Day and Time |
Instructor | Course Number | Title | Comments |
Mon. & Thurs.
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Antoine de Baecque & Emmanuelle Loyer | IFST-GA 1764 | Littérature, cinéma, histoire: les défis réciproques |
First Seven Weeks, Jan.-March. Taught in French. |
Mon. & Thurs.
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Myriam Paris | IFST-GA 2423 | La France au prisme de ses outre-mer: histoire et actualité du pouvoir colonial | Second Seven Weeks, March-May. Taught in French. |
Wed. 12:30-3:00pm |
Stéphane Gerson |
IFST-GA 2530 | Ecrire l'histoire des siens (sciences humaines, histoire, littérature) | Cross-listed with French (FREN-GA 1191) Taught in French. |
Wed. 9:30am-12:15pm
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Edward Berenson & Elisabeth Fink | IFST-GA 1500 |
Topics in French Culture and Society: Colonialism, Slavery, and its Public Resonances Today | Cross-listed with History (HIST-GA 1210) Taught in English. |
Tues. 2:00-4:45pm
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Elayne Oliphant |
IFST-GA 1430 |
Anthropology of Secularism in Europe |
Cross-listed with Religious Studies (RELST-GA 1250-001) Taught in English. |
Thurs. 9:30am-12:00pm |
Frédéric Viguier & Gabrielle Escaich | IFST-GA 2313 |
La question scolaire en France et dans l'ancien empire colonial français | Taught in French. |
Spring 2023 Graduate Schedule
ECRIRE L’HISTOIRE DES SIENS (SCIENCES HUMAINES, HISTOIRE, LITTÉRATURE
Stéphane Gerson, Professor of French, French Studies and History at NYU
Taught in French. Cross-listed with French.
Depuis quelques années, un nombre croissant d’historiens et d’historiennes, d’anthropologues, de sociologues se tournent vers l’histoire de leurs propres familles. Ces ouvrages s’émancipent de normes disciplinaires qui ont longtemps prôné la distance face à son objet de recherche. Il mérite donc que nous nous y arrêtions. Nos objectifs seront les suivants: (1) comprendre les raisons intellectuelles, politiques et autres de cet intérêt pour sa propre famille; (2) saisir les savoirs ainsi produits et les regards que ces ouvrages nous proposent (retour, enquête, récit, trajectoire, généalogie, etc.); (3) découvrir de nouveaux modes d’écriture, plus personnels, réflexifs, expérimentaux que ceux auxquels nous sommes accoutumés; (4) nous interroger, avec un esprit critique, sur les apports et les limites actuels de ce genre.
Les auteur·e·s que nous lirons pourraient inclure Philippe Artières, Audrey Célestine, Christine Détrez, Didier Eribon, Kaoutar Harchi, Ivan Jablonka, Rose-Marie Lagrave, Camille Lefebvre, Nicole Lapierre. Certain·e·s d’entre eux pourraient nous rejoindre pour une discussion distancielle.
TOPICS IN FRENCH CULTURE AND SOCIETY: THE FRENCH EMPIRE AND ITS PUBLIC RESONANCES TODAY
Edward Berenson, Professor of History and French Studies, and Elisabeth Fink, historian and editor, French Politics, Culture and Society.
Taught in English. Cross-listed with History.
This course examines the history of French colonialism from the French Revolution to the end of the Algerian War and its legacies. It considers the effects of imperialism and colonialism on both the colonies itself and mainland France. We will examine slavery and its abolition, colonial conquest and violence, colonialism and the economy, the culture of colonialism, citizenship and subjecthood, war and empire, and the meaning of decolonization. In addition, we will consider the role of historians and their scholarship in public debates over the memory of colonization and decolonization.
ANTHROPOLOGY OF SECULARISM IN EUROPE
Elayne Oliphant, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at NYU.
Taught in English. Cross-listed with Anthropology and Religious Studies.
Modernity's myths are both powerful and tenacious. It continues to be widely celebrated for the secularism, liberalism, and equality it appears to bring, in particular to countries of the West. And yet, we also know that modernity's rise has coincided with one of the most extended and horrific periods of violence in human history through Europe's imperial expansion and its enslavement of millions of Africans. How does our view of modernity shift if we do not accept its myths, and instead place the violence that was established in 1492 at its center? In this class, we will replace the “secular” with the “global” as a key analytic to understanding modernity. We will work to build a canon of texts and queries that address modernity’s violence by highlighting the Haitian Revolution, and the writings of Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Édouart Glissant, C.L.R. James, Nelly Schmidt, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Françoise Vergès, and Eric Williams.
LITTÉRATURE, CINÉMA, HISTOIRE : LES DÉFIS RÉCIPROQUES
Antoine de Baecque, professeur à l’Ecole normale supérieure, rue d’Ulm, IFS Visiting Professor; and Emmanuelle Loyer, professeure à Sciences-Po, IFS Visiting Professor
Taught in French. First seven weeks (Jan. - March).
Dans ce cours, il s’agira de réinvestir des traditions de réflexion sur la littérature et sur le cinéma qui furent longtemps fécondes autour de thèmes qui leur étaient propres : la politique des écrivains, l’engagement des cinéastes, la puissance symbolique des intellectuels et artistes français dans nombre d’événements historiques au XXe siècle, et plus globalement l’identité littéraire et cinématographique de la nation française. Cette façon de tisser des liens étroits entre littérature, cinéma et histoire, souvent à travers la politique, est désormais conçue un peu différemment.
LA FRANCE AU PRISME DE SES OUTRE-MER: HISTOIRE ET ACTUALITE DU POUVOIR COLONIAL
Myriam Paris, Political Scientist at the Université de Lille; IFS Visiting Professor
Taught in French. Second seven weeks (March - May).
In this course, students will explore the political, social, cultural, and economic dimensions of France’s relationship with its former colonies in the Western hemisphere: Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Guyana. How, following decolonization, did the French state manage populations, migrations, social services, family care, education, and cultural affairs? And what impact did these collectivités d’outre-mer have on the post-colonial metropole?
LA QUESTION SCOLAIRE EN FRANCE ET DANS L’ANCIEN EMPIRE COLONIAL FRANÇAIS
Frédéric Viguier, Clinical Associate Professor of French Studies with Gabrielle Escaich, IFS Visiting Scholar
At a time when journalists, intellectuals and politicians constantly discuss the crisis of education, this course’s goal is to provide you with theoretical, sociological and historical tools to understand and analyze the French educational system and its paradoxical endurance in formerly colonized societies. We will investigate its history, its social hierarchies, its cultural influence, its policy and political consequences. In the spirit of the French “sciences sociales,” our exploration of education in France and the (former) French Empire will borrow from different disciplines – anthropology, history and sociology. You will therefore learn how these various disciplines approach the same topic.