Can Europe Achieve Social Justice?: Speaker bios
Oct. 13, 2020
Leila Hadj Abdou is a Teaching and Research Fellow. She is responsible for the design and delivering of training on international migration provided by the European University Institute’s Migration Policy Center within the School of Transnational Governance. Before that she was working on a European Research Council (ERC) project exploring understandings of and approaches to international migration by key governance actors in four world regions, including Europe, North America, South America and Asia Pacific. She has published on migration governance, migration protests, immigration and immigrant integration policies, the regulation and contestation of Muslim practices in Europe, and the populist radical right. She also has extensive, practical experience in the field of asylum/migration, having held positions in 2016 and 2017 as a project coordinator for an NGO working with unaccompanied minor asylum seekers, as well as in an educational centre working with adult refugees, and refugee care workers.
Turkuler Isiksel (Ph.D., Yale) is currently the James P. Shenton Associate Professor of the Core Curriculum at Columbia and works in contemporary political theory. She is particularly interested in how descriptive and normative categories tailored to the nation-state apply to political institutions beyond that context, and combines the perspectives of normative theory, legal analysis, and institutionalist political science in her work. Her substantive research interests include constitutional theory, the law and politics of the European Union and other international economic institutions, Enlightenment political philosophy (especially the evolution of ideas about commerce and international politics in the eighteenth century), theories of corporate personhood, sovereignty, citizenship, and human rights.
Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d’études européennes. Trained in social science, he has a PHD in Political science, and is a former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is studying welfare reforms in Europe. He was director of LIEPP (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies) between 2014 and 2020. He has published numerous articles on welfare reforms in France and in Europe.
Andreas Wimmer is Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy at Columbia University. His research brings a long term historical and globally comparative perspective to the questions of how states are built and nations formed, how individuals draw ethnic and racial boundaries between themselves and others, and which kinds of political conflicts and war results from these processes. Using new methods and data, he continues the old search for historical patterns that repeat across contexts and times. He has pursued this agenda across the disciplinary fields of sociology, political science, and social anthropology and through various styles of inquiry: ethnographic field research (in Mexico and Iraq), comparative historical analysis, quantitative research with cross-national or survey data, network studies, and formal modeling.
Ali Aslan is an internationally renowned TV presenter and journalist with over 20 years experience as a talk show host, news anchor, correspondent and moderator. His journalistic career spans three continents and includes work for CNN in Washington DC, ABC News in New York, Channel News Asia in Istanbul and Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin. An experienced TV anchor, Aslan hosted the international talk show "Quadriga" on Deutsche Welle TV which reached 200 countries and 90 million viewers each week. Aslan regularly moderates at high-level global conferences and has shared the stage with top world leaders, including Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau, Christine Lagarde and Bill Clinton. Aslan studied International Affairs and Journalism at Columbia University and International Politics at Georgetown University.
Oct. 8, 2020
Pierre-André Chiappori, E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics à l’université de Columbia, a d’abord enseigné en France (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique) et dans le Département d'économie de l'Université de Chicago. Il est membre de la Société d'économétrie, de l'Association économique européenne, de la Society of Labour Economists et de la Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, et membre élu de l'Institut de France (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques) et de la American Academy of arts and sciences.
Thierry Grillet est ancien élève de l’École normale supérieure. Il a enseigné dix ans la culture générale à l'Institut d'Études politiques de Paris. Journaliste au Monde, à Libération et au Nouvel observateur, il collabore à des nombreuses revues (Médium, AOC, etc). Il a dirigé les Éditions du Georges Pompidou. Ancien directeur du développement culturel et du musée de la BnF, il a publié de nombreux ouvrages dont : Dictionnaire de la pensée du cinéma (Presses Universitaires de France) et des Essais sur la culture (Les 300, Éditions First). Dernier ouvrage paru : James Tissot (éditions Place des Victoires)