"Habitar los territorios de la espera, una nueva dimensión de la geografía social" - Alain Musset , EHESS. Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF), Tijuana, Mexico Video
On Wednesday, September 2, 2015, a book review of two recent works by Prof. Alessandro Stanziani (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences/École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) was held at the Institute for Advanced Studies...
Pierre Bourdieu constituted the sociology of culture as a specialty of the sociological discipline at a time when “Cultural Studies” were just emerging and when culture was becoming a site of public intervention. As a specific research domain, the...
In a time when critique is considered by some to be running out of steam and is disqualified by others in the name of a triumphant positivism, anthropology may have to reclaim its various critical traditions, including that of self-critique, to...
En esta conferencia el doctor Schaub , de la Escuela de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de París se referirá a cómo 1492 marcó el deseo de unidad cristiana en momento en que la sociedad española se colocó en la vanguardia del...
Sylvie-Anne Goldberg , EHESS-Paris, gave a talk entitled, Yizkor: Communal Memory in the Middle Ages . During the Middle Ages, the Jews of Europe developed memorial techniques that enabled them to overcome the loss of their dead: lists of the...
Gender is both cause and effect in migration. Gendered migration roles have been constructed by states, labor markets, and the actors themselves. Focusing on the United States and France, two major countries to which immigrants have moved from all...
Australian cultures have often been used to illustrate the complexities and the formalized nature that human social organization can reach through approaches that underline social symmetry and boundedness. This lecture will show that the latter are...
Abenomics initially generated high expectations, but the mood has currently shifted to present it as another failed economic experiment. Opinions on Abenomics are however often closed to caricatures. It is thus crucial to provide a critical and...
Valeria Siniscalchi will present a lecture on “ Environment, Regulation and the Moral Economy of F ood in the Slow Food Movement ” (5:30 pm-7pm, Herter 101) in the seminar of Jacqueline Urla "Culture, Politics, and Heritage in Europe » (Departement...
Sébastien LECHEVALIER (EHESS), Karen SHIRE (University of Duisburg-Essen), Nathalie MOREL (Sciences Po), Bruno PALIER (Sciences Po), OCHIAI Emiko (Kyoto University), YAN Chengnan (Niigata University), Stéphane HEIM (Kyoto University), OCHIAI Emiko (...
The lectures illustrate and discuss the opportunities and the dangers inherent in digitizing research in the social sciences and humanities. A discussion of Derrida’s Mal d’Archives and the critique of contemporary digital ontologies will lead to...