This roundtable is part of a conference on “Thinking with Balibar”, which explores the influence of Etienne Balibar's work, not paying tribute to Etienne Balibar per se, but showing how certain concepts, arguments, and methods that he applies in his work can be and are being used by scholars in different fields working on crucial issues of our time.
Panelists:
Jean Cohen (Columbia University), Democracy and Sovereignty
Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University), Political Anthropology
Frédéric Neyrat (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Hegemony and Ideology
Bruce Robbins (Columbia University), Book report: "Le Citoyen-sujet"
Shanny Peer, Moderator
Co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française, Collège International de Philosophie, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and Heyman Center for the Humanities
00:00 - Opening remarks by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
08:39 - Introduction by Diogo Sardinha
13:02 - Jean Cohen
27:05 - Stathis Gourgouris
42:39 - Frédéric Neyrat
57:06 - Bruce Robbins
1:08:53 - Etienne Balibar's comment
1:14:05 - Q&A
1:16:23 - Discussion between the panelists and Etienne Balibar