Tuesday, October 4:
Françoise MELONIO, Historian, (Université Paris-IV-Sorbonne, Directrice adjointe, Ecole Normale Supérieure – Lettres), Editor of Tocqueville’s Œuvres complètes (La Pléiade, Gallimard, 2004), Lettres choisies 1814-1859 et Souvenirs (2002), author of Naissance et affirmation d’une culture nationale. La France de 1815 à 1880 (2001), Tocqueville et les Français (1993):
"Autour du bicentenaire de la naissance de Tocqueville :
Réceptions de son œuvre d’hier à aujourd’hui"
Tuesday, October 11:
Jocelyn LETOURNEAU, Historian, (Université Laval, Québec), author of Le Québec, les Québécois: un parcours historique (2004), Passer à l'avenir. Histoire, mémoire, identité dans le Québec d'aujourd'hui (2000), Les années sans guide. Le Canada à l'ère de l'économie migrante (1996), La question identitaire au Canada francophone : récits, parcours, enjeux, hors-lieux (dir., 1994):
"Repenser l’expérience historique québécoise"
Wednesday**, October 26:
Chahdortt DJAVANN, Writer and Anthropologist, author of Je viens d’ailleurs (2002), Bas les voiles ! (2003), Que pense Allah de l’Europe ?(2004)
"Secularism and Political Islam: Reflections on the Islamic Veil"
Wednesday, September 28:
Marcela IACUB, Legal Scholar and Philosopher, CNRS, author of L'Empire du ventre. Pour une autre histoire de la maternité (2004), Qu'avez-vous fait de notre libération sexuelle ? (2002), Le Crime était presque sexuel (2002), Au delà du PaCS (with D. Borillo and E. Fassin, 1999):
"La sexualité dans le droit français"
Wednesday, October 19:
Anthony LACOUDRE, author of Ici est né l’impressionnisme (2003):
"Impressionism Was Born Here:
In the Path of Monet and his Friends in Bougival, Chatou, Louveciennes"
CONFERENCE
**Presented with the Groupe de Sociologie des Religions et de la Laïcité (GSRL)
(Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique-Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)**
A POLITICS OF FAITH? Religions and politics in USA and France
Organized by Jean-Paul Willaime (EPHE, Director, GSRL) with Edward Berenson, (Director, IFS, NYU) and Jean Baubérot (Honorary President, EPHE, GSRL)
“Laïcité” and the Separation of Church and State
Valentine Zuber (CNRS-GSRL): La séparation des Eglises et de l’Etat en France ; Florence Rochefort (CNRS-GSRL): Les femmes et la laïcité française
Chair: George Fredrickson, (Stanford University)
Civil Religion?
Jean Baubérot (EPHE-GSRL): Existe-t-il, en France, une religion civile républicaine ?; Helena Rosenblatt (Hunter College, CUNY): Rousseau, Constant and the Idea of “Civil Religion”; Alan Wolfe (Boston College): Politics, Religion, and Civil Religion in Contemporary America
Chair: Jean-Paul Willaime (EPHE-GSRL); comment by Edward Berenson, (IFS-NYU)
October 1 Politics and Religion in France and the United States
Fabienne Randaxhe (Université de Saint-Étienne-GSRL): Religion, politique et régulation juridique aux Etats-Unis; Jean-Paul Willaime (EPHE-GSRL): Religion et politique en France dans le contexte de la construction européenne; George Fredrickson (Stanford University): Ethnoreligious Pluralism and the State: A Comparison of French and American History
Chair: Edward Berenson (IFS-NYU)
Saturday, October 1: Protestant Fundamentalism, Islam and Islamism
John Bowen (Washington University): Islamism and French analyses of Islam; Jocelyne Césari (CNRS-GSRL): Islam aux Etats-Unis, Islam en Europe : modèles divergentes mais politiques convergentes dans l’après 11 septembre 2001; Jeff Sharlet (Center for Religion and Media, NYU): "Jesus Plus Nothing": Sex, $$$, and the Internationalism of America's Theocratic Avant-Garde
Chair: Jean Baubérot (EPHE-GSRL); comment by Danielle Hervieu-Léger (President, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
With the generous support of the Center for French Civilization and Culture of NYU, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the cooperation of France Culture.
Tuesday, November 1
Pascal MENORET, Political Anthropology (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris & French Center for Archeology and Social Sciences, Sanaa, Yemen), author of The Saudi Enigma: A History (2003, [2005]):
"Fighting Dependency: the Islamic Movements in Saudi Arabia"
(in English)
Tuesday, November 15
David BERISS, Anthropologist, (University of New Orleans), author of Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean Ethnicity and Activism in Urban France (2004):
"From Fanon to Chamoiseau: Blackness in Contemporary France"
(in English)
Tuesday, November 29:
Cyril LEMIEUX, Sociologist (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Visiting professor IFS/NYU), author of Mauvaise presse. Une Sociologie comprehensive du travail journalistique et de ses critiques (2000):
"Insécurité : les médias français font-il le jeu de certains leaders politiques ?"
(in French)
Wednesday, November 2:
Esther BENBASSA, Historian (Modern Judaism, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) &
Jean-Christophe ATTIAS, Historian (Medieval Jewish Thought, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris), co-authors of Israel, the Impossible Land (1998, [2003]), The Jews and their Future (2001, [2004]), The Jew and the Other (2001, [2004]):
"Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East, Jews and Arabs in France"
to be followed by
"Diaspora-Israel Relations: An Ethical Issue"
(in English)
Wednesday, November 9:
Arnaud BLIN, Political Analyst (Ecole de la Paix, Grenoble), author of Histoire du terrorisme : de l’Antiquité à Al Qaïda (2004), Le désarroi de la puissance : les Etats-Unis vers la guerre permanente ? (with G. Chaliand, 2004), Géopolitique de la paix démocratique (2001):
"The Impact of Terrorism upon History"
(in English)
Wednesday, November 16**:
**Presented with NYU’s Program Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West**
Mohamed CHARFI, Legal scholar (Emeritus Law Professor, Tunis University), President of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights, Former Minister of Education (1989-1995, Tunisia), author of Introduction à l’étude du droit (1993), Islam et Liberté (1999), La réforme du système éducatif en Tunisie (2000):
"Islam et modernité : comment être musulman au XXIème siècle ?"
(in French)
Tuesday, February 7:
Maurice SAMUELS, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages (University of Pennsylvania), author of The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (2004):
"Between Tradition and Modernity:
Ben-Levi and the Emergence of Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France"
(in English)
Tuesday, February 21:
Nicolas GUILHOT, Sociologist (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CSE; Visiting Professor, Columbia University), author of Financiers, Philanthropes. Vocations éthiques et reproduction du capital à Wall Street depuis 1970 (2004); Les professionnels de la démocratie, de la guerre froide à l’ère des droits de l’homme (2004); The Democracy Makers (2005):
"US Cultural Diplomacy in Europe:
Transatlantic Intellectual Networks, 1950-1992"
(in English)
Tuesday, February 28:
John SHOVLIN, Historian (New York University), author of "Towards a Reinterpretation of Revolutionary Anti-Nobilism: The Political Economy of Honor in the Old Regime" (Journal of Modern History, 72:1, 2000); "The Cultural Politics of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century France" (French Historical Studies, 23:4, 2000); "Emulation in Eighteenth-Century French Economic Thought" (Eighteenth-Century Studies, 36:2, 2003); "Hume's Political Discourses and the French Luxury Debate" (M. Schabas & C. Wennerlind, eds., Essays on David Hume's Political Economy, 2005):
"Politics, Patriotism, and Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century France"
(in English)
Wednesday, February 1:
Emmanuel FAYE, Philosopher (Université Paris 10-Nanterre), author of Philosophie et perfection de l’homme. De la Renaissance à Descartes (1998), Heidegger, l'introduction du nazisme dans la philosophie (2005):
"Heidegger, les fondements nazis de l’œuvre et le problème de sa réception"
(in French)
Wednesday, February 22:
Emmanuelle LOYER, Historian, (Lille-III University, Visiting Professor IFS/NYU), author of L'Histoire culturelle et intellectuelle de la France au XXe siècle (with Pascale Goetschel, 1994); Le théâtre citoyen de Jean Vilar, une utopie d'après-guerre (1997); Paris à New York. Intellectuels et artistes français en exil (1940-1947) (2004):
"Paris à New York, 1940-1947.
Intellectuels et artistes français en exil"
(in French)
Tuesday, March 28:
Amel BOUBEKEUR, Sociologist (EHESS), author of Le Voile de la mariée. Jeunes musulmanes, voile et projet matrimonial en France (April 2004):
"Les mouvements islamiques contemporains en Europe"
(in French)
Thursday, March 2:
Renée POZNANSKI, Professor of Contemporary History (Department of Politics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev); Visiting Scholar (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum); author of Jews in France during World War Two (2001):
"The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the French Underground Press"
(in English)
Wednesday, March 22
"The Memory of Slavery in France: Perspectives on the Current Controversies"
With
Maryse CONDE, Writer; Professor Emeritus, Francophone Literature (Columbia University); Chair, Comité pour la Mémoire de l’esclavage;
Edward BERENSON, Professor, History and French Studies (Institute of French Studies, New York University);
Walter JOHNSON, Associate Professor, Southern History (New York University);
Gregory MANN, Assistant Professor, Francophone Africa History (Columbia University)