Tuesday, October 17 | 5 PM - 7 PM
Geballe Room, Townsend Center, UC Berkeley
Please join us for an evening lecture presented by Eric Fassin, one of France’s leading and widely-translated intellectuals. Fassin’s work focuses on race, gender, sexuality, and immigration in a comparative and transnational perspective. He has been central to dialogues between France and the United States on these questions. A professor of Sociology at Paris 8, he is also Researcher at the Laboratory of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Fassin is a sociologue engagé or “committed sociologist” whose many books have also participated in public interventions on the politicization of racial and sexual identity, immigration, and the evolving character of the French Left. His recent work turns to authoritarianism, political anti-intellectualism, and academic freedom in France, Europe, and the United States.
Recent publications: co-edited with Salima Amari: Femmes en rupture de ban, unpublished interviews with two Algerian women in France by Abdelmalek Sayad (Raisons d’Agir); with Caroline Ibos, Défense et illustration des libertés académiques (Mediapart). Forthcoming in 2024: State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender & Race. Illiberal France and Beyond (CEU Press, Vienna); with Caroline Ibos, La Savante et le politique (Flammarion).
Presented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry. Co-sponsored by the Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies, Center for Right-Wing Studies, Department of French, French Embassy, and Townsend Center for the Humanities.
Admission Information:
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The Geballe Room (220 Stephens Hall) is ADA-accessible. Please view this website for more details about accessing the Geballe Room in the Townsend Center space.
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Victoria Jaschob at victoriajaschob@berkeley.edu or (510) 759-2232 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.