Presentations of Note
Below is a listing of selected significant presentations. For a complete listing of presentations, see Curriculum Vitae (PDF).
2011 ~ 2010 ~ 2009 ~ 2008
2007 & 2006 ~ 2005 & 2004 ~ 2001-1999
2011
May 8-13, 2011
Portugal, U.S. State Department-sponsored program on development:
"Anxiety, Hope and Discipline: The Restoration of Market Confidence," May 8-15, 2011. Addressed government officials, business leaders, academics, students and media.
Catholic University of Porto, May 9, 2011;
Porto Business School, May 9, 2011;
Institute of Financial, Economic, and Fiscal Law, University of Lisbon, May 10, 2011;
Interview with Nuno Rogeiro for Society of Nations (television program), US Embassy Lisbon, May 11, 2011;
Breakfast Roundtable with Financial Sector Contacts at US Embassy Lisbon, May 12, 2011;
Mission Initium Brainstormer, at US Embassy Lisbon, May 12, 2011;
Superior Institute of Economics and Management, Lisbon, May 12, 2011;
American Chamber of Commerce, at Luso-American Foundation for Development, Lisbon, May 13, 2011;
Superior Institute for Labor and Economic Sciences, Lisbon, May 13, 2011.
April 13, 2011
St. Joe's Collegiate Institute, Buffalo, New York
Presented "Deploying Ourselves: Islamist Violence and the Responsible Projection of US Force" in the series Ripples of Hope: The Eric Scott Pitman Lecture in Ethics and Social Justice
2010
May 9-22, 2010
Pakistan - U.S. State Department-sponsored program on development.
Presentations included the following, by sector:
Government - State Bank of Pakistan (talk to officials and representatives of most banks on intellectual significance of financial crisis for financial policy);
Sindh Minister of Commerce and Industries;
Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority;
Punjab Board of Investment and Trade;
National Institute of Banking and Finance;
Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan;
National Tariff Commission of Pakistan
Private Sector - Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industries;
Karachi Chamber of Commerce;
Pakistan Federation of Business and Professional Women Organization;
Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry;
Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce;
Islamabad Stock Exchange;
Islamabad Chamber of Commerce
Academic - Institute of Business Management (faculty dinner);
Institute of Business Administration;
Hamdard Law College;
Defense Authority College of Business;
Lahore School of Economics;
University of Management and Technology (Lahore);
Government College University;
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Media - met with Express Tribune, The Nation, Indus TV (Shaheen Salahuddin), Business Recorder, Daily Times, Value TV, and various others
April 13-16, 2010
Jamaica - U.S. State Department-sponsored a program on development in light of the financial crisis. The program included the following:
"Moving Forward from a Strong Foundation," U.S. Embassy, a panel discussion with government officials, economic advisor to President, private sector leaders, national media;
Director General, Planning Institute of Jamaica (conversation);
Jamaica Trade and Invest (roundtable with Director);
Small Business Association of Jamaica (roundtable);
Women Business Owners;
Clarendon Chamber of Commerce;
Rural Family Support Organization;
Met with diverse representatives of private sector;
Interviews and book reviews in television, radio, and print media
2009
February-March 2009
China - U.S. State Department-sponsored a program on the financial system and the financial crisis.
Presentations included, inter alia, the following, by sector:
Government - "Temptations of Modern Finance: A Critical Yet Sympathetic Analysis of Recent US Financial Policy," China Banking Regulatory Commission, Beijing, February 23, 2009;
Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, February 23, 2009;
U.S. Consulate, Shanghai, Public Affairs Section, March 2, 2009;
China Development Institute, Shenzhen, March 4, 2009
Business - Roundtable Discussions on Financial Crisis: President, Dalian Commodities Exchange, February 25, 2009;
Members of the Shanghai Financial Community, China-European International Business School, Shanghai, February 27, 2009;
Roundtable lunch with leaders of various major financial institutions, Shenzhen, March 4, 2009;
American Chamber of Commerce, Shenzhen, March 4, 2009
Academic - "Rethinking Our Financial Markets," Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, February 24, 2009;
Renmin University of China, February 24, 2009;
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, February 25, 2009;
Shanghai Institute for International Studies, February 26, 2009;
Fudan University, Shanghai, February 27, 2009;
Zhongshan (Sun Yat Sen) University, Guangzhou, March 3, 2009;
Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, March 5, 2009;
Sichuan Academy of Social Science, Chengdu, March 6, 2009
Media - Numerous print and television interviews in Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu
December 11, 2009
Commission of the European Communities, Bureau of European Policy Advisers, Brussels, Belgium
Roundtable on the European Internal Market and Financial Stability
September 18, 2009
Commission of the European Communities, Bureau of European Policy Advisers, Brussels, Belgium
Roundtable on the European Response to the Financial Crisis
June 11, 2009
American Association of Law Schools, Mid-Year Meeting, Long Beach, CA
"Transactional Teaching and Conversational Scholarship," plenary address, workshop on Transactional Law
April 24, 2009
Tobin Project, Conference Government & Markets: Ferment in the Face of Crisis, White Oak, FLA
"Tragedy, Law, and Rethinking Our Financial Markets"
January 19, 2009
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
"Three Glass Tragedy: Beginning to Rethink (U.S.) Financial Policy," at the conference Regulatory Responses to the Financial Crisis with commentator Andy Haldane (Bank of England)
2008
November 21, 2008
American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Lead discussant on the panel "In Conversation- Embeddedness, Advocacy, Collaboration, Friendship, Complicity: Navigating Ethics in Contemporary Ethnography"
October 22, 2008
Adrian College, Adrian, MI
"An Intellectual Possibility for a Time of Boredom, Terror, and Confusion," Convocation Address, given to faculty, staff, students, and the Adrian College community
March 12, 2008
NATO, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Mons, Belgium
"Deploying Ourselves: Islamist Violence, Globalization, and the Responsible Projection of U.S. Force"
July-August 2008
Brazil - U.S. State Department-sponsored program on finance and transparency. The program included the following:
"Legal Safeguards for Stock Markets: Sarbanes-Oxley, the Credit Crisis, and Limitations on Transparency"
(1) Damasio Prep School for Magistrates and Prosecutors Candidates, August 5, 2008;
(2) Brazilian Bar – Chapter São Paulo, August 5, 2008;
(3) Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) Law School (EDESP), August 6, 2008;
(4) Public Diplomacy School (ESD), August 6, 2008.
"Transparency, Complexity, and Trust: A U.S. View of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Credit Crisis," at the International Symposium on Transparency in Business, hosted by the Laboratorio de Tecnologia, Gestao de Negocios e Meio Ambiente – Latec-UFF (Laboratory of Technology, Business Management and Environment), Fluminense Federal University, at the Federation of Industries of Rio de Janeiro, August 1, 2008.
"Corporate Governance, the State, and Development: from Between Citizen and State to Working Together"
(1) Pontific Catholic University Law School, São Paulo, August 4, 2008;
(2) Associacao Brasileira de Direito Financeiro (CESA) (young lawyers group of the Brazilian Association of Financial Law), at the law firm of Ulhoa Canto, Rezende e Guerra, Rio de Janeiro, July 31, 2008.
March 13, 2008
Hautes études Commerciales, Paris, France
"Corporation Law as Theater"
2007
May 18, 2007
University of California Humanities Research Institute and the Center for Ethnography, University of California at Irvine, CA
"Holding Positions in a Time of Targeted Killing," talk given for the University of California Humanities Research Institute and the Center for Ethnography
2006
December 1, 2006
Columbia University, Department of Anthropology & School of International and Public Affairs, New York City, NY
"Refunctioning Ethnography as One Kind of Solution: Bureaucracies, Conversations, and Possibilities for Intellectual Politics"
November 14, 2006
NATO, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Mons, Belgium
"Bin Laden's War: Strategic Consequences of Radical Neofundamentalism"
July 30, 2006
World Association of International Studies (WAIS), conference on Critical World Problems, Stanford University, CA
"An Introduction to City of Gold: An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent"
March 29, 2006
Columbia University, New York City, NY
"The Time of Faith: Contemporary Muslims, Secularists, and Anxieties over the Nature of History," a talk given at Columbia University's conference Does Islam Need a Reformulation to be Compatible with the West?, sponsored by the Alliance Program (Columbia University; Ecole Polytechnique; Sciences Po; Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne) and The Middle East Institute, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
March 4, 2006
Harvard Law School, International Law Journal Symposium, The Diffusion of Law in the 21st Century, Cambridge, MA
"Theorizing the Diffusion of Law: Conceptual Difficulties, Unstable Imaginations, and the Effort to Think Gracefully Nonetheless," Keynote Address
2005
November 17, 2005
United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, Tunisia
"True Politics: Culture, Law, and the Difficulty of Building an Informed Society," panel presentation.
2004
May 13, 2004
Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany
"Disclosure, Bureaucratization, and the Fall of Giants"
May 10, 2004
U.S. Department of State, American Center, Brussels, Belgium
"Disclosure, Bureaucratization, and the Fall of Giants"
May 10, 2004
Kammer van Koophandel (Chamber of Commerce), Antwerp, Belgium
"City of Gold"
May 7, 2004
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
"Leaving San Francisco: Reconsidering Security as an Object of International Law"
2001
July 31, 2001
World Association of International Studies (WAIS), Conference Globalizations: Reflections on the State of the World and Its Discontents, Stanford University, CA
Presentation "Kafka's Laughter: Markets, Alienation, and the Possibility of Affection"
July 25, 2001
World Association of International Studies (WAIS), Conference Globalizations: Reflections on the State of the World and Its Discontents, Deep Springs College, CA
Presentation "Kafka's Laughter: Markets, Alienation, and the Possibility of Affection"
2000
April 5-8, 2000
American Society of International Law, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
"Despots and Offshore Assets: Possible Responses," chair of panel at ASIL 2000, International Law in Ferment.
1999
April 22-24, 1999
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
"Is the U.N. Obsolete?" presentation at the conference International Law Plus or Minus Fifty Years: A Colloquium on the Occasion of Abram Chayes' Fiftieth Law School Reunion.