NYU Institute of French Studies Presents Alain Corbin and The Writing of History Friday, September 27, 2002 Session I: The Practice of History: Culture and Politics Chair: Edward Berenson (NYU) 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

NYU Institute of French Studies
Presents
Alain Corbin and The Writing of History

Friday, September 27, 2002

Session I: The Practice of History: Culture and Politics

Chair: Edward Berenson (NYU)
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Dominique Kalifa (Université de Paris I)
L'expérience, le désir et l'histoire : Alain Corbin ou le «tournant culturel» silencieux

Christophe Prochasson (EHESS, Paris)
La politique comme «culture sensible» : Alain Corbin face à l'histoire politique

Michelle Perrot (Université de Paris VII)
Alain Corbin et l'histoire des femmes

Session II: Cultural History: Corbin and Beyond

Chair: Sima Godfrey (U. of British Columbia)
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Lionel Gossman (Princeton University)
Wittgenstein's Poker: Reflections on Anecdote and History

William M. Reddy (Duke University)
Maine de Biran and His Doubles: The Cultural Coherence of Exclusion

Vanessa Schwartz (U. of Southern California)
The City and the Senses

Saturday, September 28, 2002

Session I: The Historian and the Text

Chair: Herrick Chapman (NYU)
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Michel Beaujour (New York University)
Le style de Corbin

Françoise Gaillard (Université Paris VII)
L'histoire autrement...

Arthur Goldhammer (Harvard University)
Torpor and Rage: From Haute-Frêne to Hautefaye

Stéphane Gerson (New York University)
L'impossible présence de l'historien

Session II: Le Métier de l'historien

Chair: Stéphane Gerson (NYU)
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Priscilla Ferguson (Columbia University)
Sense and Sensibilities: Alain Corbin's French Histories

Emmanuelle Saada (New York University)
L'historien, l'ethnographe, et l'employé de l'état civil

Alain Corbin: Commentary

September 27 and 28, 2002
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m & 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
La Maison Française
16 Washington Mews (corner of University Place)
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This program is generously supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy