Tuesday, September 19:
Christelle TARAUD, historian (Reid Hall); author of Au Casse croûte des mouettes. Socio-histoire d’une famille de pécheurs vendéens et de son implantation dans le port de Safi (1930-1956) (upcoming, 2007), Les Aventurières. Un siècle d'exploration au féminin (1830-1930) (upcoming, 2007), Balades orientales dans Paris (upcoming, 2007), Mauresques. Femmes orientales dans la photographie coloniale (1860-1910) (2003), La prostitution coloniale. Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc (1830-1962) (2003); editor of Les féminismes en questions. Eléments pour une cartographie (2005):
"Prostitution et colonisation : Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc. 1830-1962" (in French)
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Wednesday, September 20:
Joseph E. LEDOUX, neural scientist and psychologist (Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science University Professor, NYU); fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of
Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Science; recipient of the 2005 Fyssen International Prize; author of The Emotional Brain (1996), Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are (2002):
"Fearful Brains in the Age of Terror" (in English)
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Tuesday, September 26:
Eric DARRAS, political scientist (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Toulouse); author of La politique télévisée (2006); editor of La science politique. Une et multiple (2004); La politique ailleurs (1998):
"La ‘Talk Show Democracy’ à la française" (in French)
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Friday, September 29, 2:00 p.m.:
Jacques ANDREANI, diplomat; former French ambassador to the United States (1989-1995); autour of L’Amérique et nous (2000), Le Piège, Helsinki et la chute du communisme (2005):
"French and U.S. Political Cultures"
(A conversation in English)
Tuesday, October 3:
Renée POZNANSKI, historian (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):
"Braver ‘l’étrange silence’ ? Les juifs et la Shoah en France après Vichy" (in French)
Wednesday, October 4:
Catherine COQUERY-VIDROVITCH, historian (Paris-7-Denis Diderot University); visiting professor (IFS/NYU); author of Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara (1988), African Women: A Modern History (1997), History of African Cities South of the Sahara: From the Origins to Colonization (2005):
"African Perspectives on Slave Trade, Colonial and Post-colonial Debates" (in English)
Tuesday, October 17:
Alexis SPIRE, sociologist (CERAPS-CNRS); author of Etrangers à la carte. L’administration de l’immigration en France (1945-1975) (2005):
"Le pouvoir discrétionnaire des fonctionnaires et l’intégration des immigrés en France depuis 1945" (in French)
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Wednesday, October 18:
Herman LEBOVICS, historian (Stony Brook University); author of Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Age of Globalism (2004), Mona Lisa's Escort: Andre Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture (1999):
"Art of Darkness: The Opening of the Musée du Quai Branly" (in English)
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Tuesday, October 24:
Vincent DUCLERT, historian (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales); author of Alfred Dreyfus (2006), Dreyfus est innocent. Histoire d’une affaire d’Etat (2006), L’affaire Dreyfus (2005):
"Dreyfus, ou l’héroïsme démocratique" (in French)
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Tuesday, October 31:
Gilles LAFERTE, sociologist (CESRAP-INRA); author of La Bourgogne et ses vins : Image d’origine contrôlée (2006) and Nicolas RENAHY, sociologist (CESRAP-INRA); author of Les gars du coin : enquête sur une jeunesse rurale (2006):
"Identités bourguignonnes : Aspects du monde rural contemporain"
1- Le contrôle politique et culturel du marché des vins
2- Jeunes ouvriers ruraux
(in French)
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Friday, November 3, 2:00-5:00 p.m.:
Voices from the Banlieues
Panel in French and English with Faiza GUENE, writer
author of Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (Harcourt, 2006)
Jenna JOHNSON, editor (Harcourt); David LEPOUTRE, anthropologist (Université d'Amiens); author of Coeur de Banlieue (1997)
Discussants:
Emmanuelle ERTEL (Department of French, NYU), Kathryn KLEPPINGER (French/French Studies, NYU), Jack MURPHY (Anthropology/French Studies, NYU), Susan ROGERS, anthropologist (New York University)
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Tuesday, November 7:
Thomas KSELMAN, historian (University of Notre Dame); author of Death and the Afterlife in Modern France (1993), Miracles and Prophecies in Nineteenth-Century France (1983); editor of Belief in History: Innovative Approaches to European and American Religion (1991)
Religious Conversion and the Ordeal of Liberty in Nineteenth-century France
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Wednesday, November 8:
Frédérique MATONTI, political scientist (Université de Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne); visiting professor (IFS/NYU); author of Le comportement politique des Français (1998), Intellectuels communistes : une sociologie de l'obéissance politique, La Nouvelle Critique (1967-1980) (2005); editor of La démobilisation politique (2005)
Elections présidentielles 2007: la gauche et les classes populaires
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Wednesday, November 15, 6:30 p.m.:
Discrimination Positive: French Debates about Affirmative Action
Round-table discussion presented with the French American Foundation and La Maison Française of NYU
Discussants:
Kimberle CRENSHAW, Professor of Law (UCLA Law School and Columbia School of Law); editor of Critical Race Theory (1995); Daniel SABBAGH, political scientist (Sciences Po Paris), author of L'Egalite par le droit: les paradoxes de la discrimination positive aux Etats-Unis (2003); Joèl VALLAT (T.B.C.), director (Lycée Louis-Le-Grand); Patrick WEIL, historian (University Paris I-CNRS); author of La République et sa diversité (2005)
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Friday, December 1, 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.:
Perspectives on Seigel's The Idea of the Self
Conference
9:30-1:00 p.m.: Panel
Warren BRECKMAN, historian (University of Pennsylvania), author of Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory (1999); Lucien JAUME, political philosopher (Cevipof-CNRS), author of La liberté et la loi. Les origines philosophiques du libéralisme (2000); Louis SASS, psychologist (Rutgers University), author of Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought (1992); John TOEWS, historian (university of Washington), author of Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in early 19th Century Berlin (2005)
3:00-4:00 p.m.: Discussion
Edward BERENSON, historian (French Studies/History, NYU); Tony JUDT, historian (Remarque Institute/History, NYU); Helena ROSENBLATT, historian (Hunter College, CUNY); Debora SILVERMAN, historian (UCLA)
4:00-5:00 p.m.: Response
Jerrold SEIGEL, historian (NYU), author of The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Europe since the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Tuesday, December 5:
George R. TRUMBULL IV, historian, (Institute of French Studies, New York University); author of Au coin des Rues Diderot et Moise:Religious Politics and the Ethnography of Sufism in Colonial Algeria, 1871-1906, French Historical Studies (forthcoming)
Sufi Ethnographies: Empire and Islamic Mysticism in Algeria (1895-1906)
Tuesday, December 12:
Presented with NYU's Program Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West
Abdesselam CHEDDADI, historian (University Muhammad V, Rabat, Morocco); author of Ibn Khaldun: L'homme et le théoricien de la civilisation (2006)
Response by Richard BULLIET, historian (Middle East Institute, Columbia University); author of The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (2004)
Ibn Khaldun, Philosopher of Societies, Civilizations and Empires
(in English and French with interpretation)
Tuesday, January 23:
Pascal ORY, historian, (Université de Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne); visiting professor (IFS/NYU); coauthor of Les Intellectuels en France, de l’Affaire Dreyfus à nos jours (1986); author of Les collaborateurs (1976), L’aventure culturelle française 1945-1989 (1989), La politique culturelle du Front populaire 1935-1938 (1990), Le discours gastronomique français des origines à nos jours (1998), Du fascisme (2003), L'histoire culturelle (2004)
Cinéphilie, jazzophilie, bédéphilie :
La légitimation du trivial est -elle un sport national français ?
Tuesday, January 30:
Alain QUEMIN, sociologist (Université de Marne-la-Vallée); author of Les commissaires-priseurs (1997), Le rôle des pays prescripteurs sur le marché et dans le monde de l'art contemporain (2001); L’art contemporain international. Entre les institutions et le marché (2002)
Œuvres et publics du Centre Georges Pompidou ("Beaubourg") depuis 30 ans : Une approche en sociologie de l'art
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Wednesday, February 7:
René-Daniel DUBOIS, actor, director and playwright; author of Ne blâmez jamais les Bédouins (1984), Being at home with Claude (1986), Entretiens. Janvier-avril 2005 (2006)
La culture québécoise... Parler français, bon d'accord -- mais pour dire quoi?
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Wednesday, February 14:
Islam in France: a Discussion of John BOWEN’s
Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves – Islam, the State and Public Space (Princeton, 2006)
Roundtable panel with:
John BOWEN, anthropologist (Washington University, St Louis); author of Why the French Don't Like Headscarves (Princeton U.P., 2006), Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning (2003), Muslims Through Discourse: Religion and Ritual in Gayo Society (1993)
Michael GILSENAN, anthropologist (New York University); author of Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt: an Essay in the Sociology of Religion (1973), Recognizing Islam (1983), Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society (1996)
Sophie MEUNIER, political scientist (Princeton University); coauthor of The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization (2001)
Peter SAHLINS, historian; director of academic programs (Social Science Research Council); author of Boundaries: the Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees (1989), Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After (2004)
Tuesday, February 20:
Sandy PETREY, professor of French and Comparative Literature (State University of New York at Stony Brook); author of In the Court of the Pear King: French Culture and the Rise of Realism (2005), Speech Acts and Literary Theory (1990), Realism and Revolution: Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, and the Performances of History (1998)
Realism, Caricature and History in the Novel
Tuesday, February 27:
Laura LEE DOWNS, historian (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales); author of L’Inégalité à la chaîne. La division sexuée du travail dans l’industrie métallurgique en France et en Angleterre (2002), Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-class Movements and the Colonies de vacances in France, 1880-1960 (2002), Writing Gender History (2004); coeditor of La France sous Vichy. Autour de Robert O. Paxton (2004), Why France? American Historians reflect on their Enduring Fascination (2006)
"Pour réunir la Famille Nationale dans les plis du drapeau tricolore:"
Gender and the Social Politics of Working-class Childhood on the Extreme Right. The Case of the Croix de feu, 1930-39
Wednesday, February 28:
Pascal ORY, historian, (Université de Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne); visiting professor (IFS/NYU); coauthor of Les Intellectuels en France, de l’Affaire Dreyfus à nos jours (1986); author of Les collaborateurs (1976), L’aventure culturelle française 1945-1989 (1989), La politique culturelle du Front populaire 1935-1938 (1990), Le discours gastronomique français des origines à nos jours (1998), Du fascisme (2003), L'histoire culturelle (2004)
Américanisation : Le mot, la chose et leurs spectres
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Tuesday, March 27:
Didier FASSIN, anthropologist (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales); author of L'espace politique de la santé. Essai de généalogie (1996), Les figures urbaines de la santé publique (1998), Les enjeux politiques de la santé. Études sénégalaises, équatoriennes et françaises (2000), Afflictions. L’Afrique du Sud, de l’apartheid au sida (2004), When Bodies Remember. Experience and Politics of AIDS in South Africa (2005); coauthor of Les inégalités sociales de santé (2000), Le gouvernement des corps (2004), Des maux indicibles. Sociologie des lieux écoute (2004), Les constructions de l’intolérable (2005)
Humanitarian Ethics
Thursday, March 8:
Eléonore LEPINARD, sociologist (Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan); author of L’Egalité introuvable : la parité, les féministes et la République (2006)
From Parity to Ségolène: the Elusive Search for Gender Equality in French Politics (in English)
Tuesday, March 20:
Dominique KALIFA, historian (Université de Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne); visiting professor (IFS/NYU); author of Histoire des détectives privés en France, 1832-1942 (réed., 2007), Crime et culture au XIXe siècle (2005), La Culture de masse en France. 1/ 1860-1930 (2001), L’Encre et le sang. Récits de crimes et société à la Belle Époque (1995); coauthor of Vidal, le tueur de femme. Une biographie sociale (2001)
A Biribi. Les bagnes coloniaux de l'armée francaise, XIXe-XXe siècle (in French)
Friday, March 23:
*Presented with la Maison française of NYU*
WHY FRANCE?
A Colloquium on Laura Lee DOWN and Stéphane GERSON’s
Why France? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination (Cornell University Press, 2007)
Fifty Years of American History of France
Herrick CHAPMAN (NYU)
Laurent DUBOIS (Michigan State University)
Jacques REVEL (E.H.E.S.S.)
Bonnie SMITH (Rutgers University)
Edward BERENSON (NYU), moderator
The Influence of France across the Disciplines
Emily APTER (NYU)
Priscilla FERGUSON (Columbia University)
Susan Carol ROGERS (NYU)
Frédéric VIGUIER (NYU), moderator
Why France? Individual Perspectives
Introduction: Stéphane GERSON (NYU), editor (with Laura Lee Downs) of Why France?
Clare Haru CROWSTON (University of Illinois)
Jan GOLDSTEIN (University of Chicago)
other participants to be announced
Francine GOLDENHAR (NYU), moderator
Afterword: Roger CHARTIER (E.H.E.S.S.)
Wednesday, March 28:
* Presented with the ADFE-Français du Monde*
Les candidats aux élections présidentielles de 2007: du neuf pour la France ? (in French)
Roundtable panel with New York correspondents for the French Media:
Philippe ANTOINE (RTL)
Philippe BOULET-GERCOURT (Le Nouvel Observateur)
Thomas CANTALOUBE (Le Parisien, Marianne, La Vie)
Emmanuel SAINT-MARTIN (Le Point)
Tuesday, April 10:
Suzanne KAUFMAN, historian (Loyola University Chicago), author of Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine (2005)
The French Foreign Legion: Foot Soldiers of a Republican Empire
Tuesday, April 17:
Gabrielle HOUBRE, historian (Université de Paris VII-Jussieu), author of Histoire des mères et filles (2006), Grandeur et décadence de Marie-Isabelle, modiste, dresseuse de chevaux, femme d’affaires, etc. (2003), La Discipline de l’amour. L’éducation sentimentale des filles et des garçons à l’âge du romantisme (1997); editor of Le livre des courtisanes. Archives secrètes de la police des mœurs (2007)
Insoumises. Police des mœurs et prostitution clandestine au 19ème siècle
Thursday, April 5
Perspectives on the 2007 Presidential Campaign in France
Roundtable panel with:
Thomas PHILIPPON, economist (New York University),
Muriel ROUYER, political scientist (Université de Nantes),
Joan W. SCOTT, historian (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Friday, April 6
*Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies and the Department of French*
« La jeunesse est dans la rue »: les jeunes et la politique en France.
Student Roundtable with guest speaker Bruno Julliard (UNEF)
With Bruno JULLIARD, chairman of the UNEF (main student union in France), leader of the Spring 2006 anti-CPE movement,
and NYU students Andrew HANSEN, Noah MEYERSON, Stéphanie PONSAVADY, Chelsea STIEBER, and Dominick TRIBONE
Wednesday, April 18
*Co-sponsored with the Remarque Institute, NYU*
Henri ALLEG, journalist and writer, author of La Question (1958), Mémoire algérienne : Souvenirs de luttes et d'espérances (2005)
La Question et ses réceptions depuis la Guerre d’Algérie
With a response by Steven M. LUKES, sociologist (New York University), author of Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work. A Historical and Critical Study (1973), Moral Conflict and Politics (1991), “Liberal Democratic Torture” (British Journal of Political Science, 2005)
Monday, April 23,
*Co-sponsored with la Maison française of NYU*
François CUSSET, writer and historian, author of La décennie : Le grand cauchemar des années 80 (2006); French Theory : Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Cie et les mutations de la vie intellectuelle aux Etats-Unis (2003); Queer Critics : la littérature française déshabillée par ses homo-lecteurs (2003)
Counter-Revolution French Style: The Legacy of the 1980s
3. CONFERENCE (La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews)
Constructing Charisma: Fame, Celebrity and Power in 19th Century Europe
Thurday, April 12: Keynote Lecture*
*Rutgers University, Newark*
Leo BRAUDY, University Professor, (University of Southern California), author of The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and its History (1986)
Secular Anointings: Fame, Celebrity, and Charisma in the First Century of Mass Culture
Friday and Saturday, April 13-14, 9:30-12:30 p.m. & 2:00-5:00 p.m.: Conference Sessions*
*La Maison française of NYU*
Paper Presenters:
Jeffrey ALEXANDER, Sociology, Yale University (Weber, Charisma)
Emily APTER, French, NYU (Celebrity and the gift)
Edward BERENSON, History, NYU (Colonial Heroes)
Venita DATTA, French, Wellesley College (Heroes, Belle Époque)
Steven ENGLUND, History, American University of Paris (Napoleon)
Peter FRITZCHE, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne (Media and celebrity)
Eva GILOI, History, Rutgers University-Newark (Fan-celebrity relationship)
Dana GOOLEY, Music, Brown University(Liszt)
Martin KOHLRAUSCH, History, German Historical Institute Warsaw (Wilhelm II, Scandal)
Steven MINTA, English, York (Byron)
Mary Louise ROBERTS, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Women celebrities)
Kenneth SILVER, Art History, NYU (Sarah Bernhardt)
Commentators:
Ruth BEN-GHIAT, History, NYU
Dominique KALIFA, History, University of Paris I-Sorbonne
Anson RABINBACH, History, Princeton university
Vanessa SCHWARTZ, History, University of Southern California
Conference presented with the Federated Department of History at Rutgers University