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2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | VIDEO

   
May 26. 2006
Elisabeth Guigou, Former Minister for European Affairs, Justice and Labor
Round table at SIPA on : " What solution to the Institutional crisis in Europe?"
   

May 24, 2006. Paris
Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor of Economics at Columbia University
will be part of a panel at Sciences Po with Pierre Moscovici, Vice President of the European Parliament, Former Minister of European Affairs for France.
" Globalization, a chance for France ?"
The Debate was moderated by Patrick Messerlin, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.
* More on Jagdish Bhagwati *
   
May 24. Paris
Padma Desai, Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and Director, Center for Transition Economies
presented her new book, Conversation on Russia at a joint seminar organized by ROSES / EUREQA at Paris I.
   

April 26, 2006
Philippe MARTIN
, Professor of Economics at Paris I and Ecole Polytechnique. CEPR research fellow gave a seminar in International Trade

* Make trade, not war "
* Download the paper *

   
April 26, 2006
Dominique POULOT
, Professor of Hart History at the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne gave Seminar for Graduate Students with Anne Higonnet, Professor of Art History at Columbia University and Barnard
   

April 24, 25, 2006
Critical Reflections on the Politics of Post-Conflict: Lessons from Africa.

(Room 1512. SIPA. 420 W,118 street)


9:30- 12:30 SESSION 1: EPISTEMOLOGY AND POLITICS OF POST-CONFLICT

Chair: Andrew LAKOFF (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO)
* Ron KASSIMIR (NEW SCHOOL): “Post-conflict interventions as transboundary formation in Africa”
* Roland MARCHAL(CERI-SCIENCES-PO) : “Choosing between moral values and political realism: economic transformations throughout wartime and post-conflict reconstruction"
* Pierre-Antoine BRAUD (ISS-EU) : “Missing instruments: enlarging conflict management approach?”
* Stephen JACKSON (SSRC): “War and Peace: How Helpful a category is Post-Conflict?”

Chair: John TIRMAN (MIT)
* Jocelyn ALEXANDER (OXFORD UNIVERSITY): “Demobilisation, Disarmament, Reinsertion? The unstable political life of Zimbabwe's former guerrillas”
* Laetitia BUCAILLE (CERI- SCIENCES-PO AND UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX): “Post-conflict societies through veterans”
* Alcinda HONWANA (OPEN UNIVERSITY): “Demobilized Youth and post-conflict reconstruction in Mozambique and Angola”
* Marielle DEBOS (SCIENCES PO): “Combatants, soldiers and road bandits : the tumultuous trajectories of armed men in Chad”

Discussant: Francis JAMES (UNDP)

4:30 –6 pm. SESSION 3 (I): STATE, RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP: RECONSTRUCTING THE POLITICAL

Chair: Juan OBARRIO (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)
* Vincent FOUCHER (CEAN- UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX): “A caseful of paradoxes. Learning from conflict and post-conflict in Casamance”
* Sandrine PERROT (UNIVERSTY OF MONTREAL): « Post-conflict reconstruction and power rivalries in the Great Lakes region »

Discussant: Mariane FERME (UNIVERSTY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY)

Tuesday, 25th April. Room 105. Law School.

9 – 10:30 am. SESSION 3 (II): STATE, RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP: RECONSTRUCTING THE POLITICAL

* Ruth MARSHALL-FRATANI (CEMAF-UNIVERSITY OF PARIS I): “Making Peace Before War: The Contradictions of Post-Conflict Politics in the Côte d'Ivoire”
* Richard BANÉGAS (CEMAF-UNIVERSITY OF PARIS I): “Building democracy after war ? Political transition, governance and citizenship in post-conflict societies (Uganda, Côte d’Ivoire)”
* Fernando CHINCHILLA (UNIVERSTY OF MONTREAL): “Sustainable Peace. Power Relations and the Weakening of Extremists in the Context of Internal Armed Conflict”

Discussant: John TIRMAN (MIT)


11:00 – 12 pm. SESSION 4 - RECONCILIATION AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE

Chair: Ruth MARSHALL-FRATANI (CEMAF-UNIVERSITY OF PARIS I):

* Mariane FERME (UNIVERSTY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY) : “Writing Violence in Sierra Leone : Stories from the Aftermath of Civil war”
* Juan OBARRIO (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY): “Post-conflict juridical reconstruction and transitional justice”
* Anne-Maria MAKHULU BOITUMELO (DUKE UNIVERSITY) “The Violence of Singularization: Reflections on South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission”

Discussant: Jocelyn ALEXANDER (OXFORD UNIVERSITY)

   
April 20, 2006
Riva KASTORYANO.
Researcher CERI-Sciences Po
"France, Europe and Turkey"
* More on RIva Kastoryano *
 


 
April 20, 2006
Robert KANDEL, Research Director Emeritus at Ecole Polytechnique. Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (scientific advisory committee to the Greenhouse Effect Mission of the National Assembly)
"Facing climate change : a view from France"
 


 
April 17, 2006
Christophe JAFFRELOT. Director of CERI and Professor at Sciences Po will present his new book
"Revisiting Nationalism" written with Alain Diechkoff

April 17th. Room 1512 :2:30-4:30 PM.
   
April 13, 2006
Claude HENRY,
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique and Lecturer at Sciences Po in Sustainable Development.
Visting Professor at SIPA
 "Intellectual Property and Economic Development"April 13th. Discussed by Joseph STIGLITZ, University Professor, Nobel Laureate in Economics. Visiting Professor at Sciences Po.

 

April 12, 2006
Pierre MOSCOVICI
, Vice President of the European Parliament and Former Minister of European Affairs for France
, teaches at SIPA a course on European Political Affairs.
The Alliance Program, the Maison Francaise, the European Legal Center and the Institute for the Study of Europe present a lecture on
"The future of the European social model "
 

 

 
April 12, 2006
Jean Paul WILLAIME
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Religion and State Relationship in Europe, a comparison.
 


 
April 11, 2006
Pascal PERRINEAU,
 Director of Cevipof, and Professor at Sciences Po. "The past and the future of the French extremism".
 
   

April 11, 2006
Nacira GUENIF-SOULAIMAS. Professor, University of Paris XIII. "Post colonial France : After the Riots, a new Frenchness".

 

 
April 5, 2006
Daniel SABBAGH,
Researcher, CERI, Sciences Po
 Robert LIEBERMANN , Professor, Columbia University. Panel on "Affirmative Action policies: A comparative perspective".
 

 
April 4, 2006.
Columbia University and the Sorbonne organize a Symposium on Transparency and Consistency in International Investment Law: Is There a Need for a Review Mechanism?. The Alliance has joined recently this program. The event is not open to the public, you must register. It will feature among others:

- Patrick Juillard, Professor of International Law, Sorbonne University “Are there significant differences in the substantive provisions of international investment agreements and in their interpretation?”
- George A. Bermann, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law & Walter Gelhorn Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
- Merit E. Janow, Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law and International Affairs, Columbia University
- Rainer Geiger, Deputy Director, Financial and Enterprise Division, OECD, and Associate Professor, International Law, Sorbonne University
- Jose Alvarez, Hamilton Fish Professor of Law and Diplomacy, Columbia University, and Director, Center on Global Legal Problems. “Implications for the future of international investment law”,
 
   
March 31 , 2006
Jean-Philippe BEJA
. Researcher at CERI, Sciences Po: "The
* More on Jean Philippe Beja *
 
   
March 29 , 2006

 • Conference : «Does Islam need a refor-mulation to be compatible with the West ?»


March 29 Room 1501 (SIPA Buliding). From 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
the Alliance Program and,


Introduction by Olivier Roy, CNRS-EHESS, Associate Researcher at CERI-Sciences Po.
« Does Islam need a reformulation to be compatible with the West ?».


Video I (40:15)


* More on Olivier Roy *

Session 1
-
David Westbrook. Professor of Law, State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of City of Gold: An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent."Contemporary Muslims, Secularists, and Anxieties over the Nature of History".

- Alexandre Caeiro (ISIM, Leiden) "The Political Economy of Fatwas in Europe".

- Aziz Huq. Associate Counsel. Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Discussant

Session 2
- Frank Peter (ISIM, Leiden): "Muslim Preachers in France: Carriers of New Islamic Discourses ?"

- Amel Boubekeur (EHESS/ENS, Paris)
"What is a post-islamist norm ?"

- Olivier Roy, Discussant and Conclusion
March 29, 2006
Panel on : ”Who’s right about the French labor market, the government or the youth ?
Wednesday March 29th. 17:30-19:00. Room 1512. SIPA. 420 W, 118 street.
featuring

David Jestaz, Director of the Alliance Program, Visiting Professor of International Affairs at SIPA.

• David Malamed
is a partner at Gide Loyrette Nouel and specializes in cross-border financings and complex tax structures.

• Fabrice Sergent.
President Lagardere active north america
 
March 24, 2006
 Jacques RUPNIK
 Researcher at CERI, Sciences Po
 "The dilemmas of an expanding European Union"
* More on Jacques Rupnik *
 
   
March 7, 2006
Ariel COLONOMOS

Researcher at CERI, Sciences Po, Visiting Professor of International Affairs at SIPA, Columbia University
"Tying the Gordian Knots, Targeted Killings and the ethics of prevention"

* More on Ariel Colonomos*
 

 

 
March 2, 2006
F
lorence FAUCHER KING. Researcher at CEVIPOF, Sciences Po is currently Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University.
"Imagined Communities. How British Parties Construct Collective Identities".
* More on Florence Faucher-King*

 



 

February 23, 2006
 
Claude MEYER
Sciences Po and University of Paris 1, Lecturer. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Center for Japanese Economy and Business

 “Should China revalue its currency? Some lessons ofthe Japanese experience during the '80s”

 

 

 

 

February 21, 2006.
Hubert KEMPF.
Professor of Economics, University of Paris 1. Advisor to the Banque de France.
 
“Is It Is or Is It Ain’t My Obligation? Regional Debt in a Fiscal Federation”. NBER Working Paper #11655. With Dan Peled and Russell Cooper.
* Download the Paper*

 

 

 

February 16 , 2006

Marc FLANDREAU, Professor, Sciences Po Senior researcher at CEPR and OFCE.

 “Does bilateralism promote trade? 19th century liberalization revisited”. Discussed by Jagdish BHAGWATI, University Professor.
* Download the Paper*

* More information on Marc Flandreau *

 

 

 

February 15 , 2006
Richard DESCOINGS
Sciences Po Director served as a keynote speaker at a Private Benefit dinner.

France in the aftermath of the riots: what we have not done for the minorities!”
Video Part I (41:43)
Video Part II (24:40)


The dinner was sponsored by UBS Investment Bank

 

 

and Champagne Charles Lafitte
Richard Descoings was named One of the 25 European Leaders at the Forefront of Change by Business Week in 2003.






 

February 15 , 2006
Roland Marchal
is senior research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at CERI/Sciences-Po, Paris).
"The Darfur Conflict and its Impact on Chadian Politics"

* More on Roland Marchal *  

 
   

February 9 , 2006
Olivier BORRAZ,
Researcher at CSO, Sciences-Po, Visiting Professor at Harvard 2005-2006

 “The politics of risk”
* More information on Oliver Borraz*

 

 

 

February 3 , 2006
“Diversity : a challenge for global firms”


A Panel featuring:Video (1:36:43)



Jacques De Larosiere, (left) Special Advisor to the Chairman of the Board, BNP Paribas. Former IMF Director, Bank of France Governor and EBRD Director.

J. Christopher Simmons, (middle) a Chairman's Office Partner and Chief Diversity Officer ("CDO") of PricewaterhouseCoopers

Ron Boire, Executive Vice-President, General Merchandise Manager.Best Buy,

We also celebrated the launching of a 60,000$ partnership with BNP Paribas in scholarships with the Alliance ProgramDegrees.

More information
about BNP Paribas

* BNP Paribas, FLyer 1*

* BNP Paribas, FLyer 2*

* BNP Paribas, FLyer 3*



   

January 26 , 2006

Rony BRAUMAN
Former President of Doctors without Borders “Medecins sans Frontieres”, Associate Professor, Sciences Po,

"Achievements and paradoxes of modern humanitarianism"

* More on Rony Brauman *

 

 

 
January 24, 2006
Laurent COHEN-TANUGI.
Lawyer and writer recent author of An Alliance At Risk, the United States and Europe Since September 11 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
The end of Europe?Discussed by Volker Berghahn, Seth Low Professor of History and Director, Institute for the Study of Europe

* Download the Article published in Foreign Affairs*

* More on Laurent COHEN-TANUGI *
 
   
January 11, 2006. Paris
Gautam DASGUPTA,
Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
"Modeling and Computation for Kinematically and StochasticallyNonlinearContinua: applications in biomechanics and nanomaterials".
 
   
December 1, 2005
Jerome SGARD. Economist at CEPII, Associate Professor at Paris IX Dauphine and researcher at CERI-Sciences Po

"IMF in theory: Sovereign Debt, judicialisation and multilateralism"
* Download the Paper *
* More on Jerome Sgard Work *
 

 

 
November 30, 2005
Benoit MATHIVET. Phd Candidate at University of Paris I- Sorbonne (ROSES) and EHESS.
Event co-sponsored with the Harriman Institute
Crisis and Reform of the Russian Health Care system (from 1989 to 2004)
* More on Benoit Mathivet work "
November 30. 12:00-14:00. Room 1219
 
   
November 21, 2005
Ruth MARSHALL-FRATANI. Associate Scholar at CEMAF, University of Paris I
wil talk about:

"Between a rock and a hard place: the contradictions of French Policy in Ivory Coast"
Ruth Marshall has acted as a consultant on violence and conflict in Ivory Coast and West Africa for the NGO International Crisis Group and the UN

 
November 18, 2006
A Unique Dialogue :
Alain JUPPE, Former French Prime Minister, Professor at ENAP, Montreal and
Guy Sorman Editor and Writer.


Event co-sponsored by the Alliance Program, organized by the Maison Francaise


"France a country in decline ? "
   

November 11, 2006
PANEL: UNDERSTANDING THE RIOTS IN FRANCE

Co-sponsored by the French American Foundation

FEATURING: Bernard Salanie, Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Ecole Polytechnique, Sudhir Venkatesh, Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.
* More on Bernard Salanie *

 
   
November 10, 2005
Arnaud BLIN. Researcher at the « institut Diplomatie et Défense » in Paris

« The impact of terrorism on history, from Antiquity to the 21st century”
 
   
November 4, 2005
* Joint event *

Esther BENBASSA. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Co-sponsored with the Maison Francaise and the Middle East Institute
" Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East, Jews an Arabs in France . Archaeology of a Conflict"
Jean Christophe ATTIAS. Ecole Pratique des
Hautes Etudes.

"Jewishness and Otherness in a Time of Conflict"
* More on Esther Benbassa, More on Jean Christophe Attias *
 
   
November 3, 2005
Pascal MENORET is a Research Associate at the French Center for
Archaeology and Social Sciences in Sanaa, Yemen.
Co-sponsored with the Middle East Institute
“Islamic Movements in Saudi Arabia”
 
   
October 28, 2005
Nicole EL KAROUI . Professor of Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique

A seminar on "Max Plus decomposition of Supermartingales, American Options and Stochastic Order"
* More on Nicole El Karoui Work *
 
   
October 26 , 2005
Samir ZARD. Professor of Chemistry, Ecole Polytechnique

Seminar in the Chemistry Department on
"Some New Perspectives for Organic Synthesis"
October 26, 2005, 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location 320 Havemeyer Hall
* Samir Zard Publications *
 
   
October 19 , 2005
Michel PETITE,
Director General of the European Commission Legal Service


"The European Union and the US: the transatlantic legal agenda"
Event co-sponsored with the Maison Francaise, The Institute for Study of Europe and the European Legal Studies Center
   
October 11 , 2005
Pierre CAHUC. Professor of Economics at Paris I and Ecole Polytechnique. CREST, CEPR and IZA
"Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions" co-authored with Yann
Algan (Université Marne la Vallee et CEPREMAP).
Discussant: Till Von Wachter, Columbia University
Co-sponsored with the Department of Economics
* Download the paper *.
Click here to know more about Pierre Cahuc work
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Click here to know more about Till Von Wachter work
 
   
September 29, 2005
Jean BAUBEROT. Professor at EPHE- Sorbonne. Event co-sponsored with the Maison Francaise (presentation in French)
“La laicite francaise face a l’Islam”
 
   
September 29, 2005
Christophe JAFFRELOT. Director of CERI at Sciences Po
"India, the new strategic ally of the US in Asia"
* Download the paper *.
Introduction by Xiabo Lu, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
 
   
September 27, 2005
Luca DEMEDICI. Phd Student Ecole Polytechnique.
«New Slave particle methods for correlated fermion systems"
Condensed matter lunchtime Seminar, Department of Physics
 
   
September 19, 2005
Francois RUBIO. Legal Director of Medecins du Monde, Associate Professor at Sciences Po and University of Paris I.
« Relationship between the Humanitarian action and the Military: which role for each?”
 
   

September 14, 2005
Serge GALAM. Senior Researcher at CNRS, CREA-Ecole Polytechnique
" Contrarian behavior and opinion dynamics in the results of 2000 and 2004 American presidential elections: a model from physics”
* Download the paper *

 
   



C
reated in the fall 2002, the Alliance Program is a non-profit transatlantic joint-venture between Columbia University and three French prestigious institutions, The École Polytechnique, Sciences Po and the Université of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.


Alliance is an innovative program whose aim is to initiate and accompany new initiatives in the fields of education cooperation, research collaboration, and policy outreach. Over the last four years the Alliance’s scope of activities have included the organization of numerous academic conferences both in Paris and in New York, the setting up of international multidisciplinary research teams, and the creation of joint-courses and curricula targeting the students of its founding partners.