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PROFESSOR CLIFFORD GEERTZ spoke in June 1999 at a semiotics conference at the
lnstitut Ferdinand de Saussure Center, Archamps, Geneva; at the U.S. Embassy at Jakarta
on the occasion of the 50 th anniversary of US-Indonesia relations in December 1999; at a
conference on "Model Systems in the Social Sciences," Princeton History of Science
Program, also in December; at a special session on his work at the Modern Language
Association Meetings in Chicago, also in December; at Harvard, to the anthropology
department and to the study of nationalism group in February; again at the Model Systems
(in history) Workshop at Princeton University, in April 2000; and at a conference honor-
ing his work in Sefrou, Morocco in May 2000. He traveled for research purposes to Indone-
sia during November/December 1999 and Morocco during April/May 2000. His new book,
Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics, was published in May by
Princeton University Press. His earlier works The Interpretation of Cultures (1973) and
Local Knowledge (1983) were reissued with new introductions in Basic Books' Classics
Series. Articles published include: "Indonesia: Starting Over" (New York Review of Books),
"Awas Buaya" (Mencari Demokrasi, Jakarta), "Geiger at Antioch" (The Antioch Review),
"When the Poet Speaks Arabic" (To Be: 2B); "Afterword" (Interpreting Cultures, Twenry-
Five Years Later, Bloomington); and "The Introduction into Anthropology of a Genuinely
Historical Eye" (Journal of Victorian Culture). In July, exhausted by all of this, Professor
Geertz retired.
In October, PROFESSOR EMERITUS ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN was the recipient of
The Order of the Southern Cross bestowed upon him by the Brazilian Government. This
decoration was decided on by the President of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and
was presented to Professor Hirschman by the Ambassador, Rubens Barbosa, at the Brazilian
Embassy in Washington, DC.
Professor Hirschman spent one week (March 4-8) in Budapest and presented a paper on
"The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences" in honor of George Soros, the President
of the Central European University in Budapest and the principal benefactor, on his sev-
entieth birthday.
In March/April, he spent four weeks in Berlin at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. The
Rektor of the Institute, Wolf Lepenies, gave a speech in Professor Hirschman 's honor in
celebration of his 85' 1 ' birthday. In April, Professor Hirschman spent a week in Rome.
On May 6 ,h
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the Albert O. Hirschman Chair in Economics was inaugurated at the Insti-
tute. The celebration was attended by James D. Wolfensohn, President, The World
Bank, and Chairman of the Board, Institute for Advanced Study; and by Ronaldo H.
Schmitz and Wilfried Guth, Deutsche Bank AG, Trustees of the Institute for Advanced
Study, who had contributed to the establishment of the Chair.
Professor Hirschman has been notified that his book, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, (Harvard
University Press) will be printed in Chinese sometime next year.
PROFESSOR JOAN SCOTT gave the Frederick Art: lecture .n Oberlin College; a
Sawyer Seminar at Columbia University; and a paper .it a conference on contemporary
French politics at Rutgers. She taught a short (two-week) course at the Central Euro-
pean University in Budapest. She served on the Visiting Committee on Diversity ai
Brown
I fniversity and she continued to chair the Committee on Academic Freedom and
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