Latest Past Events

Panel Discussion on African Art Restitution with Felwine Sarr and Guests

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

On the occasion of the release of  “The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics,” written at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron, Felwine Sarr, co-author of the report with Bénédicte Savoy, will discuss his research during a panel discussion on February 4, 2019 at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy at 6:30PM. Speakers will also include the following: Mr. Jason…

WHAT IS A SPACE FOR ETHICS? – ROBERT HARVEY

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

A roundtable on Sharing Common Ground (Bloomsbury, 2017) Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools…

Assisted Reproductive Technologies – Cultural & Ethical Vales From a Comparative Perspective

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

This two-day Franco-American workshop seeks to compare the cultural, ethical, religious, historical and policy implications of how reproductive technologies have developed and now impact our two national contexts. In both countries, advanced reproductive technologies have long been in development and are now in widespread use. France and the United States share a certain number of similar conceptions relative to kinship…

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