| Fachleiter Conference / Amerikastudientagung |
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der Amerikanischen Botschaft vom 29. Mai - 1. Juni 2003 "The
United States in a Changing World: |
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| Susan Aaronson | Charles Brooks | Robert Olen Butler | Robert J. Lieber | Lionel Tiger | Ruth Weisberg |
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Susan Aaronson is Senior Fellow and Director of Globalization Studies at the Kenan Institute, the Washington branch of the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina. Her scholarly research focuses on international investment and social responsibility issues. Aaronson directs a major study, funded by the Ford and UN Foundations, that will examine how U.S. public policies can promote or undermine global corporate social responsibility. In 2002, Aaronson and James Reeves published a study of what other governments are doing to promote global corporate responsibility, called Corporate Responsibility in the Global Village: The Role of Public Policy. Aaronson is a frequent speaker on public understanding of globalization issues. She was a regular commentator on " All Things Considered" in 1994-1995; "Marketplace" on public radio, from 1995-1998, and "Morning Edition," 1998-2001. She is the author of two scholarly books on trade. Trade and the American Dream uses the history of the ITO, GATT and WTO to talk about how policymakers talked about trade to the American public. Taking Trade to the Streets: The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization was published in 2001 by the University of Michigan Press. It examines how trade regulation and social regulation came to intersect and the role of nongovernmental organizations in trade policy. In 2001, Aaronson wrote a study on how to remake U.S. trade policy, called Redefining the Terms of Trade Policymaking. The forwards were written by Senator Max Baucus, Chairman, Senate Finance Committee, and Congressman Amo Houghton. Aaronson has also written two primers on trade-"Trade is Everybody's Business," for high school students and "Are there Trade Offs When Americans Trade?" for adults. These books relate trade to citizens' daily lives and their many roles as citizens, producers, consumers, and friends of the earth. Aaronson received her doctorate in history (business, economic, public policy) from Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia. She has also been a Guest Scholar in Economics at the Brookings Institution (1995-1998). She currently teaches in the Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Aaronson is the mother of two children-Ethan and Allegra and is married to William Douglas Wham. She can be reached at saaronson@kenan.org. |
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| Charles
Brooks participates in the conference as a private person and University
lecturer, not as a spokesperson for the U.S. government. He was for many
years an Assistant United States Attorney (federal prosecutor) in Washington,
DC, and is now a Senior Attorney with the International Prisoner Transfer
Unit, Office of Enforcement Operations, Criminal Division, U.S. department
of Justice. The Unit administers the treaties which govern the transfer
of foreign nationals in American prisons to serve their sentences in their
home countries and American nationals in foreign prisons to serve their
sentences in the United States. Work involves dealing with the State Department
and foreign governments on issues involving both individual prisoners and
the governing treaties. Brooks represented the United States at Council
of Europe meetings of the Committee of Experts on the Operation of European
Conventions in the Penal Field and of the full European Committee on Crime
Problems in Strasbourg (France). In the fall of 1998, appointed Resident
Legal Adviser in Sarajevo, Bosnia; worked with the Ministry of Justice of
the Bosnian Federation on the introduction of the (then) recently adopted
criminal code (which replaced the Communist-era Yugoslav criminal code)
and to plan a training program with the Ministry for judges, prosecutors,
and defense attorneys on the new criminal law and procedure and on practice
in Western criminal justice systems. He has Ph.D and J.D. degrees from Harvard
University and has taught trial advocacy at the Harvard Law School and has
lectured on American criminal procedure in universities in the US and abroad. |
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| Lionel
Tiger is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
A graduate of McGill University, the London School of Economics and the
University of London, England, he is a consultant to the U.S. Department
of Defense on the future of biotechnology and the author of a new, controversial
book THE DECLINE OF MALES. Dr. Tiger, who developed the concept of "male
bonding" in his classic study MEN IN GROUPS, has determined that women are
in a trend to surpass men in economic, social and reproductive status -
and that the cause of this seismic shift is not political or moral, but
biological. Responding to concerns about the relationship between organizations
and their members in the next two decades, Dr. Tiger lectures on "Pleasure:
The Carrot, The Stick and The Future of Employment." Pleasure is also the
subject of his book: THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE. In it, he argues that all
our present pleasures can be traced to their functional, basically biological
origins. We perceive and pursue pleasure because evolution actually programmed
enjoyment into behaviors that are essential for survival. Dr. Tiger is also
the author of the much-discussed books THE IMPERIAL ANIMAL written with
Robin Fox; OPTIMISM: THE BIOLOGY OF HOPE, FEMALE HIERARCHIES; WOMEN IN THE
KIBBUTZ; and THE MANUFACTURE OF EVIL: ETHICS, EVOLUTION & THE INDUSTRIAL
SYSTEM. He lives in New York City. |
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| Ruth
Weisberg is Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California.
As an artist Weisberg works primarily in painting, drawing and large-scale
installations. Recent honors include Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa,
Hebrew Union College, 2001, College Art Association Distinguished Teaching
of Art Award 1999, Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome 1995,
1994 and 1992, National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar 1994, a Senior
Research Fulbright for Italy in 1992, School of Art University of Michigan
Distinguished Alumni/AE Award for 1992; Weisberg was also President of the
College Art Association 1990-92. As an artist, Weisberg has been a particularly
active exhibitor with over seventy solo and 160 group exhibitions. Her work
is included in sixty major Museum and University collections including the
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco,
California, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, The Biblioteque
Nationale of France, Paris, France, Istituto Nationale per la Grafica, Rome,
Italy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, New York, The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.. Weisberg has
written over fifty articles and reviews as well as several book chapters;
most recently a chapter in "The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic
Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity" for the
University of Michigan Press and the American Academy in Rome. She was chosen
as the artist for the Central Conference of American Rabbi¹s (the Reform
Movement) new Haggadah, which is now in its second printing. An exhibition
of drawings for "The Open Door Haggadah", has been shown at Hebrew Union
College in Cincinnati and New York and is currently traveling nationally.
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