Provided my son continues to get better *fingers crossed* I will be going to NYC for a workshop being held at NYU. I am excited. It looks like it will be very interesting and it is open to the public. They request that you attend the whole thing though. I am not finding a website for the workshop/organized/etc so the details are below:
PDF for the workshop can be downloaded here: http://econ.as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/10554/workshop_march_20093.pdf
Memory, Translation, and the Transmission of Knowledge Inaugural Workshop of the new NYU-CNRS research center, March 5-6
The Center seeks to explore the diversity of systems of thought and knowledge in the world and in different eras, the modes through which knowledge is constituted and/or institutionalized, the interaction or isolation, and the permeability or conflictuality of cultures.
The Center’s focus is the relations between universal and differential cultures, systems of knowledge and understanding; across disciplines, it will promote research on the translatability of systems, the transmission and transformation of cultures, concepts and theories. The plurality of histories and languages, as well as the complexities of memory, consciousness and its philosophical accounts, will also form part of our initial projects.
Thursday, March 5th
Venue: CIRHUS conference room, 4 Washington Square North
9:30 am : Welcome Address
Bruno Laurioux, Director of Institute of Humanities and Social sciences, CNRS
Richard Foley, Dean of Faculty of Arts and Science
9:45: Introduction: Emilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas (CNRS), Edward Berenson (NYU), Christophe J. Goddard (CNRS)
10: 00 am to 12: 00 pm: Memory and memorialisation; chair: Edward Berenson (NYU)
- Cliff Chanin (Senior Advisor, September 11 National Memorial Museum)
- Denis Peschanski (CNRS) and Ed Berenson (NYU): “History and Memory”
- Joseph Ledoux (NYU): “Memory, emotion and the brain”
- F. de Vignemont (CNRS), Ned Block (NYU) : “Memory Inside and Out”
- Brigitte Sion (NYU): “Performing memory”
12:00 to 12:30 pm: Discussion
12:30 to 1:30 pm: LUNCH
1:30 p.m. to 3:00 pm: Transmissions and religions; chair: Randall White (NYU)
- Randall White (NYU): “The dialogue with the caves”: religion and the underground in Paleolithic France
- Christophe Goddard (CNRS): “Questioning syncretism and religious transitions: the Syrian Sanctuary in Rome and its recent archaeological discoveries (2005-2007)”
- Stefania Capone (CNRS): “Rethinking Religious Change: Transnationalism, Divination Practices, Ritual Borrowings “
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm: Discussion
3:30 pm to 4:00 pm: Coffee break
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm: Postcolonial theory: chair Robert Young (NYU)
- Robert Young (NYU); Cliff Siskin (NYU); Emilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas (CNRS): “Postcolonialism and Re:Enlightenment: An Experiment in Reconstituting knowledge.”
- Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS): “Knowledge and the ‘subaltern’: the dalit question as a contrapuntal exploration of postcolonialism.”
- Frederic Regard (CNRS-University Paris 4-Sorbonne): “Sir Richard Francis Burton, the ‘Amateur Barbarian’”.
5:30 pm to 6 pm: Discussion
Friday, March 6
Venue: CIRHUS conference room, 4 Washington Square North
9:30 am to 11:30 am
Translation and translatability chair: Barbara Cassin (CNRS)
- Barbara Cassin (CNRS), Emily Apter (NYU), Jacques Lezra (NYU): “Translating the Untranslatable”
- Muriel Debie (CNRS), Roger Bagnall (NYU): “Bilingualism in the Ancient Mediterranean area”
- Anca Vasiliu (CNRS): “The slippery semantics of ‘image’ in late Antiquity”
11:30 am to 12:00: Discussion
12 am to 1:30 pm: LUNCH
1:30 pm to 2:15 pm: Photography and film, visualization and transmission: chair Jean-Loup Bourget (ENS-CNRS)
- Jean-Loup Bourget (ENS-CNRS): “Fritz Lang from Berlin to Hollywood”
- Didier Aubert (CNRS – University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle) : “Pictures against the picturesque – photography and Americanization in the early 20th-century”
2:15 pm to 2:45 pm: Discussion
2:45 pm to 3 pm: Coffee break
3:00 pm to 3:45 pm: Slavery, slaveries
- Frederique de Vignemont (CNRS) : “Habeas Corpus ; the sense of ownership of one’s body”
- Myriam Cottias (CNRS) : “Connected slaveries: the stakes for modern history”
3:45 pm to 4:15 pm: Discussion
4:30 pm: Conclusion of workshop: John Sexton, President of New York University Bruno Laurioux, Director of Institute of Humanities and Social sciences, CNRS
5:15 PM: Ground floor auditorium, 19 University Place
Screening of the film Tropiques Amers, the first cinematic treatment of slavery in French colonies ever shown on French television. Myriam Cottias, author of the film’s screenplay, will be with us for this special event.
7:00 PM: Reception. 19 University Place, Great Room.