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2008 |
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May
19-21
New Directions in Quantitative Finance
International
workshop with the Alliance Program,
Ecole Polytechnique, Columbia University and
University of Florida. Held in Paris.
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May
6
Terreur
et Martyre and Al Qaida in
the text
Book presentation by Gilles
Kepel (Professor of Middle East Studies at SciencesPo).
Picture©Chaire
de recherche du Canada
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May
1
May 68: A Time for History, A Turn
to Ethics
With Emmannuelle Loyer (SciencesPo) and
Julien Bourg (Bucknell University). Cosponsored by
The Maison Francaise at Columbia University and the
Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
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April
24
The Enigma
of Islamist Violence
Book
presentation by Laetitia Bucaille, head of
CERI's Research Group on Middle East and the
Arab World. Cosponsored by the Middle East
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April
17
Northern
Uganda: a forgotten conflict again? The
role of external actors in the Northern
Uganda conflict resolution
Seminar with Sandrine Perrot (CERI-SciencesPo).
Cosponsored by the Political Science Department
and
the Institute of African Studies.
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April
15
Darwin's Nightmare
Screening of the documentary, followed
by a panel discussion with: Mamadou Diouf, Director, Institute of 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. Cosponsored by the Institute of African Studies and
the International Media & Communications concentration at SIPA.
Picture©Darwinsnightmare.com
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April
12
Purify
and Destroy
A panel
with Jacques Semelin (SciencesPo-CERI)
on his book. Conference of the Association
for the Studies of the Nationalities.
Picture©McGill
University
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April
10
Is the Middle East Relevant?
Lecturre
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.
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.
Click here to
read covering of this event by France-Amérique.
Video
- Intro by Consul (4:19) 
Video - Intro by
Vanessa Scherrer (6:09)
Video - Conference
by Ghassan Salame (40:17)
Video - Q&A (10:39)
Please allow time
for the video to download.
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March
26
The
Arab Initiative for Middle East Peace - Dead
or Alive?
Lecture by Ghassan
Salame. Conveyed by the Columbia University
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March
26
Regulations
and Public Utilities in Energy and Telecommunication:
Cases in Europe and in the United States
Seminar with Nicolas Curien, Joe Fontana,
Pippo Ranci. Moderator: Claude Henry. Cosponsored by
the Center
for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy
and the Earth Institute.
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March
21
The
Moral and Political Thought of Gandhi
Seminar
with Akeel Bilgrami at Universite Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne. |
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March
20
Dead
Reckoning: Technology, Risk and Safety in Air
Traffic Control
Seminar with Diane Vaughan at SciencesPo.
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March
18
Identity
Politics and Liberal Thought
Seminar with Akeel Bilgrami at Universite
Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne. |
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March
12
The
Innovations of the Lisbon Treaty
Seminar with Michel Petite,
Clifford and Chance, former Director General of the Legal Service of the
European Commission.
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March
6
Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility
Lecture
by
Bertrand Collomb, former CEO of Lafange. Cosponsored
by the Earth Institute and the SIPA concentrations
on Environmental Policy Studies and Economic and
Political Development.
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March
5
The
Normative Empire. How Europe is shaping global
norms?
Seminar with Zaki Laidi, Senior Research
fellow at the Centre d'Etudes Européennes
of Sciences Po. Cosponsored by the Institute for
the Study of Europe.
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February
25
Ecology
and Democracy
Lecture
by
Bruno Latour, Vice President
for Research at Sciences
Po. Discussant: Michael
Taussig.
Cosponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities and ISERP.
See comments
about the event. |
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February
6
The
China-Japan Equation: Economic Partners,
Strategic Rivals
Seminar with Claude Meyer (Sciences
Po). Co-Sponsored with the Center
on Japanese Economy and Business,
the APEC Study Center, and the Weatherhead
East Asian Institute.
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February
4
La
France, une Identité Démocratique
Seminar with
Vincent Duclert. Organized at the Maison Francaise.
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November
15
On Negotiating the Bourdieu Legacy
in the Social Sciences
Seminar by
Bernard Lahire (ENS, CNRS), in collaboration with
the Department of Sociology, the Maison Française,
and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in
the United States.
Picture©Duke
University
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November
8
An Overview of the French Political
Landscape since the Presidential Election
Seminar with
Gérard Grunberg (former Vice-Provost for
Research, SciencesPo), co-sponsored by SciencesPo
Alumni USA,
November 8 at the French Trade Office in New York
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November
8
The French Left and the Democratic
Party—in Search of a New Identity?
Seminar with
Irene Finel-Honigman (Adjunct Professor of International
and Public Affairs, SIPA) and Gérard Grunberg
(SciencesPo), in collaboration with the Maison Française
and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in
the United States
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November
7
Memories of Slave Trade, Slavery, and
Colonialism in France Today
Seminar with Françoise
Vergès (Reader at the Center for Cultural Studies,
Goldsmiths College, University of London), in collaboration
with the Maison Française at Columbia University
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College |
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November
1
The Presidential Elections in the
United States
Seminar with Irene Finel-Honigman
(Adjunct Professor, International and Public Affairs,
SIPA)
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October
1
India: Religious and Caste Profile
of Elected Politicians in 16 States from 1952 to
2006
Seminar with Christophe Jaffrelot (Director,
SciencesPo–CERI), in collaboration with the
Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and
Religion, and the Southern Asia Institute
Picture©DSciences
Po
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September
27
To Be an Arab in Israel
Book presentation
by Laurence Louër (SciencesPo—CERI), co-sponsored
by Columbia University Press and the Middle East
Institute
Picture Columbia
University Press |
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September
25
Purify and Destroy
Book presentation
by
Jacques Semelin (SciencesPo–CERI), Co-sponsored
with Columbia University Press and the Cultural
Services
of the French Embassy in the United States
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University Press |
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July
6–7
Emerging Powers in Global Governance:
New Challenges and Policy Options
IDDRI
conference, in collaboration with SIPA (Columbia
University), the Chaire Développement durable
(SciencesPo), the International Institute for Sustainable
Development; co-sponsored by the Alliance Program.
Held in Paris.
Among other participants: Richard Descoing (Director,
SciencesPo), Alain Juppé (French
Minister of Ecology, Development, and Land Planning), Lisa Anderson (Dean,
SIPA, Columbia University), Laurence Tubiana (Director, SciencesPo–IDDRI),
Angel Gurria (Secretary General, OECD), Daniel Cohen (ENS, Université Paris
1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Elizabeth Economy (Director for Asian Study, Council
on Foreign Affairs), Jeffrey Sachs (Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia
University), Joanna Rubinstein (Director, Global Health Initiative, The Earth
Institute, Columbia University), Joseph Stiglitz (Professor of Finance and
Economics, Columbia Business School, 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics), Bernard
Kouchner (Minister of Foreign Affairs).
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June
19
Peptide Engineering: Applications
in Nanotechnology, Bioelectrocatalysis, and Drug
Delivery
Seminar with Alfonso Jaramillo
(Laboratory of Bio-Chemistry, Ecole Polytechnique)
and Scott Banta (Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering,
Columbia University). Held at the Ecole Polytechnique
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Created
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.
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