Sounds and Fury

March 29 "Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Transforming Japanese Capitalism"
Steven Vogel, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley。
這個學者的日本研究和我關心的主題很接近。

March 30,31 Social Justice in Transatlantic Perspective conference
Welcome and Opening Statements
David Freedberg
Alan Brinkley
Maurizio Vaudagna

Keynote Address: Joseph E. Stiglitz


2:30 20th-Century Notions of Social
Justice: Historical Views
Chair: Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University)
Federico Romero (University of Florence)
Linda Gordon (New York University)
Isaac Kramnick (Cornell University)

Friday, March 31
9:30: Contemporary Transformations in
Social Rights
Chair: Volker Berghahn (Columbia University)
Goran Therborn (Swedish Academy of Advanced
Studies in the Social Sciences)
Nancy Fraser (New School University)
Dorothy Sue Cobble (Rutgers University)


12:30: Lunch break
2:00 ? 5:00: The Politics and Prospects of Social
Rights
Chair: Elisabetta Vezzosi (University of Trieste)
Jane Lewis (London School of Economics)
Carol Sanger (Columbia University School of Law)
Julian Zelizer (Boston University)


April 5 Sun Zhenyu, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the WTO
"China: A Responsible Member in the WTO"
有機會看看中國駐WTO大使也不錯。


April 3 Joseph Stiglitz on "The True Costs of the Iraq War"。
一定大爆滿。


另外一個不是學術的討論會：六零年代最重要的學運領袖，修倫港宣言起草人，並至今都是activist的Tom Hayden演講。
March 30: Hayden presents his book The Port Huron Statement and then sits down to speak with Laura Flanders for a future broadcast on Air America Radio(WLIB 1190AM).
Discussion, Q&A and Signing. Wine will be served.