Professor Jorge Francisco Liernur
Monday 1 February, 7:00 pm – 105 Lawrence Hall (The Robert Ho Center)
“Villas Miseria: Urban Dysfunction and Distorted Development in Buenos Aires, Argentina”
Jorge Francisco Liernur directs the Center of Studies on Contemporary Architecture at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, and is a Senior Researcher at the Argentine National Council for Research on Science and Technology. At the University of Buenos Aires he was director of the Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas, and founder and director of the Juan O’Gorman Latin-American Architecture Chair. He acted as visiting scholar and critic at several universities in America and Europe, and his many studies on South American urbanism include The Threshold of the Metropolis. Cosponsored by the Geography Department and ALST.
Professor Richard Ned Lebow
Monday 8 February, 7:00 pm – 105 Little Hall (Golden Auditorium)
“Why We Fight”
Richard Ned Lebow is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and Centennial Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His most recent books are A Cultural Theory of International Relations (Cambridge, 2008) and The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders. The former won the Jervis-Schroeder Award for the best book in international relations and the British International Studies Award for the best book of the year. The latter garnered the Alexander L. George Award for the best book in political psychology. His Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Cosponsored by the Political Science Department.