Florian Bieber, Lecturer in East European Politics, University of Kent, Canterbury (UK), spent the week of September 10-16, 2006 at Cornell. Sponsored by Holly Case (History), he presented the Luigi Einaudi Lecture at 4:30-6pm on Wednesday, Sept 13. Professor Bieber has worked and taught in Serbia, Bosnia, Hungary, and Austria and holds affiliations with the European Center for Minority Issues. He also held an International Policy Fellowship through the Open Society Institute (OSI). Recent publications include Post-War Bosnia: Ethnicity, Inequality and Public Sector Governance (Palgrave, 2005); Nationalismus in Serbien vom Tode Titos bis zum Ende der Milosevic Era [Nationalism in Serbia from the Death of Tito to the End of the Milosevic Era] (Lit Verlag, 2005).

Neil Walker (Professor of European Law, European University Institute and Professor of Legal and Constitutional Theory, Department of Law, University of Aberdeen) visited Cornell February 26-March 2, 2007. His research focuses on European Law, especially institutional and constitutional dimensions and Third Pillar (i.e justice and home affairs) matters; Constitutional theory, including the application of constitutional theory to the European Union; United Kingdom public law, in particular law relating to devolution and human rights; and legal and sociological dimensions of policing on a comparative basis. Recent publications include Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (Oxford, 2004) and EU Constitutionalism in the State Constitutional Tradition (Current Legal Problems, 2006). Professor Walker gave the Luigi Einaudi Lecture at 4:30pm on Tuesday, February 27th in the AD White House. His sponsor was Mitchel Lasser (Law). Professor Walker published the working paper Europe at 50 - A Mid-Life Crisis? ‘Democratic Deficit’ and ‘Sovereignty Surplus.’ as part of the European Constitution Trilogy.

Jens Beckert (Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne) visited Cornell during the week of April 9-13, 2007. Educated in Germany, Beckert obtained an MA in Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He earned an MA in Business Administration, a Ph. D. in Sociology and did his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin. He has been a visiting fellow at Princeton Sociology Department and a John F. Kennedy Memorial fellow at Harvard University. His research focuses on the role of the economy in society with an emphasis on the economic culture of markets and organizations. He is the author of Beyond the Market: The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency (Princeton, 2002) and Unearned Wealth: The Sociology of Inheritance (Forthcoming English Translation, 2007). Recent articles include Interpenetration versus Embeddedness: The Premature Dismissal of Talcott Parsons in the New Economic Sociology in: Laurence S. Moss/A. Savchenko (eds.), Talcott Parsons. (Economic Sociologist of the 20th Century. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 65, 161-188) and The Ambivalent Role of Morality of Marketsin: Nico Stehr/Christoph Henning/Bernd Weiler (eds.), (The Moralization of the Markets. New Brunswick, London: Transaction Publishers, 109-128). He gave the Luigi Einaudi Lecture at 4:30pm on Tuesday, April 10th in the AD White House. He was sponsored by Mabel Berezin (Sociology). Professor Beckert published the working paper Rejecting the Constitution or the Market? Where does the Popular Resistance to European Integration Come From as part of the European Constitution Trilogy.