2016 Aggrey-Fraser- Guggisberg Memorial Lectures
Date: March 21-23, 2016
Speaker: Professor Ian Shapiro (Adjunct Professor of Law, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University)
Theme: Fighting Political Domination
Day 1 - The Responsibility to Protect: Rwanda to Libya and Beyond
Day 2 - Lessons from South Africa's Transition I: The Role of Leadership
Day 3 - Lessons from South Africa's Transition II: The Role of Business
Time: 5:00 pm for Day 1 and 2
3:00 pm for Day 3 (Guests should be seated by 2:30pm)
PROFILE
Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. A native of South Africa, Professor Shapiro received his J. D. from the Yale Law School and his Ph.D from the Yale Political Science Department where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair from 1999 to 2004. Shapiro is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a past fellow of the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cape Town, Keio University in Tokyo, and Nuffield College, Oxford. His most recent books are The Real World of Democratic Theory; Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror; The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences; and Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Michael Graetz). His current research concerns the relations between democracy and the distribution of income and wealth.
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