Tuesday, November 15, 8:00 p.m. (note time)
Co-sponsored by Institute of African American Affairs


Le Printemps arabe

MeddebABDELWAHAB MEDDEB
Novelist; essayist; award-winning French-language poet; professor of comparative literature, Université de Paris X; radio producer, “Cultures d’Islam” (France Culture); author of La Maladie de l’Islam (Prix François Mauriac); Pari de civilization; Printemps de Tunis


"Printemps arabe : Célébrons ce moment qui reste révolutionnaire : des peuples rencontrent la liberté le 14 janvier en Tunisie, le 11 février en Egypte. C'est inaugural. Mais le temps politique n'est pas tout à fait synchrone avec le temps historique. Le passage de la dictature à la démocratie n'est pas mécanique. C'est dans la séquence différée que s'éprouve la liberté nouvellement acquise, celle qui s'est substituée à la servitude."

 

In French.



CONFERENCE

Sponsored by NYU/CNRS UMI “Transitions”

Friday & Saturday, November 18-19


In the Tracks of Memory


Friday, November 18

9:30 a.m.: Introduction
Edward Berenson
, co-director, NYU/CNRS UMI “Transitions”; Clifford Chanin, National September 11 Memorial and Museum; Denis Pechanski, CNRS; Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Mémorial de Caen

  10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Children and Traumatic Memory
Chair:
Edward Berenson
Henry Parens
, Psychiatrist; Daniella Doran, Colgate University; Jack Saul, Columbia University

2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Memory and Its Discontents
Chair:
Denis Pechanski
Katherine Fleming
, NYU; Ophelia Deroy, London; Adam Brown, NYU School of Medicine


Saturday, November 19

9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Archaeology of Memory; Archaeology of Death
Chair:
Stéphane Grimaldi
Father Patrick Desbois
, Yahad-In Unum; Mark Schaming, NY State Museum; Francesc Torres; Brigitte Sion

2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Diplomacy, Memory, and the State: A Roundtable Discussion
Chair:
Clifford Chanin
Antonin Baudry
, Cultural Counselor, French Embassy; Inigo Ramirez de Haro, Cultural Counselor, Spanish Embassy; Others to be announced

Concluding Remarks
Carol Gluck
, Columbia University

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