A professor of urban planning at Columbia and the author of the influential 1991 book The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, she will speak on "Governing the Global Economy." The evening lectures on Oct. 2, 9 and 16 begin at 8:00 P.M. in the Dag Hammarskjold Lounge on the sixth floor of the School of International Affairs Building on West 118th St. at Amsterdam Ave. They are free and open to the public.
Sassen will discuss "The State and the New Geography of Power" in the first lecture, "Economic Citizenship" in the second and "Immigration Tests the New Order" in the third.
The talks are the third series in the annual Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures, presented by of the University Seminars.
Sassen was educated in Argentina, Italy, France and in the United States at the University of Notre Dame and Harvard. Her work focuses on international, regional and urban economic development, international labor migration, immigration and on governance in the global economy. She recently began a 5-year research project titled "Goverance and Accountability in a World Economy."
Her latest book, Immigrants and Refugees: A European Dilemma? will be published in 1996. She has also written Cities in a World Economy (1994) and The Mobility of Labor and Capital: A Study in International Investment and Labor Flow (1988).
The Twentieth Century Fund recently awarded her a 2-year grant for a book on immigration policy in a world economy, which will compare key issues in the United States, Western Europe and Japan.
The Schoff Lectures are supported by a bequest to the University Seminars from the Leonard Hastings Schoff and Suzanne Lebick Schoff Memorial Trust. Schoff was a textile manufacturer, economist and educator.
The lectures will be published by Columbia University Press.