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Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, Mona El-Ghobashy, Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at Barnard College, and Jean-Pierre Filiu, Associate Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, spoke on the continuing political developments in Egypt. This talk was moderated by Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.

Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, Mona El-Ghobashy, Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at Barnard College, and Jean-Pierre Filiu, Associate Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, spoke on the continuing political developments in Egypt. This talk was moderated by Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.

Noam Chomsky delivered the Fifth Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture titled "The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism."

Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor and Staff Writer for The New Yorker magazine, and Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation, conducted a post mortem on the previous day's presidential election.  Alan Brinkley, Provost of Columbia University, chaired.

This is a video highlight of the panel that took place on Wednesday, November 5, 2008. Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor and Staff Writer for The New Yorker magazine, Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation, and Alan Brinkley, Columbia University historian conduct a post mortem on the previous day's presidential election. Sponsored by The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.

Benedict Anderson, Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government, and Asian Studies at Cornell University, is the author of "Imagined Communities" and a historian and theorist of nationalism. He visited the Heyman Center to speak on the subject of cosmoplitanism.

A public conversation between Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate economist, and Prabhat Patnaik, perhaps India's most distinguished left wing economist.