Sponsored jointly by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.
Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room
Lane History Corner, Room 307
Michael Eskin (Ph.D., Rutgers 1998) studied comparative literature, German,
American, and Russian literature, and philosophy. Before coming to Columbia, he
was a Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is
the author of Nabokovs Version von Puskins "Evgenij Onegin": Zwischen
Version und Fiktion - eine Ubersetzungs- und fiktionstheoretische
Untersuchung (Sagner 1994); Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of
Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel'shtam, and Celan (Oxford University Press 2000);
and Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grunbein, Brodsky (Stanford University
Press; forthcoming). His articles have appeared in such venues as PMLA,
Poetics Today, Semiotica, New German Critique, and
TLS. He has also edited special issues of The Germanic Review
(77/1, 2002) and Poetics Today (25/4, 2004). Currently, he is working
on two book projects: one, dealing with philosophical autobiographies; the other
with poetic inscriptions of time.
Michael Eskin's areas of teaching and
research are: nineteenth- through twenty-first-century literature and
intellectual history; post-world war II and contemporary poetry and culture;
interdisciplinary and philosophical approaches to literature (ethics and
literature, hermeneutics, semiotics), literary theory and criticism, the theory
and practice of translation, as well as the theory of fiction and narrative.
Jointly sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of German Studies, Forum on Contemporary Europe, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Comparative Literature, and the DLCL Philosophy Reading group.
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The Forum on Contemporary Europe and the leading
publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag are pleased to announce the first in a series
of visiting lecturers by Stanford and European authors, whose works are being
published in editions by Suhrkamp, for significant impact on the worlds of
scholarship and policy.
The first visiting lecture will feature Stanford
Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, speaking on his new book, Geist und
Materie. Zur Aktualität von Erwin Schrödinger.
This event will be hosted on December 12, 2008, by Suhrkamp publishers, at their
Berlin residence. Co-sponsors of this
exchange include FCE, Suhrkamp Verlag, the Stanford Division of Humanities and
Sciences, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Club of Germany, the German Stanford Association, and the Stanford Department of German Studies.
Suhrkamp Verlag Venue
Fasanenstrasse 26
Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Germany
Pascal Lamy has served as Director-General of the World Trade Organization since September 2005.
Previously, he was the Trade Commissioner of the European Union in Brussels from 1999 to 2004.
From 1994 until 1999, he served as Director-General of the team responsible for restructuring the Credit Lyonnaise.
The beginnings of Mr. Lamy’s career are marked by time spent in civil service at the French Finance Ministry, the Inspection Générale des Finances, and the Treasury Department.
He later became adviser to Economics and Finance Minister, Jacques Delors, and to Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy. From 1984 to 1994, Mr. Lamy worked in Brussels as chief of staff to Commission President, Jacques Delors.
A member of the French Socialist Party, Mr. Lamy is also politically active in the Mouvement Europeen. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Officier de la Legion d’Honneur and has been honored with several international orders of merit.
THIS EVENT IS CO-SPONSORED BY ICA
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The FSI Program on Global Justice and the Iranian Studies Program present A Forum on Akbar Ganji's Road to Democracy in Iran.
Ganji is an Iranian journalist and dissident who was imprisoned in Tehran from 2000 to 2006 and whose writings are currently banned in Iran. He has won numerous prestigious awards in Europe and North America. His 56-day hunger strike turned him into a figure of international fame, with many heads of states and hundreds of the world's most renowned public intellectuals demanding his safety and freedom. Ganji first gained prominence in Iran as an investigative journalist when he helped uncover a government conspiracy to murder Iranian intellectuals. In response, the regime put him in prison for six years. Behind bars, Ganji continued to write and produced his famous Republican Manifesto where he argued in favor of a secular liberal democracy for Iran. In April 2008, Ganji's first English language book appeared from Boston Review Books/MIT Press: The Road to Democracy in Iran, with an introduction by Joshua Cohen and Abbas Milani.
Ganji will speak in Farsi with consecutive translation in English, and will be joined on the panel by Abbas Milani, director of the Hamid & Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford University, and Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freud Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Program on Global Justice Director Joshua Cohen will moderate the discussion.
Bechtel Conference Center
Program on Global Justice
Encina Hall West, Room 404
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
Joshua Cohen is a professor of law, political science, and philosophy at Stanford University, where he also teaches at the d.school and helps to coordinate the Program on Liberation Technology. A political theorist trained in philosophy, Cohen has written extensively on issues of democratic theory—particularly deliberative democracy and the implications for personal liberty, freedom of expression, and campaign finance—and global justice. Cohen is author of On Democracy (1983, with Joel Rogers); Associations and Democracy (1995, with Joel Rogers); Philosophy, Politics, Democracy (2010); The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays (2011); and Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals (2011). Since 1991, he has been editor of Boston Review, a bi-monthly magazine of political, cultural, and literary ideas. Cohen is currently a member of the faculty of Apple University.
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Encina Commons, Room 128A
Stanford University
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Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the department of political science. In addition, Dr. Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Milani was a professor of history and political science and chair of the department at Notre Dame de Namur University and a research fellow at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Milani was an assistant professor in the faculty of law and political science at Tehran University and a member of the board of directors of Tehran University's Center for International Studies from 1979 to 1987. He was a research fellow at the Iranian Center for Social Research from 1977 to 1978 and an assistant professor at the National University of Iran from 1975 to 1977.
Dr. Milani is the author of Eminent Persians: Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979, (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 2 volumes, November, 2008); King of Shadows: Essays on Iran's Encounter with Modernity, Persian text published in the U.S. (Ketab Corp., Spring 2005); Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran, (Mage 2004); The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution (Mage, 2000); Modernity and Its Foes in Iran (Gardon Press, 1998); Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir (Mage 1996); On Democracy and Socialism, a collection of articles coauthored with Faramarz Tabrizi (Pars Press, 1987); and Malraux and the Tragic Vision (Agah Press, 1982). Milani has also translated numerous books and articles into Persian and English.
Milani received his BA in political science and economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970 and his PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii in 1974.
Last May's passage of the 2008 Farm Bill raises the stakes for biofuel sustainability:
A substantial subsidy for the production of cellulosic ethanol starts the United States again down a path with uncertain environmental consequences. This time, however, the subsidy is for both the refiners ($1.01 per gallon) and the growers ($45 per ton of biomass), which will rapidly accelerate adoption and place hard-to-manage pressures on efforts to design and implement sustainable production practices-as will a 2007 legislative mandate for 16 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year by 2022. Similar directives elsewhere, e.g., the European.
Union's mandate that 10% of all transport fuel in Europe be from renewable sources by
2020, make this a global issue. The European Union's current reconsideration of this target
places even more emphasis on cellulosic feedstocks. The need for knowledge- and science-based policy is urgent.
PESD senior fellow and Nobel laureate in Physics, Burton Richter, explains why an inclusive internationalization policy of both ends of the nuclear fuel-cycle can provide much needed carbon-free energy while limiting the potential for the proliferation of nuclear weapons. He insists that the nuclear proliferation problem can be remedied by a tightly monitored program through international policy and diplomacy where incentives to tame proliferation are increased, inspections are more rigorous, and a sanctions program is agreed upon and adhered to.
