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 2010-2012 Cohort 8 2011-2012 Cohort 9 ANNUAL IV. Visiting Scholars 10 V. New Course Offerings 11 REPORT Fall 2010 11 Spring 2011 12 2010-2011 IV. Events 13 Invited Guests 14 Academic Fall 2010 14 Spring 2011 15 Year Co-Sponsors 16 2010-2011 Events Listing 17 Fall 2010 17 Spring 2011 21 Conference and Recurring Events 24 Colloquium on Governing Interdependence 24 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 ‘’ 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 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 . 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 , Nobel Laureate University Professor, and , Robert S. Lynd Professor of , CGT has developed critical perspectives on 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 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 Law and 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. 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 , 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 COMMITTEE 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 ( 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.

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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 Research Scholars In Fall 2010 CGT welcomed an incoming cohort of post-doctoral research scholars. These fellows are signed to renewable two- CGT’s 2009-2011 Post-Docs are year contracts and have engaged in teaching, planning and moving on to exciting new organizing events as well as their own publishing and research. positions in New York and beyond. Antara Haldar See Antara's Profile on the CGT Website

Rosalind Fredericks Antara Haldar received her PhD in Law from Trinity College, Rosalind Fredericks is currently an University of Cambridge in 2010. She has studied both law and Assistant Professor at the Gallatin economics, holding a BA in Economics from St. Stephen's School of Individualized Study, College, University of Delhi (2004) and a BA in Law from Trinity NYU. She earned her Ph.D. in the College, University of Cambridge (2006). Her doctoral research Department of Geography at the critically examined the importance of formal property rights for University of California, Berkeley economic development using two prominent credit access and a MSc. in Geography and programs targeted at poverty alleviation—land-titling in Peru Development Studies at the and microfinance in Bangladesh. In her post-doctoral research, London School of Economics and she studies the interactive dynamics of formal and informal law Political Science. as played out in the recent financial crisis, constructing case 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, Cambridge. His research focuses Etienne Smith received his PhD in Political Science from Sciences on representations of collective Po Paris in Summer 2010. His research involves ethnographies of memories of violence, transitional Senegalese immigrants, comparing political theories of justice and truth and nationalism, ethnicity and intellectual traditions. Etienne is CGT’s reconciliation discourses, representative to the International Network to Expand Regional particularly in the Middle East and and Collaborative Teaching initiative, and has participated in with respect to the Palestinian- their discussions and programming culminating in the INTERACT Israeli conflict. Tom will continue conference (April 2011). Over the past year he also participated his research at Columbia in their “World and Africa” programming. Additionally he University. designed and taught a course entitled The Politics of Identity in Africa. 8

8 III. POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH SCHOLARS

B. 2011-2012 Cohort

In January we selected the scholars for the incoming 2011- Anush Kapadia 2012 post-doctoral research scholar cohort. Two scholars Anush Kapadia is currently a were selected out of a pool of 500 of the brightest emerging Lecturer on Social Studies at global scholars from around the world. Harvard University. He received his PhD in anthropology from Hannah Appel Columbia University. At CGT he examined comparative financial Hannah Appel will receive her PhD in Anthropology from systems, focusing on the post- Stanford University in June 2011. A scholar of African politics war American financial system. and economic infrastructure her dissertation “Crude Fictions: Oil and the Making of Modularity in Equatorial Guinea” Ethan Kaplan provides a strong research foundation for the start of her As of August 2011, Ethan Kaplan fellowship with CGT. Hannah was a presenter at the May 2011 will be an Assistant Professor of CGT conference, “The Art of Citizenship in African Cities”. Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park. Before Daniel Immerwahr his arrival at CGT, he held an appointment at the Institute for Daniel Immerwahr will receive his PhD in US History from the International Economic Studies University of California Berkeley. His research has centered at Stockholm University. around three themes: the history of the United States in the world, intellectual history, and the . 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 , 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 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 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. 11 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.

12 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.

13 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 • Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University Governor • • Pranab Bardan, University of California, Berkeley Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University • • Shannon Beebe, Assistant Army Attaché, US Glenn-Marie Lange, World Bank Mission Angola • Daniel Large, University of London • Patrick Bolton, Columbia University • Perry Merhling, Barnard College • Deborah Brautigam, American University in • Adam McKeown, Columbia University Cairo • Akbar Noman, Columbia University • Olivier de Schutter, Columbia University • Jose Antonio Ocampo. Columbia University • Shanta Devarajan, World Bank • Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spanish Prime • Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University Minister • Marc Francis, Documentary Filmmaker • , 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 • Tang Xiaoyang, New School International Trade and Development • Johannes Urpelainen, Columbia University • Abdoulie Janneh, United Nations • Paige West, Barnard College • Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics • Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister

14 SPRING 2011 • Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University • Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Former Finance Minister • Tony Barclay, Columbia University of Poland • • Scott Barrett, Columbia University Loren B. Landau, University of the Witwatersrand • Kaushik Basu, Ministry of Finance of India • Theo Lubke, Federal Reserve Bank of New York • Tendai Biti, Finance Minister of Zimbabwe • Karina Nagin, Columbia University • Aaron Brown, Broadcast Journalist • Sahar Nasr, World Bank • C.P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru • University 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 • Linda Polman, Journalist • Juan Cole, Journalist • • Mona El-Ghobashy, Barnard College Nicole Pope, Journalist • • Hamid El-Said, Manchester Metropolitan Andrzej Rapaczynski, Columbia University University Business School • Sanjay Reddy, The New School • Abdelaziz Ezzelarab, American University in • Y.V. Reddy, Indian Administrative Service Cairo • Eelco Runia, University of Groningen • 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 • , Harvard University • Peter Goodman, The New York Times • Alfred Stepan, Columbia University • , CUNY Graduate Center • Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University • Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University • Miriam Ticktin, The New School for Social • James Hoge, Watch Research • Sean Jacobs, The New School for Social • Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Research • Mabel Wilson, Columbia University • Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University • Sitaram Yechury, Communist Party of India • Mirjam Kunkler, Princeton University

Note: This list does not include conference speakers.

15 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 • Heyman Center for the Humanities University Law School • Institute for African Studies • Center on Global Legal Transformation at • Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life Columbia Law School • International Media, Advocacy and • Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Communications Specialization at SIPA Religion • ISERP • Columbia University Press • Mailman School of Public Health • Columbia University Alliance Program with Science Po • The Middle East Institute • Department of Middle East, South Asian and • Office of the President African Studies • Program for Economic Research • Department of Sociology • School of International and Public Affairs • Earth Institute • Weatherhead East Asian Institute • East Central European Center • World Leaders Forum • Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

EXTERNAL

• CNRS/NYU Center for International Research in • Museum for African Art the Humanities & Social Sciences, UMI 3199 • The New Press Transitions • Sovereign Wealth Fund Research Initiative , • Demos Universite Paris-Dauphine • Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Initiative

16 EVENTS LISTING FALL 2010

September 13, Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: September 22, The Current Global Economy and its India and China Impact http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/talk_on_india_and http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/prime_minister_m _china/ eles_zenawi_keynote_address/ This lecture was given by PRANAB BARDHAN, His Excellency Prime Minister MELES ZENAWI of Professor of Economics at the University of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia California, Berkeley who has conducted theoretical presented this keynote address to launch CGT's and field studies research on rural institutions in The World and Africa series. poor countries, on political economy of development policies, and on international trade. Co-sponsored by the World Leaders Forum

September 20, Film Screening: Burning in the Sun September 23, Listening There: Scenes from Ghana http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/burning_in_the_su Exhibition n/ http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/listening_there_sc Burning in the Sun tells the story of Daniel enes_from_ghana_exhibition/ Dembele as he returns to his homeland in Mali to This collaboration between Mabel Wilson and start a local business building solar panels – the Peter Tolkin is an exhibition of photographs and first of its kind in the sun drenched nation. videos by SideProjects that cuts a spatial and temporal section through the west African nation’s Co-presented with African Film Festival, Inc. architecture, its cities, peoples, and social spaces. Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation September 21, The New Economic Order and the Millennium Development Goals September 29, Global Aid in Africa http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/prime_minister_of http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/global_aid_in_afri _spain_jose_luis_rodriguez_zapatero/ ca/ This event featured an address by Prime Minister PAUL ISENMAN, LOUIS KASEKENDE, and JOSEPH of Spain, JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO STIGLITZ engaged in a conversation specifically followed by a question and answer session with aimed at highlighting the important ways that the audience. global aid in Africa has been reconfigured during the recent financial crisis. Co-sponsored by the World Leaders Forum Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the Earth Institute

17 October 1, Conference: Cities and Eco-Crises October 8, The Strategy of Sustainable Energy http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cities_and_eco_cri Transitions ses/ http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/the_strategy_of_s This conference convened by SASKIA SASSEN ustainable_energy_transitions/ brought together a diverse group of scholar- JOHANNES URPELAINEN investigated the strategic urbanists, biologists, nanotechnologists, and logic of sustainable energy transitions, defined as sustainable cities activists- to address the relation extensive deployment of clean energy to reduce between environment and cities. the environmental burden of a national economy.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of October 11, Prospects for 21st Century Agriculture Architecture, Planning and Preservation and ISERP 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. Co-sponsored by the Institute for African Studies

18 October 21, Film Screening & Discussion: Freddy November 15, Global Power City Index 2010 Ilanga, Che’s Swahili Translator http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/global_power_city http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/Hansing/ _index_2010/ This debut documentary of KATRIN HANSING tells A strategic tool for assessment of urban the story of Freddy Ilanga, an African man whose competitiveness, The Global Power City Index life was abruptly transformed through a chance (GPCI), produced by the Mori Memorial encounter with one of the great icons of the 20th Foundation, is now recognized as one of the major Century. city indexes in the world.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for African Studies Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation October 22, CGT Seminar: The Bureau-Contracting State in China November 18, Film Screening & Discussion: Black http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cgt_seminar_the_b Gold ureau-contracting_state_in_china/ http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/film_screenings_bl In her research, YUEN YUEN ANG argues that China ack_gold/ has developed an unusually high-powered but This film by NICK and MARC FRANCIS investigates opportunistic public organization, a model that she the trade challenges faced by the 74,000 struggling labels as bureau-contracting. Ethiopian coffee farmers facing bankruptcy.

November 3, Locating Africa Within the Financial November 29, Third Annual Arrow Lecture: Crisis Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/locating_africa_wit http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/third_arrow_lectur hin_the_financial_crisis/ e_speculation_trading_and_bubbles/ This panel connected CGT’s financial crisis series JOSE SCHEINKMAN spoke on “Speculation, Trading, during the 2009-2010 academic year (A New and Bubbles” and PATRICK BOLTON, SANDY (dis)Order?) and built upon the Global Aid in Africa GROSSMAN, KEN ARROW and JOSEPH STIGLITZ panel (part of the World and Africa Series), to served as discussants in 2010’s Arrow Lecture. locate Africa within the current financial crisis. JOSEPH STIGLITZ, JOMO KWAME Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Press and SUNDARAM, CHEIKH KANE, and SHANTA the Program for Economic Research DEVARAJAN served as panelists and AKBAR NOMAN moderated. 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

Co-sponsored by the Institute for African Studies

19 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. December 3, Asia in Africa: New Connections in Historical Perspective The Art of Collin Sekajugo http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/asia_in_africa_ne Sekajugo, the founder and director of Ivuka Arts Kigali, w_connections/ a project that aims to develop Rwanda’s contemporary cultural heritage by honing the skills of promising This panel sought to explore the possibility of young artists and providing platforms for their building mutually beneficial partnerships that exposure, exhibited his work in Low Library 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.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for African Studies 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

20 EVENTS LISTING SPRING 2011

January 26, Environment and Object: Exploring February 10, Egypt Arising Urban Topographies http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/egypt_arising/ http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/environment_and_ This event featuring SASKIA SASSEN, JUAN COLE, object_exploring_urban_topographies/ MONA EL-GHOBASHY, JEAN-PIERRE FILIU, and Prominent Senegalese artist VIYE DIBA discussed RASHID KHALIDI explored the unrest in Egypt and his recent work created using found objects and the Middle East as it was occurring. materials from cities including his home city of Dakar. The lecture was presented in French with Co-sponsored by the Alliance Program, MESAAS, English translation and was followed by a Q&A the Heyman Center for the Humanities, and the session. Middle East Institute

Co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies February 17, Conference: ‘Impossible Narratives’ – and the Museum for African Art 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.

21 February 17, Locating Social Enterprise in March 28, Conference: What Does ‘Imperialism’ Development Mean in an Age of Global Finance? - A Symposium http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/locating_social_en over Two Evenings terprise_in_development/ http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/what_does_imper This panel on social enterprise and sustainability ialism_mean_in_an_age_of_global_financea_sym featured TONY BARCLAY, PAUL COLLIER and ALEX posium_over/ NICHOLLS, moderated by KARINA NAGIN and JOSE This symposium, over two evenings, explored ANTONIO OCAMPO. current issues with global finance, featuring C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR, DUNCAN FOLEY, , Cosponsored by SIPA and the Earth Institute. DAVID HARVEY, JOMO KWAME SUNDARAM, PRABHAT PATNAIK, SITARAM YECHURY. February 18, Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development Issue Cosponsored by the Heyman Center for the http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/contemporary_mi Humanities. gration_to_south_africa/ This event was an attempt to unpack the approach March 30, India During and After the Financial to international migration that has informed South Crisis Africa's migration policies in the post-apartheid http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/india_during_and period from a regional development _after_the_global_financial_crisis/ perspective. It featured speakers LOREN B. This panel discussion explored current issues in LANDAU, AURELIA SEGATTI, and SEAN JACOBS and the Indian economy, featuring JOSEPH STIGLITZ, MIRIAM TICKTIN. AMARTYA SEN, Y.V. REDDY, KAUSHIK BASU and PRABHAT PATNAIK. Cosponsored by The Institute for African Studies. Cosponsored by the Heyman Center for the March 3, Film Screening: The Market Maker Humanities. http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/film_screening_di scussion_the_market_maker/ April 12, The Fourth Annual Arrow Lecture: “Time This film, hosted by anchor AARON BROWN, tells and Persons in the Economics of Climate Change” the dramatic, intimate story of an Ethiopian http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/the_fourth_annua woman on a mission – and a world of trouble l_arrow_lecture_time_and_persons_in_the_econo standing in her way. 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.

22 April 18, Egypt’s Transition to Democracy: Political the Media Sector Relate to Economic and Economic Challenges Development’. The line up of speakers included http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/egypts_transition_ ANYA SCHIFFRIN and JOSEPH STIGLITZ. to_democracy_political_and_economic_challenges / Cosponsored by the International Media, Advocacy The panel explored the critical political and and Communications Specialization at SIPA. economic challenges faced by Egypt in its transition to democratic governance. Speakers included April 28, What is Wrong With Humanitarian Aid?: HAMID EL-SAID, ABDELAZIZ EZZELARAB, SAHAR IMAC Brownbag with Linda Polman and Nicole NASR and LORI WALLACH, with moderator Pope KATHARINA PISTOR 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 topics on ‘Media and the Extractive Sector’, Couldn’t be there? ‘Transparency and Governance in Africa: The Work Watch videos of past events of NGOs’, ‘African Media, and the on the CGT website. Politics of Representation’ and ‘How Do Changes in

23 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 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

24 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, • 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 25 Co-sponsored by Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and ISERP

25 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 26

26 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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27 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 World28 Leaders Forum. Funded by Amundi Asset Management and Credit Agricole CIB.

28 ‘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, 29UMI 3199 Transitions, and The Middle East Institute, Columbia University

29 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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30 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 • Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University • Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University

Persons and Time in the Welfare Economics of Climate Change • Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge • Scott Barrett, Columbia University • Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University • Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University • Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University

Co-Sponsored by Columbia University Press and the Program for Economic Research 31

31 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) 32

32 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 33 School of Individualized Study.

33 VI. THE MASTERS IN GLOBAL THOUGHT In 2011, the Committee developed and proposed the establishment of a master’s degree in global thought. The curriculum is currently under review, and CGT hopes to welcome its first class in 2013.

Modeled partly on the Committee on scholars on the subject. Increasing the scope and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, one of space of global study is a rapidly evolving trend its core aims is to develop new categories for among many universities in the country. The thinking about the global, and for interpreting curriculum of the Masters in Global Thought will existing data. A key stepping stone for this be part of Columbia’s expansive new global program is the focus on questions and issues that programming, including the Global Centers, the cannot be studied through a single discipline but World Leaders program, the INTERACT initiative, require novel combinations of existing and and the undergraduate Global Core. It will also emerging types of research and knowledge. This is feed into and benefit from such existing cross- a project that cuts across the humanities, the disciplinary programs engaging some of the social sciences, the natural sciences, law, business, world’s major challenges in the Mailman School of public health, architecture and planning, while Public Health and the Earth Institute. emphasizing the conceptual development of new The proposed Master’s program will categories for gathering and interpreting consist of one academic year of study. Three core knowledge of the contemporary world. courses will address foundational questions of In its conferences, debates and courses, substance, method, data, and interpretation to CGT has taken the first critical steps towards cross- provide the intellectual framework for the disciplinary work among Committee members on program. These three courses are: Global particular subjects, notably critical perspectives on Governance, Global Political Economy, and Global global governance and on finance, the political Culture and Politics. To connect this intellectual economy of development, governing framework to the world of practice we will interdependence, secularism and religion, cultural examine pressing conditions and challenges in the dimensions of major global processes, Africa as a world today. Beyond required coursework, the strategic space for exploring many of these M.A. expects its students to be engaged deeply questions, and cities as a frontline where major with one topic of their choice, to do rigorous current transformations take on acute forms and research and writing about the topic in their become urgent. The Committee’s work on these Master’s thesis. To anchor this work in concrete subjects is the platform from which to launch the regional examples, the program will have a Masters in Global Thought. prerequisite of proficiency in a language in Columbia University stands among the addition to English. 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

34 VII. SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS AND OTHER LONG-TERM INVESTORS

In 2010, CGT, led by Committee Member Disclosure Project. CGT Members Katharina Pistor, Patrick Bolton, partnered with the Sovereign Jose Antonio Ocampo and Saskia Sassen all Wealth Funds Research Initiative at Universite participated. Paris-Dauphine (SWFRI), sponsored by Credit CGT has compiled and edited a conference Agricole Group (CA-CIB and Amundi), to proceedings volume to be released in 2012, coordinate a series of conferences and working bringing together the groundbreaking work in this sessions with sovereign wealth fund managers, relatively new and unexplored subject matter. academics and policymakers. The SWF and Other During the Summer 2011, several smaller, LTI project aims to develop strategies for SWFs to selective working groups will be hosted to capitalize on their long-term investment horizon operationalize new investment tools for fund and mandate to consider inter-generational well- managers. PhD students in Columbia University’s being, while mitigating climate risk and global Department of Economics, under the leadership financial instability. of former CGT post-doc Dr. Rachel Harvey, are The project’s inaugural event, “Sovereign carrying out original research about SWF Wealth Funds and Other Long-Term Investors: A investment strategies and obstacles. New Form of Capitalism?” held in October 2010, In October 17-18, 2011, CGT and SWFRI featured keynote addresses from Joseph Stiglitz, will host a second annual conference at ESCP, Al Gore, George Soros, James Wolfensohn and Paris, France. “SWF and Other LTI: From Savings others. Representatives from 30 funds attended, Glut to Sustainable Growth” will feature keynote representing more than $7 trillion in assets under addresses from Al Gore and Christine Lagarde. management. Unlike other conferences organized CGT is also developing an executive for SWF managers, SWF and Other LTI brings education program for fund managers, to address together an innovative mix of academics, funds’ human capital issues, to launch in investors, policymakers and non-governmental 2012/2013. organizations, including the UN and the Carbon 35 VIII. THE WORLD AND AFRICA

http://cgt.columbia.edu/conferences/world_and_africa_series/ “The World and Africa” was series of Asian investment on the continent, the evolving panels, art and film exhibitions, and conferences contours of global aid to Africa, and the impact of offering a multi-faceted examination of the the financial crisis on the region. This element of features and consequences of Africa's the agenda aimed to shed new light onto some globalization, in historical perspective. classic and innovative debates considering Perspectives which locate Africa off the patterns of uneven development and prospects map of global integration profoundly underplay for growth on the continent. the continent’s past and present embeddedness In addition to the economic analyses, the in the world. Instead, an analysis of the terms of series included a much broader inquiry into novel Africa’s global connections is crucial for a flows of people, ideas, cultures, and capital consideration of what lies ahead for African between the world and Africa. In this light, it citizens, as global citizens. In light of this interrogated how Africa recalibrates challenge, CGT hosted a series of public, multi- understandings of the world on a range of key disciplinary conversations to examine Africa’s topics, including: urbanism, migration, place in the world through illuminating important secularism, and citizenship. Precisely through new features and consequences of Africa’s exploring these concerns, the series probed the globalization, in historical perspective. concept of “Africa” as a category of analysis and A central element of “The World and the limits implied by conventional discourses Africa” involved a critical appraisal of African used to describe it. This served to advance critical economies that takes stock of important new understandings and open up new avenues for dynamics, actors, and institutions shaping African future research considering Africa’s relationship development trajectories. Key subjects included to the world, as reflected through a number of the future of African agriculture, the explosion of disciplinary perspectives. 36 “The World and Africa” took shape around a series of interconnected events on specific sub- themes, 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:

• 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.

37 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.

38 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 [email protected]

STAFF

ROBIN B. STEPHENSON Director [email protected] (212) 851-7292

SASHA DE VOGEL Program Coordinator [email protected] (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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