The ANIS MAKDISI MEMORIAL LECTURE 2009/10

The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature cordially invites you to attend "The ANIS MAKDISI MEMORIAL LECTURE, 2009/10" by Professor Etienne Balibar entitled "Cosmopolitanism and Secularism: Controversial Legacies and Prospective Interrogations."

Etienne Balibar

Etienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus in Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Paris X- Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.
He is one of the most influential philosophers and social theorists of our times. His publications include: Reading Capital together with Louis Althusser (1965), On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1976), Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (1991), Masses, Classes, Ideas (1994), The Philosophy of Marx (1995), Spinoza and Politics (1998), Politics and the Other Scene (2002), We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2004).
Etienne Balibar is a member of Ligue des Droits de l'Homme (Paris) and is co-founder of Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and acting chair of Association Jan Hus France.