Announcements
April 22, 2010: Renowned author Jamaica Kincaid gave a reading, followed by an interview with Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
April 14, 2010: Salman Rushdie, David Ignatius, Michael Schudson, and Lee C. Bollinger spoke on issues related to President Bollinger's recent book, "Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century". Michael Doyle chaired the discussion.
March 31, 2010: This talk featured David Harvey, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY); Prabhat Patnaik, Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Duncan Foley, Leo Model Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research; and Perry Mehrling, Professor of Economics at Barnard College. Chairing was Sanjay Reddy, Professor of Economics, Barnard College.
March 25, 2010: "Taking Stock of the Financial Crisis" featured Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laurette and University Professor at Columbia University; Prabhat Patnaik, Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Founder and Chair of International Development Economics Associates and Board member of the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development, Geneva; and Justin Yifu Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank.
February 17, 2010: Jonathan Cole, Richard Axel, Matthew Goldstein, Geoffrey Stone, and Claude Steele speak on "The Great American University." Video courtesy of C-SPAN.
December 11, 2009: Amartya Sen delivered the Annual Kenneth Arrow Lecture titled "Social Choice and Individual Values." Eric Maskin responded, and Joseph Stiglitz responded.
December 3, 2009: Noam Chomsky delivered the Fifth Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture titled "The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism."
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