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December 2003 no. 3 Inside this Issue FROM THE DIRECTOR ................. 1 2003-2004 FELLOWS.................. 2 VISITORS TO THE INSTITUTE........ 2 MSH INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR ADVANCED STUDIES............ 3 INSTITUTE EVENTS..................... 5 CONTRIBUTIONS “Pages d’ombre” by Lionel Ray, trans. Carolyn Burke............... 6 “Stewed and Fraught with Birds” by Stephen Rodefer..... 7 INTERVIEWS WITH FELLOWS Cross-cultural exchanges in European/Ottoman architecture in the 19th century ................... 8 Art and Play in Eighteenth-Century France ....................... 9 Catholic Jewish Relations in during the Third Republic and World War II Period ............. 10 MAISON SUGER ....................... 11 NEWS FROM PAST FELLOWS....... 12

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Michèle Grossen Department of Psychology and Political Science University of Lausanne, Switzerland Per Linell Professor of Communication Studies University of Linköping, Sweden Spring: The Foundations of Mathematics in the 19th Century: Between History, Philosophy, Epistemology and Cognition José M. Ferreirós Dominguez Professor of Philosophy Department of Logic and Philosophy University of Seville, Spain Javier Legris Secretary of the Section for Logic and Philosophy of Sciences at the Center for Philosophical Studies, National Academy of Sciences at Buenos Aires, Brazil Klaus Thomas Volkert Professor Department of Mathematics Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany

2003-2004 Fellows FELLOWS 2003-2004


The Institute’s cooperation with the IPAS of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) continues to be fruitful and exciting. It provides a welcomed opportunity to broaden the international scope of the Institute and to give individual and group scholars opportunities to work together in a collegial atmosphere. We are pleased to announce that the IPAS now has its own website. Scholars interested in presenting group projects are encouraged to consult it. The Spirit of the Programme The MSH has been building internationalnetworks of scholars for many years andbelieves that the social sciences must be trulyinternational in methods as well as in contentand vision. Benefiting from its longstandinglinks with Russia, India and China inaddition to strong connections with EuropeanUnion countries and North America, theMSH is expanding its networks to EasternEurope, Africa, Latin America and theMiddle East. The International Programme for AdvancedStudies (IPAS) of the MSH differs frommany institutes for advanced studies in itsfellowship policy. Rather than offering long-term fellowships to individual scholars, weoffer medium-term ones for collectiveresearch. In practice, this policy producescore groups of three to five scholars, most ofwhom live in residence for three months orso. The core group, which usually includes aFrance-based member, often interacts with abroader circle of scholars interested in theirresearch. Some of these scholars maybecome associated with the project. Groupsalso benefit from the MSH network ofFrench scholars and foreign visitors who areinvited through a variety of MSHprogrammes. The MSH and its affiliate, theMaison Suger, offer great opportunities inthis regard. So does the Columbia UniversityInstitute for Scholars at Reid Hall, with itsscholars coming from diverse countries.

IPAS Fellows work in a congenial and intel-lectually stimulating atmosphere. The tri-

angle constituted by the Maison des Sciencesde l’Homme, the Maison Suger, andColumbia University in Paris, all situated inthe 6th arrondissement of Paris, offers adynamic infrastructure for interacting withthe broader academic community. In such anintellectual climate, the invited teams areexpected to be active in their research andconduct informal workshops and/or moreformal seminars open to the scientificcommunity. Special issues of journals, editedvolumes, or other collective publicationsdemonstrate the success of the IPAS concept. Fellowships The MSH offers IPAS Fellows coming fromabroad grants that covers travel, accom-modations, and a per diem. In some cases theColumbia University Institute for Scholars atReid Hall offers offices, logistical assistance,meeting facilities, and small grants. Our guests usually stay at the Maison Suger.Not simply a place of residence, the MaisonSuger is also a place for working, makingcontacts, and holding scholarly events. Inaddition, at the MSH main building at 54boulevard Raspail Fellows will find a library,a helpful administrative staff, and a numberof research centres. Seminar rooms areavailable at the Maison Suger and the MSHmain building as well as at the Institute forScholars.

MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L'HOMME

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR ADVANCED STUDIES (IPAS)


Projects Since its inception in mid-2001, theInternational Programme for AdvancedStudies has welcomed seven projects: Codes of Otherness. Religion, Color, andAncestry in France, the United States andGermany. Riva Kastoryano, CERI/CNRS,Paris; George Fredrickson, StanfordUniversity; Uli Bielefeld, Hamburger Institutfür Sozialforschung, Germany. Justice pénale internationale. Variationsautour d'un droit commun. MireilleDelmas-Marty, University of Paris I; GeorgeFletcher, Columbia University; AbdoullahCissé, Université Gaston Berger, Sénegal;Jianping Lu, University of the People, China. Partitions Compared and Lessons Learnt.Issues in the Politics of Dialogue andPeace. Rada Ivekovic, University of ParisVIII; Stephano Bianchini, University ofBologna, Italy; Ranabir Samaddar, SouthAsia Forum for Human Rights, Nepal;Sanjay Chaturvedi, Panjab University, India. Mathematical Proof, Axiomatic DeductiveDemonstration and the Historical Shapingof Discourses about Them. Karine Chemla,REHSEIS/CNRS, University of Paris VII;Geoffrey Lloyd, Cambridge University, UK;Ian Mueller, University of Chicago; RevielNetz, Stanford University; Dhruv Raina,Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Les Vocabulaires sociologiques face àl'unification de l'Europe: Construction,transformation, mondialisation. NataliaChmatko, Russian Academy of Sciences; JanSpurk, LSCI/CNRS, Paris; ReinhardBlomert, University of Graz, Austria;Vittorio Cotesta, University of Salerno, Italy.

Trust and Democracy in Transition Ivana Markova, Department of Psychology,University of Stirling; Per Linell, Universityof Linkoping, Sweden; Michèle Grossen,University of Lausanne. Les sciences sociales en Amérique Latine:institutionnalisation et échanges inter-nationaux en Argentine, Brésil, Chili etMexique (1945-1970). Manuel AntonioGarreton, University of Chile; José LuizReyna, The College of Mexico; WaldoAnsaldi, University of Buenos Aires,Argentina ; Afranio Garcia, Center for theStudy of Comtemporary Brazil; HelgioTrindade, Federal University of Rio Grandedo Sul, Brezil. The Head of the International Programme forAdvanced Studies at MSH is Jean-LucRacine ([email protected]), Maison desSciences de l'Homme, 54 BoulevardRaspail, 75006 Paris.

Jean-Luc Racine

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR ADVANCED STUDIES (IPAS) (CONTINUED)


INSTITUTE EVENTS

May 15, 2003 Workshop “On Simulation” Organized by Institute Fellow Friederike Moltmann and the Institut Jean Nicod May 15, 2003 Poetry Reading “A la table des mots,” with French poet Lionel Ray and his English translator, Carolyn Burke, Institute Fellow May 20-21, 2003 Workshop “The Notion of an Object: Criteria for Objecthood in Philosophy, Linguistics, and Cognitive Science” Organized by Institute Fellow Friederike Moltmann and the Institut Jean Nicod Participants: Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, ENS Lyon, IJN; Roberto Casati, CNRS/IJN; Jérôme Dokie, University of Rouen, IJN; Frederic Ferro, ENS Paris; G. Guigon, CEA, University of Rennes; Jacques Jayez, ENS Lyon; Max Kistler, University of Paris X, IJN; Pierre Livet, University of Aix-en-Provence; E.J. Lowe, University of Durham; Frederic Nef, EHESS, IJN; D. Nicolas, CNRS, IJN; Jérôme Pelletier, CNRS, IJN; Peter Simons, University of Leeds; Ede Zimmermann, University of Frankfurt. October 9, 2003 Roundtable of Institute Fellows Presentations Nebahat Avcioglu “Architecture, Modernism and the Discourses of Ottoman Nationalism” Vicki Caron “Catholic-Jewish Relations in France since 1870”

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Matthew L. Jones “Formal Reasoning and its Discontents: Mathematics, Aesthetics and the Dangers of Rigor in the Enlightenment” Jennifer D. Milam “A Playful Aesthetic: Reinterpreting Rococo Visual Culture” October 16, 2003 Roundtable of Institute Fellows Group Presentation Ivana Markova, Michèle Grossen, Per Linell, Li Liu “Trust and Democracy in Transition” November 13-15, 2003 Workshop “Trust and Culture” Organized by Institute Fellow Ivana Markova, the Institute, and the IPAS-MSH Participants: Geoffrey Hosking, University College of London; Sandra Jovchelovitch, London School of Economics; Ivana Markova, Institute Fellow; Srikant Sarangi, University of Cardiff; Li Liu, London School of Economics November 26, 2003 Poetry Reading Organized by Jérôme Game and the Institute Works by four contemporary poets Jean-François Bory, Jérôme Game, Anne Portugal, Stephen Rodefer November 27, 2003 Colloquium “Play and Art in the 18th Century” Organized by Institute Fellow Jennifer Milam Participants: Nebahat Avcioglu, Institute Fellow; Nina Dubin, U.C. Berkeley; Etienne Jollet, University of Provence; Thomas Kavanagh, Yale University; Mark Ledbury, Clark Art Institute; Jennifer Milam, Institute Fellow; Denis Reynaud, University of Lyon II; Susan Taylor Leduc, Independent Scholar, Paris; Alan Wintermute, Artemis Gallery, New York

INSTITUTE EVENTS (CONTINUED)
December 9, 2003 Seminar “Changing Trust in Hungary” Ferenc Eros, Research Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest December 10, 2004 Workshop “Trust in Discourse: a Dialogical Ap-proach” Organized by Institute Fellow Ivana Markova, the Institute, the IPAS-MSH, and the Maison Suger Participants: Michèle Grossen, Institute Fellow; Per Linell, Institute Fellow; Ivana Markova, Institute Fellow; Li Liu, London School of Economics and Political Sciences; Anne Salazar Orvig, CNRS and University of Paris V

The group on Trust and Democracy inTransition meets in the Institute’s salondes chercheurs. From left to right:Fellows Michèle Grossen, IvanaMarkova, and Per Linell, followed byInstitute visitor Li Liu and AnneSalazar-Orvig, researcher in linguisticsat the CNRS and Maître de Confé-rences at the University of Paris V.The occasion is a workshop on “Trustand Discourse: A Dialogic Approach”on December 10, 2003.

On May 15, 2003 French poet Lionel Raycame to the Institute to read and discusshis poetry. He was joined by his Americantranslator, Institute Fellow Carolyn Burke.Below is a sample of his poetry and hertranslation.

Pages d’ombre Être un moment du feu

un moment du temps ou du sommeil

être cela qui ne se mesure pas

écouter vivre en soi l’ailleurs

c’est comme si l’oiseau de l’aube

devenait plus léger qu’un souffle

et tout est là qui faiblement respire

une fois qu’on a passé le seuil

et qu’il n’y a plus qu’à s’asseoir

calmement à la table des mots.

(English translation)

To be a moment of fire

a moment of time or sleep

to be that which can’t be measured

listening to that elsewhere alive inside

it’s as if the bird of dawn

were becoming lighter than breath

and everything is here faintly breathing

once you have crossed the threshold

and you have only to sit down

calmly at the table of words.

Lionel Ray, poet

Carolyn Burke, translator

FELLOW CONTRIBUTION A LA TABLE DES MOTS


CONTRIBUTIONS

Stewed and Fraught with Birds

Stephen Rodefer is an American poet and translator living in Paris. He presented his recent poetry during an evening of poetry reading at the Institute in November. The following excerpt is from “Stewed and Fraught with Birds” in his Mon Canard, published by The Figures in 2000.

… Ahem, when I hear the words

oh poesie

I reach for my pyjamas

and punch out the pillows in the living room

Comedy in France

is an honored

tradition

bereft of laughter

Caca boudin clinks

the intestinal skin

of its institution

then slides down the gullet on its own sleeve

Danielle Haase-Dubosc with four poets inFrom left to right: Jean-François Bo

Danielle Haase-Dubosc,

to be noted later, still enameled

at the back of sulfurous magazines

by some Beelzebub

looking for a contract on the Faust of the moment

For tons of recent clay

will cover o’er

this fatuous skirmish

in the next literary war

Bonne Année anyway

to all troglodytes

now that anti-semitism

can be a racist analysis

and post-modernism net

and yahoo, may become

social realism at last

as modernism was reactionary by definition

… Stephen Rodefer

vited to the Institute on November 27.

ry, Jérôme Game, Anne Portugal, and Stephen Rodefer.

INTERVIEWS WITH FELLOWS
Cross-Cultural Exchange between Europe and the Ottoman Empire

Nebahat Avcioglu is Lecturer in Islamic Architecture in the Department of Art History, Manchester University in England. She is an Institute Fellow for the 2003-2004 academic year. Please describe your research. In my current research, I investigate theprocess of cultural evolution through thetransmission of architectural knowledgebetween different cultures. Why and howdoes architecture travel? What are itscarriers? And what are the purposes andconsequences of its migration? But mostimportantly what happens to meaningsduring this process? In examining theseissues I will focus on the emergingnationalist propaganda of the OttomanEmpire. I will analyze the importance ofnineteenth-century Ottoman palatialcomplexes within the context of a newlydeveloping genre of Ottoman travelliterature, a subject that has been rarelyconsidered by scholars. My aim is tohighlight the cross-cultural exchangesbetween Europe and the Ottoman Empirein the light of a dynamic relation betweenOttoman aesthetic discourse and nationalidentity. Without reifying Europe and theOttoman Empire (one always runs the

risk of doing this when one is speakingabout art and architecture), I want toshow that such cross-cultural exchangesare constitutive factors in culturalevolution. Although my research isplace/time specific, I am concerned withthe wider issues of culture. Here, mywork is deeply inspired by the writings ofanthropologist Clifford Geertz andliterary critic Edward Said. I hope toprovide an understanding of culturalcontacts that challenges rigid cate-gorizations. Rather than dichotomizingEast-West, Muslim-Christian distinc-tions, my research, I hope, will de-monstrate the pluralities embodied withinculture itself. What plans to you have for this year atthe Institute? In terms of writing, I am now in theprocess of completing my book and willbe submitting it this January. After that, Iwill begin working on a book-lengthproject on Ottoman travellers, with theaim of shedding light on the history ofthe diffusion of European architecturalstyles in Istanbul. I have alreadycollected archival material concerningnew palaces of the Ottoman sultanswhich challenges current notions aboutWesternization, modernity as well astradition. I have presented a paperentitled “the Deep-Play of Turquerie” ata roundtable organized by Jennifer Milanon “Play and Art in the 18th century”,held at The Institute on November 27th. Iam also in the process of organizing aroundtable related to my current researchin May 2004. What does this year at the Instituterepresent for you? It presents a unique and tremendousopportunity for me to finish my bookmanuscript and make progress withcurrent research. Both of these projectsrequire the use of sources in Frenchlibraries and archives.


Play and Art in Eighteenth-Century France

Jennifer Milam, Senior Lecturer at theUniversity of Sydney, Australia speaksduring a workshop on Play and Art in theEighteenth Century, held at the Institute onNovember 27th. Can you briefly describe the topic of yourresearch? Broadly stated, my project aims to chartthe ludic impulses of ancien régimesociety that produced rococo visualculture and to recover the ways thatamusement helped shape aesthetic theoryin eighteenth-century Europe. It has aparticular focus on the art of France andthe general impact of rococo forms onthe development of aesthetic theory inGermany and England. By reconnectingthe aesthetic theory of the Enlightenmentwith the diverting qualities of rococo art,architecture and garden design, myproject demonstrates the serious side ofplay during the ancien régime. I hopethat the project will not only providefresh critical perspectives on Europeanvisual culture, the Enlightenment, and theorigins of aesthetic theory, but also offera new model for recovering processes ofreception and indicate how visualexperiences contribute to the productionof culture.

Can you describe how you have beenconducting research? Have you madeany discoveries in the course of yourstay? Much of my time has been spent usingphoto archives at the Louvre, salon andsale catalogues at the Doucet library,looking at prints at the Cabinet desestampes, and researching treatises ongames, gambling, hunting and gardendesign at the Bibliothèque nationale. Ofcourse, I have also spent a lot of timestudying paintings and other art objectsin museums and visiting gardens toexperience and judge the elements andqualities at play in form and space. Twonew discoveries for me have been theunique Musée français de la carte àjouer in Issy-les-Moulineaux and thefolies from Méréville that have beenmoved to the Parc de Jeurre. How has being at the Institute helped youwith your project? My semester at the Institute is providingme with a valuable chance to share ideaswith other scholars engaged in researchthat is close to my own. Particularlyuseful have been the conversations I havehad with Nebahat Avcioglu on gardens inEngland and France. I have also learned agreat deal from Matthew Jones about lateseventeenth-century philosophers andtheir aesthetic interests. The facilities andgenerosity of the administration at theInstitute for Scholars have also helpedme to expand this opportunity forscholarly exchange to include researchersoutside the Institute, some of whomattended and participated in thesymposium I organized on play and art inthe eighteenth century, held onNovember 27th.



Catholic Jewish Relations during the Third Republic and World-War-II Period
Vicki Caron is Professor of History at Cornell University and specializes in Jewish history in Germany and France in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is at the Institute for the academic year where she is beginning research for her new research project on Jewish-Catholic relations in late 19th and 20th century France. Please tell us about your new research project. I intend to write a comprehensive studyon Jewish-Catholic relations in Francesince the beginning of the Third Republicin 1870. Existing studies of this subjecttreat clerical antisemitism as an expres-sion of traditional anti-Jewish prejudiceinherent in the age-old conflict betweenChurch and Synagogue and distinguish itfrom modern antisemitism, linked to therise of secular and racial antisemiticmovements at the end of the 19th century.I will argue, however, that clerical anti-semitism was not terribly different fromthese new secular and racial brands ofantisemitism, and that it, too, was aresponse to distinctly modern tensions.Hence, the aim of this study is to breakdown the longstanding dichotomybetween religious and modern forms ofantisemitism in order to show that it was

these modern forms of antisemitism that did much to pave the way for Catholic acceptance of Vichy’s anti-Jewish pro-gram. Although the periods of the Dreyfus Affair and the Vichy era will be reexamined, I also intend to focus on the anticlerical struggles of the early Third Republic, as well as the interwar and the post-1945 eras. How did you become interested in this topic? I became interested from work I did onmy last book, Uneasy Asylum: Franceand the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942 (published by Stanford UniversityPress in 1999). In that book, I looked atpublic opinion toward Jewish refugees inthe 1930’s and found that Catholicopinion was deeply ambivalent, notwith-standing numerous historical studies tothe contrary. I therefore wanted to lookinto the deeper causes of the anti-semitism, which I believe played a majorrole in popular acceptance of Vichy’santisemitic program, at least until thebeginning of the mass deportations ofJews from France in the summer of 1942. Where are you conducting your research? I am currently working at the Biblio-thèque nationale de France, the Allianceisraélite universelle, and the CatholicInstitute. During my last research trip toFrance, I completed most of my archivalresearch at the Archives nationales, theArchives de la Préfecture de police deParis, and the Centre de documentationjuive contemporaine. I am now lookingmostly at printed primary sources, suchas newspapers, reviews, etc. What does this year at the Institute represent for you? Above all, it gives me a chance tocomplete research for this project. I planto begin writing in the spring.


FROM THE DIRECTOR continued from page 1

The Institute for Scholars at Reid Hallhas been working with the MaisonSuger over past two years to houseInstitute Fellows in a scholarly setting. Set in the heart of the Latin Quarter, theMaison Suger, a non-profit organ-ization, was created by the Maison desSciences de l'Homme Foundation, anon-profit organization, to provide awelcoming work environment forforeign researchers spending time inParis and working with colleagues inthe social sciences. The Institute haswelcomed the opportunity to shareinterests with the Maison Suger, thus

Here at Reid Hall, Mihaela Bacou continued toserve as research co-ordinator, providing dailyassistance to the Fellows and solving countlessproblems. Maneesha Lal left her post asscientific co-ordinator in order to go back toteaching in the United States and we were sadto see her go. Her position was filled byCharles Walton, a historian of France whosePh.D. is from Princeton. He also gave Fellowsmuch support and participated in seminars. We were fortunate to have Professor JonathanCole, former Provost and Dean of Faculties atColumbia University, join the Institute this fall.His presence was a pleasure for all of us and hemade good progress on the book he plans topublish in 2004. Many “Former Fellows”visited us throughout the year, keeping usabreast of their accomplishments and thusreaffirming our commitment to the Institute. It is fitting that I close this letter with a tributeto Edward W. Said who encouraged thecreation of our Institute and was one of thekeynote speakers at its inauguration in 2002.His belief in humanism and critical enquirysustains our efforts.

--Danielle Haase-Dubosc

giving fellows the opportunity to livewith other scholars and to participate inmany professional and recreationalactivities. The building contains 33 units, ranging

MAISON SUGER

from studios to two-room suites,designed to function as both apartmentsand offices. The units are entirelyfurnished and include bath and kitchenfacilities. The standard equipment ineach apartment includes a telephoneand color TV receiving domestic andinternational channels. Also available to residents arecomputer terminals linked to an in-house server with access to softwareand laser printing as well as Internetand e-mail. Residents will find avariety of common areas where theycan meet, work, and relax.


The Columbia University's Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall Newsletter aims todisseminate information about Institute events as well as provide a forum for current, past, and future Fellows to maintain contact with one another's on-going scholarly activities. We welcome comments and suggestions for items to include which will interest readers. Please address inquiries to the editor, Charles Walton ([email protected]).

Gregory S. Brown's document text book Cultures in Conflict: The French Revolution has recently been published by Greenwood Press. He is currently working on a new book, Literary Sociability in the Old Regime: Beaumarchais, the Comédie Française and the Société des auteurs dramatiques, to be published by Ashgate Press in 2004. Carolyn Burke’s biography on Lee Miller isnow under press, and she is currentlytranslating the work of the French poetLionel Ray. Rada Ivekovic’s new book, Dame Nation:Nation et différences des sexes, appeared innumber 21 of A Series of Balkan and East-European Studies, published by LongoEditore Ravenna, 2003. Jeremy Jennings taught a methodology seminar for Columbia University’s M.A. in French Cultural Studies at Reid Hall. His book Socialism: Critical Concepts in Political Science was published this year by Routledge. He has edited a special issue of the European Journal of Political Theory on “Raymond Aron and French Liberalism” published in October 2003. His article “Tocqueville and the Third Democracy” will appear in an upcoming issue of the American Political Science Review. With Melissa Lane he is organizing the next annual Oxford Con-ference on Political Thought in January. Colin Jones came through Paris twice thisfall for colloquia, one on the exchange ofideas between France and England, the otheron the history of physiognomy. He isfinishing his book on the history of Paris. Herman (Gene) Lebovics has two books coming out in 2004-2005, one on French regional, national, and colonial heritages and their interaction in the 1970’s, to be published by Duke University Press. The other, a collection of essays entitled When the White Man Oppresses Others He Loses His Own Freedom, which argues that empire kills democracy. Geoffrey Lloyd, whose co-edited book TheWay of the Word appeared earlier this yearwith Oxford University Press, will publish

another book with OUP at the beginning of2004, Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections.This book concludes with a couple ofchapters on human rights and a critique ofdemocracy. He received an honorary degreefrom the University of Athens in November. Ranabir Samaddar has been appointed Director of the Calcutta Research Group in India, a public policy research body working on themes of forced migration, justice, human rights, peace, and norms of citizenship. Among his recent publications figure A Biography of the Indian State, 1947-1997 (Sage, 2001), The Paradoxes of the Nationalist Time - Political Essays on Bangladesh (Dhaka: University Press, 2002), and Refugees and the State: Care and Protection Policies of India, 1947-2000, (Sage, 2003). Sudhir Venkatesh has completed fieldwork for his new project, which he will be presenting at the Institute in January 2004. He has been studying government housing communities in the Parisian banlieue. We were happy to see Harrison White several times during the year as he came through Paris on his way to scholarly meetings and conferences.

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