Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society
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Past Events
Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Future of French Youth
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Sponsors:
Exclusion and Inclusion in an Expanded Europe;
The Future of France Series;
Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society
Contact:
Eleni Arzoglou,
leli.arzoglou@gmail.com
Discussant: Professor Michele Lamont, Sociology Department, Harvard
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Colonial Continuities in the French Caribbean: an Economic Perspective on the 2009 Social Movement
Guy Numa
- Assistant Professor, Université Paris Dauphine
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Sponsors:
Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society;
Exclusion and Inclusion in an Expanded Europe
Contact:
Professor Laura Frader,
l.frader@neu.edu
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Jews, Catholics, and the Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism in the Age of the French Kulturkampf, 1870-1886
Vicki Caron
- Cornell University and currently fellow of Radcliffe Institute,
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Sponsors:
Jews in Modern Europe;
Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society
Contact:
Professor Phyllis Albert,
phyllisalbert@gmail.com
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Paradoxical Lives: Nostalgia, Modernity and Race in European Women’s Writing in Colonial Algeria
Patricia Lorcin
- Professor of History, University of Minnesota
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Sponsors:
Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society;
Gender, Politics, and Society
Contact:
Professor Laura Frader,
l.frader@neu.edu
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Sex, Love, and Letters: Reading Simone de Beauvoir 1949-1963
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Sponsors:
Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society;
Gender, Politics, and Society
Contact:
Professor Laura Frader,
l.frader@neu.edu
Pre-circulated paper available at:
<a href="http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/papers/Coffin_Reading_Simone_de_Beauvoir.pdf">http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/papers/Coffin_Reading_Simone_de_Beauvoir.pdf</a>
<a href="http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/papers/Coffin_Reading_Simone_de_Beauvoir.pdf">http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/papers/Coffin_Reading_Simone_de_Beauvoir.pdf</a>
Monday, March 9, 2009
Europe and the Global Economic Crisis
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
Sponsors:
Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society;
Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society
Contact:
Jason Beerman,
beerman@fas.harvard.edu
Moderated by Herrick Chapman
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Black Condition in France
Pap Ndiaye
- Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Sponsor:
Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society
Contact:
Professor Mary Lewis,
mdlewis@fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Values, Equality, and Differences in Liberal Democracies: Muslim Headscarves in Europe
Eleni Varikas
- Université de Paris VIII and Birte Siim, Aalborg University, Denmark
Birte Siim - Professor, Institute for History, International and Social Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Michele Lamont - Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African American Stud, Harvard
Birte Siim - Professor, Institute for History, International and Social Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Michele Lamont - Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African American Stud, Harvard
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
Sponsors:
Gender, Politics, and Society;
Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society
Contact:
Professor Laura Frader,
l.frader@neu.edu
Monday, November 3, 2008
Religion and Rivalry: Catholicism, Islam, and French Rule in Senegal, 1890-1900
Elizabeth Foster
- Professor of History, Bates College
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Sponsor:
Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society
Contact:
Professor Judith Surkis,
surkis@fas.harvard.edu
Darrin McMahon
Affiliations
Ben Weider Professor of History, Florida State University
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Wolfgang Streeck
Affiliations
Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society
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Louise Cainkar
Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University
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Eloi Laurent
Affiliations
Visiting Scholar, CES
Yuri Vedenyapin
Affiliations
Preceptor in Yiddish, Harvard University
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Lukasz Wardyn
Affiliations
Visiting Scholar, CES
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James Mahoney
Affiliations
Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Northwestern University
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James Raymo
Affiliations
Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jonathan Faull
Affiliations
Director General for Justice, Freedom, Security, European Commission
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Jean-Claude Piris
Affiliations
Director General of the Legal Service, Council of the European Union
Joseph Weiler
Affiliations
University Professor, Joseph Straus Professor of Law and European Union Jean Monnet Chair at NYU Sch
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Ahmet Kuru
Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
Biography
Assistant Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
Adam Kirsch
Affiliations
Contributing editor to Harvard Magazine, regular contributor to The New Yorker and The Times Literary Supplement
Tristram Hunt
Affiliations
Lecturer on Modern British History, Queen Mary University of London
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Eloi Laurent
Affiliations
Visiting Scholar, CES
Tristram Hunt
Affiliations
Lecturer on Modern British History, Queen Mary University of London
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Penny Sinanoglou
Affiliations
Instructor, History and Literature, Harvard University
Mark Bevir
Affiliations
Professor of Political Science, University of California-Berkeley
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Leopold Engleitner
Affiliations
survivor of Ravensbruck, Buchenwald, and Niederhagen
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Odile Quintin
Affiliations
Director General for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, European Commission
Biography
Director General for Education and Culture at the European Commission
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TBA
Jan Sokol
Affiliations
Former Czech Minister of Education, and first dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague
Eloi Laurent
Affiliations
Visiting Scholar, CES
Arthur Goldhammer
Affiliations
Affiliate, CES
Guy Numa
Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Université Paris Dauphine
Leen Vandecasteele
Affiliations
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research
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Petra Boehnke
Affiliations
Visiting Scholar, CES
Senior Research Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin
Francoise Picq
Affiliations
Professor, University of Paris IX Dauphine
Patricia Thane
Affiliations
Professor, University of London
Zita Gurmai
Affiliations
President, PES (Party of European Socialists) Women
Member, European Parliament
TBA
Margaret Somers
Affiliations
Professor of Sociology and History, University of Michigan
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Serge Paugam
Affiliations
Professor of Sociology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Nacira Guenif-Souilamas
Abdoulaye Gueye
Affiliations
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa
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Patrick Weil
Affiliations
Director of Research, CNRS; Director of the Center for the Study of Immigration, Integration and Cit
Edmond Preteceille
Affiliations
Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies at Harvard University
Observatoire Sociologique du Changement, Sciences Po-CNRS, Paris
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Peter Pulzer
Affiliations
Emeritus Gladstone Professor of Government and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
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Francoise Picq
Affiliations
Professor, University of Paris IX Dauphine
Patricia Thane
Affiliations
Professor, University of London
Zita Gurmai
Affiliations
President, PES (Party of European Socialists) Women
Member, European Parliament
Furio Cerutti
Affiliations
Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Florence, Co-editors of: The Search for a European Identity: Values, Policies
Sonia Lucarelli
Affiliations
Senior Researcher and Lecturer, University of Bologna, Co-editors of: The Search for a European Identity: Values, Policies
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Christopher Bickerton
Affiliations
Lecturer in International Relations, University of Oxford
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Jolyon Howorth
Affiliations
Professor of Internatinal Relations, Yale University
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Baroness Elizabeth Barker of Anagach
Affiliations
Spokesperson, Health for the Liberal Democrats in the Lords
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ChaeRan Freeze
Affiliations
Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and Graduate Chair of Women\'s and Gender Studie, Brandeis University
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Francoise Picq
Affiliations
Professor, University of Paris IX Dauphine
Patricia Thane
Affiliations
Professor, University of London
Zita Gurmai
Affiliations
President, PES (Party of European Socialists) Women
Member, European Parliament
Susanne Baer
Affiliations
Professor of Law, Director of the Gender Competence Center, Humboldt University
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Maria Bustelo
Affiliations
Professor of Political Science, Complutense University
Myra Ferree
Affiliations
Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for German and European Studies, University of Wisconsin
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Emanuela Lombardo
Affiliations
Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Complutense University
Mieke Verloo
Affiliations
Professor Verloo, Professor at the Nijmegen School of Management, University of Nijmegen, Research D
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Mona Krook
Affiliations
Visiting Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Political Science and Women and Gender Studies, Washington University
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Eleni Varikas
Affiliations
Université de Paris VIII and Birte Siim, Aalborg University, Denmark
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Birte Siim
Affiliations
Professor, Institute for History, International and Social Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark
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Michele Lamont
Affiliations
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African American Stud, Harvard
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Alan Steinweiss
Affiliations
Professor of History; Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont
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Stuart Liebman
Affiliations
member of the Ph.D. Faculties of Art History and Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
Professor of Film and Media Studies, Queens
Biography
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Claus Leggewie
Affiliations
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee to the German Federal Government on Global Environmental Changes (WBGU)
Director, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (KWI)
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Robert Stavins
Affiliations
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School
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Malachi Hacohen
Affiliations
Associate Professor and Bass Fellow, History, Political Science and Religion, Duke University
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Thomas Lekan
Affiliations
Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina
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Mark Roseman
Affiliations
Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University
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Stathis Kalyvas
Affiliations
Director, Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence Yale University
Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Michael Caramanis
Affiliations
College of Engineering, and untill recently Chairman of the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE), G, Boston University
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Alexandros Yannis
Affiliations
Karamanlis Chair of Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts University, and EU Council, Brussels
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Mr. Mehmet Ögutcu
Affiliations
honorary fellow, London School of Economics and the University of Dundee
senior executive, BG Group, London
Gelina Harlaftis
Affiliations
Professor of History, Ionion University, Greece
Alfred Chandler, Jr.
Affiliations
Visiting International Scholar, Harvard Business School
Warren Breckman
Affiliations
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
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Darrin McMahon
Affiliations
Ben Weider Professor of History, Florida State University
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Professor Daniel Rodgers
Affiliations
Professor, Princeton University
Dominick Lacapra
Affiliations
Bryce and Edith Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies, Cornell University
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Detlev Claussen
Affiliations
Journalist and a Professor of Social Theory, Culture, and Sociology, University of Hanover
Malachi Hacohen
Affiliations
Associate Professor and Bass Fellow, History, Political Science and Religion, Duke University
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Paul Friedland
Affiliations
Associate Professor of History, Bowdoin College, Visiting Scholar at CES
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J.G.A. Pocock
Affiliations
Harry C. Black emeritus professor, Johns Hopkins University
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Mark Bevir
Affiliations
Professor of Political Science, University of California-Berkeley
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Sarah Maza
Biography
Jane Long Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University
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Quentin Skinner
Affiliations
Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London
Visiting Scholar, CES
Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, University of Cambridge
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Ann Swidler
Affiliations
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
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James Mahoney
Affiliations
Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Northwestern University
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Wolfgang Streeck
Affiliations
Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society
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James Fowler
Affiliations
Department of Political Science, University of California at San Diego
Noam Lupu
Affiliations
Department of Politics, Princeton University
Jonas Pontusson
Affiliations
Department of Politics, Princeton University
Ben Schneider
Affiliations
Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University and M.I.T.
Lucio Bacarro
Affiliations
Maurice F. Strong Assistant Professor, Sloan School, M.I.T.
Torben Iversen
Affiliations
H.H. Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard
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Melani Cammett
Affiliations
Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Brown University
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Graham Watt
Affiliations
Norie Miller Professor of General Practice, Glasgow University
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Lucy Barnes
Affiliations
Program on Inequality and Social Policy, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
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Baroness Elizabeth Barker of Anagach
Affiliations
Spokesperson, Health for the Liberal Democrats in the Lords
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Diego Palacios Cerezales
Affiliations
Professor of Political Science, Complutense University, Madrid
Filipe Carreira Da Silva
Affiliations
ICS-University of Lisbon
Jose Marmol
Affiliations
Visiting Scholar at Princeton University, and Professor Universidad Pompeu Fabra
Sasha Pack
Affiliations
Ph.D, Assistant Professor of History
Roberto Garvia
Affiliations
Professor at the Departamento de Sociología y Ciencia Política, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Pr, Georgetown University
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Ahmet Kuru
Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
Biography
Assistant Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
Jytte Klausen
Affiliations
Professor of Comparative Politics, Brandeis University
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Jocelyne Cesari
Affiliations
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
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Jane Smith
Affiliations
Senior Lecturer in Divinity and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Divinity School
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Liyakat Takim
Affiliations
Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver
Chandra Muzaffar
Biography
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar is the President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), a human rights advocacy organization in Malaysia that \\\"seeks to raise public consciousness on the moral and intellectual basis of global justice.\\\" Prior to his work with JUST, Muzaffar founded a multiethnic reform coalition, Aliran Kesedaran Negara (National Consciousness Movement), which served to raise awareness for issues surrounding ethnic relations in Malaysia.
A political scientist, Dr. Muzaffar’s academic works have focused largely on the issues of civilizational dialogue and the crossroads between religion and human rights. It was in pursuit of these goals that Dr. Muzaffar served as the first director of the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue at the University of Malaysia. Having written 18 books and hundreds of journal articles on Malaysian politics and international relations, Dr. Muzaffar most recently published Human Rights & the New World Order and Muslims, Dialogue, Terror. He is also the recipient of the Harry J. Benda Prize for distinguished scholarship on Southeast Asia from the Association of Asian Studies, North America.
Louise Cainkar
Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University
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Nacira Guenif-Souilamas
Jocelyne Cesari
Affiliations
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
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Dr. Gregory Smith
Affiliations
Research Fellow, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Adam Kirsch
Affiliations
Contributing editor to Harvard Magazine, regular contributor to The New Yorker and The Times Literary Supplement
Alan Steinweiss
Affiliations
Professor of History; Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont
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Joanna Michlic
Affiliations
Affiliate, Center for European Studies, Harvard
Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust, Brandeis University
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Stuart Liebman
Affiliations
member of the Ph.D. Faculties of Art History and Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
Professor of Film and Media Studies, Queens
Biography
External Link
ChaeRan Freeze
Affiliations
Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and Graduate Chair of Women\'s and Gender Studie, Brandeis University
External Link
Yuri Vedenyapin
Affiliations
Preceptor in Yiddish, Harvard University
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Vicki Caron
Affiliations
Cornell University and currently fellow of Radcliffe Institute
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Malachi Hacohen
Affiliations
Associate Professor and Bass Fellow, History, Political Science and Religion, Duke University
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Joshua Rubenstein
Affiliations
Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
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Rakefet Zalashik
Affiliations
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
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Guy Numa
Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Université Paris Dauphine
Vicki Caron
Affiliations
Cornell University and currently fellow of Radcliffe Institute
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Arthur Goldhammer
Affiliations
Affiliate, CES
Eleni Varikas
Affiliations
Université de Paris VIII and Birte Siim, Aalborg University, Denmark
External Link
Birte Siim
Affiliations
Professor, Institute for History, International and Social Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark
External Link
Michele Lamont
Affiliations
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African American Stud, Harvard