Professor Padma Desai Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award from "India Abroad"
Thursday, 01 May 2008
Padma Desai and husband Jagdish Bhagwati were honored by "India Abroad" magaginze with Lifetime Achievement awards, presented by Salman Rushdie, at a ceremony held on March 28th in New York. Bhagwati, University Professor at Columbia and a leading free-trade economist, and Desai, the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems, are credited with helping create a blueprint for India's modernization through their book, "India: Planning for Industrialization" (1970).
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Lynn Garafola, Recipient of Barnard College's 34th Emily Gregory Award, Curates Exhibit on Jerome Robbins
Thursday, 01 May 2008
Lynn Garafola, Professor of Dance, is the Recipient of the 34th Annual Emily Gregory Award. The award recognizes one Barnard College professor for outstanding performance in the classroom. Nominated by a Barnard student through a formal essay, the recipient is honored for having made a significant contribution to the academic community through her teaching.
In other news, Garafola curated the exhibit "New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His Word" for the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts. The exhibit runs through June 28, 2008.
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Harriman Institute hosts 13th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities
Friday, 18 April 2008
Reported by Camilla Louise Lyngsby
The crown jewels of the study of nationalism, ethnic conflict, and ethnic conflict resolution in the post-communist world were on display last week at Columbia University.
The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) kicked off its 13th annual world convention, hosted by the Harriman Institute, on April 10, 2008. The three-day convention drew more than 500 international scholars from 40 countries, and about 40 percent of the delegates had to cross the Atlantic or the Pacific oceans before checking-in on the Upper West Side.
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