J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer deux conférences exceptionnelles organisées par l'Institute of African and American Affairs de NYU :  l'une avec  Nicole Lapierre, l'autre avec Edwy Plenel.Institute of African American Affairs, New York University presents

1st CONFERENCE / Thursday, April 11, 2013 / 6 pm

Common Ground:

The Intertwined Relationship between Blacks and Jews

Thursday, April 11, 2013 / 6 pm

LOCATION:

Silver Center-NYU, room 405, 4th floor

100 Washington Square East (enter at 31 Washington Place)

Free and open to the public. Space is limited.

Please RSVP to (212) 998-IAAA (4222)

This program is supported by Institute of French Studies-NYU,

The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies-NYU, 

and The Taub Center for Israel Studies-NYU

In her book, Causes Communes: des Juifs et des Noirs, Nicole Lapierre traces how, in the twentieth century, the intertwined relationship between Blacks and Jews emerged from ideals of freedom, equality and dignity. She reminds us how the Black experience was re-examined through the prism of Jewish experience, and vice versa The tensions that sometimes set these communities against each other involve all of society: they are primarily the result of social inequality and of the level of recognition that history grants to discriminated, oppressed or persecuted people, whoever they may be. This program will have the opportunity to recall these "common causes," discuss and examine how these examples drawn from the past may serve as beacons for the present.

PARTICIPANTS:

 Nicole Lapierre is director of research at the French National Center for Scientific Research, and professor of socio-anthropology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).

Walter Mosley is the author of more than 37 critically acclaimed books. In his most recent, Twelve Steps to Political Revelation, Mosley outlines a guide to recovery from oppression.

David Levering Lewis is Julius Silver University Professor at New York University. Each volume of his two-volume W. E. B. Du Bois biography won the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of eight books.

For more information: http://africanastudies.as.nyu.edu/object/IAAA-CommonGround.html

 2nd CONFERENCE / Friday, April 12, 2013 / 6 pm

Edwy Plenel

(founder of Mediapart) on

"Révolution numérique, révolutions démocratiques"

(Digital revolution, democratic revolutions)

Friday, April 12, 2013 / 6 pm

LOCATION:

Institute for Public Knowledge

New York University

20 Cooper Square, 5th floor

New York, NY 10003

Presented by Institute of African American Affairs-NYU,

co-sponsored by Institute for Public Knowledge-NYU

with  support from La Maison Française

Space is limited.

Please RSVP on-line at IPK:

http://ipk.nyu.edu/event-calendar/details/181-revolution-numerique

Like the previous two industrial revolutions, the digital revolution has radically changed public space: it has become borderless and open to all individuals. This technological revolution offers huge democratic opportunities that confront state authorities and economic powers. The event will use the French experience ofMediapart–a digital newspaper, that is both independent and participatory–to reflect upon the political Internet.

Mediapart is one of the most important online source of news in France today, cited by The New York Times and Washington Post. Edwy Penel, its co-founder and CEO, will be present to discuss new medias and democracy in Europe as well as the relations between North/South in the context of the internet and the global changes that it is bringing.

Edwy Plenel is journalist, co-founder and CEO of Mediapart, after twenty-five years in Le Monde where he was editor-in-chief. Among the books he has published, the last one is Le droit de savoir (The right to know, Don Quichotte, 2013).

For more information: http://africanastudies.as.nyu.edu/object/iaaa-DigitalRevPlenel.html