Roundtable:
"Why Is France Burning?"


Monday, 28 November 2005
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

206 Ingraham Hall


UW Faculty Participants:

Gilles Bousquet (Dean, International Studies/French & Italian)
Welcome Remarks & Introductions

Richard Keller
(History of Science/Medical History & Bioethics)
"Immigration and the Banlieue: Sites of Memory, Sites of Pathology"

Ivan Ermakoff (Sociology)
"Discrimination, Denial and Contempt"

Deborah Jenson (French & Italian)
"The 'Pétroleurs' of the Fifth Republic: Insurgency, Alterity, and Memory in France"

Laird Boswell (History)
"Why now, why there, and what next?"

Aliko Songolo (French & Italian/African Languages & Literature)
"L'Afrance"

Florence Bernault (History)
"Colonial Debt and Paternalism"


Sponsored by The Center for European Studies,
Department of French & Italian, Department of History,
Department of Sociology, Center for Interdisciplinary French
Studies
, and the African Diaspora and the Atlantic World
Research Circle


For several weeks now, (sub)urban violence in France has grabbed the headlines. In order to try to make sense of these events, faculty members interested in the study of France from several disciplines have organized a roundtable.