Gaël Faye is an author, songwriter and hip-hop artist. He released his first solo album in 2013, with his first novel Petit Pays which won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 2016. Born in 1982 in Burundi to a French father and Rwandan mother, Faye moved with his family to France in 1995 after the outbreak of the civil war and Rwandan genocide.…
Join the NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) for a discussion of transatlantic relations under the Biden administration. Participants: Anu Bradford (Columbia University Law School); Andreas Nick (Member of Parliament, Christian Democratic Union of Germany); Damian Leader (Department of International Relations, NYU) This event will take place over Zoom. Please follow this link to register.
Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. Demos Assembled (University of Chicago Press, 2018) provides us with a fresh, transatlantic understanding of that political order’s genesis, and sheds new…
