Global Studies Conference 2009: Main Speaker Announcement

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• Georges Corm
  
  
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• Georges Corm is a Lebanese Economist and Historian. He is an economic consultant to international organizations and professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. He studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (1958-1961) where he graduated in Public Finance and has also a PhD from Paris University in Constitutional Law (1969). He served as Finance Minister from December 4 1998 to 28 October 2000 in the government of Salim El Hoss.

• Lena Jayyusi
  
  
  
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• Lena Jayyusi is an Associate Professor and University Research Coordinator for "Culture, Media and History", at the College of Communication and Media Sciences, Dubai Campus of Zayed University, Dr. Jayyusi brings a rich cross-cultural perspective to Zayed University. In recent years she has worked with a number of Palestinian non-governmental organizations on communications related issues. She has published works on the role of Palestinian broadcasting, Palestinian media during the Oslo peace process, the globalization of human rights discourse, and the role of media in democracy.

Habibiul Haque Khondker

Habibiul Haque Khondker is a Professor of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He taught at the National University of Singapore until 2005. He held visiting appointments at University of Pittsburgh, Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Columbia University, and Cornell University. He was educated in Dhaka University, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Dr. Khondker’s articles on globalization, state, civil society, democracy, famine, internet, science and gender issues have been published in journals such as International Sociology, The British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology, Globalizations, Armed Forces and Society, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, International Journal of Mass Emergencies, Asian Journal of Social Science, South Asia, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, Economic and Political Weekly. He is the editor of Asia and Europe in Globalization: Continents, Regions, and Nations (Brill 2006) [with Goran Therborn]. Dr. Khondker is on the editorial board of Globalizations (Routledge) and Journal of Classical Sociology (Sage).

• Mouin Rabbani
  
  

  Mouin Rabbani, based in Amman, Jordan, is senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group.

George Ritzer

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and is the recipient of several other awards and honors including: Honorary Doctorate from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; Honorary Patron, University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin; American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. Dr. Ritzer has chaired the American Sociological Association’s Section on Theoretical Sociology, as well as the Section on Organizations and Occupations.

Among Dr. Ritzer’s books in metatheory are Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science and Metatheorzing in Sociology. In the application of social theory to the social world, his books include The McDonaldization of Society, Enchanting a Disenchanted World, and The Globalization of Nothing. Sage has published two volumes of his collected works, one in theory and the other in the application of theory to the social world, especially consumption. In the latter area, he is founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture. His books have been translated into over twenty languages, with over a dozen translations of The McDon