Events
Cosponsors
- Maison Française
- College International de Philosophie
- Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
This conference on “Thinking with Balibar” will explore the influence of Etienne Balibar's work, not paying tribute to Étienne Balibar per se, but showing how certain concepts, arguments, and methods that he applies in his work can be and are being used by scholars in different fields working on crucial issues of our time. The conference will thus be inspired by his work instead of being on is work. It marks the third and last year of Étienne Balibar's stint as a Visiting Professor at Columbia in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and Department of French. He will also be speaking at the conference.
This conference follows and builds on a one-day workshop called "Pourquoi Balibar" that was organized in Paris on January 17, 2014 by the Collège International de Philosophie (Étienne Balibar is a member of its Scientific Board) after he published several important books in recent years – Violence et civilité and La Proposition de l'égaliberté in 2011 (the latter now translated as Equaliberty: Political Essays), Citoyen sujet et autres essais d'anthropologie philosophique in 2011, and Saeculum: culture, religion, idéologie in 2011. This conference will further develop these analyses, bringing together some of the participants from the Paris meeting with other scholars working in the U.S.
Program
November 13, 2014 Thursday
2:00pm - 2:15pm EDT
Opening Remarks by Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Diogo Sardinha
2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Roundtable and Discussion: Anthropology and Politics
Moderator
Shanny Peer
Director of Maison Française
Columbia University
Democracy and Sovereignty
Jean Cohen
Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Political Theory and Contemporary Civilization
Columbia University
Political Anthropology
Stathis Gourgouris
Professor of Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Hegemony and Ideology
Frédéric Neyrat
Lecturer in Comparative Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:45pm - 4:35pm EDT
The Subject in Translation
Moderator
Marie Gaille
Head of Research (CR1) and Doctor of Philosophy - CNRS
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
John Rajchman
Adjunct Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Columbia University
4:35pm - 5:00pm EDT
Break I
5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Declarations and the Meanings of Revolutions
Moderator
Marie Gaille
Head of Research (CR1) and Doctor of Philosophy - CNRS
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Gabriel Rockhill
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Villanova University
6:15pm - 8:00pm EDT
Can we say: After the Subject Comes the Stranger?
Introduction
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Professor of French
Columbia University
Etienne Balibar
Visiting Professor of French and Romance Philology
Columbia University
November 14, 2014 Friday
9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Welcome and Introduction
10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Consciousness Against the Common: Balibar’s Reading of Locke
Moderator
Lydia Goehr
Professor of Philosophy
Columbia University
Warren Montag
Brown Family Professor in Literature, English and Comparative Literary Studies
Occidental College
10:50am - 11:40am EDT
The Violence of Anthropology
Moderator
Lydia Goehr
Professor of Philosophy
Columbia University
Diogo Sardinha
President
Collège International de Philosophie, Paris
11:40am - 12:00pm EDT
Break I
12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Body, Health, Life and Death in Medical Decision: A ‘Worksite’ for Democracy
Moderator
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Professor of French
Columbia University
Marie Gaille
Head of Research (CR1) and Doctor of Philosophy - CNRS
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Break II
2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Politeia. Violence, Alliance, Recognition: Reflections on the Political in Dialogue with Etienne Balibar
Moderator
Diogo Sardinha
President
Collège International de Philosophie, Paris
Marcel Hénaff
Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology
University of California at San Diego
2:50pm - 3:40pm EDT
Relations
Moderator
Diogo Sardinha
President
Collège International de Philosophie, Paris
Jacques Lezra
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature
New York University
3:40pm - 4:00pm EDT
Break III
4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Roundtable and Discussion: Equaliberty
Moderator
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Professor of French
Columbia University
Akeel Bilgrami
Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy
Columbia University
Sudipta Kaviraj
Professor, Indian Politics and Intellectual History
Columbia University
Bruce Robbins
Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Columbia University
Lawrence D. Kritzman
John D. Willard Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Dartmouth College
Participants
- Etienne Balibar Visiting Professor of French and Romance Philology Columbia University
- Akeel Bilgrami Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy Columbia University
- Jean Cohen Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Political Theory and Contemporary Civilization Columbia University
- Souleymane Bachir Diagne Professor of French Columbia University
- Marie Gaille Head of Research (CR1) and Doctor of Philosophy - CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Lydia Goehr Professor of Philosophy Columbia University
- Stathis Gourgouris Professor of Comparative Literature Columbia University
- Marcel Hénaff Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology University of California at San Diego
- Sudipta Kaviraj Professor, Indian Politics and Intellectual History Columbia University
- Lawrence D. Kritzman John D. Willard Professor of French and Comparative Literature Dartmouth College
- Jacques Lezra Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature New York University
- Warren Montag Brown Family Professor in Literature, English and Comparative Literary Studies Occidental College
- Frédéric Neyrat Lecturer in Comparative Literature University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Shanny Peer Director of Maison Française Columbia University
- John Rajchman Adjunct Professor of Art History and Archaeology Columbia University
- Bruce Robbins Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities Columbia University
- Gabriel Rockhill Associate Professor of Philosophy Villanova University
- Diogo Sardinha President Collège International de Philosophie, Paris