Saskia Sassen

"Neither Global nor National: Novel Assemblages of Territory, Authority and Rights"

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies 
1501 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201

Saskia Sassen is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.

Her new books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2008,) and A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton, 2007).

Other recent books are the 3rd fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage, 2006), the edited Deciphering the Global (Routledge, 2007), and the co-edited Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order (Princeton University Press, 2005).

She has just completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement with a network of researchers and activists in more than 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS Publishers). The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Her books have been translated into 19 languages.

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 chaired the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA).

Sassen has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, OpenDemocracy.net, Vanguardia, Clarin, Financial Times, and Huffington Post, among others.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies.