Tuesday, October 18, 7:00 p.m.

Cusset_hk_.jpg?width=142FRANÇOIS CUSSET
Professor, Université de Paris X; author of Queer Critics; French Theory; La Décennie; Contre-Discours de Mai

The Feedback Story: American Theory Travels to France

Cusset examines the belated opening of France's intellectual world to American authors and concepts over the last ten years.

Professor of American Studies at the University of Paris Ouest, François Cusset is the former director of the French Publishers' Agency in New York City . He is the author of several books including the widely acclaimed French Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). His book Queer Critics was recently translated as The Inverted Gaze: Queering the French Literary Classics in America (Arsenal Pulp Press).


Wednesday, October 19, 7:00 p.m.

**Newly Added Event co-sponsored with the NYU Department of Comparative Literature.**

4809.jpg?width=120ETIENNE BALIBAR
Distinguished Professor, French & Italian and Comparative Literature, School of Humanities
UC Irvine; Past and current research subjects include: philosophical anthropology (the subject and the citizen), Extreme Violence and the problem of civility, Politics as War and War as Politics, Individuality and transindividuality, Borders and the representation of the stranger, universalism and cosmopolitics, etc.

Bourgeois Universality & Anthropological Differences
There will also be a presentation/discussion with Jacques Lezra on Professor Balibar's new book from PUF publications: Citoyen sujet et autres essais d'anthropologie philosophique (Citizen Subjects and Other Essays of Philosophical Anthropology).


Thursday, October 20, 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Institute of French Studies

crapanzano.jpg?width=126VINCENT CRAPANZANO
Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Among his books are Tuhami: A Portrait of a Moroccan; Serving the Word: American Literalism from the Pulpit to the Bench; Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology; The Harkis: The Wound that Never Heals

The Harkis: The Wound That Never Heals

A quarter of a million Algerians, mostly illiterate peasants, fought on the side of France during Algeria's war of independence, less for political reasons than to survive in a war-torn country. Despite warnings of an imminent bloodbath by the officers under whom the Harkis, served, the Gaulist government refused them entry into France. Tens of thousand were massacred by other Algerians in the months following independence. Finally the French government relinquished. Survivors were brought to France where they were placed in camps, some for as long as sixteen years. Condemned as traitors by Algeria, branded "collabos" by Algerian immigrant workers, and scorned by the French, the Harkis became a population apart, lost for the most part in themselves Their children bear the wounds of their fathers...

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