Event Date: March 3, 2010 - 9:30 am
Location: Social Sciences Building, 120 Universi
A talk by Andreas Wimmer, University of California, Los Angeles.
Free. Registration is not required. This event will be in English.
Andreas Wimmer is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2009-10, he is a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. He previously served as founding director of two interdisciplinary research institutes: the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the University of Neuchâtel (1995-1999) and the Department of Political and Cultural Change at the University of Bonn (1999-2002). Prof. Wimmer has also worked as a consultant for international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, UNICEF, the governments of Germany and Switzerland, and various NGOs. He has received the prestigious Heisenberg fellowship from the German Research Foundation, was Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, Oxford, a fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies Berlin, Visiting Professor for Ethnic Studies and Sociology at Harvard University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Paris.