Keynote Speaker: Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai serves as Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives at The New School in New York City, where he also holds a Distinguished Professorship as the John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences. Until recently, Arjun Appadurai was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at The New School. He was formerly William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Cities and Globalization at Yale University. Appadurai is the founder and now the President of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research), a non-profit organization based in and oriented to the city of Mumbai (India).

He is one of the founding editors, along with Carol A. Breckenridge, of the journal Public Culture and was the founding Director of the Chicago Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago (1992-1998), during which time he held the Richard J. and Barbara E. Franke Professorship. He is one of the founders of the Interdisciplinary Network on Globalization, a consortium of institutions in various parts of the world devoted to the study of global politics and culture. 

 

Latest Publications

• 2006
  Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger
  Duke University Press.
• 2002
  Globalization (edited volume). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• 2001
  (Translation of Modernity At Large) La Modernided Desbordada.
  Uruguay and Argentina: Ediciones Trilces and Fondo de Cultura Economica de Argentina.
• 2001
  (Translation of Modernity At Large) Apres le Colonialisme: Les Consequences Culturelles de la globalisation. Paris: Payot.
• 2001
  (Translation of Modernity At Large) Modernità in polvere. Rome: Meltemi Editore.