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Lyon (France)

WALLS AND BRIDGES)
« We build too many walls and not enough bridges.»
Isaac Newton

[transatlantic insights )
debates, readings, performances
SEASON 1  –  NYC
January 27th – February 4th, 2011

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 NEW YORK CITY 
2011 [WALLS AND BRIDGES
(SEASON 1)
JANUARY 27 TH
- FEBRUARY 4 TH Over the course of three 10-day series, in the winter,
spring and fall of 2011 in New York City, Walls and
“We build too many Bridges—a program curated by the Villa Gillet
walls and not (director: Guy Walter) and presented by the Conseil
enough bridges.” de la Création artistique (general representative:
Isaac Newton
Marin Karmitz)—will present nearly 50 cultural
events, combining about 100 speakers and
artists, 30 partners and over 20 venues, ranging
from the New York Public Library, Joe’s Pub and
the Brooklyn Flea to bookstores, universities and
various galleries.

The Villa Gillet, based in Lyon, France, is a unique cultural

institute interested in thought in all its expressions.  It
brings together artists, writers, novelists and researchers
from all over the world to encourage public debate on
the big issues facing the world today. The Villa Gillet is
best known for its International Forum on the Novel,
co-organized with Le Monde in partnership with
national public radio France Inter, held each year at Les
Subsistances, a creative research laboratory for live arts,
in Lyon. www.villagillet.net

The Conseil de la création artistique (the Council

of Artistic Creation) is a laboratory for cultural
experimentation created by the French Government in
2009 whose aim is to support innovative projects in the
cultural field. http://conseil-creation-artistique.fr

Walls and Bridges is curated by the Villa Gillet in cooperation with:

Aperture  |   Austrian Cultural Forum New York  |   Bomb Magazine  |   Book
Culture  |  Bookforum  |  Cabinet  |  The Cooper Union  |  The Cultural Services of the
French Embassy  |  Dailymotion  |  Deutsches Haus  |  France Inter  |  French-American
Foundation  |  French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)  |  Goethe-Institut New York  |  Greenlight
Bookstore   |  The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series  |  Harper’s Magazine  |  The Heyman
Center for the Humanities  |  The Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University  |  Instituto
Cervantes New York  |   LIVE from The New York Public Library  |   McNally Jackson
Books  |  n+1  |  The New School  |  Raison publique  |  Sciences Po - École des Arts
Politiques  |  The Social Science Research Council  |  Tin House  |  Triple Canopy  |  UnionDocs
Walls and Bridges is supported by:
the Conseil de la création artistique  |  Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche

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THURSDAY,
JANUARY 27 TH 
( ART / TRUTH / LIES:
THE PERILS AND PLEASURES  
7PM OF DECEPTION
The New York
Public Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Round table
Co-presented 
Featuring: D. Graham Burnett (USA / historian of
with LIVE from the NYPL science), Pierre Cassou-Noguès (France / philosopher),
Jean‑Pierre Dupuy (France / philosopher), Carrie
Lambert-Beatty (USA / art historian), Glenn D. Lowry
(USA / director of the MoMA)

We are witnessing a remarkable irruption of interventions and

Hosted by  confections in contemporary art that can be loosely called
D. Graham Burnett  “parafictional”—work that wields falsehood in powerful, ludic,
(USA / editor, Cabinet) and/or disturbing ways. What happens when the trickster-
$15 / $10 fakery of these artistic cons unsettles the archive itself?
Buy tickets : www.showclix.com Should we be concerned? What are the implications for this
or 1.888.71.TICKETS convergence of the artist and the forger? French philosophers
www.nypl.org Pierre Cassou-Noguès and Jean-Pierre Dupuy, author of
article Make-Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility Carrie
Lambert-Beatty, and director of the MoMA Glenn D. Lowry will
tackle issues such as art and politics, virtuality and expertise,
and the values of play and seriousness.

FRIDAY, 
JANUARY 28TH
6PM
[  THE MAGICAL SIDE OF CELEBRITY

The New York

Public Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Round table Featuring: Cécile Guilbert (France / essayist, novelist and
Co-presented  literary critic), Laura Kipnis (USA / essayist and artist),
with LIVE from the NYPL Wayne Koestenbaum (USA / poet, novelist and essayist)

Who has never dreamed of becoming famous? What is in a

famous name? Why do we love stars and icons so much and
why are we fascinated by them? Aren’t fame and celebrity
all relative? In the era of the Internet, do we finally have a
good chance to get our 15 minutes of fame, or are we just a
Hosted by  few clicks away from suddenly becoming ephemeral stars
Paul Holdengräber  against our will? Essayist and literary critic Cécile Guilbert
(USA / director of  has written outstanding essays on icons like Andy Warhol,
LIVE from the NYPL) Guy Debord and Lawrence Sterne, poet and critic Wayne
$15 / $10 Koestenbaum is the author of Andy Warhol and Jackie Under
Buy tickets : www.showclix.com My Skin: Interpreting An Icon, and cultural theorist Laura
or 1.888.71.TICKETS Kipnis has recently published How to Become a Scandal:
www.nypl.org Adventures in Bad Behavior.

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FRIDAY, 
JANUARY 28 TH 
[  HREE FAITHS IN THE FORM
T
OF A FUGUE
8PM AN EVENING OF ART, POETRY,
The New York MUSIC AND PHILOSOPHY
Public Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Performance /
discussion
Co-presented 
with LIVE from the NYPL
Featuring: Salman Ahmad (Pakistan / musician and
activist), Reza Aslan (Iran / writer), Fabrice Hadjadj
(France / philosopher and writer), Shirin Neshat (Iran /
videographer), Damien Poisblaud (France / singer), Alicia
Hosted by Reza Aslan   Jo Rabins (USA / poet and musician).
(Iran / writer and activist)
Performing artists and writers will come together on stage:
$15 / $10 a testament to a hoped-for future of peaceful collaboration
Buy tickets : www.showclix.com between the three great faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and
or 1.888.71.TICKETS Islam. The evening will gather Shirin Neshat on the written
www.nypl.org word in Islam, Alicia Jo Rabins who will perform poems set
to music about women in the Torah, Salman Ahmad who
will play traditional ghazals mixed with rock and roll, and
Fabrice Hadjadj who will read on the book of Job, in a duet
with Gregorian chant singer Damien Poisblaud.

SATURDAY,
JANUARY 29 TH
( THE END OF PRIVACY
THE STATE AND SURVEILLANCE
2:30PM
The New York
Public Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Round table
Co-presented with LIVE
Featuring: Didier Bigo (France / sociologist), Mireille
from the NYPL Delmas-Marty (France / law professor), Jeffrey Rosen
(USA / law professor)

The degree of Western states’ surveillance on their citizens

has dramatically increased in the past few years—whether
in public spaces or online. The threat of terrorism has
$15 / $10 generated innumerable precautions, but what is the price
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for freedom in a post-9/11 world? French experts on
or 1.888.71.TICKETS international law Mireille Delmas-Marty and Didier Bigo
www.nypl.org will discuss these issues with prominent commentator on
legal affairs Jeffrey Rosen.

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SATURDAY,
JANUARY 29 TH
(  HE NEW FACES 
T
OF THE ENEMY
5PM
The New York
Public Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Round table
Co-presented 
with LIVE from the NYPL
Featuring: Scott Atran (USA / anthropologist), Grégoire
Chamayou (France / philosopher), Ariel Colonomos
(France / political scientist), Philip Gourevitch (USA /
journalist).
Hosted by Ann Stoler 
There is always an other, but must there always be an enemy?
(USA / anthropologist)
Is there a need for an enemy in the solidifying of social groups?
$15 / $10 Thinkers and writers from very different backgrounds will
Buy tickets : www.showclix.com share their analyses: Philip Gourevitch has written extensively
or 1.888.71.TICKETS on Abu Ghraib and Rwanda, Scott Atran has studied the
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making of suicide bombers, Grégoire Chamayou has just
published a philosophical work on the peculiarity of man
hunting, and Ariel Colonomos is investigating the idea of
preventive war.

SATURDAY,
JANUARY 29 TH
[ AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
7:30PM
The New York
Public Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Round table
Co-presented with 
LIVE from the NYPL Featuring: Barbara Cassin (France / philosopher), Daniel
Handler (USA / novelist), Maira Kalman (USA / illustrator),
Sophie Wahnich (France / historian).

America considers the pursuit of happiness an inalienable

right. But where is this pursuit taking us? How valuable
is positive thinking? In arts, melancholia has long been a
Hosted by 
source of inspiration. Specialist of Ancient Greece Barbara
Paul Holdengräber  Cassin will give a philosophical point of view on the topic,
(USA / director of LIVE and historian of the French Revolution Sophie Wahnich will
from the NYPL) bring some insight on the conditions of happiness. They
$15 / $10 will be discussing with co-authors of 13 Words Lemony
Buy tickets : www.showclix.com Snicket (Daniel Handler) and Maira Kalman, also New Yorker
or 1.888.71.TICKETS cover artist and author of the acclaimed And the Pursuit of
www.nypl.org Happiness.

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SUNDAY,
JANUARY 30 TH
[  ROM FICTION 
F
TO PHILOSOPHY
1PM
Greenlight bookstore 
Discussion
Co-presented with 
Tin House

Featuring : Pierre Cassou-Noguès (France / philosopher

and novelist), Rick Moody (USA / novelist and musician),
Avital Ronell (USA / philosopher), Benjamen Walker
(USA / radio producer and host)

What are the interactions between fiction and philosophy?

Can you answer philosophical questions through fiction?
Hosted by Rob Spillman
Are philosophers fiction writers? Is there such a thing as
(USA / editor and  philosophical fiction or fictional philosophy? Four very
co-founder of Tin House) different guests will play with these concepts: fiction
Free writer and philosopher Pierre Cassou-Noguès, whose
www.tinhouse.com philosophical starting points are short fiction pieces,
www.greenlightbookstore.com acclaimed author of The Four Fingers of Death novelist
Rick Moody, Avital Ronell, whose flamboyant philosophical
endeavor is very much nourished by her explosive style,
Benjamen Walker, whose show on WFMU (“Too Much
Information”) tackles philosophical issues through
storytelling, using real or fictional interviews.

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SUNDAY,
JANUARY 30 TH 
(  AIR FOR KNOWLEDGE:
F
HAIR
2 – 6PM
The Brooklyn Flea
Fair
Co-presented 
with Cabinet

Hosted by Sina Najafi (USA),  Featuring: Laurel Braitman (USA / historian of science),
editor-in-chief of Cabinet Barbara Cassin (France / philosopher and philologist),
Free Cécile Guilbert (France / essayist), Justin E. H. Smith
Tips allowed! (USA / philosopher), John Strausbaugh (USA / author and
www.cabinetmagazine.org New York Times contributor), Sophie Wahnich (France /
www.brooklynflea.com
Special thanks to the Brooklyn Flea
historian).

Picture this: Amid the vendors and bustle of the Sunday

Brooklyn Flea, six high-profile creative thinkers will occupy
kissing-booth-style structures and engage the public in
one-on-one conversation on a topic that few of us stop and
think deeply about very often—hair. Aiming to create bridges
between specialists and the general public, this “fair for
knowledge” is designed to encourage an informal, social,
and open mode of learning.

Come and brush up on “hair plucking” among anxious captive

animals; Mary Magdalene’s hair as described in the Bible;
fashion, hairdos, and underwear; hairlessness as a signifier
of rationality in the history of philosophy; the exceptional
hairstyles of rock stars; shaved women and the symbolic
loss of power in the French revolution, and more!

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Jen Davis, “Fantasy N° 1”. 2004 (self-portrait) Jen Davis, “Mike”. Del Rio, Tx. 2008 (I ask in exchange)

MONDAY,
JANUARY 31ST 
[ PICTURING THE SELF
A PHILOSOPHER DISCUSSES  
6:30PM A PHOTOGRAPHER’S WORK
Aperture Gallery Featuring : Pierre Cassou-Noguès (France / philosopher
Discussion and novelist), Jen Davis (USA / photographer).
Co-presented with
Photographer Jen Davis has produced a stunning series of
Aperture self-portraits in which she stages herself in different scenes
of daily life. With her new series, “I ask in exchange,” she
takes portraits of men she says she would not approach,
were she not empowered by her camera. This machine gives
her the courage to walk up and speak with them. It becomes
Hosted by Denise Wolff a tool of seduction and for a brief moment, she “asks in
(USA / Aperture Book Editor) exchange” for the shooting to be looked at and desired by
Free the subject. She will discuss the representations of the self
www.aperture.org with philosopher Pierre Cassou-Noguès, whose latest book,
Mon Zombie et moi (“My Zombie and I”), plays with different
short pieces of fiction in which he uses “I,” as a starting point
for his philosophical reflection.”

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 MONDAY,
JANUARY 31ST 
( GOING PUBLIC:
EMBODYING A PERSONA
9 PM
Joe’s Pub
Reading and
performance
Co-presented with the
Happy Ending Music &
Reading Series
Featuring: Cécile Guilbert (France / essayist), Cynthia
Hopkins (USA / musician and performer), Sarah Jones
(USA / performer).

What happens when an artist “goes public,” when a

Hosted by Amanda Stern
(USA / founder, producer
and host of the  persona? The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series
Happy Ending Series)
$15
http://amandastern.com/happyending
www.joespub.com
performer steps on stage? What is the transformation,
the transmutation of the identity, from the person to the
presents a special evening dedicated to the art, theory
and practical application of persona. Through interwoven
talks and performances, three dynamic guests—essayist
Cécile Guilbert, singer and musician Cynthia Hopkins, multi-
character performer Sarah Jones—will investigate how
artists strive to cultivate and expose the most elusive and
intangible aspects of their public personas.

TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 1ST 
[ HUNTER VS. HUNTED
A PHILOSOPHER DISCUSSES
7PM SHORT MEDIA PIECES
UnionDocs
Screening and
discussion
Co-presented with
UnionDocs

Short media pieces chosen by Grégoire Chamayou

(France / philosopher)
Hosted by: Christopher
The fugitive slave, the 17th century European peasant turned
Allen (USA / UnionDocs prey, the tracked native American, and, the stateless Jew
artistic director) are all examples from a violent history of man hunting in
$9 suggested donation the western world to be considered in this presentation
www.uniondocs.org which will thread together video clips, short films, B-movie
fragments, compelling lecture and debate.

The French philosopher Grégoire Chamayou will introduce

the dialectic of the hunter and the hunted, a theory he
proposes in his new book, Chasses à l’homme (“Manhunts”).

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Josh Neufeld, A. D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

WEDNESDAY, CATASTROPHE PRACTICE

FEBRUARY 2 ND 
7PM
The New School
Tishman Auditorium
Round table Featuring: Jean-Pierre Dupuy (France / philosopher),
Jonathan Lear (USA / psychoanalyst and philosopher),
Co-presented with n+1
Michel Lussault (France / geographer), Josh Neufeld
(USA / illustrator and graphic novelist).
Catastrophes are the nightmare flipside to the record of
human progress and achievement. The idea of disaster
haunts how we think about our lives on every level, from global
planning to individual relationships. Could planning more for
catastrophes help eliminate/neutralize them, or do already we
Hosted by Mark Greif give them more attention than appropriate? Will we, no matter
(USA) and Marco Roth our precautions, forever be victims of the vagaries of nature
(USA), editors at n+1 and existence in all its complexity? If so, how may we learn to
live and think with and within the expectation of catastrophe?
Free
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Inventor of the concept of “Enlightened Catastrophism” Jean-
Pierre Dupuy, author of Radical Hope Jonathan Lear, geographer
Michel Lussault, and creator of A.D.: New Orleans After the
Deluge Josh Neufeld will gather for a discussion on the political,
social, individual, and literary imagination of catastrophe.

POLITICS OF CATASTROPHE
Co-presented with the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC)  
and the Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK)
In resonance to this public event, a workshop (not open to the public) will
gather distinguished French and American thinkers in New York and Lyon.
The result of their research will be available on our blog www.villavoice.net
and will be publicly presented in the fall of 2011.
Participants: Craig Calhoun (USA / sociologist, director of SSRC and IPK), Heidi
Cullen (USA / climate scientist), Eric Klinenberg (USA / sociologist), Andrew Lakoff
(USA / sociologist and anthropologist), Michel Lussault (France / geographer),
Catherine Malabou (France / philosopher), François-Xavier Molia (France / novelist
and film director), Valérie November (France / geographer), Kevin Rozario (USA /
cultural theorist), Saskia Sassen (USA / sociologist), Patrick Savidan (France /
philosopher), Marita Sturken (USA / specialist of media and cultural studies).

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THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 3 RD 
( STARTING FROM HERE:
EVERY PLACE TELLS A STORY
7:30PM
French Institute
Alliance Française
(FIAF)
Le Skyroom
Discussion
Co-presented with
French Institute Featuring : Reif Larsen (USA / novelist), Michel Lussault
(France / geographer), Peter Turchi (USA / essayist),
Alliance Française
Philippe Vasset (France / novelist and essayist)
(FIAF) and Bookforum, 
as part of  How are stories like maps, and maps like stories? How do
Write About Now we understand and talk about place? These are some of
the questions the panelists will consider from the vantages
of literature, psychology, and social science. Reif Larsen’s
novel The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet features a narrator
whose obsession with maps guides his journey across the
country. Peter Turchi’s book Maps of the Imagination: The
Writer as Cartographer considers the very act of writing as
a geographic exploration. In the literary narrative Un Livre
Hosted by Albert Mobilio
blanc. Récit avec cartes (“A White Book. A writing with
(USA), Bookforum editor maps”), Philippe Vasset explores city surburbs that are
Students and FIAF Members $10 represented as blanks on maps. And geographer Michel
Non-Members $15 Lussault has written several books revealing how space—in
www.fiaf.org the same way as politics and economics—shapes social
www.bookforum.com organizations.

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FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 4TH 
[  HE SHAPES OF SPACE 
T
 – THE SHEARS OF TIME
6:30PM WHY DOES PHILOSOPHY
The New School NEED ART TO BECOME TRULY
Theresa Lang Center
EXPERIMENTAL?
Round table
Co-presented with the
Writing Program at the
New School

Hosted by Robert Polito

(USA), Director of the Featuring: Elie During (France / philosopher), Patrice
Writing Program at the Maniglier (France / philosopher), McKenzie Wark
New School (Australia-USA / media theorist)
Free Art produces metaphysics in the sense that it creates
www.newschool.edu/writing perplexity towards objects or situations that we consider
common or trivial. This perplexity allows us to ask again
essential questions like: How do things fit together in space
and in time? Is it possible to have a perspective on time?
How is a relationship consolidated? When does an event
begin? This connection between aesthetics and metaphysics
is inspiring a new generation of philosophers in France like
Elie During and Patrice Maniglier. They will be in discussion
with media theorist McKenzie Wark and an artist.

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 Photo credits: p. 2 Villa Gillet & International Forum on the Novel 2010 © David Ignaszewski - Koboy | p. 3 D. G. Burnett © all rights reserved / P. Cassou-Noguès © Ulf / J.-P. Dupuy © all rights reserved / C. Lambert-Beatty © all rights
reserved / G. D. Lowry © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders / C. Guilbert © Guilbert / L. Kipnis © all rights reserved / W. Koestenbaum © Heike Steinweg | p. 4 S. Ahmad © Chris Ramirez / R. Aslan © Hilary Jones / F. Hadjadj © all rights
reserved / S. Neshat © Linda Bertucci / A. Jo Rabins © Anna Schori / D. Bigo © all rights reserved / M. Delmas-Marty © Vincenti / J. Rosen © all rights reserved | p. 5 S. Atran © all rights reserved / G. Chamayou © all rights reserved /
A. Colonomos © Franck Ferville / P. Gourevitch © Picador / B. Cassin © John Foley - Opale / D. Handler © Meredith / M. Kalman © all rights reserved / S. Wahnich © all rights reserved | p. 6 From Fiction to Philosophy © ERATIONAL /
P. Cassou-Noguès © Ulf / R. Moody © David Ignaszewski - Koboy / A. Ronell © Samuel Lugassy / B. Walker © all rights reserved | p. 7 Hair © Julia Jacquette - Blond Hair (Long), 2009 / L. Braitman © all rights reserved / B. Cassin © John
Foley - Opale / C. Guilbert © Guilbert / J. E. H. Smith © all rights reserved / J. Strausbaugh © all rights reserved / S. Wahnich © all rights reserved | p. 8 J. Davis © Jen Davis / “I ask in exchange” © Jen Davis | p. 9 C. Guilbert © Guilbert /
C. Hopkins © Jeff Sugg / S. Jones © all rights reserved / Drone © David Axe | p. 10 Catastrophe Practice © Josh Neufeld - A. D.: New Orleans After the Deluge / J.-P. Dupuy © all rights reserved / J. Lear © all rights reserved / M. Lussault
© all rights reserved / J. Neufeld © all rights reserved | p. 11 Starting From Here © Calire Sturm / R. Larsen © Elliott Holt / M. Lussault © all rights reserved / P. Turchi © all rights reserved / P. Vasset © all rights reserved | p. 12 The
Shapes of Space © ERATIONAL / E. During © all rights reserved / P. Maniglier © all rights reserved / M. Wark © all rights reserved

The Villa Gillet is sponsored  

Affaires Culturelles Rhône-Alpes,  

the Centre National du Livre, and is

(Ministère des Affaires Etrangères).

de Lyon, the Direction Régionale des
by the Région Rhône-Alpes, the Ville  

supported by the French Foreign Office

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Lyon (France)

Co-presenters:

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 THURSDAY, JANUARY 27
NYPL
7PM
ART/TRUTH/LIES: THE PERILS AND PLEASURES OF DECEPTION
D. Graham Burnett (USA) / Pierre Cassou-Noguès (FR) / Jean-Pierre
Dupuy (FR) / Carrie Lambert-Beatty (USA) / Glenn D. Lowry (USA)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28
NYPL
6PM
THE MAGICAL SIDE OF CELEBRITY
Cécile Guilbert (FR) / Laura Kipnis (USA) /  
Wayne Koestenbaum (USA)
8PM THREE FAITHS IN THE FORM OF A FUGUE
Salman Ahmad (Pakistan) / Reza Aslan (Iran) / Fabrice Hadjadj (FR) /
Shirin Neshat (Iran) / Damien Poisblaud (FR) / Alicia Jo Rabins (USA)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29
NYPL
2:30PM
THE END OF PRIVACY: THE STATE AND SURVEILLANCE
Didier Bigo (FR) / Mireille Delmas-Marty (FR) / Jeffrey Rosen (USA)
5PM THE NEW FACES OF THE ENEMY
Scott Atran (USA) / Grégoire Chamayou (FR) / Ariel Colonomos (FR) /
Philip Gourevitch (USA)
7:30PM AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Barbara Cassin (FR) / Maira Kalman (USA) / Daniel Handler (USA) /
Sophie Wahnich (FR)

SUNDAY, JANUARY 30
Greenlight Bookstore
1PM
FROM FICTION TO PHILOSOPHY
Pierre Cassou-Noguès (FR) / Rick Moody (USA) / Avital Ronell
(USA) / Benjamen Walker (USA)

SUNDAY, JANUARY 30
Brooklyn Flea
2 TO 6PM
FAIR FOR KNOWLEDGE: HAIR
Laurel Braitman (USA) / Barbara Cassin (FR) / Cécile Guilbert (FR) /  
Justin E. H. Smith (USA) / John Strausbaugh (USA) /  
Sophie Wahnich (FR)

MONDAY, JANUARY 31 Aperture

6:30PM PICTURING THE SELF: A PHILOSOPHER DISCUSSES 
A PHOTOGRAPHER’S WORK
Pierre Cassou-Noguès (FR) / Jen Davis (USA)

MONDAY, JANUARY 31 Joe’s Pub

9PM GOING PUBLIC : EMBODYING A PERSONA
Cécile Guilbert (FR) / Cynthia Hopkins (USA) / Sarah Jones (USA)

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 UnionDocs

7PM HUNTER VS HUNTED: A PHILOSOPHER DISCUSSES 
SHORT MEDIA PIECES
Grégoire Chamayou (FR)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 The New School

7PM
CATASTROPHE PRACTICE
Jean-Pierre Dupuy (FR) / Jonathan Lear (USA) / 
Michel Lussault (FR) / Josh Neufeld (USA)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3
French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
7:30PM
STARTING FROM HERE: EVERY PLACE TELLS A STORY
Reif Larsen (USA) / Michel Lussault (FR) / Peter Turchi (USA) /
Philippe Vasset (FR)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4 The New School

6:30PM THE SHAPES OF SPACE—THE SHEARS OF TIME: WHY DOES
PHILOSOPHY NEED ART TO BECOME TRULY EXPERIMENTAL?
Elie During (FR) / Patrice Maniglier (FR) / McKenzie Wark (USA)

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Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 59th–Lexington /
N, R to 59 th–5th Ave / E to 53rd St
GREENLIGHT BOOKSTORE
686 Fulton St (at South Portland)
Brooklyn
Ticketing: free
Subway: C to Lafayette / G to
Fulton St / 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, M, Q, N,
R to Atlantic Ave–Pacific St
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JOE’S PUB
425 Lafayette St (at 8th St)
Ticketing: $15 – 212-967-7555  
or www.joespub.com
Subway: 4, 6 to Astor Pl–8th St-
Lexington / R, W to 8th St
THE NEW SCHOOL, 
JOHN TISHMAN AUDITORIUM
66 West 12th St (btwn 6th & 5th Aves)
Ticketing: free
Subway: L, N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6  
to 14th St–Union Sq
THE NEW SCHOOL, 
THERESA LANG CENTER
55 West 13th St (at 6th Ave), 2nd Floor
Ticketing: free
Subway: F, M, N, Q, R, 4, 5, 6 to
14th St–Union Sq / L to 6 th Ave / F,
M to 14th St
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, 
CELESTE BARTOS FORUM
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
455 5th Ave (at 42nd St)
Ticketing: $15 ($10 for students,
seniors, members & NYPL staff) –
1.888.71.TICKETS or  
www.showclix.com
Subway: B, D, F, M to 42nd St–
Bryant Park / 7 to 5thAve
UNIONDOCS
322 Union Ave (btwn Maujer & Ten
Eyck St)
Ticketing: $9 suggested donation 
www.uniondocs.org
Subway: L to Lorimer St / G to
Metropolitan Ave / J to Hewes
Street
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