FONNA FORMAN Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Founding Director, UCSD Center on Global Justice University of California, San Diego UCSD Center on Global Justice 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0521 [email protected]Editor, Adam Smith Review [email protected]July 2017 Bio Fonna Forman is founding Director of the UCSD Center on Global Justice. She is a political theorist best known for her revisionist work on Adam Smith, recuperating the ethical, social, spatial and public dimensions of his thought. Since 2009 she has been Editor of the Adam Smith Review, the premier international journal of Smith’s thought. Forman’s research has evolved in increasingly grounded directions, engaging issues at the intersection of ethics, public culture, policy and the city - including human rights at the urban scale, climate justice, border ethics and equitable urbanization. Recent work includes a volume with Amartya Sen on critical interventions in global justice theory; a volume with Teddy Cruz on urban informality; a research collaboration on “grounded normative theory” (working with similarly grounded theorists to develop a new set of empirical methods for political theory), and thematic papers on ‘municipal cosmopolitanism’, ‘cross-border citizenship’, ‘climate migration’, and ‘participatory urbanization.’ She is presently writing a monograph on the diverse legacies of Adam Smith in Latin America. Blurring conventional boundaries between theory and practice, and transgressing the fields of architecture and urbanism, political theory and urban policy, visual arts and public culture, Forman partners closely with UCSD urbanist and architect Teddy Cruz on a variety of urban research projects and public interventions. From 2012-13 they
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FONNA FORMANAssociate Professor, Department of Political ScienceFounding Director, UCSD Center on Global JusticeUniversity of California, San Diego
UCSD Center on Global Justice9500 Gilman DriveLa Jolla, CA [email protected]
Fonna Forman is founding Director of the UCSD Center on Global Justice. She is a political theorist best known for her revisionist work on Adam Smith, recuperating the ethical, social, spatial and public dimensions of his thought. Since 2009 she has been Editor of the Adam Smith Review, the premier international journal of Smith’s thought. Forman’s research has evolved in increasingly grounded directions, engaging issues at the intersection of ethics, public culture, policy and the city - including human rights at the urban scale, climate justice, border ethics and equitable urbanization. Recent work includes a volume with Amartya Sen on critical interventions in global justice theory; a volume with Teddy Cruz on urban informality; a research collaboration on “grounded normative theory” (working with similarly grounded theorists to develop a new set of empirical methods for political theory), and thematic papers on ‘municipal cosmopolitanism’, ‘cross-border citizenship’, ‘climate migration’, and ‘participatory urbanization.’ She is presently writing a monograph on the diverse legacies of Adam Smith in Latin America.
Blurring conventional boundaries between theory and practice, and transgressing the fields of architecture and urbanism, political theory and urban policy, visual arts and public culture, Forman partners closely with UCSD urbanist and architect Teddy Cruz on a variety of urban research projects and public interventions. From 2012-13 they served as special advisors on civic and urban initiatives for the City of San Diego and led the development of its Civic Innovation Lab. Together they founded the UCSD Cross-Border Initiative, a platform for engaged research and teaching on poverty and social equity in the San Diego-Tijuana border region. And they are principals in Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, a research-based political and architectural practice investigating issues of informal urbanization, civic infrastructure and public culture, with an emphasis on Latin American cities. Their work has been profiled widely in important publications including Domus, ArtForum, The New York Times, Next City, and e-flux; and exhibited in prestigious cultural venues across the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; the Medellín Museum of Modern Art; and the 2016 Shenzhen Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture, among others. Forman + Cruz are currently completing two monographs: one on ‘cross-border citizenship’; and another, a cross-section of their public interventions, Top-Down / Bottom-Up, under contract with
Hatje Cantz, Berlin. Their work has been funded by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ArtPlace America, the Surdna Foundation, the PARC Foundation, the San Diego Foundation, and generous gifts by Richard C. Blum and Daniel Yankelovich, among others.
Forman has served on various civic and policy advisory bodies at local and international scales, including the Global Citizenship Commission (2013-6) chaired by the Rt. Hon Gordon Brown, advising UN policy on human rights in the 21st century. Most recently she has partnered on several advisory projects with renowned UCSD climatologist, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, that investigate the social and ethical dimensions of climate change, including a 2017 paper on ‘climate migration’ for the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Social Sciences, an international task-force in on keeping global warming below 2° C; and serving as Vice-Chair of the University of California’s Bending the Curve report of 2015 (a set of ten scalable solutions for climate stability designed by 50 faculty from diverse disciplines across the University of California). In 2016-7 Forman and Ramanathan piloted a system-wide University of California undergraduate course on scalable solutions to climate change.
Forman is an advocate for engaged social science, and deepening university-community research partnerships. At UC San Diego, she is affiliated with the Center for Energy Research, and serves on the advisory boards of the Climate Neutrality Task Force, the Urban Studies and Planning program, the Global Health program, FF21 (Food and Fuel for the 21st Century), the Center for Tomorrow’s California and the US-Mexico Binational Consortium on Border Challenges, a network of research universities across the border region.
EducationPh.D. Political Science, University of Chicago, 2001J.D. University of Wisconsin Law School, 1993B.A. Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989
Academic AppointmentsDirector, UCSD Center on Global Justice, 2017-Founding Co-Director (with Teddy Cruz), UCSD / Blum Cross-Border Initiative, 2012-Founding Co-Director (with Gerry Mackie), UCSD Center on Global Justice (ORU), 2011-16Associate Professor (with tenure) University of California, San Diego, Dept. of Political Science, 2009-Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego, Dept. of Political Science 2002-2009
Visiting Appointments / Masterclasses-Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Dept. of Urban Planning and Design, Fall 2018-University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Master in Development Economics and International Cooperation, May 2017-University of Pennsylvania, School of Architecture (with Anuradha Mathur), Spring 2017.-Middlebury College, Cameron Visiting Professor, March 2017-Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Masters in Sustainable Emergency Architecture, November 2016
Editorial AppointmentsEditor, Adam Smith Review (Routledge), 2009-
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Assistant Editor, Political Theory (Sage), 1999-2001
Areas of SpecializationPolitical theoryPublic cultureAdam SmithGlobal justice, theories and practicesEquitable urbanization and public spaceHuman rightsClimate justice
Consultancy
Special Advisor on Civic and Urban Initiatives, Civic Innovation Lab, City of San Diego, June 2013-July 2014
Member, Global Citizenship Commission reporting to the United Nations on human rights implementation in the 21st Century), January 2013-April 2016.
Vice-Chair, University of California Climate Solutions Group, tasked with identifying a set of actionable solutions for ‘bending the curve’ on climate change, 2015-6.
Co-PI, University of California-TomKat Net-Zero Communication Working Group, tasked with developing a communication strategy and outreach plan for the University of California to help reach its goal of carbon neutrality by 2025, May 2016-
Member, 1.5C Task Force (chaired by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Mario J. Molina, Durwood Zaelke). Task Force for promoting fast actions to limit warming within the coming decades, October 2016-December 2016.
Participant, Working Group on Humanitarianism and Mass Migration, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Ross Institute and UCLA, January 2017.
Honors / Awards
2017 The Social Design Circle Award, the 10th Anniversary Design Prize of the Curry Stone Foundation (with Teddy Cruz)
2016 UCSD EO/AA Diversity Award for UCSD Community Stations (with Teddy Cruz, Mike Cole, Bud Mehan, Srinivas Sukumar and Angela Booker)
Research
Published work:Books / Edited Volumes
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Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, Top-Down / Bottom-Up: The Political and Architectural Practice of Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, under contract
Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, eds. Informal Markets Worlds – Reader: The Architecture of Economic Pressure, Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers, 2015.
Fonna Forman and Gerry Mackie, eds. Amartya Sen and the Idea of Justice: Interdisciplinary engagements, London: Routledge, 2013.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy: Cosmopolitanism and Moral Theory (Ideas in Context 96). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Working papers
Fonna Forman, Brooke Acklerly, Luis Cabrera, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Chris Tenove and Antje Weiner, “Grounded normative theory: Political theorizing with those who struggle” (working paper)
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “The UCSD Community Stations: Co-producing knowledge at the US-Mexico Border” (working paper)
Fonna Forman, “Amartya Sen and the escape from isolation: rethinking justice in a global age” (working paper)
Articles and papers
Fonna Forman, “Adam Smith and a New Public Imagination” in Are Markets Moral?, eds. Steven Kautz, Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming.
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Cross-Border Community Stations,” Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment, eds. Karl Kusserow and Alan Braddock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming.
Fonna Forman and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, “Climate Change, Mass Migration And Sustainability: A Probabilistic Case for Urgent Action,” Humanitarianism and Mass Migration, ed. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, University of California Press, forthcoming.
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Global Justice at the Municipal Scale: the Case of Medellín, Colombia,” in Institutional Cosmopolitanism, ed. Luis Cabrera. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Fonna Forman, “Social Norms and the Cross-Border Citizen: From Adam Smith to Antanas Mockus,” in Cultural Agents Reloaded: The Legacy of Antanas Mockus, ed. Carlo Tognato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017.
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “The Cross-Border Public,” in Public Space? Lost and Found, eds. Gediminas Urbonas, Ann Lui and Lucas Freeman, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017.
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Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Un-walling Citizenship”, Avery Review: Critical Essays on Architecture, No. 21 (Winter, 2017).
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Latin America and a New Political Leadership: Experimental Acts of Co-Existence,” in Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good, eds. Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson and Dominic Wilsdon, Boston, MA: MIT Press, 2017.
Ramanathan, V., Allison, J., Auffhammer, M., Auston, D., Barnosky, A. D., Chiang, L., W. D. Collins, S. J. Davis, F. Forman, S. B. Hecht, D. M. Kammen, C-Y. C. Lin Lawell, T. Matlock, D. Press, D. Rotman, S. Samuelsen, G. Solomon, D. Victor, B. Washom, J. Christensen, Chapter 1. Bending the Curve: Ten Scalable Solutions for Carbon Neutrality and Climate Stability. Collabra, 2(1), 15. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.55
Forman, F., Solomon, G., Morello-Frosch, R., & Pezzoli, K, Chapter 8. “Bending the Curve and Closing the Gap: Climate Justice and Public Health”. Collabra, 2(1), 22. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.67
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Changing Practice: Engaging Informal Public Demands” in Informal Markets Worlds – Reader: The Architecture of Economic Pressure, eds. Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman. Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers, 2015.
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “The Informal Public Demands a New Conversation: A Virtual Roundtable (with Alejandro Echeverri and Jean-Philipe Vassal), in Informal Markets Worlds – Reader: The Architecture of Economic Pressure, eds. Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman. Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers, 2015.
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Public Imagination, Citizenship and an Urgent Call for Justice,” The Just City Essays, Next City, ed. Toni Griffin, 2015. http://www.thenatureofcities.com/2015/10/23/public-imagination-citizenship-and-an-urgent-call-for-justice/
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Medellín is the Future” in Medellín: vida y ciudad, ed. Isabel Garcés, Municipality of Medellín, on the occasion of the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum, April 2014.
Fonna Forman and Gerry Mackie, “Introduction: New Frontiers in Global Justice,” in Amartya Sen and the Idea of Justice: Interdisciplinary engagements, eds. Fonna Forman and Gerry Mackie. London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 151-161.
Fonna Forman, “Adam Smith, Moral Portraiture and the Science of Man,” Adam Smith Review VII (2013): 186-91.
Fonna Forman, “From European to Cosmopolitan Freedom” in Freedom and the Construction of Europe, eds. Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Taking a Broader View of Humanity: An Interview with Amartya Sen,” in Dialogues with Contemporary Political Theorists, eds. Gary Browning, Raia Prokhovnik and Maria Dimova-Cookson (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 170-80.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Socratic cosmopolitanism,” Journal of Social and Political Studies I (Fall 2011).
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Smith’s anti-cosmopolitanism,” in Essays on the Philosophy of Adam Smith, eds. Vivienne Brown and Samuel Fleischacker. London: Routledge, 2010.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Why there is no Adam Smith Problem,” The Market Society and its Morality, ed Michael Zoeller. Berlin: Council on Public Policy, 2010.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Commercial Cosmopolis”, trans. as "Kaupallinen Kosmopolis" in Nykyinen taloudellinen globalisaatio ja tieto (Economic Globalization and Knowledge). eds. Teppo Eskelinen, Ilkka Kauppinen, Olli Pekka-Moisio. Helsnki: Osuuskunta Vastapaino, 2008
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Interdisciplinarity in Smith Studies” in “Smith in Contexts: A Symposium on Knud Haakonssen’s Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith,” ed. Fonna Forman-Barzilai, Adam Smith Review 4 (2008): 217-20.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Smith on ‘connexion’, culture and judgment” in New Voices on Adam Smith, eds. Leonidas Montes and Eric Schliesser. London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 89-114.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Sympathy in space(s): Adam Smith on proximity,” Political Theory vol. 33, no. 2 (April 2005): 189-217.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “And thus spoke the spectator: Adam Smith for humanitarians,” Adam Smith Review I (Fall 2004): 167-174.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “The emergence of contextualism in Rousseau’s political thought: The case of Parisian theatre in the Lettre à d’Alembert,” History of Political Thought, vol. XXIV, no. 3 (Autumn 2003):435-63.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Adam Smith as globalization theorist,” Critical Review, vol.14, no. 4 (2002): 391-419.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Whose Context? Which Impartiality? Reflections on Griswold’s Smith” Perspectives on Political Science, vol. 30, no. 3 (Summer 2001): 146-50.
Policy papers / reports
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century: Report of the Global Citizenship Commission (New York: Open Book Publishers, 2016) Commission Members: K. Anthony Appiah, Laurel Bellows, Nicolas Berggruen, Paul Boghossian, Gordon Brown (Chair), Craig Calhoun, Wang Chenguang, Mohamed ElBaradei, Fonna Forman, Andrew Forrest, Ronald M. George, Asma Jahangir, John Kufuor, Graça Machel, Catherine O’Regan, Ricken Patel, Emma
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Rothschild, Robert Rubin, Jonathan Sacks, Kailash Satyarthi, Klaus Schwab , Amartya Sen, John Sexton, Robert Shrum, Jeremy Waldron, Joseph Weiler, Rowan Williams, Diane C. Yu (Executive Director). Submitted to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Monday, April 18, 2016. http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/467/the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights-in-the-21st-century
Bending the Curve: 10 scalable solutions for carbon neutrality and climate stability. (The University of California, October 27, 2015). Climate Solutions Group members: Veerabhadran Ramanathan (Chair), Fonna Forman (Vice-Chair), Daniel Kammen (Vice-Chair), Juliann E. Allison, Maximilian Auffhammer, David Auston, Anthony D. Barnosky, Lifang Chiang, William D. Collins, Steven J. Davis, Susanna B. Hecht, C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell, Teenie Matlock, Daniel Press, Douglas Rotman, Scott Samuelsen, Gina Solomon, David G. Victor, Byron Washom.http://uc-carbonneutralitysummit2015.ucsd.edu/_files/Bending-the-Curve.pdf
Well Under 2° C: Fast Action Policies to Protect People and the Planet from Extreme Climate Changes, 2016. Ramanathan, V., Molina, M.J., Zaelke, D., Borgford-Parnell, N., Alex, K., Auffhammer, M., Bledsoe, P., Collins, W., Croes, B., Forman, F., Gustafsson, Ö, Haines, A., Harnish, R., Jacobson, M., Kang, S., Lawrence, M., Leloup, D., Lenton, T., Morehouse, T., Munk, W., Picolotti, R., Prather, K., Raga, G., Rignot, E., Shindell, D., Singh, AK, Steiner, A., Thiemens, M., Titley, D.W., Tucker, M.E., Tripathi, S., Victor, D., & Xu, Y, Submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change through the Climate & Clean Air Coalition.
Catalogue essays, miscellaneous writing
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Cross-Border Citizens,” in CAFAM US/ Mexico Border: Place, Imagination and Possibility, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, September 2018.
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Rethinking Permanence, Democratizing Space” in Building as Ever, Orange County Museum of Art, May 2017.
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Neutrality is Complicity,” Mexican Cities Initiative, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, March 20, 2017. http://research.gsd.harvard.edu/mci/neutrality-is-complicity/
“Architects continue to denounce AIA, AN has collected outcry here,” The Architect’s Newspaper, November 15, 2016. https://archpaper.com/2016/11/architects-continue-denounce-aia-collected-outcry/
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, “Mediating a New Civic Imagination,” for Habitat III: The Experimental City, Laboratoria para la Ciudad, Mexico City and the UCLG Compact of Mayors, 2016.
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, “The Wall: The San Diego-Tijuana Border,” ArtForum (Summer 2016): 370-375. https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201606&id=60110
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Where is the Public Today? Designing for a New Civic Imagination” in By the People: Designing a Better America, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2016 https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2016/11/28/spatializing-citizenship-public-culture-
Kotti & Co + Estudio Teddy + Forman, “The Retrofit Gecekondu”, Wohnungsfrage (Haus der Kulturen Der Welt) 2015.
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Informal Public Demands,” Cityscapes: rethinking urban things, vol. 7, ed. Edgar Pieterse (2015)
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Localizing the Global: The Political Equator and the Cross-Border Citizen,” in Border City: Documentation of an interdisciplinary project in San Diego (US) and Tijuana (Mexico) by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the University of California, San Diego. Published by Bauhaus Universitätserlag, 2015, pp. 15-19.
Keynotes, and notable public lectures:
2017 “Environmental and Climate Justice,” Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, Rome, November 3, 2017.
2017, “Smith’s Ethics in a Global World,” Adam Smith’s Enlightened World, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, September 24, 2017
2017 “Cross-Border Citizens” (with Teddy Cruz), Building on the Common Ground: Structures for Inclusion Conference 2017, Portland State University, April 7, 2017https://vimeo.com/218111257
2017 “Visualizing Citizenship” (with Teddy Cruz), Opening of solo show, Forman + Cruz, Visualizing Citizenship: Seeking a new Public Imagination, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, March 10, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AZcZRhIBg0
2017 Lecture: “Climate Change, Mass Migration And Sustainability: A Probabilistic Case for Urgent Action,” (with Veerabhadran Ramanathan), Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Ross Institute and UCLA Workshop on Humanitarianism and Mass Migration, UCLA, January 18-19, 2017.
2016 “Where is our Civic Imagination?” (with Teddy Cruz), Reshaping Rochester Speaker Series, “Balancing the Scales: Equality by Design”, Rochester, New York, July 9, 2016
2016 “The Cross-Border Citizen,” Extending Architecture series, Create-Ireland, The National Arts Council of Ireland, Cork, Ireland, April 29, 2016
2016 “The Cross-Border Citizen,” (with Teddy Cruz): Act!: Politics, Design, People, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, April 18, 2016
2016 “The Cross-Border Citizen,” Mellon Lecture, (with Teddy Cruz), Taubman School of Architecture, University of Michigan, March 11, 2016
2016, “Where is our Civic Imagination” (with Teddy Cruz) Sí / No: The Architecture Of Urban-Think Tank, Technische Universität München, Architekturmuseum, Munich, January 2016
2015, Lead Presenter: “Social Change” Summit on Pathways to Carbon and Climate Neutrality: California and The World, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, October 26-7, 2015.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZErA-twp6g4
2015 “The Retrofit Gecekondu” (with Teddy Cruz and Kotti & Co), “Wohnungsfrage”, Berlin Social Housing Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, October 23, 2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIx7TJCvle4
2015 “Where is our Civic Imagination?” (with Teddy Cruz), CANactions School / US Embassy Ukraine, Kyiv, October 4, 2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Au3T1E4Ow&feature=youtu.be
2015 “Top-down meeting the Bottom-up”, (with Teddy Cruz) Seminar: Redesigning the Gap: Urbanization between Formal Institutions and Informal Dynamics, University of Oslo Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature and the School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, April 2015
2015 Le Frak Forum lecture, “Morals and Markets,” The Symposium on Science, Reason, & Modern Democracy, Michigan State University, March 2015
2014 “Social norms, urban conflict and the cross-border citizen” (with Teddy Cruz) La construcción de la paz desde la Cultura Ciudadana, Bogota, Colombia, October 2014.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKM_NmqKqCI
2014 “Adam Smith for a Global Age,” Keynote Address, Empathy and Competition: A 21st Century View on Adam Smith, 8th Revisiting the Classics Conference, Max Weber Programme, European University Institute, Florence, May 7, 2014
2014 “The Urbanization of Happiness and the Decline of Civic Imagination,” (with Teddy Cruz), The Good Life Lecture, Eleanor Roosevelt College, University of California, San Diego, February 19, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK33-qDLCow
2011 “Comparatives without transcendence: Amartya Sen’s cosmopolitan moral psychology,” Plenary Lecture, UK Association for the Study of Political Thought, St Catherine’s, Oxford, January 2011
Book Events
2016 West Coast Book Launch for Informal Markets Worlds – Reader: The Architecture of Economic Pressure, eds. Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, UCLA, CityLab, Los Angeles, February 2015
2015 Book Launch for Informal Markets Worlds – Reader: The Architecture of Economic Pressure, eds. Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City, October 2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvPlM8d38Rk
2010 “Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy,” University of Oslo, Center for the Study of Mind in Nature, Public Lecture, October 2010
2010 Roundtable: Two New Books on Adam Smith: Fonna Forman-Barzilai, Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy and Ryan Patrick Hanley, Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue. American Political Science Association, Washington DC, September 2010
2010 Roundtable on Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy, Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal, June 2010
2010 Roundtable on Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Princeton, June 2010
Projects and Public Space Interventions
The Cross-Border Citizen, a Bi-national Citizenship Culture Survey designed in collaboration with former Bogotá Mayor Antanas Mockus, that investigates cross-border civic infrastructure, public trust and social norms, to inspire cross-border urban policy and cultural interventions between the cities of San Diego and Tijuana. Funded by the Ford Foundation and the San Diego Foundation, and exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
The Medellín Diagram, a diagram of political and civic processes for the City of Medellin, Colombia, in collaboration with architect Alejandro Echeverri and graphic designer Matthias Görlich. Exhibited at the Medellin Museum of Modern Art for the 2014 World Urban Forum; the Santa Monica Museum of Art; the 2016 Shenzhen Biennial; and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
EPIC: The Chollas Eco-Village, a cross-sector planning project funded by the California Energy Commission, to design a ‘zero-net energy community’ for the disadvantaged neighborhoods of Encanto. Partners include the UCSD Center on Global Justice, the UCSD Center for Energy Research, the community-based environmental non-profit Groundwork San Diego, the San Diego Unified School District, San Diego Gas & Electric, and the City for San Diego Planning Department. The project includes a substantial civic engagement and environmental education focus, including the development and application of an innovative climate attitude and behavior survey, coordinated by the UCSD Center on Global Justice.
Mecalux Retrofit, a social housing research collaboration with Mecalux, a Spanish maquiladora in Tijuana to retrofit their prefab metal pallet rack systems into new structural frameworks for housing in the settlements of Tijuana, exhibited at Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and the Cal-Pacific Triennial at Orange County Museum of Art.
Urban Rooms, a public space intervention in collaboration with the City of San Jose and Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) and funded by the NEA and ArtPlace America.
Meeting House at the Old Manse, a temporary public meeting-house and cultural space in Minuteman National Park in Concord, Massachusetts to advance community dialogue about the history of slavery, in collaboration with artist Sam Durant and curator Pedro Alonzo.
Political Equator 3: Border Drain CrossingThe Political Equator Meetings began in 2006, in collaboration with local community-based non-profit organizations on both sides of the border. The 5th meeting, in Summer 2016, will be a major cross-border event to communicate the results of the Binational Citizenship Culture survey.
A Campus for Learning: Civic San Diego Hilltop Masterplan (RFP Finalists): A new model of equitable and sustainable urban development, and energy independence for the underserved neighborhoods of Encanto in Southeast San Diego. A public-private partnership among Groundwork San Diego, RED Office, UC San Diego, and the San Diego Unified School District, integrating housing with education and commercial use oriented toward the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of the community.
Civic Innovation Lab, San Diego: In 2012-13 was consultant to the City of San Diego to design and co-direct the Civic Innovation Lab, a new project inside the mayor’s office that convened the best urban thinking across sectors to explore new civic engagement strategies, produce innovative public space projects, advocate for urban policy transformations to promote equitable urban growth in underserved neighborhoods across the border region, and coordinate cross-border municipal collaboration with the City of Tijuana.
The UCSD Community Stations, a network of field-stations located in marginalized neighborhoods across the San Diego-Tijuana border region, where research and teaching are conducted collaboratively with community partners. The Blum Summer Field Internship is an annual paid field-research immersion program that places interdisciplinary teams of UCSD undergraduates in the Community Stations sites. The UCSD Community Stations have been generously funded by UC Regent Richard C. Blum and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and were honored in 2015 with an inaugural UCSD “Frontiers of Innovation” Center Award, and in 2016 with the UCSD EO/AA Diversity Award. There are presently three UCSD Community Stations operating throughout the region:
The UCSD EarthLab Community Station based in the Southeast San Diego neighborhood of Encanto, in partnership with the nonprofit Groundwork San Diego and the San Diego Unified School District
The UCSD Cross-Border Community Station at San Ysidro based in the border neighborhood of San Ysidro, California in partnership with the nonprofit Casa Familiar
The UCSD Cross-Border Community Station at Laureles Canyon based in an informal settlement of 85,000 people on the periphery of Tijuana
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Community Stations Public Space Interventions:
The Cross-Border Community Station at Casa Familiar: Living Rooms at the Border, a mixed-use housing development and public space project in collaboration with Casa Familiar to break ground in 2018, funded by ArtPlace America and the Parc Foundation; and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art New York in Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement.
The Cross-Border Community Station in Tijuana, a new public space in the Los Laureles canyon, which will serve as a UCSD classroom, field-station and health clinic, as well as a hub for arts and culture programming to promote political agency, environmental literacy and economic development in the canyon, presently in early stages of design. A 3-D model, and process videos, were exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York in 2016 and the Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), Los Angeles forthcoming in 2018.
Earthlab Community Station Masterplan, a participatory masterplan design for a 4-acre open-air environmental classroom, is presently in development in collaboration with Groundwork San Diego and the San Diego Unified School District, and funded by the Surdna Foundation.
Chollas Gathering Place, San Diego: a collaboration in 2013-4 among the Civic Innovation Lab, the Center on Global Justice and the non-profit Groundwork San Diego, that transformed a blighted vacant lot in Encanto into a public gathering space.
Exhibitions
2018 “The Cross-Border Community Station,” in Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment, Princeton University Art Museum, Winter 2018.
2017, “The Cross-Border Community Station,” in US/ Mexico Border: Place, Imagination and Possibility, Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) in Los Angeles, September 2017.
2017, “Urban Rooms,” Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, opening, San Jose, June 2, 2017.
2017, “The Mecalux Retrofit,” Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman in Building as Ever, 2017 California-Pacific Triennial of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, May 2017.
2017 “Visualizing Citizenship: Seeking a New Public Imagination,” solo show, Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman with Matthias Görlich; inaugural exhibition of The City Initiative, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, March 2017.https://mobile.twitter.com/ybca/status/862009323592990720/video/1
2017 “Border-Drain Crossing” Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, in Making Communities; Art and the Border, UCSD University Art Gallery, Spring 2017.
2016 "Radicalizing the Local: 60 Miles of Trans-Border Urban Conflict" in Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman, Museum of Modern Art New York, Fall 2016.
2016 “Cross-Border Community Station,” in By the People: Designing a Better America, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Fall 2016.
2016 “Manufactured Sites,”Constellation.s à Bordeaux: observer les mutations planétaires, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman, Bordeaux, June, 2016.
2016 “The Medellin Diagram,” Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman with Matthias Görlich and Alejandro Echeverri, at SME Art Gallery, UC San Diego, January 2016.
2015 “The Medellín Diagram,” Radical Urbanism exhibition, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman with Matthias Görlich and Alejandro Echeverri, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen), December 2015 http://en.szhkbiennale.org/Exhibits/contentPage.aspx?id=10000820
2015 “Retrofit Gecekondu” Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman with Kotti & Co, “Wohnungsfrage”, Berlin Social Housing Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, October 2015.
2015 “Political Equator 2015”, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman in Moving Images, M+ Hong Kong, April 2015.
2015 “The Cross-Border Citizen,” Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman in Left Coast: California Political Art, The Graduate Center, CUNY, April 2015
2014 “Architectures of Civic Freedom: Where the top-down meets the bottom-up,” Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman in Scientia Civitatis: Missing Titles, Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland, March 2014.
2014 “Visualizing Citizenship: The Medellín Diagram” Teddy Cruz, Alejandro Echeverri, Fonna Forman and Matthias Görlich, in Citizen Culture: Art and Architecture Shape Policy, curated by Lucia Sanromán, Santa Monica Museum of Art, September, 2014.
2014 “The Medellín Diagram: A Story of Civic Freedom,” Teddy Cruz, Alejandro Echeverri, Fonna Forman and Matthias Görlich, an exhibition for the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum, The Medellín Museum of Modern Art, Medellín, Colombia, April 8-10, 2014. http://medellin-diagram.com/en/#
Led / Hosted Workshops, Masterclasses
Workshop, Adam Smith’s Enlightened World, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, September 24-8, 2017.
Masterclass (with Teddy Cruz) University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Master in Development Economics and International Cooperation (MESCI), MUNDUS URBANO, Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, May 2017.
Studio (with Teddy Cruz): ArtCenter / South Florida, Miami, March 2017.
Masterclass (with Teddy Cruz): Middlebury College, March 2017.
Masterclass (with Teddy Cruz): University of Pennsylvania, School of Architecture (with Anuradha Mathur), San Diego and Tijuana, Spring Term 2017.
Masterclass (with Teddy Cruz and Miodrag Mitrasinovic) MetroLab, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, January 2017.
Masterclass (with Teddy Cruz) Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Masters in Sustainable Emergency Architecture, MUNDUS URBANO, Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, November 2016.
Workshop (with Teddy Cruz): Bauhaus University, Weimar; San Diego and Tijuana, September 2016.
Workshop (with Teddy Cruz): Extending Architecture, Create-Ireland, the National Arts Council of Ireland, Cork, April 2016.
Workshop (with Teddy Cruz): Act!: Politics, Design People, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, April 2016.
Mini-Symposium (with Teddy Cruz): The UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative, San Diego, January 2016.
Workshop (with Teddy Cruz): Cross-Border Citizens, Universität Stuttgart Department of International Urbanism, San Diego and Tijuana, November 2014.
Masterclass (with Teddy Cruz): Political Equator: Ukraine, CAN Actions School, Kyiv, Ukraine, October 2015.
Masterclass (with Teddy Cruz): Urbanism in times of insurgency. Advocating for the just city in the 21st century, Doctorate School, Universita IUAV Venezia, Italia, July 2105.
Workshop (with Teddy Cruz): San Diego Good Government + Good Design Community Progress, Center for Community Progress, New Orleans April 2015.
Workshop (with Teddy Cruz): Border Studio, TU Delft School of Architecture, San Diego and Tijuana, October 2014.
Workshop (with Teddy Cruz): Los Laureles, Masters in Emergency Architecture, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, School of Architecture, San Diego and Tijuana, February 2015
2017 Lecture: “Environmental and Climate Justice,” Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, Rome, November 3, 2017.
2017, Lecture: “Cross-Border Citizens” (with Teddy Cruz), Ideas City, New York City, The New Museum, New York City, September 16, 2017
2017 Lecture: “The Social Side of Adam Smith,” Rovira i Virgili University, Reus, Catalonia, May 22, 2017.
2017 Lecture: “Cross-Border Community Stations” (with Teddy Cruz) Art of Environmental Justice in an Expanded Field: A Symposium on Creative Activism and Eco-Politics across Boundaries, Princeton University, April 13-4, 2017.
2017 Participant, Grounded Normative Theory workshop, Vancouver, April 11-12, 2017.
2017, Lecture: “Cross-Border Community Stations: Co-Producing Knowledge at the US-Mexico Border” (with Teddy Cruz) Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School, NYC, February 13, 2017.
2017 Lecture: “Reimagining Urban Borders in a Time of Global Closure” (with Teddy Cruz), MetroLab, Brussels, January 27, 2017.
2017 Lecture: “Climate Change, Mass Migration And Sustainability: A Probabilistic Case for Urgent Action,” (with Veerabhadran Ramanathan), Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Ross Institute and UCLA Workshop on Humanitarianism and Mass Migration, UCLA, January 18-19, 2017.
2016, The Surdna Foundation / National Endowment for the Arts “Designing Equity,” May 9, 2016.
2016, New Cities Future Ruins, Dallas, October 12-13, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTpE-ADHzXc
2016, ArtsChangeUS, San Francisco, April 15, 2016.
2016 Conference on Philosophy and Economics: Contemporary Questions, University of San Francisco, Department of Philosophy, March 29, 2016.
2016 California Energy Commission, Workshop on Cross-Border energy issues, Imperial Valley, February 18, 2016.
2016 “Cross-Border Citizens” Human Rights and the Palestinian Situation,” Al Quds University, East Jerusalem, Palestine, January 2016.
2015 “Adam Smith and a New Public Imagination, Social and Political Thought Speaker Series, Vanderbilt, November, 2015.
2015 “Adam Smith and a New Public Imagination,” The Contributions of Adam Smith, University of Houston, October, 2015.
2015 Participant, “The Decent City,” Ford Foundation and the Social Science Research Council, New York City, October 2015.
2015 “The Binational Citizenship Culture Survey (with Teddy Cruz) Gather! Building the Community of the Future, San Diego Foundation, National City, CA, June 2015.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQmW3bc00k
2015 Panelist, FIELD journal launch, La Jolla, CA, May 2015.
2015 “Top-down meeting the Bottom-up”, (with Teddy Cruz) Seminar: Redesigning the Gap: Urbanization between Formal Institutions and Informal Dynamics, University of Oslo Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature and the School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, April 2015
2015 Workshop on Social Housing in Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, April 2015.
2015 “Morals and Markets,” The Symposium on Science, Reason, & Modern Democracy, Michigan State University, March 2015.
2014 “The Architecture of Civic Freedom: the Case of Medellín, Colombia” (with Teddy Cruz) Delhi University, November 2014.
2014, “Borderline Conflicts”, Speaker and workshop leader (with Teddy Cruz), The Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany, November 2014.
2014 NYU Global Citizenship Commission meeting with the World Economic Forum, Abu Dhabi and Dubai November, 2014
2014 “Innovative and social urban experiments in Latin American Mega-Cities,” Platforms of Urban Imagination, Zeppelin Universitat, Department of Architecture, Friedrichshafen, Germany, November 2014.
2014 “The Architecture of Civic Freedom: the Case of Medellín, Colombia” Political Theory Workshop, Goethe Universitat / Frankfurt, October 2014.
2014 “Social norms, urban conflict and the cross-border citizen” (with Teddy Cruz) La construcción de la paz desde la Cultura Ciudadana, Bogota, Colombia, October 2014.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKM_NmqKqCI
2014 The Civic Arts: Enlightenment and the Subjects of Liberal Learning, UCLA Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, October, 2014.
2014 “Municipal cosmopolitanism in theory and practice,” International Justice, Sovereignty, and Liberty, a conference hosted by Social Philosophy & Policy (Cambridge University Press) and Liberty Fund, London, June 2014.
2014 Roundtable on Paulina Ochoa Espejo’s book manuscript, A Theory of Borders: People, Territory and Legitimacy in the Democratic State, Yale University, June 2014.
2014 Civic Innovation in Action Studio: Robust Engagement, Knight Foundation, Miami, May 2014.
2014 “Adam Smith for a Global Age,” Keynote Address, Empathy and Competition: A 21st Century View on Adam Smith, 8th Revisiting the Classics Conference, Max Weber Programme, European University Institute, Florence, May 7, 2014.
2014 Global Justice and the Global South, Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) conference to launch ASAP India, organized by Thomas Pogge, Luis Cabrera and Ashok Acharya, University of Delhi, April 2014.
2014 “The Architecture of Civic Freedom: the Case of Medellín,” Victoria Colloquium on Political, Social and Legal Theory, University of Victoria, February 2014
2013 Philosophers Group of the NYU Global Citizenship Commission, Third meeting: “Universalism / Relativism; Sovereignty; Limitations / Derogations” Bonn, December 2013.
2013 Arts, Culture and Quality of Life in Global Cities: Creating Equitable Cities for the Future,” A forum hosted by the Ford Foundation, The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City, December 2013.
2103 “Localizing the Global: Interventions at the Border” (with Teddy Cruz), Human Rights and Economic Justice: Essential Elements of the Post-MDG Agenda, Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) conference, Yale University, organized by Thomas Pogge and Luis Cabrera, New Haven, October 2013
2013 “Smithian Cosmopolitanism for a global age,” Scotland, Europe and Empire in the Age of Adam Smith and Beyond, Centre Roland Mousnier, University of Paris, Sorbonne, July 2013.
2013 “Adam Smith, social norms and the informality of modern social order,” Department of Political Science and International Relations, Universidad Technológica de Bolívar, Cartagena, Colombia, April 2013.
2013 UCSD Climate Justice Forum with Mary Robinson, Center on Global Justice, University of California, San Diego (Conference organizer), April 2013.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3FVJ0vbVokhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3FZZhunscQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIqQNljdeM
2013 Philosophers Group of the NYU Global Citizenship Commission, Second meeting, “Social, Cultural and Economic Rights,” London, April 2013.
2013 The Urban Era: Comparing Challenges of the World’s Cities, Trudeau Center, University of Toronto, Canada, February 2013.
2012 Philosophers Group of the NYU Global Citizenship Commission, First meeting of a three-year workshop revisiting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, convened by the Rt. Hon Gordon Brown and Jeremy Waldron, New York University, December 2012.
2012 Ambientes Urbanos: Ciudades en Cambio, Paisajes en Transformación (Urban Environments: Changing Cities, Changing Landscapes), Cátedra Fulbright Regiones de EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia, October 2012.
2012 “Comparatives without transcendence: vindicating intervention,” Political Theory Workshop, Duke University, October 2012
2012 “Adam Smith: Local and Global: A reply to Sir James Wolfensohn,” Adam Smith Lecture, Adam Smith College, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, August 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KZpYBBJRto
2012 “Smith on international law: the unfinishable project,” Adam Smith and the Law, Law and Politics Colloquium, London School of Economics, London, May 2012
2011 NYU Dialogues on the Global Civil Society: Religion, Culture, and the Moral Sense, New York University, October 2011.
2011 NYU Dialogues on the Global Civil Society: The Rudiments of Moral Sense, New York University, September 2011.
2011 “Burke, Smith and Modern Liberty,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Edinburgh, Scotland, (Conference Director), June 2011.
2011 NYU Dialogues on the Global Civil Society: Adam Smith, Globalization, and the Universal Moral Sense, hosted by New York University and the Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, April 2011.
2011 “Comparatives without transcendence: Amartya Sen’s cosmopolitan moral psychology,” Global Justice and Human Rights Group, Political Studies Association, London, April 2011.
2011 Moderator: “Social Science Research in Action: A conversation with Amartya Sen and Elinor Ostrom,” Launch of the UCSD Center on Global Justice, La Jolla, April 2011.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQlXwE-0um0
2011 “The Virtue of Exile: Cosmopolitan Freedom in the Eighteenth Century,” University of Virginia Political Theory Workshop, Charlottesville, VA, March 2011.
2011 “Adam Smith and modern liberty,” University of Virginia, Department of Political Science, Visiting Lecture, Charlottesville, VA, March 2011.
2010 “Comparatives without transcendence: Amartya Sen’s cosmopolitan moral psychology,” UCLA Political Theory Workshop, Los Angeles, November 2010
2010 “The Virtue of Exile: Cosmopolitan Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century” UCLA Program for the Study of Liberty, Public Lecture, Los Angeles, November 2010.
2010 Conference on Amartya Sen, University of Virginia, organized by Colin Bird, November 2010.
2010 Conference on Nicholas Phillipson’s Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life, Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought, Queen Mary University of London, October 2010.
2010 Conference on Amartya Sen, National University of Singapore, August 2010. (conflict; withdrew)
2010 “Comparatives without transcendence: Amartya Sen’s cosmopolitan moral psychology,” University of Virginia, Affect, Imagination and Democratic Politics, organized by Stephen K White, April 2010.
2010 “Adam Smith’s anti-cosmopolitanism,” London School of Economics, Political Theory Seminar, London, January 2010.
2009 “On Amartya Sen’s Smith,” University of Athens, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment, Athens, December 2009.
2009 “Why there is no ‘Adam Smith Problem’” University of Bayreuth and Council on Public Policy, The Market and its Morality – 250 years of Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, Berlin, October 2009.
2009 “Open impartiality and cosmopolitan justice: engaging Amartya Sen’s Adam Smith,” London School of Economics, Annual Millennium conference: Liberalism and International Relations, London, October 2009.
2009 “The Virtue of Exile: Liberty and Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century Cosmopolitan Thought,” European University Institute: Freedom and the Construction of Europe, organized by Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen, Florence, September 2009.
2009 “Adam Smith’s anti-cosmopolitanism,” University of Glasgow, Smith in Glasgow: A conference marking the 250th anniversary of the Theory of Moral Sentiments, organized by Christopher Berry, Glasgow, April 2009.
2009 “Adam Smith and the Commercial Cosmopolis,” University of Glasgow, Adam Smith and Internationalization, Glasgow, April 2009.
2009 “Adam Smith’s anti-cosmopolitanism,” Oxford University, Balliol College: The Philosophy of Adam Smith: A conference to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Theory of Moral Sentiments, organized by The International Adam Smith Society, Oxford, January 2009.
2008 “Adam Smith and the Socialized Conscience,” Yale University: Civil and religious liberty in 17th and 18thcentury Britain, organized by Steven Pincus and Blair Worden, New Haven, July 2008.
2007 George Mason University Law School, Program in Politics and Economics, Alexandria, VA,
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June 15-23, 2007.
2006 “Negative Legitimacy,” University of California, San Diego: Legitimacy in the Modern World,organized by David Lake and Michael Hechter, December 2006.
2003 University of Chicago: Area Studies Redux: Festschrift conference for Lloyd Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, April 2003.
2002 “Adam Smith and the spatial limits of sympathy,” University of London: The Ethics of Altruism, organized by Jonathan Seglow, Royal Holloway, April 2002.
2001 “Adam Smith and the Socialized Conscience,” Hebrew University, Political Science Faculty Colloquium, December 2001.
1998 “Socratic Cosmopolitanism,” International Conference of the CSPT (Conference for the Study of Political Thought): Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 1998.
Juries
Venice Re-Creation Centre Competition, Spring 2016.http://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-news/cemcp/ctrl_space_announces_venice_recreation_centre_competition_winners.html
Invited Campus Presentations / Representation
Participant, Border Consortium Planning Meeting, Biosphere II, University of Arizona, Oracle, March 27-8, 2017.
Participant, Meeting with Kyoto University Delegation and the City of San Diego, UCSD, October 17, 2016.
Participant / University of California: CEM7, Seventh Clean Energy Ministerial Public Private Action Summit, San Francisco, CA, June 2, 2016.
Speaker: 2016 Center for Energy Research Open House: “The UCSD EnSEED project: Technology Transfer for Social Justice,” UCSD May 23, 2016.
Speaker: Sixth College, Experiential Learning Praxis: Exploring Transformation and Creativity Through Higher Education: Enlightened Action: The Scholarship of Engagement (with Mandy Bratton and Teddy Cruz) UCSD, March 2016.
Speaker: 2016 Symposium, Food and Fuel for the 21st Century: “Bending the Curve and Closing the Gap: Participatory Climate Action in Disadvantaged Communities,” UCSD March 10, 2016.
Lead Presenter: “Social Change” Summit on Pathways to Carbon and Climate Neutrality: California and The World, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, October 26-7, 2015.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZErA-twp6g4
Moderator: UCSD Conference on Ethics, Transparency and Civility, Panel on Transparency, Office of the Chancellor and Department of Political Science, UCSD, October 2014.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UWmqLX8pj0
Speaker: Alumni Leadership Weekend, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor: Diversity and Social Equity: engaging underserved communities in the San Diego-Tijuana region), UCSD, September 2014.
Speaker: Sixth College, Experiential Learning Conference: High Impact Practices, Interdisciplinary practices and creative connections: Presentation: The UCSD / BLUM Community Stations Project (with Mike Cole, Bud Mehan, Srinivas Sukumar and Teddy Cruz), UCSD, January 2014.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu5IP2AvS08
Moderator and Speaker: Understanding and Addressing Disparities in Social Justice: Access, Equity and Inclusion, Office of Research Affairs workshops on the campus strategic vision, UCSD, February 2014.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziI4-bLz6eAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxM_T-SZPMo
Speaker: Campus presentation to Richard Blum regarding the development of a Blum Center at UC San Diego, organized by the Office of Research Affairs (with Gerry Mackie), UCSD, February 2012.
Presentation, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, quarterly staff meeting: The UC San Diego Center on Global Justice (with Gerry Mackie), UCSD, November 2011
Keynote Presentation: Meeting of the UC San Diego Foundation Board, the UC San Diego Center on Global Justice: Social Science Research in Action (with Gerry Mackie), UCSD, September 2011.
Presentation, Social Science Dean’s Insider Luncheon, UCSD, March 2011.
Major Conference / Workshop / Lecture / Series Organization
Professional
2012 Adam Smith in Kirkcaldy: A Conference to Launch the Adam Smith Global Fund and Museum, Adam Smith College, Edinburgh / Kirkcaldy, Scotland, August 2012.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KZpYBBJRto
2014 HERE Speaker Series, City of San Diego Civic Innovation Lab (with Howard Blackson and Teddy Cruz), April 2014.
2017, Graduate Human Rights Conference (with Nancy Postero and Gershon Shafir), UCSD Center on Global Justice with the UCSD International Institute and the Human Rights Minor, April 2017.
2016 Interfaith Dialogue on Climate Change House (with Henri Migala and Veerabhadran Ramanathan), UCSD Center on Global Justice with Scripps Institution of Oceanography and International, UCSD, December 2016.
2015 “Inequality for All: An Evening with Robert Reich,” (with Teddy Cruz), Blum Cross-Border Initiative with the San Diego Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, April 13, 2015.http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/robert-reich-inequality-for-all/
Citizenship, Security and Human Rights in Mexico and Latin America (with Melissa Floca and Nancy Postero) USMEX, the Center on Global Justice, Blum Cross-Border Initiative and the Human Rights Minor, January 2015.
2014-5 The Urban Ecologies of Global Justice Speaker Series (with Teddy Cruz), A collaboration between the Center on Global Justice and the Center for Urban Ecologies, University of California, San Diego:Justin McGuirk: http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/justin-mcguirk-radical-cities/Benjamin Barber: http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/benjamin-barber-a-public-discussion/Michael Kimmelman: http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/michael-kimmelman-a-conversation/Anne Lacaton: http://visarts.ucsd.edu/events/2014-15-civic-imagination-seriesRobert Reich: http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/robert-reich-inequality-for-all/Antanas Mockus: http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/antanas-mockus-in-conversation-with-fonna-forman-gerry-mackie-and-teddy-cruz/
2014 “Building for University Community: Revisiting the Design of Eleanor Roosevelt College” An Evening with Taal Safdie and Ricardo Rabines (with Richard Madsen), University of California, San Diego, May 2014. http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/building-for-university-community/
2014 Palliative Care Workshop with Katherine Pettus, (with Wael Al-Delaimy) Center on Global Justice, The UC San Diego School of Medicine and the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research, April 2014. http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/why-we-should-care-about-palliative-care/
2013 Waste and the Urbanization of Retrofit (with Teddy Cruz), UCSD / Bauhaus Urban Collaborative, San Diego and Tijuana, November 2013.http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/ucsd-bauhaus-urban-collaborative/
2013 Lionel Jospin (Prime Minister, France 1997-2002) “Europe: A Continent in Decline or a Model for the Future?” University of California, San Diego, April 2013http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/lionel-jospin/
2013 Helen Edison / Global Justice Lecture: A Discussion on Climate Justice with Mary Robinson and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, A collaboration between the Center on Global Justice and
University Extension, University of California, San Diego, April 2013.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3FVJ0vbVokhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3FZZhunscQ
2013 Climate Justice Forum, Center on Global Justice, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, April 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIqQNljdeM
2012-3 The Urban Ecologies of Global Justice Speaker Series (with Teddy Cruz), A collaboration between the Center on Global Justice and the Center for Urban Ecologies, University of California, San Diego.Eyal Weizman: http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/urban-ecologies-of-global-justice-3-eyal-weizman/Andrew Ross: http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/urban-ecologies-of-global-justice-1-andrew-ross/Richard Sennett: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA04D1AC6337D7BChttp://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/urban-ecologies-of-global-justice-2-richard-sennett/
2012 Scholarly Communication in the Social Sciences Today: A Workshop with Richard Fisher (President, Cambridge University Press), Center on Global Justice, May 2013.http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/scholarly-communication-in-the-arts-and-social-sciences-today/
2012 Helen Edison / Global Justice Lecture: Gordon Brown, “Meeting the Millennium Development Goals” (with Mary Walshok), A collaboration between the Center on Global Justice and University Extension, University of California, San Diego, April 2012.http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/second-annual-helen-edison-global-justice-lecture/
2012 Informal Market Worlds: A two day research conference on the trading places of urban informality, (with Teddy Cruz, Helge Mooshammer and Peter Mörtenböck) Urban Ecologies of Global Justice, University of California, San Diego, February 2012.http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/urban-ecologies-of-global-justice-4-informal-market-worlds/
2012 Social Science and the University in an Age of Privatization with Craig Calhoun, Center on Global Justice, University of California San Diego, February 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBJiCvWCqX0
2011 Social Norms and Early Childhood Development: A Global Justice Workshop with Molly Melching (with Gerry Mackie) Center on Global Justice, University of California, San Diego, November 2011. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA04D1AC6337D7BC
2011 Helen Edison / Global Justice Lecture: Amartya Sen, “Justice: Local and Global” (with Mary Walshok), A collaboration between the Center on Global Justice and University Extension, University of California, San Diego. March 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhQqupgfL7s
2011 New Frontiers in Global Justice: Conference with Amartya Sen to inaugurate the new UCSD Center on Global Justice (with Gerry Mackie) La Jolla, March 2011.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA04D1AC6337D7BC
2012, “The Social Sciences as a Concept, Immanuel Wallerstein, UC San Diego November 2012.http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/evolution-of-world-systems-theory-3/
2012, Ending Girl Child Marriage (organized by Anita Raj), United Nations Day of the Girl Child, UC San Diego, October 2012.http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/un-international-day-of-the-girl-child-2/
2011, San Diego's True Colors: 2010 Census Results and Implications for San Diego's Political Future: A Public Lecture by John Fanestil (organized by Peter Gourevitch), May 2011.http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/john-fanestil-san-diegos-true-colors-2010-census-results-and-implications-for-san-diegos-political-future/
2011 Fourth Charles Nathanson Memorial Lecture: Congresswoman Karen Bass, “Why Can’t California Fix Itself? The View from Washington,” (organized by Steve Erie), October 2011.http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/congresswoman-karen-bass-charles-nathanson-memorial-lecture/
2011 Food Justice Forum: Cultivating University-Community Partnerships for a Healthier Society (organized by Keith Pezzoli) UC San Diego Green Open House: A Living Laboratory, April 2011.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGE8kPHymNMhttp://gjustice.ucsd.edu/event/food-justice-forum-with-robert-gottleib/
Press and Interviews
“Zdi traumatizují a kriminalizují imigranty. Na konferenci reSITE přijde řeč i na zeď mezi USA a Mexikem” (“Wall traumatizes and criminalizes immigrants. The reSITE conference also speaks on the wall between the US and Mexico”) Magdalena Čechlovská, Hospodářské Noviny June 21, 2017 https://archiv.ihned.cz/c1-65775560-resite-fonna-forman-teddy-cruz-konference-forum-karlin-zed-usa-mexiko
“Art installation adds purpose and color to San Jose park,” Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, June 3, 2017. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/03/pizarro-art-installation-adds-purpose-and-color-to-san-jose-park/
“Visualizing Citizenship,” Domus, May 31, 2017 http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2017/05/31/visualizing_citizenship.html
“Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman: Visualizing Citizenship,” e-flux Architecture, April 25, 2017http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/130228/teddy-cruz-and-fonna-formanvisualizing-citizenship/
“UC San Diego Receives $1M Grant from Mellon Foundation to Expand Cross-Border Work: Community Stations are developing a new partnership for urban intervention,” Grace Sevilla, April 3, 2017http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/uc_san_diego_receives_1m_grant_from_mellon_foundation_to_expand_cross_borde
“The Problem With Beautifying a Border Wall: Donald Trump’s wall is meant to divide the U.S.
and Mexico. Sustainable, pretty, and subversive designs won’t remedy that,” Natalie Delgado, Citilab, from the Altlantic, March 20, 2017. https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/03/what-it-means-to-beautify-a-border-wall/520179/
‘Algunos quieren ‘embellecer’ el muro, pero estos arquitectos creen que es una pésima idea: CityLab conversó con los investigadores Teddy Cruz y Fonna Forman, quienes llevan años estudiando la frontera y cómo la arquitectura puede unir a Estados Unidos y México.’ (‘Some want to 'beautify' the wall, but these architects believe that it is a bad idea: CityLab spoke with researchers Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, who have spent years studying the border and how architecture can unite the United States and Mexico’), Natalie Delgadillo, CityLab Latino, March 14, 2017. http://www.univision.com/noticias/citylab-arquitectura/algunos-quieren-embellecer-el-muro-pero-estos-arquitectos-creen-que-es-una-pesima-idea
‘Design Competition – Or Ideological Crisis,” Allison Arieff, New York Times Op Ed, March 9, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/opinion/design-competition-or-ideological-crisis.html
“Culture Report: Carving Out Community Space in San Ysidro,” Kinsee Morlan, Voice of San Diego, February 14, 2017 http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/arts/culture-report-carving-out-community-space-in-san-ysidro/
‘The Border Is a Way of Reinforcing Antagonism That Doesn't Exist: Architect Teddy Cruz and political scientist Fonna Forman want to turn the line between the U.S. and Mexico into a site for creative problem solving.’ Citilab, from the Altlantic January 11, 2017. http://www.citylab.com/housing/2017/01/the-urban-laboratory-on-the-san-diego-tijuana-border-teddy-cruz-fonna-forman/512222/#disqus_thread
Curry Stone Design Prize, Social Design Circle Podcast: “Reimagining the Border” http://currystonedesignprize.com/socialdesigninsights/#3031
Design strategies robust enough to resist this new political climate have yet to emerge,” Dezeen, Mimi Zeiger, December 13, 2016. https://www.dezeen.com/2016/12/13/opinion-mini-zeiger-aia-us-election-critical-architectural-speculation/
UIC Barcelona interviews, November 2016:On Trumphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANLXG3ksjtsExpanding the Role of Architectshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4XDh_xjIt0
“Tijuana looks inward, not northward, to spark cultural revival” Christian Science Monitor, August 1, 2016. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2016/0801/Tijuana-looks-inward-not-northward-to-spark-cultural-revival
“On Mexico-US border, living in the shadow of 'The Wall',” Christian Science Monitor, May 13, 2016. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2016/0513/On-Mexico-US-border-living-in-the-shadow-of-The-Wall
“Culture File: The Critical Power of Architecture,” Radio Interview with Teddy Cruz and Fonna
Forman, Rachel Andrews on RTÉ lyric FM, Ireland, May 12, 2016.https://soundcloud.com/soundsdoable/culture-file-the-critical
“Artists and architects unite to imagine creative solutions to the global housing crisis,” Huck Magazine, December 2, 2015 http://www.notey.com/external/7083410/artists-and-architects-unite-to-imagine-creative-solutions-to-the-global-housing-crisis-london-design-squatting-exhibition-berlin-cities-housing-crisis.html
Wohnungsfrage: An exhibition at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin reflects on the architectural and housing issues that define our times,” Domus, October 30, 2015 http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2015/10/30/haus_der_kulturen_der_welt_wohnungsfrage.html
“Placemaking Leaders Agree: Civic Engagement Essential to Build Community of the Future” June 26, 2015http://sdfnews.sdfoundation.org/placemaking-leaders-agree-civic-engagement-essential-to-build-community-of-the-future/ June 26, 2015
“Survey Says San Diegans, Tijuanans Want More Cross-Border Collaboration,” San Diego Union Tribune, June 19, 2015. (radio and print)http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/jun/19/survey-says-san-diegans-and-tijuanans-want-more-cr/
“New San Diego-Tijuana Survey Holds Mirror Up to Border Cities,” Next City, February 25, 2015, http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/binational-survey-san-diego-tijuana-border-antanas-mockus
“One Mayors Downfall Killed the Design Project that Could’ve Change Everything: Public Interest Design’s Wild Ride into City Hall” Next City, February 23, 2015. http://nextcity.org/features/view/teddy-cruz-fonna-forman-civic-innovation-san-diego-public-interest-design.
“6 x Amerika #6: San Diego/Tijuana – efter gränsen,” (with Teddy Cruz) STADEN: En podcast om arkitektur, stadens utveckling och hela arbetet med att skrapa lite på fasaden (with Dan Hallamar and Håkan Forsell, June 14, 2015), October 1, 2015. http://devstaden.arkitekt.se/6-x-amerika-6-san-diegotijuana-efter-gransen/
“La experiencia de Medellín es ahora una guía,” El Colombiano, April 10, 2014.http://www.elcolombiano.com/historico/la_experiencia_de_medellin_es_ahora_una_guia-CXEC_290075
“Civic Innovation Lab pioneering neighborhood upgrades,” San Diego Union Tribune, March 14, 2014. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/growth-development/sdut-innovation-lab-planners--2014mar14-story.html
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “The Urbanization of Happiness” on Why? Radio: Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life, with Jack Greenstein, National Public Radio, February 9, 2014. https://philosophyinpubliclife.org/2014/02/09/the-urbanization-of-happiness-with-teddy-cruz-and-fonna-forman/
“A Year of Urban Thinking in San Diego,” Voice of San Diego, January 3, 2104. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/news/a-year-of-urban-thinking-in-san-diego/
“Filner’s Incubator Lives On,” Voice of San Diego, October 13, 2013. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/all-narratives/neighborhoods/filners-incubator-lives-on/
“City Hall Fourth Floor Still Empty, but Ideas Start Taking Shape,” Voice of San Diego, August 5, 2013. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/2013/08/05/city-hall-fourth-floor-still-empty-but-ideas-start-taking-shape/
“What We Know About The Mayor’s Think Tank,” Voice of San Diego, June 13, 2013. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/2013/06/13/what-we-know-about-the-mayors-think-tank/
“New Center on Global Justice Seeks to Take a Practical Path,” This Week, UC San Diego, February 20, 2011. http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/archive/thisweek/2011/03/28_GlobalJustice.asp
Guest edited symposia
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Smith in Contexts: A Symposium on Knud Haakonssen’s Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith,” ed. with introduction, Adam Smith Review 4 (2008): 217-253.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Is Life a Marketplace? A Symposium on James R. Otteson’s Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life,” ed. with introduction, Adam Smith Review 2 (2006): 195-222.
Review essays, book reviews, responses
Fonna Forman, “Response” to review of Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy, by Douglas J. Den Uyl, Adam Smith Review 7 (2013): 289-92.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai on Ryan Patrick Hanley, Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge 2009): “Smith: Perfectionist or Practical Moralist?” The Art of Theory, Inaugural Issue, November 2010.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai on Jennifer Pitts, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton 2005). Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 2. (2007), pp. 265-267.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai on Luc Boltanski, Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics (Cambridge, 1999): “And thus spoke the spectator: Adam Smith for humanitarians,” Adam Smith Review I (Fall 2004): 167-174.
Charles L. Griswold, Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment (Cambridge 1999). Political Theory, vol. 28, no. 1 (February 2000): 122-30.
