Programmes

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.

Our seven research programs are collaborative projects involving scholars from CNRS, NYU and other major academic institutions.They deal with different subjects and follow a variety of disciplinary paths, but they all have a shared transdisciplinary perspective. Most of our research projects include a seminar open to the public. Our sessions are usually recorded and can be accessed through our website (either on audio or on video)...