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What is Suffering Worth? Perspectives Across Disciplines on the Treatment of Victims

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. This interdisciplinary symposium explores a crucial but little-studied issue with growing importance today: what is the value of harm suffered by victims, whether of terrorism, crime or natural disasters. In law, politics, economics and public opinion, answers differ widely, and unequal treatment is the norm. Across the globe, victims evoke a range of feelings, from compassion verging…

Narrating the Past: Innovative Strategies for Writing History – Ivan Jablonka & Brooke Kroeger

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

Why should historians consider developing new forms of historical writing, and of what might those forms consist? This discussion of craft will explore how historians can draw on literary and journalistic methods to construct and convey knowledge. Using  brief sample texts, historian and writer Ivan Jablonka and journalist Brooke Kroeger will demonstrate the practical application of specific strategies. Ivan Jablonka…