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With Eric Fassin (Université de Paris 8), Sarah Mazouz (CNRS), and Mame-Fatou Niang (Carnegie Mellon University).
Moderated by Frédéric Viguier (NYU).
The French political landscape is experiencing tectonic shifts: Center-right President Macron is riding high in the polls, followed by three right-wing candidates, including two far-right contenders. The French Left is missing in action, divided between several candidates who hardly speak to one another. The national conversation is almost entirely focused on the threat of immigration, Islam, crime and “wokism.” Our panelists will explore the intellectual origins of this reactionary age and analyze its political consequences.
Eric Fassin is a professor of sociology in the Political Science Department and co-chair of the Gender Studies Department at Paris 8 University. His work focuses on contemporary sexual and racial politics, including immigration issues, in France, in Europe, and in the United States – often in a comparative perspective. He is frequently involved in the French public debates on issues his work addresses – from “gay marriage” and gender parity, to the politics and policies of immigration and race, as well as the evolution of the left.
Mame-Fatou Niang is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, and the author of Identités Françaises (Brill, 2019), and the co-author of Universalisme (Anamosa, 2022). She is also a photographer and the co-director of Mariannes Noires: Mosaïques Afropéennes, a film following seven Afro-French women as they investigate the pieces of their mosaic identities, and unravel what it means to be Black and French, Black in France.
Sarah Mazouz is a sociologist, a Researcher at the CNRS (CERAPS, Lille), and a member of the Institut Convergences Migrations. She is the author of La République et ses autres. Politiques de l’altérité dans la France des années 2000 (ENS Éditions, 2017), Race (Anamosa, 2020) and the co-author of Pour l’intersectionnalité (Anamosa, 2021). She is currently a visiting professor at NYU’s Institute of French Studies, where she teaches a course on race in France.
