Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University
Feb 20, 2012 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and was Director of its Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics (2002-2008). Prof. Benhabib is a Straus Fellow at the Straus Institue for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at NYU from 2011-2012. She is the recipient of the Ernst Bloch prize in 2009 for her contributions to cultural understanding in a global world and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Utrecht (2004) and Valencia (2008).
Andrea Büchler is a Straus Fellow at the Straus Institue for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at NYU from 2011-2012. She earned her MA, Ph.D. and venia docendi in Private Law, Comparative Law and Gender Law between 1990 and 2002 at the University of Basle, Switzerland. She joined the University of Zurich as Professor of Law in 2002. She founded the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich in 2008, is the on-site director of the Law Summer School in Cairo, and was the co-director of the University Priority Research Programme «Asia and Europe». In 2003, she co-founded the Center for Family Sciences, a Switzerland-wide association which initiates, conducts and supports high-quality research in the field of the family. She was awarded a fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin, for the academic year 2008/2009 and is currently a fellow at the Collegium Helveticum ETH/UZH.
Susanna Mancini teaches Public Comparative Law at the University of Bologna. She is also an adjunct professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. She has lectured at many universities, including Yale and Oxford, and participated in conferences and seminars around the world. Professor Mancini has written widely on comparative constitutional law. She was a Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute and a visiting professor at the Central European University. Professor Mancini is also a project leader of the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development, a program that provides research and training for individuals and groups from countries undergoing the process of democratic transition in Central and South Eastern Europe, as well as North Africa.
This event is co-sponsored by Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations