Democratic Vistas, Global Perspectives
A Yale Tercentennial Symposium
October 5-6, 2001

Schedule
Friday, October 5
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast at the lecture locations
8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Democratic Vistas Lectures
Session One: The Democratic Soul
Anthony T. Kronman, Dean of Yale Law School and Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law
Location: Sterling Lecture Hall
Session Two:

Ordinary Prejudice
Mahzarin Banaji, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Psychology
Location: WLH 201
Session Three: Democracy and Foreign Policy
John Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of History
Location: Law School Auditorium
Session Four: Taking Democracy to School
Richard Brodhead, Dean of Yale College and A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English
Location: SS S114
Session Five: The Death of Citizenship?
Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law
Location: McDougal Center
Session Six:

Can Religion Tolerate Democracy (and vice versa)?
Stephen Carter, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law
Location: Battell Chapel

10:15 - 11:00 a.m. "Yale, America, and the World 2001"
Gaddis Smith, Larned Professor Emeritus of History
Location: Woolsey Hall
1:00 p.m. Assemble for Tercentennial Convocation

 

Saturday, October 6

10:00 a.m.

Global Perspectives
Envisioning the world in the next century: challenges to a global university
Introduction: Professor Gustav Ranis, Director, Yale Center for International and Area Studies
Address: Ernesto Zedillo, Ph.D. '81, former President of Mexico
Location: Woolsey Hall

10:45-11:45 a.m. Six perspectives on global challenges
Session One: The "Moneys" of Nations
James Tobin, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1981 and William C. Brainard, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, former Provost of Yale and currently Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Location: Sterling Lecture Hall
Session Two: Third World Growth, Poverty and Human Development
Gustav Ranis, Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and T.N. Srinivasan , Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics, consultant to the World Bank, and author of Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System
Location: WLH 201
Session Three:

The Global Environment: Challenges and Response
James G. Speth, Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and former Administrator of the United Nations Development Program; founder of The Natural Resource Defense Council
and
Daniel C. Esty,Professor of Environmental Law and Policy and Director of Yale's World Fellows Program
Location: SSS 114

Session Four: Sovereignty and National Security in a Borderless World
Paul Kennedy, Director of International Security Studies and J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Mary Habeck, Assistant Professor of History
Location: Battell Chapel
Session Five: After September 11: Short and Long Term Challenges to Business in The Global Economy Jeffrey Garten, Dean of the School of Management and author of The Mind of the CEO and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Professor of Finance
and
Economics and Director of the School of Management's International Institute for Corporate Governance
Location: Law School Auditorium
Session Six: Culture, Language and Community: Local/Global Interactions
Michael Holquist, Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature
and
Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, author of The Consumer Revolution in Urban China
Location: Law School 127
Noon - 1:00 p.m.

"Yale, America and the World 2101"
Robin Winks, Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History
Location: Woolsey Hall
1:00 p.m. Lunch (independently)
3 - 4:00 p.m.

"Global Perspectives"
William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
Location: Cross Campus

Tickets are required to attend for former President Clinton's speech. However, due to extraordinary response, there are no tickets remaining. The speech will be broadcast on every Yale cable channel outlet and on Comcast cable channel 8.

 
   
October 1, 2001