Francis Fukuyama, dean of faculty and the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, will deliver three Messenger Lectures at Cornell this month.
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The theme of the lectures is "The State After Sept. 11." All are at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, and are free and open to the public.
The lecture titles and their dates are:
Fukuyama also will give a talk titled "Still Enchanted? The Modernity of Postindustrial Capitalism," Wednesday, Feb. 19, at the new Center for the Study of Economy and Society's inaugural symposium, to be held from 2 to 5 p.m. in the 6th floor conference room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. This public event also is free.
Fukuyama, a Cornell alumnus, is the author of several books, most notably the award-winning works The End of History and the Last Man (1992) and Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995), both published in more than 20 foreign editions. Trust was named "Business Book of the Year" in 1995 by The European and was on Business Week's list of Top 10 Business Books for 1995. His most recent book is Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.
Fukuyama has written widely on issues concerning democratization and international political economy, focusing in recent years on the role of culture and social capital in modern economic life and on the social consequences of an information economy. In the past he wrote extensively on Soviet foreign policy in the Third World.
"Fukuyama is a distinguished alumnus who has achieved through his publications international fame as a public intellectual whose expertise is of great importance in understanding the modern world," said Victor Nee, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell.
Prior to his position at Johns Hopkins, Fukuyama was the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy, 1996-2000, at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University. He has been a member of the political science department of Rand Corp. as well as of the U.S. Department of State in policy planning. Currently Fukuyama is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics. He received his B.A. in 1974 from Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, where he majored in classics, and his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1981.
The Messenger Lectures were established in 1924 by a gift from Hiram Messenger, who graduated from Cornell in 1880. They are intended to help raise the moral standards of political, business and social life.
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