Tears in the Fabric of the Past: New Theories of Narrative and History
A conversation with Avenali Chair in the Humanities Eelco Runia about new ways of thinking, theorizing, and writing about the past, history, time, rupture, presence, and narrative, featuring: Hayden White (UC Santa Cruz, emeritus), Martin Jay (UC Berkeley), Carol Gluck (Columbia), Harry Harootunian (Columbia), and Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan).
This final session highlights some key messages from the conference and the prospects for continuing collaboration on climate change research between U.C. Berkeley and other stakeholders in China and the U.S. The China-U.S. Climate Change Forum was organized by the Berkeley China Initiative, which is forging closer ties between U.C. Berkeley and China by bringing together key experts on important international and bilateral issues. Growing concern over climate change makes this topic an obvious choice for the first of this series of annual events. This panel will highlight the mutual vulnerability of China and the U.S. to climate change, and the indispensable role of scientific research in understanding...
Oliver Williamson, the Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics and Law at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a professor of economics in the College of Letters and Science, shares the 2009 prize with Elinor Ostrom, a professor of political science and of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Williamson was honored "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm." Ostrom, the first woman to win an economics Nobel, was cited "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons."
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/12_nobel.shtml
This session was led by Mark Baker of ESRI and included Mary Comerio, UC Berkeley, Nissar Ahmed, Metropolitan Planning Commission, Arietta Chakos, Urban Resilience Strategies, Jayant Kalagnanam from IBM Research
Keynote address given by Maura O'Neill, Senior Counselor to the Administrator and Chief Innovation Officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development.