{"42878":{"#nid":"42878","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SASKIA SASSEN: Today\u0027s Cities as Frontier Space","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESASKIA SASSEN:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nToday\u0027s Cities as Frontier Space \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EParking + directions:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n245 4th Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECo-Sponsored by the Georgia Tech College of Architecture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis event is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESaskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/~sjs2 \u0026lt;http:\/\/artpapers.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0b37da71a1aca1a42b2614cc55fee2=fdc024e568=raAkCjK4Nk\u0026gt;\u0022\u003EThe Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University \u003C\/a\u003E. Her newest books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton, 2007). Other recent books are the 3rd fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage, 2006), the edited Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects (Routledge, 2007), and the co-edited Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm (Princeton University Press, 2005). She has just completed a five-year project commissioned by UNESCO on sustainable human settlement with a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers). Her groundbreaking book The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESassen\u0027s books have been translated into nineteen languages. She serves on many editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and a former chair of the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA). She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, The International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, OpenDemocracy.net, Vanguardia, Clarin, The Financial Times, and Huffingtonpost.com, among others. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EART PAPERS LIVE! HOST COMMITTEE\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSusan Bridges  \/  Wesley Chenault \u0026amp; John J. Ryan  \/  Louis Corrigan  \/  Jack Drake \/ Judy \u0026amp; Scott Lampert  \/  David Schuster  \/  Mack Scogin \u0026amp; Merrill Elam  \/  John Trobaugh \u0026amp; Jeroan Allison \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.artpapers.org\/special_events\/live.htm\u0022\u003EAdditional information on ART PAPERS LIVE!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESaskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ART PAPERS LIVE! Contemporary Art Lecture Series"}],"uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2010-08-03 16:39:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:47:13","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2009-03-24T20:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2009-03-24T22:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2009-03-24T22:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2009-03-25 00:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2009-03-25 02:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2009-03-25 02:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"5344","name":"architecture grad school"},{"id":"5343","name":"art papers"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESabir  Khan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EArchitecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sabir.khan@arch.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Sabir  Khan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8995\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}