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New York: February 3, 2012 David BLIGHT, historian, Yale university Remembering the Civil War in the Era of Civil Rights Commentators: Tom BENDER, NYU, historian, Ruth HOROWITZ, sociologist, NYU
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AURIGNACIAN GENIUS : ART, DAILY LIFE & SOCIAL IDENTITY OF THE FIRST MODERN HUMANS IN EUROPE
Directed by
Randall WHITE (UMI 3199 CNRS-NYU) and François BON (CNRS-UMR 5608 TRACES, Université de Toulouse 2-Mirail)
This is an ambitious three-year program of educational and research exchanges between students and faculty of the Center for the Study of Human Origins at New York University, allied with the CNRS-NYU UMI 3199 TRANSITIONS, and the CNRS-UMR 5608 TRACES at the Université de Toulouse-Mirail. The focus of this collaboration is the prehistoric European culture known as the Aurignacian (40000 to 28000 years ago), a remarkable set of innovations that permitted modern humans (Cro-Magnons) to replace the longstanding and successful populations of Neandertals across a vast area extending from the Arabian Peninsula and Central Asia in the East to the Franco-Iberian Peninsula in the West. These new developments constitute what in Western Eurasia is known as the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition or in other terms, “the human revolution.”
The collaboration seeks to intensify the interaction, communication and collaborative research between two remarkable laboratories, poles of excellence with major research and teaching programs in Aurignacian studies. The result will be to unite in a single collaborative project more than a third of the top Aurignacian researchers alive today. A major strength of the proposed program is that it is dominated by young researchers and students, almost all of them under 40 years of age with mastery of a full array of 21st century analytical tools and theoretical perspectives.
The proposed NYU-Toulouse collaboration has as its core the ongoing excavation and analysis of a series of French Aurignacian sites that are yielding to modern archaeology solid new information. It is truly unprecedented to bring together a team that controls virtually all of the new Aurignacian data emerging from the critical region of Southern France. Several prestigious and scientifically important sites will be the lifeblood of this program, including Grotte Chauvet (Ardèche), Abri Castanet and Abri Blanchard (Dordogne), and Régismont-le-Haut (Hérault).
(PHOTO CREDIT : RANDY WHITE.: Aurignacian bichrome painting from Abri Blanchard (Dordogne), 37,000 years old)
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December 09, 2011 | New York
PATRICE BOURDELAIS(CNRS/ EHESS) & PASCAL MARTY (CNRS) VISITED OUR CENTER ON DEC. 7-8.
Patrice BOURDELAIS (CNRS/EHESS), historian, director of the CNRS's Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales will inaugurate with Pascal MARTY, geographer, Directeur Adjoint Scientifique in charge of the CNRS research centers abroad this year's memory seminar on December 9 in New York.
September 09, 2011 | 8.30 AM- 9.30 PM | New York
'FRANCE INTER' RADIO TALKS ABOUT OUR MEMORY PROGRAM
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MINISTER VALERIE PECRESSE & AMBASSADOR FRANCOIS DELATTRE VISIT OUR CENTER!
Mrs Valérie PECRESSE, the French Cabinet Minister of Research and Higher Education (2007-2011) & M. François DELATTRE, French Ambassador in Washington visited our center on April 10. They were accompanied by a prestigious delegation, including M. Louis GISCARD d'ESTAING, member of Parliament and Mayor of Chamalières; M. Jean-François LAMOUR, member of Parliament, Guy GEOFFROY, member of Parliament; M. Bruno SIRE, President of the Université de Toulouse 1 ; M. François WEIL, President of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; François DECOSTER, the minister's Diplomatic Senior Advisor ; M. Nicolas CASTOLDI, the minister's Senior Advisor; Mrs. Cécile DELIQUE, the minister's Senior Advisor; M. Philippe JACQUE, Journalist (Le Monde); Mrs. Marie-Estelle PECH, Journalist (Le Figaro).We thank President John SEXTON, NYU's Vice President Lynne BROWN, Vice President Jules MARTIN, Dean Lauren BENTON, Associate Director Jacqueline HAEFLINGER, for their help and assistance for organizing this event. We would like also to thank M. Antonin BAUDRY, Cultural Counsellor, Mrs Annick SUZOR-WEINER, Scientific Counsellor, M. Christophe MUSITELLI, Deputy Counsellor & M. Pascal DELISLE, Cultural Attaché, for their unfailing support.
We would like to thank also M. Jean FAVERO, Director of the CNRS Office in Washington and all our colleagues and friends from NYU, CNRS, Columbia University, The New School who met her on such an exceptionnal day.
GRANTS & AWARDS
We are very pleased to announce that one of our projects on Memory led by our member Denis PESCHANSKI (CNRS), in partnership with the Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France), the Centre d'histoire du XXe siècle (CNRS, U. Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), the Mémorial pour la Paix in Caen, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the WTC, has been awarded a 2,7 Millions euro grant by the French Government ("Grand Emprunt" / "Major Loan" operation).
Emilienne BANETH-NOUAILHETAS (CNRS/NYU) and Belen MARTIN-LUCAS (U. Vigo) have been awarded a three years Research grant (Proyectos de INvestigacion Fundamental) from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion) for their project on "Cultural Markets in a Globalized World: the Production, Circulation and Reception of Difference".
Our colleague Joseph LEDOUX has received the 2010 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association. To learn more, click here...
IN THE MEDIA
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....