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East Gallery, Buell Hall
Maison Francaise, College international de philosophie, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and Heyman Center for the Humanities
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 celebrates three years of Étienne Balibar’s participation in the intellectual community at Columbia as a Visiting Professor in the Department of French and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS).
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.
RSVP here to register for the full conference.
RSVP here to attend the talk by Etienne Balibar on November 13 at 6:15 p.m.
