Well, this post is unusual- as it is more a celebration and public “thank you” note that really something informative.
My thank you note to Prof. M. Hodges and Prof. N. Dattani, who I met respectively in 1994 and 1995 at LSE, attending their Summer School classes.
This morning I was at LSE to collect the transcripts of my attendance in 1994 and 1995, for their two courses, “States and Firms in the International Economy” and “International Political Economy”.
While processing the request, Sam Astley from the Summer School office told me that, this year, it will be the first year that Prof. N. Dattani is not delivering the International Political Economy class during the Summer, and that the course was quite popular.
Well, I can witness to a simple fact- I registered for the class of Prof. M. Hodges (where I met two of my closest but distant friends, respectively in USA and Japan- a mental bonding/banding together ) for just one reason.
At the time, I was working on change management (see my cv to see where), for something that officially started in January 1993, and ended in December 1997, but that continued occasionally long after.
And, while discussing change, memories of my past as a European Federalist teenager (with occasional travels abroad), crunching and digesting anything that came from Brussels, made my look for something connecting me back to that environment- FDI, international relations, and the like.
Hence, the selection.
And I never regretted it. Prof. M. Hodges was absolutely unlike any professor that I met before in in my short stint in the University in Italy (I do not hold a degree- a drop-out from “Informatics”, as Information Technology science was called in 1984 )
His lessons were entertaining, informative, and closer to the Athens school method I read about- open discussions, free-ranging, any contribution welcomed: if it was based on thinking.
So much that… that I did it again the following year.
And, by chance, I selected Prof. N. Dattani class.
The result? Again. I found in 1995 in Prof. N. Dattani the same spirit that motivated and energized everybody in the class in 1994.
Proof?
One night I went to a Japanese restaurant nearby the Sadler’s Wells theatre (the dorm was around the corner).
And I saw Prof. M. Hodges at a table with a Japanese man and Prof. N. Dattani.
And we greeted each other. Then he said: oh, he is one of my students. And Prof. M. Hodges said: he was my student, too.
This is “A Small World”
Thanks to both for making a learning experience memorable
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A thank you note
Well, this post is unusual- as it is more a celebration and public “thank you” note that really something informative.
My thank you note to Prof. M. Hodges and Prof. N. Dattani, who I met respectively in 1994 and 1995 at LSE, attending their Summer School classes.
This morning I was at LSE to collect the transcripts of my attendance in 1994 and 1995, for their two courses, “States and Firms in the International Economy” and “International Political Economy”.
While processing the request, Sam Astley from the Summer School office told me that, this year, it will be the first year that Prof. N. Dattani is not delivering the International Political Economy class during the Summer, and that the course was quite popular.
Well, I can witness to a simple fact- I registered for the class of Prof. M. Hodges (where I met two of my closest but distant friends, respectively in USA and Japan- a mental bonding/banding together
) for just one reason.
At the time, I was working on change management (see my cv to see where), for something that officially started in January 1993, and ended in December 1997, but that continued occasionally long after.
And, while discussing change, memories of my past as a European Federalist teenager (with occasional travels abroad), crunching and digesting anything that came from Brussels, made my look for something connecting me back to that environment- FDI, international relations, and the like.
Hence, the selection.
And I never regretted it. Prof. M. Hodges was absolutely unlike any professor that I met before in in my short stint in the University in Italy (I do not hold a degree- a drop-out from “Informatics”, as Information Technology science was called in 1984
)
His lessons were entertaining, informative, and closer to the Athens school method I read about- open discussions, free-ranging, any contribution welcomed: if it was based on thinking.
So much that… that I did it again the following year.
And, by chance, I selected Prof. N. Dattani class.
The result? Again. I found in 1995 in Prof. N. Dattani the same spirit that motivated and energized everybody in the class in 1994.
Proof?
One night I went to a Japanese restaurant nearby the Sadler’s Wells theatre (the dorm was around the corner).
And I saw Prof. M. Hodges at a table with a Japanese man and Prof. N. Dattani.
And we greeted each other. Then he said: oh, he is one of my students. And Prof. M. Hodges said: he was my student, too.
This is “A Small World”
Thanks to both for making a learning experience memorable
Tags: 1994, 1995, dattani, economy, hodges, international, lse, political
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