[MGSA-L] The Right to be Different: Difference and Self-Determination in a Globalized World

June Samaras june.samaras at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 21:28:32 PDT 2011


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From: "Onassis Foundation (USA)" <news at onassisusa.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:17:46 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: The Right to be Different: Difference and Self-Determination
in a Globalized World


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The Right to be Different:

Difference and Self-Determination in a Globalized World

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

7:00 p.m.

Onassis Cultural Center

Please join us for a stimulating conversation with:

Simon Critchley

Chair of Philosophy

The New School for Social Research

Professor Critchley is also moderator of the New York Times online
philosophy series
"The Stone." His last book is How to Stop Living and Start Worrying
(Polity, 2010);
The Faith of the Faithless is forthcoming from Verso.

Andreas Kalyvas

Associate Professor of Political Science

The New School for Social Research

Professor Kalyvas's current research is oriented on the one hand
toward questions
of constituent power and radical democratic politics and, on the
other, toward the
overlapping of tyranny and dictatorship in Western political thought.
He is currently
completing a book provisionally entitled LegalizingTyranny:
Constitutional Dictatorship
and the Enemy Within.

Konstantinos Tsoukalas

Professor Emeritus of Sociology

Department of Political Science

University of Athens

Visiting Professor

Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

Columbia University

Professor Tsoukalas is the author of numerous articles and books, the latest of
which is The Invention of Alterity, published in Athens in 2011. His recent work
 is focused on questions of political corruption and on the actual
transformations
of the idea of liberty.

Moderator:

Gordon N. Bardos

Assistant Director

The Harriman Institute

Columbia University

Mr. Bardos's research focuses on problems of nationalism and ethnic
conflict, and
he is a frequent commentator on the Balkans in the U.S. and European
press. He serves
as the  Executive Director of the Association for the Study of
Nationalities (ASN),
and as a Balkans analyst for Freedom House's Freedom in the World series.

Seating is limited.

Please call 212.486.8314 weekdays, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., to make reservations.

Olympic Tower, 645 Fifth Avenue, 51st or 52nd Street, between Fifth and Madison
Avenues.

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E-mail : june.samaras at gmail.com



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