Reuben W. Hills Conference Room, East 207, Encina Hall
Reuben W. Hills Conference Room, East 207, Encina Hall
Reuben W. Hills Conference Room, East 207, Encina Hall
Reuben W. Hills Conference Room, East 207, Encina Hall
Reuben W. Hills Conference Room, East 207, Encina Hall
Reuben W. Hills Conference Room, East 207, Encina Hall
Last year the Convention on the Future of Europe proposed a draft EU constitution. The draft was to be approved at an Inter-Governmental Conference last December, but approval was postponed due to disagreements on voting rules in the Council of Ministers. This seminar evaluates the draft constitution. On February 25 Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, Vice-President of the Convention, will give a lecture about the prospects for its adoption. A separate announcement for that lecture will follow.
Encina Hall, East Wing, Ground Floor, E008
Encina Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
Christophe Crombez is a political economist who specializes in European Union (EU) politics and business-government relations in Europe. His research focuses on EU institutions and their impact on policies, EU institutional reform, lobbying, party politics, and parliamentary government.
Crombez is Senior Research Scholar at The Europe Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University (since 1999). He teaches Introduction to European Studies and The Future of the EU in Stanford’s International Relations Program, and is responsible for the Minor in European Studies and the Undergraduate Internship Program in Europe.
Furthermore, Crombez is Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven in Belgium (since 1994). His teaching responsibilities in Leuven include Political Business Strategy and Applied Game Theory. He is Vice-Chair for Research at the Department for Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation.
Crombez has also held visiting positions at the following universities and research institutes: the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, in Florence, Italy, in Spring 2008; the Department of Political Science at the University of Florence, Italy, in Spring 2004; the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, in Winter 2003; the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Illinois, in Spring 1998; the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Summer 1998; the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in Spring 1997; the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in Spring 1996; and Leti University in St. Petersburg, Russia, in Fall 1995.
Crombez obtained a B.A. in Applied Economics, Finance, from KU Leuven in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Business, Political Economics, from Stanford University in 1994.
Institute for International Studies
Encina Hall E116
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, 94305-6055
Professor Van Gerven is currently a member of the faculty of law at the Leuven Center for a Common Law of Europe in Belgium. He is formerly Vice-Rector and Chairman of the Social Sciences Group of Leuven and formerly President of the Belgian Banking Commission. He has also served as Advocate General of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and on a committee of independent experts to examine fraud, nepotism, and mismanagement in the European Union Commission.
In this talk Professor Bell will highlight the dangers of implementing Western models of democracy in Southeast and Northeast Asia and argue for ways of varying these models to ensure a better fit with local contexts, including local experience and knowledge. He will begin by drawing on the example of foreign domestic workers in Singapore and Hong Kong to question the Western ideal of ?equal rights for all.? He will then offer a model of democracy ?with Confucian characteristics? intended to remedy some of the limitations of Western-style democracy in East Asian contexts. The overall aim of the talk will be to show the advantages?indeed, the necessity?of taking local knowledge and local traditions into account when proposing political reforms for East Asia that are not only morally desirable but politically feasible as well. Daniel A. Bell is the author of East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia (Princeton, 2000) and Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford, 1993) and co-editor of Confucianism for the Modern World (Cambridge, 2003) and The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (Cambridge, 1999). Currently an associate professor at the City University of Hong Kong, he has held teaching or fellowship positions at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, and Princeton University. His degrees include a D.Phil. from Oxford and a BA from McGill.
Okimoto Conference Room
Drawing on newly released data from the Index of Silicon Valley 2004, Doug Henton will discuss the impact of global economic e-structuring on the Valley's jobs. The talk will examine industry and occupational trends in Silicon Valley. The focus will be on what kinds of jobs are most likely to stay in the Valley.
Doug Henton has more than thirty years of experience in economic and community development. He is nationally recognized for his work in bringing industry, government, education, research, and community leaders together around specific collaborative projects to improve regional competitiveness.
He serves as national coordinator for the John W. Gardner Academy of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship, which is a national network of leaders from over firty regions in the United States. He was project manager for the start-up of the Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network. Doug is a consultant to the California Economic Strategy Panel, California's first state economic strategy process linked to industry clusters and regions. He has served as advisor on regional efforts around the United States, including in San Diego, Sacramento, Massachusetts, Chicago, and others.
Doug founded Collaborative Economics in July 1993 after a decade as assistant director of SRI International's Center for Economic Competitiveness. At SRI, Doug directed strategy projects in diverse regions, including Austin (Texas), Hong Kong, Japan, and China.
With colleagues Kim Walesh and John Melville, Doug has written Grassroots Leaders for the New Economy: How Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communities (1997) and Civic Revolutionaries: Igniting the Passion for Change in America's Communities (2003). Doug holds a bachelors degree in political science and economics from Yale University and a masters of public policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Philippines Conference Room
Chris Berry traces the development and diversification of independent documentary film making in China from videotape to DV since its inception in the early 1990s, and its role in the succession from socialist realism to "on-the-spot realism." Chris Berry received his Ph.D. in Film and Television Studies from UCLA in 1999. He taught at La Trobe University in Melbourne for ten years prior to coming to the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include Chinese cinema, Korean cinema, and the role of the cinema in the production of individual and collective identities. He is the author of A Bit on the Side: East-West Topographies of Desire, the editor of Perspectives on Chinese Cinema, the co-coordinator of The House of Kim Ki-Young, and the co-editor of The Filmmaker and the Prostitute: Dennis O'Rourke's "The Good Woman Of Bangkok." This seminar is part of the Winter Colloquium Series on "Globalizing Asian Cultures."
Philippines Conference Room