Lecture by Saskia Sassen: Globalisation and Cultural Mobility
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Friday September 26th 2003, 5pm | VLEKHO Hogeschool | Auditorium 154 | Koningstraat 336, 1030 Brussels
The Green Academic Network, Agalev and the Oikos Foundation invite you to the lecture Globalisation and cultural mobility by Saskia Sassen
An inspiring analysis of the effects of globalisation on our way of life and on sustainable development.
Panel
Arnold Cassola, secretary general of the European Federation of Green Parties;
Dirk Holemans, political secretary of Agalev
Prof. dr. Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. She is one of the most important and incisive commentators on the processes and effects of globalization. Currently she is completing her forthcoming book Denationalization: Economy and Polity in a Global Digital Age (Princeton University Press 2003) based on her five year project on governance and accountability in a global economy. Her most recent books are Guests and Aliens (New York: New Press 1999) and her edited book Global Networks/Linked Cities (New York and London: Routledge 2002). The Global City is out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. She is co-director of the Economy Section of the Global Chicago Project, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Data Sets, a Member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and Chair of the newly formed Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Committee of the SSRC.
Entrance fee: € 5,-
Registration: wouter.devriendt@agalev.be
Published on 26 September 2003 by RISQ
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