In the second episode of EUI Conversations, the European University Institute welcomes French anthropologist and sociologist Didier Fassin.
How are lives made unequal and how is this inequality accepted? What are the moral consequences of this acceptance? With his last book, Une étrange défaite (published by Verso in English as 'Moral abdication: how the world failed to stop the destruction of Gaza') Didier Fassin has assembled an archive of the assent to the destruction of Gaza and of the moral abdication it implies.
Revital Madar and Nicolas Guilhot will discuss Fassin’s work with him in this second instalment of EUI Conversations.
About the speakers:
Didier Fassin is Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In 2022, he was elected at the Collège de France as the permanent chair of Moral Questions and Social Issues. Fassin is an anthropologist, sociologist, and a physician with considerable humanitarian experience, including as vice-president of Médecins Sans Frontières.
Revital Madar is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre. Her research focuses on the intersection of law, sovereignty, and violence in the context of Palestine-Israel.
Nicolas Guilhot is Professor of Intellectual History at the EUI’s Department of History.
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