[Urbanstudy] Fw: Lecture by Saskia Sassen: Sunday, 4th November 2007

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Subject: Lecture by Saskia Sassen: Sunday, 4th November 2007

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	PUKAR is very pleased
to 
	host a lecture by

	
	 

	
	 

	
	Professor Saskia
Sassen

	
	 

	
	Lynd
Professor 
	of Sociology at Columbia University

	
	 

	
	On

	
	 

	
	
	The Global City: Power, Inequality & Politics

	
	 

	
	 

	
	Sunday, 
	November 4, 2007

	
	

	 

	
	12 noon to

	2:00 PM

	
	 

	
	Venue:
British 
	Council Auditorium, C Wing, Second Floor, Mittal Tower, Nariman
Point

	
	 

	
	 

	


	
	One of the

	most renowned Urban Sociologists of current times, Professor Saskia
Sassen 
	is often quoted for her landmark research on transnationalism, 
	denationalization and impact of globalization on the movement of labour,

	capital and urban life. A prolific author and a sought-after speaker, 
	Professor Sassen spent a decade at the University of Chicago and London 
	School of Economics. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights
: 
	From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press,
2006) 
	and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She has recently 
	completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlements

	for which she set up reserachers and activists in 30 countries. It is 
	published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support 
	Sysytems (Oxford, UK: ELOSS Publishers). Her books are traslated into
16 
	langauhges and she writes for newspapers and weeklies such as The
Guradian, 
	New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, Newsweek and Financial Times among

	others.

	
	 

	
	 





	 


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