Update: March 5th: France’s Yellow Vest Movement: Motivations and Implications

Attention:  Due to a conflict that has arisen for our speaker,  this event has been postponed to March 5th.

Speaker:

Riva Kastoryano is a Research Director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), and Professor at SciencesPo Paris. Her work focuses on identity and minority issues and more specifically to their relations to states in France, Germany, and the United States. She has been a lecturer at Harvard University, and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton), Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (Harvard). She has been teaching as a Visiting Professor at The New School for Social Research in New York City since 2005.

Her latest book, Burying Jihadists (Oxford University Press 2018), treats the relationship between belonging and territory in globalization, built around the question of transnational nationalism. Her other recent books are Negotiating Identities. States and Immigrants in France and Germany (Princeton University Press, 2002). She also edited Quelle identité pour l’Europe ? Le multiculturalisme à l’épreuve (Paris, Presses de Sciences-Po 1998 and 2005 for the second edition) ; Nationalismes en mutation en Méditerranée Orientale (Changing Concept of Nationalism) (with A.Dieckhoff) (Paris, Ed.du CNRS 2002); and Les codes de la différence. Religion, Origine, Race en France, Allemagne et Etats-Unis, (Codes of Otherness. Religion, Ancester and Race in France, Germany and the United States) (Presses de Sciecnes-Po, 2005). She is also the author of Turkey Between Nationalism and Globalization (Routledge, 2013). Her most recent book was first published in France as: Que faire des corps des djihadistes? Territoire et identité, (Paris, Fayard 2015).