Editions Amsterdam has published La Politique du Voile (2017), a
new translation of Professor Emerita Joan
Wallach Scott's book ThePolitics of the Veil (2007), an examination
of the French government's ban on the wearing of "conspicuous
signs" of...
Joan Wallach Scott, Professor
Emerita in the School of Social Science, has co-authored Les
Défis de la République: Genre, Territoires, Citoyenneté
(Presses De Sciences Po, 2017), which examines the conditions under
which new public policy mechanisms...
Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of
Social Science, has authored Das Leben: Eine kritische
Gebrauchsanweisung (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2017), which presents a
dialogue on the relationship between philosophy and social
research...
Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social
Science, has authored Sex and Secularism (Princeton
University Press, 2017), which draws on a wealth of scholarship by
second-wave feminists and historians of religion, race, and...
In this public lecture, Thomas Piketty, Professor at École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (EHESS) and the École
d’économie de Paris/Paris School of Economics, presents new
findings and reflections on global inequality dynamics as
part...
The Institute for Advanced Study came into being at the most inauspicious of times. Founded in the early years of the Great Depression, it took shape during the buildup to the Second World War and under the growing shadow of authoritarian regimes. Its first Director Abraham Flexner published his manifesto on the “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge” in October 1939, barely a month after the outbreak of hostilities in Europe. Surely this was a daunting moment to defend “the fearless and irresponsible thinker” and advocate for the free expression of knowledge and curiosity.
In November 1954, Albert
Einstein wrote a letter to a magazine in which he declared
that, were he a young man again, he would not try to become a
scientist: “I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in
the hope to find that modest degree...
To Albert Einstein, she was
“the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far
produced since the higher education of women began.” More
straightforward in his praise, Einstein’s fellow Professor at the
Institute for Advanced Study, Hermann...
In 2007, when Ségolène Royal announced her candidacy to the
Socialist primary for the presidential election, Laurent Fabius,
former prime minister under President François Mitterrand,
ironically commented: “But who will take care of the kids?”
an...