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Schedule for Febuary 23
4:00~5:00 Professor Michael
Kennedy: "Linking Culture and Security: the Future of Slavic, Eurasian,
and East European Studies
5:00~5:45 Catered
Dinner
5:45~6:25 Breakout
groups for discussion on topics of joint interests
6:35~7:15 Breakout
groups for discussion on topics of joint interests
7:25~8:30 Plenary session to report on breakout groups and set an agenda for the reminder of the semester
Michael D. Kennedy, fomer vice provost for international affairs and
director of the International Institute from 1999-2004, is professor
of sociology at the University of Michigan. He is a former director
of the Center for Russian and East European Studies and Program in the
Comparative Study of Social Transformations. Professor Kennedy's early
scholarship focused on the political sociology of Poland, as represented
in the book Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland (1991). Among
other publications, he has been editor or co-editor of three volumes
addressing East European and international affairs, including Envisioning
Eastern Europe (1994), Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation
(1999), and Globalizations and Social Movements (2000). His latest book
is Cultural Formations of Postcommunism: Emancipation, Transition, Nation,
and War (2002). His current scholarship focuses on the sociology of
globalizing knowledge. Professor Kennedy has also received awards in
recognition of his teaching, including the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching
Award and the University Teaching Award. In 1999, Poland's President
Aleksander Kwasniewski presented Professor Kennedy with the Gold Cross
of Merit to recognize the contributions he has made to scholarship and
education about Poland.
A New Article by Michael D. Kennedy Public relations: how should the scholarly and political communities relate to each other?
Personal Website:http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/iisite/pastdirector_kennedy.html
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