Professors Eleni Varikas and Michael Lowy - "Messengers of Hatred: The (Ir)resistible Rise of the Far Right in France and Europe. "

Date: 

Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Kresge Room 114, Barker Center

 Professors Eleni Varikas and Michael Lowy, visiting Boston from Paris this spring, will lead a discussion at Harvard entitled:
 "Messengers of Hatred: The (Ir)resistible Rise of the Far Right in France and Europe. "
Professor Eleni Varikas is Professeure des universities en
science politique emerita, Paris VIII. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who
works on issues of political and cultural exclusion. I first discovered her
work via her 2007 book, Les Rebuts du monde and she has continued to
work on “tou-te-s les exclu-e-s” de la Republique” –-“tsiganes, Juifs, femmes,
esclaves, Noir-e-s”. She is the author of seven books and countless articles
addressing the political, cultural, historical impacts of globalization and
neo-liberal economic politics on European and Western ethical values and
imagination, with a special focus on feminist theory--e.g, Les femmes, de
Platon a Derrida, Plon, 2000, Penser le sexe et le genre, PUF, 2006,
etc. 
 Professor Michael Lowy is a French-Brazilian Marxist
 
sociologist and philosopher, the Emeritus Research Director in Social Sciences
at the CNRS and he lectures at EHESS, Paris. 
He is the author of some 20 books, some 200 articles, translated in 28
languages. I first became aware of his work via his newest work on
ecosocialism—e.g. his Ecosocialist Manifesto and also his books on Franz
Kafka and Walter Benjamin.  
 Reception to follow
Sponsors: The Robert Bacon Fund, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on France and the World, The Department of Comparative Literature, Studies on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

 

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