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LECTURES, CONFERENCES & BROWN BAGS
2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | VIDEO



"Ecology and Democracy”, by Bruno Latour, Vice President for Research at Sciences Po. Discussant: Michael Taussig. February 25.
Cosponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities and ISERP.

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"The China-Japan Equation: Economic Partners, Strategic Rivals". Lecture by Claude Meyer (Sciences Po). February 6. Co-Sponsored with the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, the APEC Study Center, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.  



"La France, une identite democratique” by Vincent Duclert, February 4th. Organized at the Maison Francaise.

 




"The Normative Empire. How Europe is shaping global norms?", by Zaki Laidi, Senior Research fellow at the Centre d'Etudes Européennes of Sciences Po. March 5. Cosponsored by the Institute for the Study of Europe.

 




"Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility”, by Bertrand Collomb, former CEO of Lafange. March 6. Cosponsored by the Earth Institute and the SIPA concentrations on Environmental Policy Studies and Economic and Political Development.

 

 



"The Innovations of the Lisbon Treaty” by Michel Petite
Clifford and Chance, former Director General of the Legal Service of the European Commission. March 12.

 

 


“Identity Politics and the Liberal Thought”, conference by Akeel Bilgrami at Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne. March 18.  


“Dead Reckoning: Technology, Risk and Safety in Air Traffic Control”, a conference by Diane Vaughan at SciencesPo. March 20.

 


“The Moral and Political Thought of Gandhi”, seminar by Akeel Bilgrami at Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne. March 21.  


"Regulations and Public Utilities in Energy and Telecommunication: Cases in Europe and in the United States". Speakers: Nicolas Curien, Joe Fontana, Pippo Ranci. Moderator: Claude Henry. March 26. Cosponsored by the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy and the Earth Institute.



"The Arab Initiative for Middle East Peace - Dead or Alive?", Lecture by Ghassan Salame. March 26. Conveyed by the Columbia University Seminar on the Middle East.  


 

"Is the Middle East Relevant?”, by Ghassan Salame, Professor at SciencesPo and Visiting Professor at Columbia. Under the High Patronage of The Honorable Francois Delattre, Consul General of France in New York. April 10.

With the support of
Benefactor: Philippe Camus (Lagardere)
Sponsors: Pierre Albouy, Joseph Audi, Edgard El Chaar, Jean El Khoury, Michael Kassouf

Ghassan Salamé is a Professor of International Relations at Sciences Po, France, and currently the Alliance Program’s Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Ghassan Salamé was the Minister of Culture to Lebanon in Rafik Hariri’s government from 2000 to 2003. He was appointed Chairman and Spokesman of the Organization Committee for the March 2002 Arab Summit and for the October 2002 Francophone Summit in Beirut. From June 2003, he was Sergio Vieira de Mello’s political advisor in the first UN mission to Irak and served as the Senior Advisor to the UN Secretary General until 2006. He is serving on various boards, including on the International Crisis Group and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Ghassan Salamé is recognized as one of the most respected actors and observers of Middle East Politics in the few past decades.

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"Purify and Destroy", a panel with Jacques Semelin (SciencesPo-CERI) in honor of his book. Conference of the Association for the Studies of the Nationalities. April 12.

 


Screening of the documentary "Darwin's Nightmare" followed by a panel discussion with: Mamadou Diouf, Director, Institute for African Studies, Columbia University; Francois Garcon, Professor of Film History (Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, author of "The Other Side of Darwin's Nightmare"); Sandrine Perrot, Senior Research Fellow (SciencesPo CERI), a specialist of the Great Lake Region. April 15th. Cosponsored by the Institute of African Studies and the International Media & Communications concentration at SIPA.


 


"Northern Uganda: a forgotten conflict again? The role of external actors in the Northern Uganda conflict resolution", by Sandrine Perrot (CERI-SciencesPo). April 17. Cosponsored by the Political Science Department and the Institute of African Studies.




"The Enigma of Islamist Violence”, by Laetitia Bucaille, Head of CERI's Research Group on Middle East and the Arab World. April 24.
Cosponsored by the Middle East Institute.



"May 68: A Time for History, A Turn to Ethics”.
With Emmannuelle Loyer (SciencesPo) and Julien Bourg (Bucknell University). May 1st. Cosponsored by The Maison Francaise at Columbia University and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
 


Terreur et Martyre and Al Qaida in the text, books presentation by Gilles Kepel (Professor of Middle East Studies at SciencesPo). May 6th  


International workshop on "New Directions in Quantitative Finance" with the Alliance Program, Ecole Polytechnique, Columbia University and University of Florida. May 19-21 in Paris.

 

 

 

 






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.