The seventh annual Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs explores the positive and negative effects of globalization. Keynotes and featured presenters include: Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations; Paul R. Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics; and Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google Inc.
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(Apr 17-18, 2009 at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs)
Friday, Apr 17
Pt 1 - Keynote Address: "The Imperative for a New Multilateralism" Hon. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Introduction by Shirley Tilghman, President, Princeton University. Professor of Molecular Biology
Pt 2 - Panel: "A Planet in Danger: Climate Change and Its Consequences for Global Society"
Moderator: Denise Mauzerall, Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs
Panelists: Keya Chatterjee, Deputy Director, Climate Change, World Wildlife Fund Stephen Pacala, Director, Princeton Environmental Institute; Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Pt 3 - Panel: "International Finance and Trade in a Time of Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?"
Moderator: Alan Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Panelists: Harold James, Professor of History and International Affairs Helen Milner, B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs; Director, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance; Chair, Department of Politics Ashoka Mody, Assistant Director, European Department, International Monetary Fund
Pt 4 - Panel: "Globalization and Its Accidents: Failures in a Complex System"
Moderator: Miguel Centeno, Professor of Sociology and International and Affairs
Panelists: Amb. Robert Hutchings, Diplomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; former Chairman, U.S. National Intelligence Council (2003-2005) Edmond Keller, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles; Director, UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa Sylvia Maxfield, Associate Professor, Simmons School of Management
Saturday, April 18
Pt 5 - Panel: “Whose Century? A Framework for International Security in a Globalized World”
Moderator: G. John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Panelists: Robert Cooper, Director-General, External and Politico-Military Affairs, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union James Shinn, Visiting Lecturer, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and Electrical Engineering, Princeton University; Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs Zhu Feng, Director, International Security Program and Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University
Pt 6 - Featured Presentation: “How Information Technology Will Transform the Global Information Landscape”
Moderator: Edward Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs Discussant: Eric Schmidt '76, Chairman and CEO, Google Inc.
Pt 7 - Panel: “A World in Motion: Migration and Its Impacts on Global Society”
Moderator: Rafaela Dancygier, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs
Panelists: Demetrios Papademetriou, President, Migration Policy Institute Francisco Rodríguez, Head of Writing Team, 2009 Human Development Report, United Nations Development Programme
Pt 8 - Keynote Address: "The Return of Depression Economics?" Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs; 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics
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