"On Borders"

June 4 and 5, 2012

Readings Submitted in Advance by Seminar Participants

SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS

Danielle S. Allen, the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education (2004), and Why Plato Wrote (2010). In 2002, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her ability to combine “the classicist's careful attention to texts and language with the political theorist's sophisticated and informed engagement.” Allen is currently working on books on citizenship in the digital age and education and equality. University of Cambridge, Ph.D., Classics, 1996; Harvard University, Ph.D., Government, 2001; The University of Chicago, Assistant Professor 1997–2000, Associate Professor 2000–03, Professor 2003–07, Dean of the Division of Humanities 2004–07; Institute for Advanced Study, UPS Foundation Professor 2007–; Marshall Scholar 1993–96; MacArthur Fellowship 2002; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member; AAAS Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, Member; Amherst College, Trustee; Institute for the International Education of Students, Trustee; Mellon Foundation, Trustee; Princeton University, Trustee; Pulitzer Prize Board, Member; University of Cambridge, Hare Prize in Ancient Greek History 1996; The University of Chicago, Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching 2001

Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and was Director of its Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics (2002-2008). Professor Benhabib was the President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2006-07 and Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2009. She is the recipient of the Ernst Bloch prize in 2009. She is the author of Critique, Norm and Utopia. A Study of the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (1986); Situating the Self. Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (1992; winner of the National Educational Association’s best book of the year award) ; together with Drucilla Cornell, Feminism as Critique (1986); then with, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser, Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange(1994); The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (1996; reissued in 2002); The Claims of Culture. Equality and Diversity in the Global Era,(2002) and The Rights of Others. Aliens, Citizens and Residents (2004), which won the Ralph Bunche award of the American Political Science Association (2205) and the North American Society for Social Philosophy award (2004). Another Cosmopolitanism. Hospitality, Sovereignty and Democratic Iterations, based on Professor Benhabib’s 2004 Tanner Lectures delivered at Berkeley, with responses by Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig and Will Kymlicka has appeared from Oxford University Press in 2006. She has also edited 8 volumes, ranging from discussions of communicative ethics, to democracy and difference, to identities, allegiances and affinities, and gender, citizenship and immigration. The latest is a volume coedited with Judith Resnik of the Yale Law School and called, Mobility and Immobility. Gender, Borders and Citizenship (2009). She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science since 1995 and has held the Gauss Lectures (Princeton, 1998); the Spinoza Chair for distinguished visitors (Amsterdam, 2001); the John Seeley Memorial Lectures (Cambridge, 2002), the Tanner Lectures (Berkeley, 2004) and was the Catedra Ferrater Mora Distinguished Professor in Girona, Spain (Summer 2005). She received an Honorary degree from the Humanistic University in Utrecht in 2004.

François Bourguignon is the Director of the Paris School of Economics. Back in France in 2007, following four years as the Chief Economist and first Vice President of the World Bank in Washington, he has also returned to his former position of Professor of Economics at the EHESS (advanced school in Social Sciences). Trained as a statistician, he obtained a Ph D. in Economics at the University of Western Ontario, followed by a State Doctorate at the University of Orleans in France. His work is both theoretical and empirical and principally aims at the distribution and the redistribution of revenue in developing and developed countries. He is the author of a great number of books and articles in specialized national and international economic journals. He has taught throughout Universities worldwide. He has received, during the course of his career, a number of scientific distinctions/decorations/has been decorated. Through his experience, he is often sought for counsel to Governments and international organisations throughout the world. Recent Publications include: The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools, (with L. Pereira), Oxford University Press, 2003. The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America (with F. Ferreira & N. Lustig), Oxford University Press, 2005. The Impact of Macroeconomic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution (with M. Bussolo & L. Pereira), Palgrave, 2008. "Itinéraires de l'économie mondiale", entretiens with F. Boutin-Dufresne, Nota Bene, 2010.”

Barry R. Chiswick, Chair of the Economic Department at The George Washington University, is a renowned economist whose seminal research on labor markets and immigration has helped inform the nation’s public policy debate. A former economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Chiswick came to GW from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he served as a distinguished professor and founding director of the UIC Center for Economic Education. Author of 14 books and more than 160 scholarly articles and book chapters, Chiswick’s areas of interest include skill acquisition, the labor market adjustment and economic impact of immigrants and immigration policy, and the human capital and labor market behavior of racial, religious, and ethnic groups. His published public policy analyses have led to appearances before the U.S. Congress and consulting work for U.S. government agencies and international organizations, such as the World Bank. Chiswick received a PhD in Economics with Distinction from Columbia University in 1967, and has held permanent and visiting appointments at UCLA, Columbia University, Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, City University (New York), Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa, and Ben-Gurion University. From 1973 to 1977, he was Senior Staff Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. In addition, he served as chairman of the American Statistical Association Census Advisory Committee and past president of the European Society for Population Economics. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics and Research in Economics of the Household and is on the editorial boards of four other academic journals. Since 2004, he has been the Program Director for Migration Studies at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany. Chiswick has received numerous awards for his work including a Fulbright Research Fellowship, the Senior University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois, the Carleton C. Qualey Article Award from the Immigration History Society, the Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research, the Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, the 3M Economic Education Excellence Award from the Illinois Council on Economic Education, and an honorary doctorate from Lund University in Sweden.

Catherine Colliot-Thélène is a professor of philosophy at the University of Rennes 1, and was director of the Centre Marc Bloch, a German-French research center in Berlin, from 1999 to 2004. She received her doctorate in 1987 from the Université de Paris 1 – Sorbonne, and in 2008 was a visiting researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Political philosophy and its relations to the philosophy of history and to sociology are her main research interests. She is the author of four books and some fifty essays and articles, including publications on Hegel, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Heidegger, Bourdieu, and Durkheim, and co-editor of the European Journal of Political Theory. Retracing the development and transformation of the concept of the political since the nineteenth century is the centerpiece of her current work.

Philippe Descola is Professor at Collège de France, where he holds a Chair of Anthropology of Nature. After completing his studies in philosophy in Paris, he switched to anthropology and spent several years among the Achuar, a Jivaro tribe of the High Amazon. This fieldwork inspired several of his books, such as The Spears of Twilight and In the Society of Nature (the latter is based on his dissertation, directed by Lévi-Strauss). For several years Descola taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris before being appointed in 2000 to the prestigious chair of social anthropology at the Collège de France (previously held by Mauss and Lévi-Strauss). Since his first publications, Descola has intensively focused on the question of the socialization of nature and he has proposed a fundamentally new approach of the relationships between humans and non-humans. He received the silver medal of the CNRS in 1996 for his work in anthropology on the use and knowledge of nature in tribal societies.

Nicola Di Cosmo is the Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies (now Central Eurasian Studies) at Indiana University in 1991, and held research and teaching positions at the University of Cambridge, Harvard University, and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) before joining the Institute for Advanced Study in 2003. His main field of research is the history of the relations between China and Inner Asia from prehistory to the modern period. Within that broad area he has published on the early history of China's relations with steppe nomads (e.g., Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Powers in East Asian History, 2002); on Mongol and Manchu history (e.g., Manchu-Mongol Relations on the Eve of the Qing Conquest, 2003); and on China's northern frontier, especially in the Han and Qing periods. He is also interested in the military history of China and Inner Asia, especially in relation to technological and cultural aspects. Recent publications include essays on the historiography of ancient nomads, on the Mongol empire's commercial relations with Europe, and on the political history of the early Qing dynasty. Indiana University, Ph.D. 1991; University of Cambridge, Research Fellow 1989–92; Indiana University, Visiting Lecturer and Rockefeller Fellow 1992–93; Harvard University, Assistant Professor 1993–97, Associate Professor 1998–99; University of Canterbury, Senior Lecturer 1999–2003; Institute for Advanced Study, Member 1999, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies 2003–

Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton. Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, he was the founding director of Iris, Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Social Sciences of the CNRS. His domain of interest is political and moral anthropology. His recent publications include : De la Question Sociale à la Question Raciale (with Éric Fassin, La Découverte, 2006), Les Nouvelles Frontières de la Société Française (La Découverte, 2009), and Contemporary States of Emergency (with Mariella Pandolfi, Zone Books, 2010), as editor;When Bodies Remember. Experiences and Politics of AIDSin South Africa (University of California Press, 2007), The Empire of Trauma. An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (with Richard Rechtman, Princeton University Press, 2009), Humanitarian Reason. A Moral History of the Present (University of California Press, 2011) and La Force de l’Ordre. Une Anthropologie de la Police des Quartiers (Seuil, 2011 ; forthcoming at Polity Press), as author. Laureate of the Advanced Grant “Ideas” of the European Research Council, he is currently conducting an ethnography of the state, exploring how institutions such as police, justice and prison treat immigrants and minorities in France: http://morals.ias.edu/. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, M.D. 1982; École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Ph.D. 1988; Hospital Pitié-Salpétrière, Assistant Professor Medicine 1987–89; French Institute for Research in the Andes (IFEA), Ecuador, Senior Researcher 1989–91; Médecins Sans Frontières, Administrator 1999–2001, Vice President 2001–03; Université Paris 13, Assistant Professor 1991–97, Professor 1997–2007, Professeur de Classe Exceptionnelle 2007–2009; École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Director of Studies 1999–; Institute for Advanced Study, James D. Wolfensohn Professor 2009–

Patrick J. Geary is a Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. His work extends over a vast range of topics in medieval history, both chronologically and conceptually—from religiosity to language, ethnicity, social structure, and political organization. Many of his essays and books remain standard literature in the field and have been translated in multiple languages. Currently, Geary is leading a major project that studies the migration of European societies north and south of the Alps through the analysis of ancient DNA in Longobard cemeteries in Hungary and in Italy. He also directs the St. Gall Plan Project, an Internet-based initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that provides tools for the study of Carolingian monasticism. Yale University, Ph.D. 1974; Princeton University, Assistant Professor 1974–80; University of Florida, Associate Professor 1980–86, Professor 1986–93; University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of History 1993–2004, Director of UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1993–98, Director of UCLA Humanities Consortium 1996–98, Distinguished Professor of History 2004–2011; University of Notre Dame, Professor of History and Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute 1998–2000; Institute for Advanced Study, Member 1990–91, Professor 2012–; Medieval Academy of America, Past President, Fellow; Austrian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Fellow; British Academy, Corresponding Fellow; Société Nationale des Antiquaires, Membre Associé Étranger; International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages–Online, Editor-in-Chief; Oxford Studies in Medieval European History, Coeditor

Josiah Heyman is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at University of Texas El Paso. His work focuses on borders, states, power, public issues, and engaged social sciences. He is the editor of States and Illegal Practices (Berg, 1999), and the author of Finding a Moral Heart for U.S. Immigration Policy: An Anthropological Perspective (American Anthropological Association, 1998) and Life and Labor on the Border: Working People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico, 1886-1986 (University of Arizona Press, 1991), and more than sixty scholarly articles, book chapters, and essays. He is President of the Board of Directors of the Border Network for Human Rights and coordinator of the Training, Complaints, and Operations working group. Previously, he was a member of the Border and Immigration Taskforce, and did much of the drafting of their two policy reports.

Henry Laurens is Professor at Collège de France, where he holds a Chair of Contemporary Arab History. He specializes in several related areas of research: European-Ottoman contacts in the 19th century, Franco-Arab relations, Middle-Eastern politics, European thought in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the history of modern Palestine, about which he has written a three-volume work covering the period from 1799 to the present day. Since 1999, he has served on the Administrative Council of the French Institute of Oriental Archeology in Cairo. In 2004, he became a member of the High Council of the Institute of the Arab World (IMA) in Paris. He is also on the editorial board of the journal Maghreb-Machrek. Laurens earned his degree and doctorate, specializing in Arabic literature, at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris. From 1981 to 1983, he studied and taught abroad in Damascus and Cairo. He was awarded his doctorate, with high distinction, in 1989 at the Sorbonne–Paris IV. He has published more than twenty books on the history of the Middle East, imperialism, terrorism, and the Mediterranean including, recently L’empire et ses ennemis (The Empire and Its Enemies) (2009).

Daniel Nordman has taught in several universities (Rabat, Reims, Paris [École Normale Supérieure]). Currently he is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Centre de Recherches Historiques). He has been the Director of the Centre d’Histoire Sociale de l’Islam Méditerranéen, 2006-2009 (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales). His research field is the history of geographical representations (Frontiers, Boundaries, Territory, The Making of the State, Representations of Space, Travels and Relations of Travels, History of Geography and Cartography 1. France, XVIth-XIXth Centuries 2. North Africa, Mediterranean, XVIIIth-XIXth Centuries). Nowadays he studies Scientific Expeditions in the Mediterranean, especially in Algeria, and has directed an international team (Paris, Constantine, Rabat, Tunis) working at Technical Knowledges and Administrations in Maghreb (XVIth-XXth Centuries). His recent publications include: Frontières de France. De l'espace au territoire XVIe-XIXe siècle, Paris, 1998 ; « Préface » de Frontières oubliées, frontières retrouvées. Marches et limites anciennes en France et en Europe,under the direction M. Catala, D. Le Page et J.-C. Meuret, Rennes, 2011 ; Tempête sur Alger. L'expédition de Charles Quint en 1541, Éd. Bouchène, 2011 ; Savoirs d'Allemagne en Afrique du Nord XVIIIe-XXe siècle, under the direction of A. Abdelfettah, A. Messaoudi et D. Nordman, Éd. Bouchène, 2012.

Alejandro Portes is chair of the department of sociology at Princeton University, as well as co-founder and director of Princeton's Center for Migration and Development. He is a premier sociologist who has shaped the study of immigration and urbanization for 30 years. A Cuban exile himself, Portes has spent his career tracking the lives of different immigrant nationalities in the United States. He has chronicled the causes and consequences of immigration to the United States, with an emphasis on informal economies, transnational communities, and ethnic enclaves. He received his Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is the author of 250 articles and chapters on national development, international migration, Latin American and Caribbean urbanization, and economic sociology. His books include City on the Edge – the Transformation of Miami (California 1993), co-authored with Alex Stepick and winner of the Robert Park Award for best book in urban sociology and the Anthony Leeds Award for best book in urban anthropology in 1995; and Immigrant America: A Portrait, 3rd edition (California 2006), designated as a Centennial Publication by the University of California Press in 1996. From 1998 to 1999, Portes served as president of the American Sociological Association. In 1998, Portes became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.

Pierre Rosanvallon is a Professor at Collège de France, where he holds a Chair in Modern and Contemporary History of Politics. Before embarking on an academic career in the early 1980s, he spent his first working years as an activist. After graduating from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in 1969, he became economic advisor to the CFDT (1969-1972), then political advisor to its leader Edmond Maire and editor of the trade union's journal, CFDT-Aujourd'hui (1973-1977). He entered the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in 1983 as a lecturer in 1983, then became Director of Studies in 1989, a position he still holds. He also headed the school's Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron (Raymond Aron Centrer for Political Research) from 1992 to 2005. From the early 1990s, most of his work started to focus on a broad-sweeping project aiming to document the intellectual history of democracy in France. Three volumes, published in Gallimard's "Bibliothèque des histoires" collection, have presented the conclusions of his research: Le Sacre du citoyen ; Histoire du suffrage universel en France (1992), Le Peuple introuvable. Histoire de la représentation démocratique en France (1998) and La Démocratie inachevée. Histoire de la souveraineté du peuple en France (2000). In 2001, Pierre Rosanvallon was elected Professor at the Collège de France, where he embarked on the historical and theoretical study of changes in contemporary democracy. La Contre-démocratie : la politique à l'âge de la défiance(2006) and La Légitimité démocratique : impartialité, réflexivité, proximité (2008) are the first two results of this new endeavor. In these works, he has broadened his vision beyond the French situation and adopted a systematically comparative approach. In 2002, he launched La République des Idées, an eponymous collection published by Editions du Seuil, and regularly organizes large-scale forums for the general public. He has also launched a website - laviedesidees.fr - which is more directly connected to his chair at the Collège de France, and is a journal of news and analysis dedicated to ideas and intellectual production in France and abroad.

Joan Wallach Scott is the Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her groundbreaking work has challenged the foundations of conventional historical practice, including the nature of historical evidence and historical experience and the role of narrative in the writing of history. Broadly, the object of her work is the question of difference in history: its uses, enunciations, implementations, justifications, and transformations in the construction of social and political life. Scott’s recent books have focused on the vexed relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force of democratic politics. They include Gender and the Politics of History (1988), Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996), Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (2005), and The Politics of the Veil (2007). University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. 1969; University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Assistant Professor 1970–72; Northwestern University, Assistant Professor 1972–74; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Associate Professor 1974–77, Professor 1977–80; Brown University, Nancy Duke Lewis University Professor 1980–85, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Founding Director 1981–85; Institute for Advanced Study, Member 1978–79, Professor 1985–2000, Harold F. Linder Professor 2000–; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow; University of Bern, Hans Sigrist Prize 1999; American Historical Association, Herbert Baxter Adams Prize 1974, Joan Kelly Memorial Prize 1989, Award for Scholarly Distinction 2009

Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. One of America’s foremost political thinkers, he has written about a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy, including political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice, and the welfare state. He has played a critical role in the revival of a practical, issue-focused ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political and moral life. Walzer’s books include Just and Unjust Wars (1977), On Toleration (1997), and Arguing About War (2004); he has served as editor of the political journal Dissent for more than three decades. Currently, he is working on issues having to do with international justice and the new forms of welfare and also on a collaborative project focused on the history of Jewish political thought. Harvard University, Ph.D. 1961; Princeton University, Assistant Professor 1962–66; Harvard University, Professor 1966–80; Institute for Advanced Study, Professor 1980–86, UPS Foundation Professor 1986–2007, Professor Emeritus 2007–; Dissent, Editor 1976–; The New Republic, Contributing Editor 1977–; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Board of Governors, Member 1974–; Spinozalens Award 2008