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Friday, November 21, 2008

5:15pm - 7:00pm
Gambling and Rationality: Lottery Play From a Sociological Perspective
  • Roberto Garvia – Professor at the Departamento de Sociología y Ciencia Política, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Pr, Georgetown University
5:15pm - 7:00pm
Gibbon and the Invention of Gibbon: Chapters 15 and 16 of the Decline and Fall Revisited
  • J.G.A. Pocock – Harry C. Black emeritus professor, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday, November 20, 2008

1:30pm - 3:00pm
The Challenge of Higher Education: A View from the Czech Republic
  • Jan Sokol – Former Czech Minister of Education, and first dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

5:30pm - 7:30pm
'Transculturalism', France, Europe and the US
  • Patrick Weil – Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Senior Research Fellow, French National Research Center, University of Paris

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Friday, November 14, 2008

The Downside of Deliberative Public Administration
3:15am - 5:00am
The Downside of Deliberative Public Administration
  • Lucio Bacarro – Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
  • Archon Fung – Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Thursday, November 13, 2008

5:15pm - 7:00pm
'Glimpses in the Blinding Light': Holocaust Victims Reflect on Their Tormentors
  • Mark Roseman – Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University
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