January 15, 2013, Columbia University

Think-tank at Columbia University: "OBA III: Black is Beautiful"

OBA III: Black Is Beautiful is a multi-disciplinary project that is taking place over a period of 18 months from September 2012 to February 2014 in the cities of Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., Houston, and Dallas–Fort Worth. It will conclude with a symposium and an exhibition showcasing artworks made during all three parts of OBA.

Conceived by artist Monte Laster and French not-for-profit organization FACE (French American Creative Exchange), the project Our Better Angels (OBA) aims to examine and communicate the dynamic interaction of French and African-American cultures. It connects artists, cultural organizations, and the French and American publics in an analysis and celebration of African-American creativity.

The next Think Tank will take place in New York on January 15, 2013. It will be a building block of the project and initiate its bi-continental exchange and research programs. The conversation will be video-conferenced live with members in France in collaboration with Science-Po, the participants from OBA I and the Lycée Jacques Brel (High School) at Monte Laster's studio in La Courneuve, France.

For pictures of the event, please visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.150736488412788.35855.115818788571225&type=1&l=06f720658c

January 14-15, 2013, Columbia University

Claude Basdevant, Eric Godelier, and Alexandre Stegner from the Ecole Polytechnique's new Energy and Environment Initiative at Columbia University

Claude Basdevant is a Research Fellow at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory Mechanics and director of the Master of Environmental Mechanics & Physics.

For more information on Claude Basdevant, please visit http://www.math.univ-paris13.fr/~basdevan/

Eric Godelier is the president of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ecole Polytechnique.

For more information on Eric Godelier, please visit http://crg.polytechnique.fr/home/godelier/FR

Alexandre Stegner is a Research Fellow at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory Mechanics.

December 19, 2012, 4:00PM - 6:00PM, International Affairs Building, Room 1219, Columbia University

A public lecture by Eric Strobl: The impact of Typhoons on Chinese Local Economic Activity: a View from Outer Space

Professor John Mutter will act as a discussant and moderate the Q&A session.

Eric Strobl holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Dublin, Trinity College (1997). He is currently an Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Paris and External Professor at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies. Before joining Ecole Polytechnique he held research posts at University College Dublin and CORE, and lecturing posts at the University of the West Indies, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and Universite de Paris X.

His main research interests are in applied labour economics, in particular related to developing countries, foreign direct investment, and economic geography. He has published and has forthcoming a number of papers in international journals, including The Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Economics and Politics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Development Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economics Letters, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Journal of Urban Economics, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

For more information, please visit http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/personnel/photos/index_html?key=1172

John Mutter is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Department of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and an Alliance Visiting Professor for 2012-2013. His research focuses on the role of natural disasters in constraining development opportunities for poor and emerging societies. Meteorological extremes are expected to increase as a result of human-induced climate change, and his work attempts to assess who are most vulnerable to disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina.
For more information, please visit http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/jcm7-fac.html

Co-sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs, the PhD in Sustainable Development Program and the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

December 18-19, 2012, Columbia University

Eric Strobl at Columbia University

Eric Strobl holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Dublin, Trinity College (1997). He is currently an Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Paris and External Professor at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies. Before joining Ecole Polytechnique he held research posts at University College Dublin and CORE, and lecturing posts at the University of the West Indies, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and Universite de Paris X.

His main research interests are in applied labour economics, in particular related to developing countries, foreign direct investment, and economic geography. He has published and has forthcoming a number of papers in international journals, including The Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Economics and Politics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Development Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economics Letters, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Journal of Urban Economics, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

For more information, please visit http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/personnel/photos/index_html?key=1172

December 13, 2012, 4:30PM-5:30PM, Mudd Building Room 627, Columbia University

Information session about the Alliance Research Internship Program at the Ecole Polytechnique

Research Internship between the Ecole Polytechnique and Columbia University in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics, or Computer Science. Open to advanced undergraduate students, Master and PhD students from Columbia wishing to spend 3 to 6 months at one of the Ecole Polytechnique laboratories.
> Detailed information
> Research topics
> List of the 22 research laboratories at Ecole Polytechnique [PDF]
> Applications forms

The call for applications for 2013 is now open.
Applications as well as recommendation letters should be sent directly to Lauranne Bardin, Assistant Director, Alliance Program at : [email protected] before January 8th, 2013.

December 12, 2012, 5:00PM-6:30PM, CERI, 56 rue Jacob, Salle du Conseil (4th floor), 75006 Paris, Sciences Po

Thesis project presentation by Justine Guichard: The Judicial Politics of national Security: A Case Study of the Constitutional Court of Korea in comparative perspective

This doctoral thesis presentation is part of the CERI 2012-2013 doctoral seminar series on China, chaired by Françoise Mengin and Jean-Louis Rocca.

Justine Guichard is a graduate from Sciences Po's Resarch Master's Degree in Comparative Asian Politics, and from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO). She researches in Political Science within the Alliance Dual PhD Program at Sciences Po and Columbia University.

December 10, 2012, 9:00AM - 5:00PM, Amphitheatre Jean Moulin, 13 rue de l'Universite, Paris, Science Po

Annual Conference on Journalism New Practices

Participants:

Mark Hansen, Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation; and Professor of Journalism, Columbia University

Emily Bell, Professor of Professional Practice; Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University

Program:

Introduction

Featuring Bruno Patino, Director of the School of Journalism, Sciences Po

Editorial contents for mobile

Featuring Julia Beizer, Editor of mobile projects at the Washington Post

Instantaneous video is the new Twitter for information

Featuring Michael Downing, President of Tout.com

Animated Gifs, a new form for storytelling

Featuring Scott Lamb, Editorial Director of Buzzfeed

Keynote conversation : How Buzzfeed is revolutionizing digital journalism

Discussion between Scott Lamb, Editorial Director of Buzzfeed, and Emily Bell, Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

Viability in born-digital news enterprises

Featuring Andrew Gruen, former journalist at CNet, BBC, and Ohmynews, researcher at Northwestern University and Cambridge University

Is entrepreneurial journalism the future of journalism?

Featuring Stéphane Distinguin, President of faberNovel

Looking for journalism among Big Data

Featuring Mark Hansen, Professeur of Statistics, Director of Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University

Top-trends in digital journalism

With Joshua Benton, Director of Nieman Lab

and more...

To register, please click here

December 5, 2012, 9:30am - 5:00pm, The Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (South of 118th Street), New York, NY 10027

The Future of the Western Liberal Order: The Case of Italy

A conference of the Transatlantic Academy and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University

With his November, 2011, resignation as Italy’s Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi made a formal, if not entirely complete, exit after dominating Italian politics since 1994. One year on, can the style and culture he brought to government over the past 15 years be said to have exited with him? Berlusconi oversaw a period in which Italy’s democratic procedures, already historically weak, saw marked deterioration. The country’s internal polarization, populist politics, culture of clientelism, structural economic weaknesses and regional imbalances and manipulation of the media, were all exacerbated under the Prime Minister. In the post-Berlusconi era, how are Italy’s structural problems being addressed, and what major challenges remain? To what extent is the Italian experience limited to Italy, and to what degree is this one case in a larger complex of issues and trends being confronted by other western democracies?

Participants and discussion topics:

Welcoming remarks

David Freedberg, Director of the Italian Academy and Pierre Matisse Professor of History of Art, Columbia University
Stephen Szabo, Executive Director, The Transatlantic Academy

The Berlusconi Legacy: How has Italy Changed and What Remains?

Bill Emmott, Former Editor of The Economist and Author of “Good Italy, Bad Italy”
James Newell, University of Salford, UK
Maurizio Molinari, U.S. Correspondent for La Stampa
Charles Sabel, Columbia Law School
Gianfranco Pasquino, Transatlantic Academy, Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center and the University of Bologna
Alexander Stille, Columbia University, Alliance Visiting Professor at Sciences Po 2013-2014

Italy in a Comparative Perspective: Leaders, Institutions, the Media and Populism

Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University, Alliance Visiting Professor at Sciences Po 2012-2013
Paolo Mancini, University of Perugia
Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Project Director, Freedom of the Press, Freedom House
Gábor Halmai, Transatlantic Academy and Princeton University
Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton University

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to [email protected].

Co-sponsored by the Alliance Program, the Transatlantic Academy, and the Italian Academy

December 4, 2012, 6:30PM, Consulate General of France, 934 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10021 (btw. 74th and 75th Streets)

Integration models and migratory policies in the US and in France

Both the United States and France are lands of immigration. However, the two countries have developed different relations with their immigrants’ communities. Given the political, economic and social challenges at stake, the two speakers will share a cross-analysis of the different integration models and migration policies enforced in France and the United States.

Muzaffar Chishti, a lawyer, is the director of Migration Policy Institute’s office at New York University School of Law. His work focuses on US immigration policy, the intersection of labor and immigration law, civil liberties, and immigrant integration. Prior to joining MPI, Mr. Chishti was Director of the Immigration Project of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees (UNITE). Mr. Chishti serves on the board of directors of the National Immigration Law Center, the New York Immigration Coalition, and the Asian American Federation. He has served as Chair of the board of directors of the National Immigration Forum, and as a member of the American Bar Association’s Coordinating Committee on Immigration.Mr. Chishti has authored many articles and testified extensively on immigration policy issues before various Congressional committees. He was educated at St. Stephen's College, Delhi; the University of Delhi; Cornell Law School; and the Columbia School of International Affairs.

Professor Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, educated at Sciences Po (Ph.D., HDR), is Associate Professor at the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University (New Jersey). She is also Senior Researcher affiliated to the Center for Political Research at Sciences Po Paris. Her research focuses on immigration, discrimination and security issues. She has taught at universities in France (Paris III-Sorbonne, the Columbia University and the University of Chicago Programs in Paris) and in the US (New York University, University of Pittsburgh). She published seven books and co-edited two books with Simon Reich entitled Immigration, Integration and Security: America and Europe in Comparative Perspective (2008) and Managing Ethnic Diversity After 9/11: Internal Security and Civil Liberties in Transatlantic Perspective (2010). Her last two recently published books are entitled Les Frontieres du Racisme (Presses de Sciences Po, 2011) and Frontiers of Fear: Immigration and Insecurity in the United States and Europe (Cornell University Press, 2012).

If you are not able to attend, you can follow the conference on Twitter: @ConsulFranceNYC

Please rsvp at [email protected]

This conference is cosponsored by Alliance Program at Columbia University

November 30, 2012, 9:30am - 4:30pm, International Affairs Building 402 B, Columbia University

Deconstructing and Reconstructing "Mother": Regulating Motherhood in International and Comparative Perspective

The Workshop on Deconstructing and Reconstructing ‘Mother’ explores ways in which, in different political and cultural contexts, definitions of motherhood are being challenged by the concomitant development of assisted reproductive technologies, globalized markets in reproductive services, gender neutralizing norms regarding parenthood, and the transnationalization of everyday life. The Workshop will provide a forum for interdisciplinary and comparative analysis.

Participants:

Wendy Chavkin
Yasmine Ergas
Ellen Chesler
Genevieve Fraisse
Suzanne Goldberg
Anne Higonnet
Helma Lutz
Jane Jenson
Alice Kessler-Harris
Robert Klitzman
Sonya Michel
Nara Milanich
Darren Rosenblum
Carol Sanger
Judith Shulevitz

Co-sponsored by the Alliance Program, the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, the Institute for Research on Woman Gender, Insitute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR), Presage, and Gender Policy Working Group at SIPA

November 29, 2012, 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Knox Hall 207, Columbia University

Citizenship and Consent: A Conversation between Genevieve Fraisse and Etienne Balibar

As concepts of citizenship are challenged not only by processes of globalization but also by renewed demands of recognition and rights, do our understandings of consent as an essential underpinning of democratic societies demand rethinking?

Etienne Balibar is currently a Visiting Professor with the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. He serves as Professor Emeritus of moral and political philosophy at Université de Paris X - Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Some of his recent publications include Europe, Constitution, Frontière (2005); L´Europe, l´Amérique, la Guerre. Réflexions sur la mediation européenne (2003); and Politics and the Other Scene (2002).

Genevieve Fraisse is a preeminent French feminist philosopher serving as Research Director at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris, France. She is the author of numerous publications, notably, "La Fabrique du féminisme, Textes et entretiens" (Le Passager clandestin, 2012); "A côté du genre, sexe et philosophie de l'égalité" (Le Bord de l'eau, 2010); and "Du Consentement" (Seuil, 2007).

Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Institute of African Studies, with the Maison Française, the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life.

November 28th to December 3rd, 2012, Columbia University

Genevieve Fraisse at Columbia University

Genevieve Fraisse is a Philosopher and the Research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research.

Author of numerous books, her work focuses on the history of the battle of the sexes from an epistemological and political viewpoint. Geneviève Fraisse has been an interministerial delegate on women's rights from 1997 to 1998 and a Member of European Parliament from 1999 to 2004, as an independent member of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left. She took the initiative of two parliamentary agendas, one on the performing arts, the other on women and sport. Since 2004, Geneviève Fraisse has also been a producer at France Culture (Europe ideas).

Geneviève Fraisse joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1983. She helped create the International College of Philosophy (1984). She was Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1990. A doctor, she has been director of research at CNRS since 1997 and visiting professor at Rutgers University (USA, 2000–2002). She was also president of the Scientific Committee of the Institut Emilie du Châtelet from 2006 to 2010.

For more information, please visit http://www.programme-presage.com/professeur/fiche/genevieve-fraisse.html

November 26th to November 27th, 2012, Columbia University

Marie Emmanuelle Pommerolle at the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University

Marie Emmanuelle Pommerolle is a Professor of Political Science at Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne and a member of the CESSP.

Her main research themes are centered around collective mobilization in an authoritarian context, collective action in Africa, and how democratic reforms are carried on the African continent. Most of her work focuses on Kenya and Cameroon. Between 2006 and 2009, she taught at Université des Antilles et de la Guyane. Since September 2009, she has been the co-editor in chief of the magazine Politique Africaine.

For more information, please visit http://www.univ-paris1.fr/centres-de-recherche/crps/membres/chercheurs-et-enseignants-chercheurs-titulaires/pommerolle-marie-emmanuelle/

November 14, 2012, 6:00PM - 8:00PM, Maison Française (Buell Hall), Columbia University

Algeria, History and Historiography, 1962-2012

A roundtable marking the 50-year anniversary of Algerian independence.

Roundtable participants:

Daho Djerbal, Professor of Modern History, University of Algiers-Bouzareah, Algeria, and editor of Naqd, Revue d’études et de critique sociale

Patricia Lorcin,  Professor of History, University of Minnesota

Todd Shepard,  Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University

Emmanuelle Saada, Associate Professor of French and History, Columbia

Noureddine Amara, Alliance Doctoral Mobility Fellow, Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne

Co-sponsored by Alliance Program

November 2, 2012, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Yale University

Pakistan: Politics at the Crossroads

Over simplified images are projecting Pakistan as a failed state in the grasp of the military/mollah combine and torn in ethnic strifes. Certainly, the Baluch «problem» and the impact of sectarianism cannot be underestimated. But the resilience of the rule of law and some strategic shift by the army should not be ignored. The coming elections may allow Imran Khan to project himself as an alternative to the «establishment» parties - but that may not make any difference if the army remains in power (without taking the risk of a coup), with the blessing of the US. Behind this stabilised façade of pseudo-democracy, the national unity is under attack. Peripheral regions like the FATA, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistani Kashmir have either de facto seceded or remain in the premises of the state in a subjugated position. The country’s socio-cultural fabric is also strained because of the growing assertiveness of the islamists - a multi-faceted group - at the expense of the minorities, including the Ahmadiyas.

Participants:

Mariam Mufti (University of Oklahoma)

Michael Semple (Harvard Kennedy School)

Laurent Gayer (CSH/CNRS, New Delhi/Paris)

Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po/Yale)

Mariam Abou Zahab (INALCO, Paris)

Alexander Evans (Yale University)

Shafqat Hussain (Trinity College)

Amelie Blom (Sciences Po/EHESS)

Sadia Saeed (Yale University)

K. Sivaramakrishnan (Yale University)

Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council and the Alliance Program at Columbia University, École Polytechnique, Sciences Po, and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. www.yale.edu/macmillan/southasia.

November 1, 2012, 4:00PM - 6:00PM, Knox Hall, Columbia University

Book Launch with Christophe Jaffrelot and Laurent Gayer: Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation

Christophe Jaffrelot is a Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS. His main areas of interest are the theories of nationalism and democracy, the mobilization of the lower castes and Dalits in India, the Hindu nationalist movement, and ethnic conflicts in Pakistan. He holds degrees from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP), the University of Paris I-Sorbonne, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) and a Ph.D. in political science.
He joined the CNRS in 1991, was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 1993, and became a senior research fellow in 2002. He served as director of CERI from 2000 to 2008. Jaffrelot directs four book series published by Fayard, Autrement, Hurst and Palgrave, where he was formerly editor-in-chief (1998-2003) and currently the director of Critique internationale, and a member of the steering committee of Aspen France and of the scientific councils of Südasien Institut, Heidelberg and IUED, Geneva. He chairs the Asia Group at the DGCID of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Among his other publications are Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste (New York/Columbia University Press; London/Hurst; New Delhi/Permanent Black, 2004), the co-edited India's Silent Revolution - The Rise of the Low Castes in North India (New York/Columbia University Press; London/Hurst; New Delhi/Permanent Black, 2003), and The BJP and the Compulsions of Politics in India (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001).
For more information, please visit http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/cherlist/jaffrelot.php.

Laurent Gayer is a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), currently posted at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) in New Delhi. He is also research associate at the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud in Paris. Laurent Gayer was the coordinator of the International Relations research programme of CSH between 2006 and 2008, before joining CNRS (CURAPP, Amiens). He has been affected by CNRS at CSH since October 2009. He is also a research associate at the Centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS) and a member of the scientific board of the online academic journal SAMAJ. He recently published a special issue of SAMAJ, coedited with I.Therwath, "Modern Achievers: Role Models in South Asia".

Karen Barkey, a Professor of Sociology and History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, will chair the talk.

Anupama Rao, Associate Professor at the Department of History at Barnard, will act as a discussant.

To register, please click here.

October 25-26, 2012, 56 rue Jacob, 75006 Paris, CERI-Sciences Po

U.S. 2012 Presidential Elections – GMF/CERI International Symposium

The panels discussion will focus both on domestic issues, including the likely determinants of the vote, the battle-ground states and the challenges faced by the candidates with the current economic crisis and on foreign affairs, with an analysis of the foreign policy debates that took place during the presidential campaign and the likely foreign policy that the next President will have to face.

Gregory Wawro, a professor of Political Science at Columbia University, will be on a panel discussing the topic "Is the U.S Political System Broken?". Prof. Wawro specializes in American politics (including Congress, elections, campaign finance, and political economy) and political methodology.

Denis Lacorne is a political scientist and Research Director at the CERI, where he started in 1982, after spending twelve years in the United States and two in Canada. He specializes in American political history.

More information about the event and other speakers will be posted shortly.

October 22, 2012, 4:00 - 6:00 PM, International Affairs Building, Room 1501, Columbia University

A conversation with H.E. François Delattre, Ambassador of France to the United States, on the current and future state of the Euro-American relations in times of crisis

François Delattre was appointed Ambassador of France to the United States in February 2011 after serving as Ambassador of France to Canada (2008-2011), Consul General in New York (2004-2008) and Press and Communications Director at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1998-2002). For more information, please visit http://ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article2155

Opening Remarks by Roxie Smith, Vice-Provost.

Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics will moderate the discussion.

In the presence of Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy and of all Alliance Program students and visiting professors.

Conclusive Remarks by Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and History Nicholas B. Dirks.

Refreshments will be served after the conference.

Seats are limited. More information on http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu.

To register, please click here or contact Lauranne BARDIN at [email protected].

Co-sponsored by the World Leaders Forum, SIPA, the Earth Institute, and the Maison Française.

October 19, 2012, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM, Maison Francaise, Buell Hall, Columbia University

A lecture with Richard Banégas : “Post-conflict” politics: Democratic Reconstruction and Political Violence in Côte d’Ivoire

Richard Banégas is professor of Political Science at Sciences Po specializing in the study of West Africa and the African Great Lakes region. He holds an MA from the IEP Bordeaux (1991), a PhD from Sciences Po Paris (1998) and the habilitation to supervise doctoral research (HDR) from the University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne (2006), where he was the Head of the African studies Master’s program for about 15 years and still codirects the Joint African Studies program with Columbia University.

A member of the International African Institute (London) and of the editorial board of the journal Politique africaine, he directs the Les Afriques book series at Karthala Publishers and is president of the Association des chercheurs de Politique africaine (ACPA). In addition to his research and teaching activities, he is the permanent consultant on Africa for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Policy Planning Unit.

His previous key research concentrated on democratization processes in Benin and Uganda and his current projects explore the issues of citizenship, violence and mobilization of the youth in West Africa, with a special focus on the Ivory Coast. His interests also include the topics of war, crisis resolution and post-conflict reconstruction.

Etienne Smith, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Columbia University Committee on Global Thought will moderate the discussion.

October 19, 2012, 10:00AM - 12:00 PM, CSO 19 rue Amélie, 75007 Paris

A seminar with David Stark: Peripheral Vision: cognitive networks in financial markets

David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. His most recent book, The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life, was published by Princeton University Press in 2009.  Stark studies how organizations and their members search for what is valuable.  Dissonance – disagreement about the principles of worth – can lead to discovery.  To study the organizational basis for innovation, he has carried out ethnographic field research in Hungarian factories before and after 1989, in new media start-ups in Manhattan before and after the dot.com crash, and in a World Financial Center trading room before and after the attack on September 11th.

For more information, please visit the CSO website at http://www.cso.edu/fiche_actu.asp?actu_id=1170.

Italian Academy, Columbia University

EDF-Alliance Executive Workshop 2012

The program for this event, hosted by the Alliance Program, features an exceptional array of talks by world-renowned professionals and academics. Leading experts in the fields of Economics, Environmental Law, Engineering, Sociology, Political Sciences, Architecture, Climatology and Computer Science will discuss the most pressing issues in the contemporary global socio-economic landscape. Special emphasis will be given to the current affairs in the United States.

The program for this event has been designed for The Alliance Program by Dr. Marta Vicarelli, Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale University Climate and Energy Institute.

The website for the 2012 conference is available here.

Videos and a complete list of the topics covered in the 2011 workshop is available here.

October 10, 2012, 6:00 - 7:30 PM, International Affairs Building, Room 1501, Columbia University

A discussion with Gérard Araud, French Ambassador to the United Nations, on the current situation in Syria

Gérard Araud is the Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations since 2009. He served between 2006 and 2009 as the Director General for Political Affairs and Security, deputy Secretary General of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was the president of the Security Council in February 2010, May 2011 and August 2012.

Opening Remarks by Robert C. Lieberman, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs.

Professor Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies History & MESAAS will moderate the discussion.

Seats are limited to Columbia Students.

To register, please click here

To see some photos of the event, please click here.

Co-sponsored by SIPA, UN Studies Program at SIPA, and the Middle East Institute.

October 5, 2012, 12:00PM, Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 IAB), Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Book Launch with Marie Mendras: Russian Politics: The Paradox of a Weak State

Marie Mendras is a political scientist in the field of Russian and post-Soviet studies. She is a research fellow with the CNRS and CERI, and a professor at Sciences Po University’s School of International Affairs in Paris. She is on the editorial board of journals Esprit (Paris) and Pro et Contra (Moscow) and is a member of the EU-Russia Centre in Brussels. At CERI, Marie Mendras conducts research on the Russian political system, elite behaviour and society. She runs the Observatoire de la Russie which organizes a seminar series and online publication of papers: Cahiers Russie - Russia Papers. For more information, please visit http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/cherlist/mendras.php.

Kimberly Marten, Professor of Political Sciences at Barnard College and Acting Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University will chair the talk and Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law will act as a discussant.

Co-sponsored with the Harriman Institute.

September 28, 2012, 10:00AM-1:00PM, Columbia University, International Affairs Building 1512

Columbia University / Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne Joint graduate workshop: The Third Atlantic Revolution: Hispanic America, 1810-1830

Presentations by Latin American historians from Columbia University and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Clément Thibaut, Université de Nantes, "Referencias norteamericanas y francesas en la revolución neogranadina (Colombia y Venezuela actuales)"

Geneviève Verdo, Université Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, "El imposible reparto del poder en el Río de la Plata"

Annick Lempérière, Université Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, "Los lugares del poder en la revolución chilena"

Comments by: Pablo Piccato, Director, Institute of Latin American Studies and Associate Professor at the Department of History, Columbia University and Jeremy Adelman,Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture, Professor of History and Director of the Council for International Teaching and Research at Princeton University.

Presentations will be in Spanish.

September 19 - 24, 2012, Columbia University

Professor Johanna Siméant at Columbia University

Johanna Siméant is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a Professor of Political Science at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (CESSP-CNRS). She specializes in political sociology. Her main research themes relate to mobilizations, humanitarian action and the internationalization of activism, focusing in particular on the forms of protests and activism present in Mali. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Genèses and has been on the editorial board of the Revue Française de Science Politique (2001-2009), where she still contributes to the Book Review.

For more information, please visit http://www.univ-paris1.fr/centres-de-recherche/crps-centre-de-recherches-politiques-de-la-sorbonne-umr-8057/membres/chercheurs-et-enseignants-chercheurs-titulaires/simeant-johanna/.

September 30 - October 9, 2012, and October 28 - November 8, 2012, Columbia University

Professor Christophe Jaffrelot at Columbia University

Christophe Jaffrelot is a Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS. His main areas of interest are the theories of nationalism and democracy, the mobilization of the lower castes and Dalits in India, the Hindu nationalist movement, and ethnic conflicts in Pakistan. He holds degrees from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP), the University of Paris I-Sorbonne, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) and a Ph.D. in political science.
He joined the CNRS in 1991, was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 1993, and became a senior research fellow in 2002. He served as director of CERI from 2000 to 2008. Jaffrelot directs four book series published by Fayard, Autrement, Hurst and Palgrave, where he was formerly editor-in-chief (1998-2003) and currently the director of Critique internationale, and a member of the steering committee of Aspen France and of the scientific councils of Südasien Institut, Heidelberg and IUED, Geneva. He chairs the Asia Group at the DGCID of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Among his other publications are Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste (New York/Columbia University Press; London/Hurst; New Delhi/Permanent Black, 2004), the co-edited India's Silent Revolution - The Rise of the Low Castes in North India (New York/Columbia University Press; London/Hurst; New Delhi/Permanent Black, 2003), and The BJP and the Compulsions of Politics in India (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001).
For more information, please visit http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/cherlist/jaffrelot.php.

September 28, 2012, 11:00AM-2:00PM, Columbia University

Beyond national history: State formation in transnational perspective (Alliance Joint Research Project 2011)

This joint graduate workshop will bring together the strengths of the departments of history at Columbia University and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Both institutions have a tradition of internationally recognized research and teaching in the history of Latin America, from its legal history and development of political processes to the social and cultural effects of migration on modern Latin American.

Annick Lempérière [bio] is a historian and professor at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Pablo Piccato [bio] is a professor at Columbia University who specializes in Mexican history.

September 24-25, 2012, Columbia Global Centers | Europe, Reid Hall, 4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris, Columbia University

Crisis: Greece, Europe, the World

A two-day international symposium at Columbia Global Centers | Europe covering the following topics:

Crisis and Cinema (Monday, Sept. 24, 6-9:30pm), screenings and conversations with Greek Filmmakers Constantine Giannaris and Sylla Tzoumerkas, moderated by Erato Basea (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, CGC|E)

What Happened to Labor? Global Perspectives (Tuesday, Sept. 25, 10-12pm), a panel discussion with Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam International Institute of Social History) and Kostis Karpozilos (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, CGC|E), moderated by Carol Gluck (Columbia University)

The Failure of Internation Institutions (Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2:30-4:30pm), a panel discussion with Jacques Delpla (Conseil d'Analyse Economique), Nikolas Kosmatopoulos (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, CGC|E), and Christopher Bickerton (Sciences Po Paris), moderated by Mark Mazower (Heyman Center, Columbia University)

For more information, please visit http://events.reidhall.com/?event=1347441964

This event is free and open to the public. Online registration is optional.

Co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities.

September 24, 2012, 5:00-6:30pm, Columbia University, Maison Francaise (Buell Hall), East Gallery

Daydreaming again about researching in Asia or interning in London? Maybe you have been promising yourself that France will be the next stamp on your passport. As a student of Columbia, you have a diverse array of opportunities to go abroad, whether for study, internships, research and/or fellowships. This event will present to you the various international programs available to students, with representatives from a variety of offices and programs across campus in a mini-fair style format.

The Alliance Program will be participating in the fair and provide information on internships exchange programs and dual degrees. CIE registration required : bit.ly/OK8MKY

Eligibility: Columbia College, School of Engineering and Applied Science, School of General Studies, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, School of Continuing Education,School of the Arts, and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

September 28, 2012, 12:30PM-3:30PM, Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall, Columbia University

Study Abroad Fair

The Alliance Program will be participating in the fair and present BA/MA, BS/MS and exchange program with Sciences Po, Ecole Polytechnique and Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne. No registration required.

Eligibility: Columbia College, School of Engineering and Applied Science, School of General Studies

September 21, 2012, 4:00-6:00pm, Columbia University, International Affairs Building 1512

Mali, from Democracy to Emergency
A Panel Discussion

Panelists:
Johanna Simeant (Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne), member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a Professor of Political Science at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (CESSP-CNRS). For more information, please visit http://www.univ-paris1.fr/centres-de-recherche/crps-centre-de-recherches-politiques-de-la-sorbonne-umr-8057/membres/chercheurs-et-enseignants-chercheurs-titulaires/simeant-johanna/.

Gregory Mann (Columbia University)

Bruce Whitehouse (Lehigh University)

September 6, 2012, 4:15-6:00 PM, Room 106, Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia University

The Arab Spring: Rule of Law in Transitional Settings, Libya, Tunisia and beyond

A discussion will be held with His Honour, Kamal Bashir Dhan, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Libya, and H.E. Said Mechichi, State Secretary for Reform, Ministry of the Interior of Tunisia
With Introductory remarks by Mr Jordan Ryan, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP
Chair: Prof Katharina Pistor

To RSVP, please send an email to Gabriel Pestre at [email protected].

Co-sponsored by the Office of United Nations Development Program, the Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy Faculty Student Intellectual Life Series, the Center on Global Legal Transformation and the Office of International Programs at Columbia Law School and the Middle East Institute.

September - December, 2012, Columbia University

Yann Toma at the Department of Visual Arts, Columbia University

Yann Toma Yann Toma is an artist and researcher at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He directs the research team Art&Flux, which takes a critical approach to study the ties between art, the economy, and society. Thanks to the recovery of items from the archives of the former electric company Ouest-Lumière in the early 1990’s, Toma discovered his own symbolic language in the form of an industrial infrastructure, which he made into his own territory and materials for his research. Even though Ouest-Lumière currently operates in diverse sectors, this was the first site for an immaterial network, which the artist built with patience, in an underground web founded on the concept of memory. The recovery, just as the artistic renewal of the company, is part of a global movement that combines the concepts of gratuity and responsibility. Today, it represents a powerful influence made up of thousands of people. Above all, Yann Toma presents the Ouest-Lumière company as a symbol of a public logic based on intervention and expansion of its capital. The same essence of his work draws on the territory of memories and of energy. The artwork of Yann Toma can be found in numerous collections. In particular, his work is part of the Centre Georges Pompidou collection. Yann Toma is represented in France by Patricia Dorfmann Gallery, Paris and in Germany by Bourouina Gallery, Berlin. For more information, please visit http://cerap.univ-paris1.fr/spip.php?rubrique68&lang=en.

Course: Democracy, Citizenship and Leadership in Africa

Fall 2012
Monday 11:00-12:50pm, Columbia University

This collaborative course in African Studies combines the expertise of professors from Columbia University and two top universities in Paris, Sciences Po and Paris 1 Sorbonne, to explore key notions of democracy and leadership in African contexts. Topics include the current crisis in the Sahel, centered on Mali; violent conflict; citizenship and democracy; leadership and statecraft; state construction in post conflict settings including Ivory Coast, Uganda, Somalia and Congo-DRC; the politics of human rights and foreign intervention. Students will learn about these topics through intensive case discussion on African contexts offered by leading experts at Columbia, Science Po, and Paris 1 Sorbonne, including Séverine Autesserre, Richard Banégas, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Gregory Mann, Roland Marchal, Sandrine Perrot, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, Etienne Smith and Johanna Siméant. Through reading, writing, and interactive assignments, students will learn about country and region specific examples and begin to draw comparisons among various African contexts.

Course: Monthly DD Practicum organized by Mona Khalidi

Fall 2012
First seminar: September 13th, 2012, 409 International Affairs Building, Columbia University

The first seminar in the DD Practicum will host Professor and Dean Robert Lieberman, who will address issues of Global Public Policy and dialogue with students.