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One hour away! Join us for the Plenary Session & Garden Conversation with Saskia Sassen
"De-Theorizing in order to Re-Theorize"
5 June 2021 - 16:00 PM Chicago CST / 17:00 PM EST
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought, which she chaired from 2009 till 2015. She is a student of cities, immigration, and states in the world economy, with inequality, gendering and digitization three key variables running though her work. Born in the Netherlands, she grew up in Argentina and Italy, studied in France, was raised in five languages, and began her professional life in the United States. She is the author of eight books and the editor or co-editor of three books. Together, her authored books are translated in over twenty languages. She has received many awards and honors, among them thirteen doctor honoris causa, over 25 named lectures, named one of the hundred women in science, the 2013 Principe de Asturias Prize in the Social Sciences, election as a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of the Sciences of the Netherlands, made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government; and most recently awarded The Edgar de Picciotto International Prize.
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87004271607?pwd=Z3V3UFlHaStYcHhjMFVjdXlXek90Zz09
Meeting ID: 870 0427 1607
Passcode: E21
Would it be possible to watch this and the other sessions later? are they been recorded? Thank you.
For some reason, the host removed me from this meeting (inadvertently), so Zoom will not allow me to rejoin it.
I was able to logon through my South Korean cellphone.