The First Franco-American Research Center for the Humanities & Social Sciences
Transitions UMI (Unité Mixte Internationale 3199) is the result of a partnership between the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris, France) and New York University. We are a Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences based in the heart of NYU's campus in Manhattan. This innovative & long term research collaboration is based on the conviction that knowledge not only benefits from sustainable international partnerships, but that such partnerships are a condition for the renewal of knowledge. Our researchers are currently involved in seven interdisciplinary research programs all converging on the diversity of knowledge, on how knowledge is transmitted, translated, institutionalized, marginalized, or lost...
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Upcoming seminars
April 15, 2009 | 4.30-7.30 PM | New York
April 26, 2010 | 5.00-6.30 pm| New York
events
In the media | May 14, 2010
Radio New Zealand, The French National Newspaper Liberation and the French National Radio, France culture and the French National TV France 3 have recently mentioned our Memory program and the collaboration of the CNRS with NYU. You can either read or listen to these papers directly through our website (Liberation, France Culture, Radio New Zealand). They were refering to our two international conferences:
"Death, Dark, Thanatourism" organized by Brigitte SION (NYU) in New York on 22-23th April 2010. To consult the program, click here...
"From Absence to Representation: Memory and Memorialization of wars and trauma" organized by Edward BERENSON (NYU), Denis PESCHANSKI (CNRS) & Stéphane GRIMALDI (Mémorial de Caen), in Caen on 7-8th May 2010. To read the program of the Conference, click here...To learn more on the program, click here....
to Brigitte Sion.
Memberships and Fellowships
You are a student or scholar in a European or American University or Research Institution and you would like to join one of our transatlantic working groups and even benefit from a fellowship in New York or in France,
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