Lunch-debate on "Barack Obama and the Race Question in America"
Randall Kennedy is a professor at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of race relations. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina.
For his education he attended St. Albans School, Princeton University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Awarded the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Race, Crime, and the Law, Mr Kennedy writes for a wide range of scholarly and general interest publications. His most recent books are Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (2002), Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption (2003), and Sellout (2007). A member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, Mr. Kennedy is also a Charter Trustee of Princeton University.
"BARACK OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY: ONE YEAR AND COUNTING"
featuring STEPHEN M. WALT, The Robert & Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Monday, January 11, 2010, 6:30-8:00 pm
at the Académie Diplomatique Internationale
4bis Avenue Hoche - 75008 Paris
The talk will be in English and followed by a cocktail reception.
Just a year on the world stage and President Barack Obama finds himself immersed in a hyperactive foreign policy universe. From clenched fists and nuclear disarmament, to just and unjust wars and a Nobel Peace Prize, his global impact on geopolitical crises and on the international community as a whole is inestimable. Stephen Walt, one of Harvard's preeminent experts on international affairs, will share with us his perspective on Obama's global challenges and opportunities at this exciting, perhaps precarious, and historically critical time.
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Rene Belfer Professsor of International Relations at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. He has been a Resident Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and he has also served as a consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense University. He presently serves on the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, International Relations, and Journal of Cold War Studies, and he also serves as Co-Editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, published by Cornell University Press. Additionally, he was elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005.
Professor Walt is the author of The Origins of Alliances (1987), which received the 1988 Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award. He is also the author of Revolution and War (1996), Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (2005), and, with co-author J.J. Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby (2007).
The Académie Diplomatique Internationale was founded in 1926 as one of the world's first independent institutions dedicated to international affairs, and is currently being revitalized as a center for modern diplomacy under the Presidency of His Highness the Aga Khan. The ADI convenes conferences and public debates, conducts diplomatic training courses, and undertakes research projects relevant to the diplomatic, business and foreign policy communities.
Dinner with Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, January 6th, 2010
GSD alumni and dues-paying members of the HCF are cordially invited to a small group dinner with Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Faculty of Design.
Dinner will take place in a restaurant in the 8th Arrondissement.
Mohsen Mostafavi, an architect and educator, is the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design. Previously he was the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University and the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture. Prior to that, he had been the Chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
Dean Mostafavi serves on the steering committee of the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture, the jury of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, has served on the design committee of the London Development Agency (LDA), the RIBA Gold Medal, and is currently involved as a consultant on a number of international architectural and urban projects.
He studied architecture at the AA, and undertook research on counter-reformation urban history at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge. Previously he was Director of the Master of Architecture I Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Dean Mostafavi has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and the Frankfurt Academy of Fine Arts (Staedelschule). His research and design projects have been published in many journals, including The Architectural Review, AAFiles, Arquitectura, Bauwelt, Casabella, Centre, and Daidalos.
