia University. designed and taught a course entitled The Politics of Identity in Africa. 8 8 III. POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH SCHOLARS B. 2011-2012 Cohort Anush Kapadia In January we selected the scholars for the incoming 2011- Anush Kapadia is currently a 2012 post-doctoral research scholar cohort. Two scholars Lecturer on Social Studies at were selected out of a pool of 500 of the brightest emerging Harvard University. He received global scholars from around the world. his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. At CGT he Hannah Appel examined comparative financial systems, focusing on the post- Hannah Appel will receive her PhD in Anthropology from war American financial system. Stanford University in June 2011. A scholar of African politics and economic infrastructure her dissertation “Crude Fictions: Ethan Kaplan Oil and the Making of Modularity in Equatorial Guinea” As of August 2011, Ethan Kaplan provides a strong research foundation for the start of her will be an Assistant Professor of fellowship with CGT. Hannah was a presenter at the May 2011 Economics at the University of CGT conference, “The Art of Citizenship in African Cities”. Maryland at College Park. Before his arrival at CGT, he held an Daniel Immerwahr appointment at the Institute for International Economic Studies Daniel Immerwahr will receive his PhD in US History from the at Stockholm University. 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. See profiles of past research scholars on the CGT Website 9 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 Vice- Chairman 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”. 10

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