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Date: January 26, 1999
Princeton's Colloquium on Migration and Development Features Lecture on ``International Migration and the Future of the Nation State''
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Aristide Zolberg, professor of sociology at New School University in New York City, will speak on ``International Migration and the Future of the Nation State'' at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday February 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
A leading authority in the field of international migration and development, Zolberg is the author of Creating Political Order: The Party-States of West Africa and Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World. He is the director of New School University's International Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship Center.
Zolberg is the recipient of numerous honors, among them a prestigious research grant from the MacArthur Foundation for the study of world leadership and a research grant from the Pew Global Stewardship Initiative. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on International Migration of the Social Science Research Council.
His talk is sponsored by the University's Center for Migration and Development, as part of its first colloquium series on migration and development.