This conference on “Thinking with Balibar” will explore the influence of Etienne Balibar's work, not paying tribute to Étienne Balibar per se, but showing how certain concepts, arguments, and methods that he applies in his work can be and are being used by scholars in different fields working on crucial issues of our time. The conference will thus be inspired by his work instead of being on is work. It marks the third and last year of Etienne's stint as a visiting professor at Columbia in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and he will also speak at the conference.

This conference follows and builds on a one-day workshop called "Pourquoi Balibar" that was organized in Paris on January 17, 2014 by the Collège International de Philosophie (Étienne Balibar is a member of its Scientific Board) after he published several important books in recent years – Violence et civilité and La Proposition de l'égaliberté in 2011 (the latter now translated asEqualiberty: Political Essays), Citoyen sujet et autres essais d'anthropologie philosophique in 2011, and Saeculum: culture, religion, idéologie in 2011. The goal for the November convening is to further develop these analyses by bringing together some of the participants from the Parisian meeting, with other thinkers working in the U.S.

Participants

• Etienne Balibar

  Visiting Professor of French and Romance Philology

  Columbia University

• Akeel Bilgrami

  Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy

  Columbia University

• Souleymane Bachir Diagne

  Professor of French

  Columbia University

• Marie Gaille

  Head of Research (CR1) and Doctor of Philosophy - CNRS

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

• Jean Cohen

  Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Political Thought

  Columbia University

• Lydia Goehr

  Professor of Philosophy

  Columbia University

• Stathis Gourgouris

  Professor, Institute of Comparative Literature & Society, Classics

  Columbia University

• Marcel Hénaff

  Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology

  University of California at San Diego

• Jacques Lezra

  Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature

  New York University

• Warren Montag

  Brown Family Professor in Literature, English and Comparative Literary Studies

  Occidental College

• Frédéric Neyrat

  Lecturer in Comparative Literature

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

• John Rajchman

  Adjunct Professor of Art History and Archaeology

  Columbia University

• Bruce Robbins

  Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities

  Columbia University

• Gabriel Rockhill

  Associate Professor of Philosophy

  Villanova University

• Diogo Sardinha

  President

  Collège International de Philosophie, Paris

• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  University Professor

  Columbia University