September 30, 2010 | 3.00-5.00 PM

Workshop Challenges for immunity to error through misidentification? With Jérémie LAFRAIRE (CNRS NYU Fellow & Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris) ; James Dow (CUNY, New York), Beatrice LONGUENESS (NYU). Commenting: Roblin MEEKS (Hunter College), Frédérique de VIGNEMONT  (CNRS - NYU), Myrto MYLOPOULOS (CUNY). | Mind & Consciousness Program | Contact: Frédérique de VIGNEMONT (CNRS NYU). To learn more, click here...

Transitions UMI | 4 Washington Square North | 2d floor

Edward BERENSON: Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa (University of California Press, 2010). Book presentation in English, introduced by Alice L. Conklin, Associate Professor of History (Ohio State University)

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General meeting of the members (CNRS, NYU & from other universities) of the center

Transitions UMI | 4 Washington Square North | 2d floor

Alan D. CAMERON (Columbia University): The Last Pagans of Rome. Presentation of the book published by Oxford University Press (January, 2011). Discussants: Robert KASTER (Princeton University), John F. MATTHEWS (Yale University), Cristiana SOGNO (Yale University) | New York Seminar on the Ancient World (CNRS - NYU - Columbia)

Transitions UMI | 4 Washington Square North | 2d floor

We recommend: WALLS AND BRIDGES | TRANSATLANTIC INSIGHTs | debates, readings, performances

"The New Faces of the Enemy", featuring Scott ATRAN, Grégoire CHAMAYOU, Ariel COLONOMOS, Philipp GOUREVITCH, hosted by Ann Stoler (New School and member of our center)

"And the Pursuit of Happiness", featuring Barbara CASSIN (CNRS and member of our center), Daniel HANDLER, Maira KALMAN, Sophie WAHNICH

New York Public Library in collaboration with the Villa Gillet (Lyon, France) and the Conseil de la Création artistique. To learn more on the event, click here..

James SCHMIDT (Boston University); "Contesting Enlightenment" | Postcolonial Program

Transitions UMI | 4 Washington Square North | 2d floor

We recommend: Sarah GENSBURGER (CNRS – Institut de Sciences Sociales du Politique): "Renouveler les études sur la mémoire. Comprendre l’institutionnalisation de la catégorie de ‘Justes’ de France"

Institute for French Studies (NYU)| Lunch Seminar

Aamir MUFTI (Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA): “Why I Am not a Postsecularist” | Postcolonial Program

Transitions UMI | 4 Washington Square North | 2d floor

"OCCUPATION, COLLABORATION, RESISTANCE: DOCUMENTARY PROPAGANDA FILMS MADE IN FRANCE". Screening of rare, newly restored, politically controversial shorts, made under Vichy Regime, with a presentation by ERIC LE ROY (Vice-President of the International Federation of Film Archives, and Senior Curator of the Archives françaises du film (CNC). Commenting: Denis Peschanski (CNRS). This event is free and open to the public.

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Co-sponsored by NYU Cinema Studies, La Maison Française, Remarque Institute, and NYU/CNRS Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (UMI 319“Transitions”)

NYU Tisch School of the Arts | Department of Cinema Studies| 721 Broadway | 6th Floor | Michelson Theater

"Impossible Narratives: Historicizing Mass Trauma" | a Workshop organized by Carol GLUCK (Columbia), Denis PESCHANSKI (CNRS) & Thomas HILL (Columbia) in collaboration with our center | Memory Program

Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University

Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics & Society. A presentation of the book published in the series "Palgrave MacMillan Memory Studies" and edited by Yifat GUTMAN (Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research), Adam BROWN (Department of Psychiatry, NYU Medical School) & Amy SODARO (Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research). In presence of the editors and the authors: Daniel LEVY, Selma LEYDESDORFF (University of Amsterdam / CNRS NYU Memorial de Caen-Memory Fellow), Ross POOLE (Department of Political Science and Philosophy, New School for Social Research), Federico FINCHELSTEIN (Department of Historical Studies, New School for Social Research) & Ann SNITOW ( Literature and Gender Studies, Eugene Lang College). Commenting: Vera ZOLBERG (Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research), William HIRST, (Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research). Chair: Edward BERENSON (NYU and co-director of our center)| Memory Program.

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org. Selma LEYDESDORFF (Amsterdam & CNRS NYU Mémorial de Caen Fellow).

Transitions UMI | 4 Washington Square North | 2d floor

Elizabeth FENTRESS (AIAC, Rome, Italy): "Slavers on Horseback: Slave Raiding North and South of the Classical World". Discussants: Taco TERPSTRA (Columbia) & TBA | New York Seminar on the Ancient World

Transitions UMI | 4 Washington Square North | 2d floor

Marie-Christine LAZNIK , psychanahalyst,  Mémoire et traumatisme ou l’impossible coexistence. Commenting: Hélène LHEUILLET, philosophy et psychanalyst (Université Paris-Sorbonne), et Michèle BAUSSANT, anthropologist, CNRS-ISP (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense)

Stathis GOURGOURIS (Columbia); title details to follow | Postcolonial Program

Transitions UMI | 4 Washington Square North | 2d floor

"From September 11th to 12th: the Individual and the State facing Terrorism": an Interdisciplinary and International Conference hosted and sponsored by the French Embassy in Washington, DC, org. by Denis PESCHANSKI (CNRS and UMI Transitions), in collaboration with the CNRS and Université de Rennes 1 Research lab UMR 6262 "IODE", the Mémorial de Caen, Cité pour l'Histoire, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center.

Ambassade de France à Washington, DC