Friday, February 29, 2008, 9 am-6 pm

From 2008-02-28 12:00:00
Until 2008-02-28 14:00:00

“Contemporary Debates on Immigration to France and the US in Historical Perspective: A Conversation on History and Politics” with Nancy L. Green and Mae Ngai

Professors Green and Ngai will address the question of what historians of immigration have to contribute to the very current political debates on immigration, both in France and in the US.  Nancy Green is a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of Repenser les Migrations and coeditor of Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation, as well as member of the advisory board of the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration.  Mae Ngai is professor professor of history at Columbia University; her research and teaching focus on twentieth-century U.S. history, with emphasis on immigration and ethnicity (Asian American and comparative), politics and law, and labor. She is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004).  This talk will be in English. 

From 2008-02-14 12:00:00
until 2008-02-14 14:00:00

"Réprésentations d'Aimé Césaire et de Frantz Fanon du processus colonial", a talk by Pierre Bouvier

This talk addresses the angles adopted by these two authors from Martinique as they pertain to an origin and a context that are similar in a number of ways.  It analyzes the fears, as well as the proposals, of Césaire and Fanon along three lines:  assimilation, autonomy, and independence.  Their different approaches reveal stakes that we can call socioanthropological in the colonialism as it was practiced in French possessions from Martinique to Algeria. Pierre Bouvier is a professor in the Sociology Department at Paris X -Nanterre and a researcher at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales. He has most recently published Le Lien social (2005). This talk will be in French.

From 2008-02-04 12:00:00
until 2008-02-04 14:00:00

"La France : une identité démocratique", a talk by Vincent Duclert

The 2007 presidential elections and Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign theme of “national identity” posed the question of how to define France.  The exclusive prism of “the nation” obscured another perspective, which seeks to define France from the point of view of a democratic identity, one founded upon political, civic, and intellectual engagement and upon extensive philosophical, legal, and historical texts. Professor Duclert’s talk looks at the construction of this democratic France.  Duclert is professeur agrégé at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales ; historian of contemporary France, he has also written several books on Dreyfus, and recently published, with Christophe Prochasson, the Dictionnaire critique de la République.  This talk will be in French. 

Co-sponsored by the Alliance Program at Columbia University.

From 2008-01-31 17:00:00
until 2008-01-31 18:30:00

IMPORTANT NOTICE : THIS EVENT IS ORGANIZED BY THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT.  PLEASE CONTACT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FOR MORE INFORMATION. THANK YOU.

 

“The Literary Greenwich Meridian : some thoughts on world-literary time”, a talk by Pascale Casanova