News and Updates

Emilio Spadola to speak on Islam in urban Morocco

Former post-doctoral fellow Emilio Spadola will give a lecture entitled "From Veiled Writing to Technologized Voice: Amulets, Exorcism, and the Call to Islam in Urban Morocco" at Teacher's College on Thursday, October 22, 2009.

Stiglitz to Speak at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

Joseph Stiglitz will discuss informal urban economies in the Global South at the ECOGRAM II conference.

Post-Doctoral Fellow Alison Post Receives William Anderson Award

Dr. Post is the 2009 recipient of the American Political Science Association's William Anderson Award for her dissertation, "Liquid Assets and Fluid Contracts: Explaining the Uneven Effects of Water and Sanitation Privatization." The Anderson award is given annually for the best dissertation in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental relations, state and local politics.

Post-doc FAQs

Questions about the application process and fellowhip year answered here.

Call for Papers: Building an African Presence Conference

The conference works from the premise that these political and cultural transformations and the efforts of peoples of European and African descent operated within single analytic framework. The result of their efforts was the reconstitution of Africa within a world context. The conference seeks papers that consider how to reframe this historical period with Africa located at the center of what scholars have previously approached as a strictly western or European discussion, and the ways that Africans and people of African descent rearticulated and reimagined Africa within this global discussion about the future of civilization and humanity.

Contemplating Financial Design in the Aftermath

Our lecture series on the financial series continues in the fall semester with an assortment of panels. Speakers forthcoming.

Stiglitz on the Financial Crisis: A Fundraiser for the Welbodi Partnership

On May 26th, Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Friedman will discuss "THE $12 TRILLION TRAP: The Economic Crisis, the Obama Administration's Response and Its Global Impact" in a benefit event for the Welbodi Partnership, a charity dedicated to improving the provision of pediatric care in Sierra Leone.

Talking about the Financial Crisis at CGT

A series of events in 2009 will explore the current economic situation. Speakers have included Joseph Stiglitz, Prabhat Patniak and Liaquat Ahamed.

Committee Faculty Speak at Interdisciplinary Development & Globalization Symposium

Jose Antonio Ocampo, Saskia Sassen, Joseph Stiglitz and Katharina Pistor will participate in the Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium on Development and Globalization on March 28, 2009 in Uris 142.

The symposium is composed of interdisciplinary panels to discuss current research going on at Columbia University by both faculty and PhD students.  These panels focus on core themes of Poverty, Inequality, and Globalization; Global Governance and Global Public Goods; and Development Policy.

Reconceptualizing Migration: Panelist Bios

CGT welcomes these scholars to Reconceptualizing Migration: Economies, Societies, Bio-Politics.

Conference: Reconceptualizing Migration: Economies, Societies, Bio-Politics

Migration is one of the most controversial and consequential aspects of the current era of globalization.  While the mobility of goods and capital has been promoted, the movement of human beings across borders is looked upon with concern and even hostility. Migrant flows and patterns change as people react to and shape the economic and social dynamics that they face. Local communities create new governance structures that are often at odds with those of their nation-state. Reconceptualizing Migration: Economies, Societies, and Bio-politics will provide an opportunity to explore such processes and their implications.

Glied & Neidell Study: Having Good Teeth Can Pay Off

Is good oral health valued in the labor market?  While there are obvious health benefits to fluoridated water, there are economic benefits as well.  Co-authors Sherry Glied and Matthew Neidell of Columbia University studied the effect of oral health on adult wages by examining the variation in access to fluoridated water during childhood.

Can Obama Stimulus Plan Create Jobs? Stiglitz on NPR’s All Things Considered

The unemployment numbers released Friday were dismal, and President-elect Barack Obama responded Saturday by unveiling more details of his plan to create or save up to 4 million jobs. Host Rebecca Roberts visits a busy Washington, D.C., jobs center and talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who has his doubts about the plan.

Akeel Bilgrami named New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow

The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers announces the selection of its tenth class of Fellows: fifteen exceptional creative writers, independent scholars, and academics, coming to the Library from as near as Brooklyn and as far away as Warsaw. The Fellows, whose appointments were announced today by Library President Dr. Paul LeClerc and Jean Strouse, the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Center, will use the research collections and online resources of The New York Public Library’s landmark Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street to pursue a variety of book projects. They will be in residence at the Center from September 2008 through May 2009.

President Bollinger Names Joan Coatsworth Dean of SIPA

On September 9, 2008 John Coatsworth was officially appointed Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs.

Doyle Elected Chair of U.N. Democracy Fund’s Board

Columbia Law School Professor Michael W. Doyle has been elected chairman of the board of the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), which supports projects around the world designed to empower civil society in order to increase popular participation, ensure that people can exercise their democratic rights and develop pluralistic media.