Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought
Columbia University

Saskia Sassen is the Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her new books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007). Other recent books are a third, fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2006), the edited Deciphering the Global (Routledge 2007), and the co-edited Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order (Princeton University Press 2005). She wrote a lead essay in the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture Catalogue and has just completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement with a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://www.eolss.net ]. The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Her books are translated into nineteen languages. She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and chaired the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA). She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, OpenDemocracy.net, Vanguardia, Clarin, the Financial Times, HuffingtonPost.com, and OpenDemocracy.net, among others.

For more information visit Professor Sassen's website.

Public Lecture
The world's third spaces: Novel assemblages of territory, authority, rights
March 9, 2010

Seminar
Title: A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers: A Contemporary Version of Primitive Accumulation
March 10, 2010