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Eleonora Bottini
Eleonora Bottini is currently an Associate Professor of Public Law (maître de conférences) at the Sorbonne Law School. She specializes in Constitutional Law and General Legal Theory. Professor Bottini has taught French public law (administrative and constitutional law), comparative public law and comparative family… Continue Reading
States of Emergency: The Constitutional Regime in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Turkey
October 20, 2017 at 12:00pm | 754 Schermerhorn Ext. States of Emergency: The Constitutional Regime in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Turkey What does emergency implies for constitutional regimes and how legal comparison can help understand… Continue Reading
Claire Fontaine | Insurrection Mao
By Claire Fontaine The humorous and unconventional reception of Mao and Maoism will be approached in two cases. The first and best known one is Godard’s La Chinoise where Maoism (and leftist politics more generally) are used as an aesthetic,… Continue Reading
Asef Bayat, Revolution Without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Chapter 1
Perry Anderson | On The Concatenation In The Arab World
“The Arab revolt of 2011 belongs to a rare class of historical events: a concatenation of political upheavals, one detonating the other, across an entire region of the world. There have been only three prior instances—the Hispanic American Wars of… Continue Reading
Hannah Arendt, “What Is Authority?”
Jack Halberstam
Jack Halberstam is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of five books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The… Continue Reading
Bruno Bosteels
Bruno Bosteels is professor in LAIC and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. His research covers a wide range of topics in literature, culture, and politics in modern Latin America as well as contemporary philosophy and political theory. He… Continue Reading
Claudio Lomnitz
Claudio Lomnitz is the Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Prior to teaching at Columbia, Lomnitz was a Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School University. He served at different points in time… Continue Reading