Vortrag: Farewell to Hegemony - The American Agony Event

NORMAN BIRNBAUM

Professor emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center

FAREWELL TO HEGEMONY:

The American Agony

Welcome address:

Eva Nowotny, Member of the Board of the Bruno Kreisky Forum

In cooperation with the US Embassy and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna

R. s. v. p.:

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Brief Biography

Professor Birnbaum was born in New York City in 1926 and educated at its public schools, at Williams College and Harvard University, whose doctorate in sociology he holds. He has taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Oxford University, the University of Strasbourg and Amherst College. He introduced sociology to the undergraduate curricula of Oxford and Amherst. He was at Georgetown University Law Center from 1979 until retirement as University Professor Emeritus in 2001. He has held appointments at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the Fondazione Gianni Agnelli and the Fondazione Alcide de Gasperi, the Institute for Advanced Study , and the Wissenschaftskolleg and Wissenschaftszentrum . He was Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the University of Bologna and has been a visitor at the London School of Economics and his college at Oxford, Nuffield College. He has also taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.and Yale University.