Carroll D. Clark Sociology Lecture Series for 2007

Saskia Sassen

Committee on Global Thought and Lynd Professor of Sociology
Columbia University

Deciphering the Global:
Its Spaces, Scales, and Subjects

Wednesday, October 3, 2006
4:30 p.m.
Malott Room, Kansas Union

.....Saskia Sassen has moved to Columbia University (Fall 2007) to join the newly established Committee on Global Thought and the Department of Sociology, after a decade at the University of Chicago. She is also a Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2006). She has just completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement for which she set up a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://www.eolss.net]. Other recent books are the 3rd. fully updated Cities in a World Economy (Sage, 2006), A Sociology of Globalization (Norton, 2007), and the co-edited Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order (Princeton University Press, 2005). The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Her books are translated into sixteen languages.
.......Professor Sassen serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and was Chair of the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA). She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International,Vanguardia, Clarin, the Financial Times, among others.

Co-sponsored by Institute for Policy & Social Research and Hall Center for the Humanities.