2004 - 2005
During the fall of 2004, the Einaudi Chair hosted three European scholars as part of the Luigi Einaudi Lecture Series. Each scholar spent one week on campus and participated in a variety of activities.
Anthropologist Ulf Hannerz of Stockholm University was the first visitor of the year and spent the week of November 8-13 on campus. Hosted by Dominic Boyer (Anthropology), Hannerz participated in a number of activities across campus. He lectured to about 80 students in Anthropology 200 (“Cultural Diversity and Contemporary Issues” taught by Andrew Willford) and met with both graduate and undergraduate students from several departments and programs. His Luigi Eianudi Lecture on “The Two Faces of Cosmopolitanism: Culture and Politics” drew a diverse audience. The Colloquium talk in Anthropology on his recent work with foreign correspondents in Tokyo, Jerusalem and Johannesburg was followed by a lively discussion. Hannerz and Boyer are currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Ethnography.
Donatella della Porta is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute, where she coordinates the DEMOS project (Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society) on the role of non-state actors in the European Union. Hosted by Sidney Tarrow (Govt), she spent the week of April 9-16 at Cornell as a guest of IES and the Program for the Study of Contentious Politics in the Government Department. During her stay she made the following three formal presentations: Workshop on Transnational Contention: "Making the Polis: Social Forums and Democracy in the Global Justice Movement," she delivered the Luigi Eianudi Lecture on "Europeanization From Below? Social Movements and the European Union" and she spoke to the Italianists' Colloquium on "The Policing of Global Protest: The G8 at Genoa and its Aftermath."
Paul Marginson (Director of the Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU) and Professor of Industrial Relations, Warwick Business School, Warwick University) visited Cornell University April 18-22. Hosted by Harry Katz (ILR), he delivered the Luigi Einaudi Lecture on April 19th and spoke of "Europeanization and Regime Competition: Labor Market Regulation and European Union Integration" which drew on his book co-authored with Professor Keith Sisson. Besides meeting with undergraduate and graduate students from a wide range of schools and departments, Professor Marginson gave a workshop on his European research with ILR and other graduate students. The potential research and teaching exchange currently in discussion between the ILR School and the business school at the University of Warwick was further boosted by Professor Marginson's visit.