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2006 |
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May
26, 2006
What
Solution to the Institutional crisis in Europe?
SIPA Roundtable featuring Elisabeth Guigou, Former
Minister for European Affairs, Justice and Labor.
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May
24, 2006Globalization,
a Chance for France?
Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor of Economics
at Columbia University was part of a panel at Sciences
Po with Pierre Moscovici, Vice President of the European
Parliament, Former Minister of European Affairs for
France.
The debate was moderated by Patrick Messerlin, Professor of Economics at Sciences
Po. Held in Paris.
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University
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May
24, 2006
Conversation on Russia
Seminar with Padmai Desai (Columbia University). Organized
by ROSES/EUREQA. Held in Paris.
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April 26, 2006
Make Trade, Not War
Seminar with Philippe Martin (Economics, Paris I and Ecole Polytechnique).
Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics.
Download the paper
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Paris I
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April 26, 2006
Seminar with Dominique Poulot (Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne) and Anne Higonnet
(Columbia University and Barnard College) in a converation on art history.
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Universitaire de France
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April
24- 25, 2006
Critical Reflections on the Politics of Post-Conflict:
Lessons from Africa.
Two day conference featuring five main
sessions:
Epistemology and politics of post-conflict
Andrew Lakoff (UCSD): Session
Chair
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?"
Shepard Forman (NYU): Session Discussant
Keynote
Address by Jean-Marie Geuhenno, Deputy Secretary
General, Department of Peace Keeping Operations,
United Nations
The end of violence: demilitarization and
disarmament
John Tirman (MIT): Session Chair
Jocelyn
Alexander (Oxford): "Demobilisation, Disarmament, Reinsertion?
The unstable political life
of Zimbabwe's former guerrillas"
Laetitia Bucaille (CERI- Sciences Po/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"
Francis James (UNDP): Session Discussant
State, rights, and citizenship:
reconstructing the political
Juan Obarrio (Columbia): Session Chair
Vincent Foucher (CEAN- University of Bourdeaux): "A
caseful of paradoxes. Learning from conflict and post-conflict
in Casamance"
Sandrine Perrot (University of Montreal): "Post-conflict
reconstruction and power rivalries in the Great Lakes
region"
Mariane Ferme (Berkeley): Session Discussant
State, rights, and citizenship: reconstructing the political (Part
II)
Juan Obarrio (Columbia): Session
Chair
Ruth Marshall-Fratani
(CEMAF-Paris I): "Making Peace
Before War: The Contradictions of Post-Conflict Politics
in the Côte
d'Ivoire"
Richard Banegas (CEMAF-Paris
I): "Building democracy after war ? Political
transition, governance and citizenship in post-conflict
societies
(Uganda, Côte d'Ivoire)"
Fernando Chinchilla (University of Montreal): "Sustainable
Peace. Power Relations and the Weakening of Extremists
in the Context of Internal Armed Conflict"
John Tirman (MIT): Session Discussant
Reconciliation and transitional justice
Ruth Marshall-Fratani (CEMAF-Paris
I): Session Chair
Mariane Ferme (Berkeley)
: "Writing Violence in Sierra Leone : Stories
from the Aftermath of Civil War"
Juan Obarrio (Columbia): "Post-conflict
juridical reconstruction and transitional justice"
Anne-Maria Makhulu Boitumelo (Duke): "The
Violence of Singularization: Reflections on South
African Truth and Reconciliation Commission"
Jocelyn Alexander (Oxford): Session Discussant
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April 20, 2006
Seminar with Riva Kastoryano (CERI-Sciences Po).
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New School |
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April 20, 2006
Facing Climate Change
: a View from France
Seminar with Robert Kandel (Ecole
Polytechnique).
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April 17, 2006
Revisiting Nationalism
Book presentation with Christophe Jaffrelot (CERI - Sciences
Po)
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April 13, 2006
Intellectual Property and Economic Development
Seminar with Claude Henry (Ecole Polytechnique
and Sciences Po), a visiting professor at SIPA, in conversation
with Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia), a visiting professor
at Sciences Po and Nobel Laureate in Economics. |
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April 12, 2006
The Future of the European Social Model
Seminar with Pierre Moscovici,
Vice President of the European Parliament and Former
Minister of European
Affairs for France. Mr. Moscovici teaches at SIPA a course
on European Political Affairs.
Co-sponsored by the Maison
Francaise, the European Legal Center, and the Institute for the Study of Europe.
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Provence |
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April 12, 2006
Religion and State Relationship in Europe: A Comparison.
Seminar with Jean Paul Willaime (Ecole Practique des Hautes
Etudes).
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Sorbonne |
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April 11, 2006
The Past and Future of the French Extremism
Seminar with Pascal
Perrineau, Director of Cevipof and Professor at Sciences
Po.
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Figaro |
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April 11, 2006
Post Colonial France: After the Riots, a
New Frenchness
Seminar with Nacira
Geunif-Soulaimas (Paris XIII).
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April 5, 2006
Affirmative Action Policies: A Comparative Perspective
Seminar with Daniel Sabbagh
(CERI- Sciences Po) and Robert Liebermann (Columbia).
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April 4, 2006.
Symposium on Transparency and Consistency in International Investment Law: Is There a Need for a Review Mechanism?.
An event co-sponsored by Columbia University and the Universite Paris I
Featured speakers include:
Patrick
Juillard (Universite Paris I): "Are
there significant differences in the substantive
provisions of international investment agreements
and in their interpretation?"
George A. Bermann (Columbia)
Merit E. Janow (Columbia)
Rainer Geiger (Sorbonne)
Jose Alvarez (Columbia): "Implications
for the Future of International Investment Law"
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March 31 , 2006
The Evolving Concept of Civil Society in China
Seminar with Jean-Philippe Beja (CERI-Sciences Po). Co-sponsored
by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
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March 29 , 2006
Does Islam need a Reformulation to be Compatible
with the West?
Co-sponsored by the Middle East Institute. Introduction and conclusion by Olivier
Roy (Sciences Po).
Session 1
David Westbrook, SUNY, Buffalo;
Alexandre Caeiro, ISIM, Leiden ("The Political Economy of Fatwas in Europe");
Aziz Huq, NYU, session Discussant;
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Frank Peter,
ISIM, Leiden ("Muslim
Preachers in France: Carriers of New Islamic Discourses?"); Amel
Boubekeur, EHESS/ENS, Paris ("What
is a Post-islamist Norm?") Picture©Carnegie
Middle East Center ;
Olivier Roy, Sciences Po, session
discussant
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March 29, 2006
Who's
Right about the French Labor Market: the Government or the Youth?
Panel with David Jestaz (Director, Alliance Program,
and Visiting Professor, SIPA), David Malamed (Partner,
Gide Loyrette Nouel), Fabrice Sergent (President, Lagardere).
Picture©Columbia
University
Picture©France
Amerique
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March 24, 2006
The Dilemmas of an Expanding European Union
Seminar with Jacques Rupnik (CERI- Sciences Po). Co-sponsored by the
Institute for the Study of Europe.
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University
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March 7,
2006
Tying the Gordian Knots, Targeted Killings and
the Ethics of Prevention
Seminar
with Ariel Colonomos (CERI- Sciences Po, Visiting Professor, SIPA. Cosponsored
by the Saltzman Insitute of War and Peace Studies. |
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March 2, 2006
Imagined Communities. How British Parties
Construct Collective Identities
Seminar with Florence Faucher King (Sciences Po-CEVIPOF,
Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University).
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February
23, 2006
Should China Revalue
its Currency? Some lessons of the Japanese
Experience During the '80s
Seminar
with Claude Meyer (Lecturer, Sciences Po and
Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne). Co-sponsored by the
Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Center
for Japanese Economy and Business.
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February
21, 2006
Is It Is or Is It Ain't My Obligation?
Regional Debt in a
Fiscal Federation
Seminar with Hubert Kempf
(Professor, Economics, Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne; Advisor,
Banque de France).
Download
the paper
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de France
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February
16 , 2006
Does
bilateralism promote trade? 19th century liberalization
revisited
Marc
Flandreau (Professor, Sicences Po; CEPR and OFCE)
in conversation with Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia).
Download
the paper
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Institute of International Studies |
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February
15 , 2006
The Darfur Conflict and its Impact on
Chadian Politics
Roland Marchal
Seminar with
Roland Marchal (Senior Research Fellow,
CNRS).
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Total
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February
15, 2006
France
Richard
Descoings, Sciences Po Director, keynote
speaker at the second annual Alliance
benefit dinner. Co-sponsored by UBS Investment
Bank and Champagne Charles Lafitte.
Video
Part I (41:43)
Video
Part II (24:40)
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February
9 , 2006
The Politics of Risk
Seminar
with Olivier Borraz (Researcher, CSO, Sicences Po;
Visiting Professor at Harvard)
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Po
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February
3 , 2006
Diversity : a Challenge for Global Firms
Panel featuring:
Jacques
De Larosiere: Special
Advisor to the Chairman of the Board, BNP Paribas. Former
IMF Director, Bank of France Governor and EBRD Director
J.
Christopher Simmons: Chairman's
Office Partner and Chief Diversity Officer ("CDO")
of Pricewaterhouse Coopers
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
Program Degrees.
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January
26 , 2006
Achievements
and Paradoxes of Modern Humanitarianism
Seminar with Rony Brauman, Former President of Doctors without Borders-Medecins
sans Frontieres; Associate
Professor, Sciences Po
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Eric/Corbis Sygma
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January
24, 2006
The End of Europe?
Seminar with Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, lawyer and
author of An Alliance At Risk, the United States
and Europe Since September 11. Moderated
by
Volker Berghahn (Columbia).
Download the paper
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Francaise |
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January 11, 2006
Modeling and Computation for
Kinematically and Stochastically
Nonlinear Continua:
Applications in Biomechanics and Nanomaterials
Seminar with Gautam Dasgupta, Professor of Civil Engineering
and Engineering Mechanics. Held at Ecole Polytechnique.
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Dasgupta |
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December 1, 2005
IMF in Theory: Sovereign Debt, Judicialisation
and Multilateralism
Seminar with Jerome Sgard, Economist at CEPII, Associate
Professor at Paris IX Dauphine; Rresearcher at CERI-Sciences
Po
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paper
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November 30, 2005
Crisis and Reform of the Russian Health Care system
(from 1989 to 2004)
Seminar with Benoit Mathivet, PhD Candidate
at University of Paris I- Sorbonne (ROSES) and EHESS.
Event co-sponsored
with
the Harriman Institute.
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November 21, 2005
Between a Rock and a Hard Place:
the Contradictions of French Policy in
Ivory Coast
Seminar with Ruth Marshall-Fratani, Political Science,
MALD, Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne.
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University Press
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November
18, 2005
France: A Country in Decline?
A dialogue between Alain Juppe (Former French Prime Minister,
Professor at ENAP, Montreal) and
Guy Sorman. Co-sponsored by the Alliance Program, organized by the Maison
Francaise.
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November
11, 2005
Understanding the Riots in France
Panel featuring Bernard Salanie (Columbia/Ecole Polytechnique)
and Sudhir Venkatesh (Columbia).
Co-sponsored by the French American Foundation.
See the video
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University
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November 10, 2005
The Impact of Terrorism on History, from Antiquity
to the 21st century
Seminar with Arnaud Blin, Researcher at the Institut
Diplomatie et Défense in
Paris.
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of California Press |
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November 4, 2005
Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East,
Jews an Arabs in France: Archaeology of a Conflict
Seminar with Esther Benbassa (Chair, Modern Jewish History,
Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes).
Jewishness and Otherness in a Time of Conflict
Seminar with Jean Christophe Attias (Ecole Pratique des
Hautes Etudes).
Joint Event co-sponsored with the Maison Francaise and the Middle East
Institute.
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Books
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November 3, 2005
Islamic Movements in Saudi Arabia
Seminar with Pascal Menoret, Research Associate
at the French Center for
Archaeology and Social Sciences in Sanaa, Yemen. Co-sponsored with
the Middle East Institute.
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de Montreal |
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October 28, 2005
Max Plus Decomposition of Supermartingales,
American Options and Stochastic Order
Seminar with Nicole El Karoui, Professor of Mathematics,
Ecole Polytechnique.
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Polytechnique |
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October
26 , 2005
Some New Perspectives for Organic Synthesis
Seminar with Samir Zard, Professor of Chemistry, Ecole
Polytechnique.
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Polytechnique |
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October 19 , 2005
The European Union and the US: the Transatlantic Legal Agenda
Seminar with Michel Petite, Director General
of the European Commission Legal Service. Co-sponsored with
the Maison Francaise, The Institute for Study of Europe
and the European Legal Studies Center. |
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October 11 , 2005
Civic
Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions
Seminar with Pierre Cahuc, Professor of Economics at
Paris I and Ecole Polytechnique. Moderated by
Till Von Wachter (Columbia).
Co-sponsored with the Department of Economics.
Download the paper
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Monde |
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September 29, 2005
La
Laicite Francaise Face a l'Islam
Seminar with Jean Bauberot, Professor at EPHE- Sorbonne.
Event co-sponsored with the Maison Francaise.
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September 29, 2005
India, the New Strategic Ally of the US in Asia
Seminar with Christophe Jaffrelot, Director of CERI
at Sciences Po. Introduction by Xiabo Lu, Director of
the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Download
the paper
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Po |
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September 27, 2005
New Slave Particle Methods for Correlated Fermion Systems
Seminar with Luca Demedici, Phd Student at Ecole Polytechnique.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Physics.
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University
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September 19, 2005
Relationship between the Humanitarian Action and the
Military: Which
Role for Each?
Francois Rubio, Legal Director of Medecins du Monde,
Associate Professor at Sciences Po and University of
Paris I.
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University
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September 14, 2005
Contrarian Behavior and Opinion Dynamics in the Results
of 2000 and 2004
American Presidential Elections: a Model from Physics
Seminar with Serge Galam, Senior Researcher at CNRS,
CREA-Ecole Polytechnique.
Download the paper
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Polytechnique
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