Aurélie Vialette (Stony Brook University)
Judith Revel (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre)
Judith Revel (1966) is Full Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at Paris Nanterre University (research team Sophiapol, EA3932, of which she is co-director) since 2014.
Member of the Centre Michel Foucault, member of the Scientific Council of the IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine), member of the scientific committee of the College International de Philosophie, specialist in contemporary French and Italian thoughts.
Her work focuses in particular on the way in which, after 1945, a certain practice of philosophy attempted, at the intersection of politics, historiography and aesthetics, to problematize its own historical situation and simultaneously the possibility of intervening at the very heart of the present.
Since the last three years, she has been running two collective research projects on the uses of archives, “Discipliner l’archive?” (within the LabEx “Les passés dans le présent “, université Paris Nanterre, 2016-2018), and” Genre et transmission. Pour une nouvelle archéologie du genre” (Université Paris Lumière – Paris Nanterre/ Paris VIII/Archives Nationales, 2016-2019)
Last book: Foucault avec Merleau-Ponty. Ontologie politique, présentisme et histoire, Paris, Vrin, coll. “Philosophie du présent”, 2015. She recently edited a volume of unpublished texts of Foucault about literature and madness (Michel Foucault, Folie, langage, littérature, Vrin, 2019).
Ann Stoler (The New School for Social Research)
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research. Stoler is the director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. She taught at the University of Michigan from 1989-2003 and has been at the New School for Social Research since 2004, where she was the founding chair of its revitalized Anthropology Department. She has worked for some thirty years on the politics of knowledge, colonial governance, racial epistemologies, the sexual politics of empire, and ethnography of the archives. She has been a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études, the École Normale Supérieure and Paris 8, Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory, Birzeit University in Ramallah, the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, Irvine’s School of Arts and Literature, and the Bard Prison Initiative. She is the recipient of NEH, Guggenheim, NSF, SSRC, and Fulbright awards, among others. Recent interviews with her are available at Savage Minds, Le Monde, and Public Culture, as well as Pacifica Radio.
Her books include Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra’s Plantation Belt, 1870–1979 (1985; 1995) Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995), Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002, 2010), Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (2009) and the edited volumes Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (with Frederick Cooper, 1997), Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (2006), Imperial Formations (with Carole McGranahan and Peter Perdue, 2007) and Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination (2013). Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her commitment to joining conceptual and historical research has lead to collaborative work with historians, literary scholars and philosophers, and most recently in the creation of the journal Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, of which she is one of the founding editors.
Professor Stoler is the Founding Director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI)
Robert Harvey (Stony Brook University)
Jesús R. Velasco (Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Law Studies, Columbia. University / Yale University)
Visiting Professor at Yale University,
Full professor, Columbia University
Ph.D. in Philology, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), 1995
J R Velasco studies Medieval and Early Modern legal cultures across the Mediterranean Basin and Europe within and outside the legal professions, from the perspective of contemporary critical thought. He is the author of Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages(University of Pennsylvania Press), Plebeyos Márgenes: Ficción, Industria del Derecho y Ciencia Literaria (SEMYR), or Order and Chivalry: Knighthood and Citizenship in Late Medieval Castile (University of Pennsylvania Press). He is currently writing a new book, Science de l’âme et corps du droit, and finishing his project on Microliteratures: The Margins of the Law. His articles on legal culture, chivalry, Occitan poetry, Political Theory, and other subjects have appeared in English, Spanish, French, and Catalan in journals like MLN, La Corónica, Studi Ispanici, and many others. He is interested in the practice of photography. He has published and exhibited his work in several venues. He is currently working on a photo-literary project on academic freedom. He has taught courses and seminars in Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Comparative Literature, and the Law School: Torture and Confession (with Bernard Harcourt), Foucault 13/13 (with Bernard Harcourt), On Friendship (with Claudio Lomnitz), Formes du Droit (with Emanuele Conte and Pierre Thévenin), Inquisitions, Microliteratures: The Margins of The Law, Fiction, Public Intellectuals Before Modernity, and many others. Velasco has taught at the École Normale Supérieure (Fontenay), University of Salamanca (Spain), UC Berkeley, and Columbia University —where he has been at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought of the Law School. He has held visiting positions at Emory, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Roma Tre, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, or Paris III, among others. At Columbia, he has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, Chair of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Claudio Lomnitz (History, Anthropology, Columbia University)
Claudio Lomnitz is an anthropologist, historian and critic who works broadly on Mexican culture and politics. His books include Death and the Idea of Mexico and The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón, among many others. As a regular columnist in the Mexico City paper La Jornada and an award-winning dramaturgist, Lomnitz is commited to contributing to bringing the social sciences into public debate.
Today he will be speaking sharing material connected to his most recent book, Nuestra América: utopía y persistencia de una familia judía (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018). An English language translation of this work is currently under preparation with Other Press.
Benjamin Tausig (Stony Brook University)
Benjamin Tausig is assistant professor of music at Stony Brook University. He studies political protest and its sounds in contexts including Thailand and the United States. His first monograph, Bangkok Is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint, was published in 2019. He is currently working on a second project, a history/ethnography of cosmopolitan music in Thailand during the Vietnam War.
Mona Gérardin-Laverge (Nanterre)
Mona Gérardin-Laverge achieved in December 2018 a PhD in Philosophy, in University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne. In her PhD thesis, she explored how gender is performatively constructed and deconstructed in ordinary practices of language and in feminist struggles. She is now postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy in University Paris Nanterre: she analyzes archives through a gender perspective, and begins a collect of feminist oral archives.
Joseph Pierce (Stony Brook University)
Alex Gil (Digital Humanities, Columbia University)
Adrián Pérez-Melgosa (Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University)
Lori Flores (Stony Brook University)
Laetitia Blanchard Rubio (La Sorbonne University)
Laetitia Blanchard Rubio has been since 2003 an Assistant professor at La Sorbonne University, where she was the Head of the Professional Master’s degree program in the Spanish Department. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures (LAIC) of Columbia University. She received her PhD from the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Her academic specialty is the History and Cultures of Spain from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Her specific research focuses on representations, identities and political discourses of the Spanish Basque Country, specifically during the First Carlist Civil War, and on the struggle between Legitimism and Liberalism in Europe.
She is currently collaborating with a multi-national group of researchers on multicultural societies in conflict, for a presentation to the Agence Nationale de Recherche (ANR) in France. One of her ongoing research projects is a study of the positioning of the Zumalacarregui Museum in the Spanish Basque Country as an analysis of open-mindedness and inclusiveness specific to the heritage policies of democratic Spain.
Alvaro Santana Acuña (Withman College)
Marie-Jeanne Zenetti (Literature, Université de Lyon 2)
Annick Louis (Université de Reims, EHESS Paris)
Annick Louis specializes in comparative literature of the 19th, 20th and 21th Centuries, with focus in Latin American and European cultures. Her work proposes an epistemology perspective on literature an social sciences.
She has published Jorge Luis Borges: œuvre et manœuvres (Paris, L’Harmattan, 1997)
Borges face au fascisme 1. Les causes du présent (2006). Borges face au fascisme 2. Les fictions du contemporain (2007).
She has edited Enrique Pezzoni, lector de Borges (Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 1999)
Jorge Luis Borges: Intervenciones sobre pensamiento y literatura (Buenos Aires, Paidós, 2000), Josefina Ludmer, Algunos problemas de teoría literaria. Clases 1985 (2016).
She has translated Quevedo’s Sueños y discursos de Quevedo in collaboration with Bernard Tissier (Paris, Jose Corti, 2002), and María Zambrano’s Los sueños y el tiempo (Paris, José Corti, 2003).
She is preparing a book on the relation between writing and archeology, Les vies Schliemann, and one on writing and exploration narrative, Homo explorator. Arthur Rimbaud, Lucio V. Mansilla y Heinrich Schliemann.
Graduate students (Stony Brook University):
Isabel Murcia-Estrada
Evelyn Cruise
Martha Chávez-Negrete
Matías Hermosilla
Ximena López Carrillo
Régulo Silva
Daniel Menzo
Ignacio D. Arellano-Torres
Sara Martínez