Cohabitation: From Prehistory to Post Elections, a Summary of Colloquia Held at the Institute of French Studies, New York University Winter-Spring 1986

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (x) ◽  
pp. 325-340
Author(s):  
John Westbrook
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
New York University ◽  
French Studies ◽  
Intellectual Inquiry ◽  
Political Groups

Cohabitation is a plastic term. It can be stretched to encompass a large number of meanings—political, social, or even historical. Its denotative simplicity, cohabitation meaning merely to dwell together, provides for its connotative prolificacy. Once in the presence of two political groups, two political institutions, or two fields of intellectual inquiry, one can speak of cohabitation. However, the use of this term conveys the idea that one is interested in more than the static face à face of opposing interests; it implies rather that one is attentive to the give and take between those interests.

Clochards, Commercials, Cohabitation, Continuity, and Change, a Summary of Colloquia Held at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, Autumn 1986

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (x) ◽  
pp. 341-352
Author(s):  
Melissa Clegg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
New York University ◽  
Fifth Republic ◽  
French Studies ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Napoleon Iii ◽  
The University

Since the founding of the Fifth Republic Paris has been rebuilt to an extent only the reconstructions of the Second Empire under Napoleon III could match. The story of its rebuilding—told by David Pinkney, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Washington—could serve as a fable with a moral about the whole of French cultural and political life for the last twenty-five years. De Gaulle began the transformation of Paris by deregulating the building industry. The threats of that policy to the historical character of the city eventually provoked, under Giscard d’Estaing and Mitterrand, a return to the centrist practices of a state accustomed to regulation.

The Changing Face of French History. A Summary of Colloquia Held at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, Fall 1987

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 373-386
Author(s):  
Steve Albert
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Social History ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
French History ◽  
New York University ◽  
World War ◽  
French Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Charles Tilly

A REVIEW OF THE FALL 1987 COLLOQUIA SPONSORED BY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY’S INSTITUTE OF FRENCH STUDIES In the past twenty to thirty years, the conception of history in both France and America has changed considerably. The territory covered by the discipline has broadened to encompass elements of various social sciences, such as anthropology and sociology. In the Fall of 1987, four colloquia at New York University’s Institute of French Studies focused on various facets of French history and its study. Louis Bergeron and Jacques Revel both discussed some of the effects of the expansion of the concept of history on their discipline. Tony Judt examined the French Left in the context of European socialist thought after World War II, demonstrating how “historical” analysis is now being applied to periods as recent as 1945-1975. Finally, Charles Tilly described the writing of his latest book, The Contentious French, offering an example of current analytical methods in social history.

Crisis, Decentralization, Cohabitation: Aspects of Change in France. A Summary of Colloquia Held at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, Winter-Spring 1987

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 363-372
Author(s):  
Frederick L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
New York University ◽  
Recent Period ◽  
French Politics ◽  
Fifth Republic ◽  
French Studies ◽  
New Model ◽  
Varying Length

As cohabitation marked its first anniversary this spring, it was clear the much-discussed power arrangement had brought important changes to French politics. The experience will certainly have a great influence during next year’s presidential elections and beyond, both by bolstering Mitterrand’s popularity and by presenting a new model for power division within the executive. Perhaps more importantly, it has clearly proven the adaptability and durability of the Fifth Republic constitution. The March 1986 elections, however, are but one of several junctures which can be seen as initiating a recent period of change in France. Like a Russian Matreshka doll nested within a series of ever-larger dolls, France today is living through at least three events of varying length that both reflect and bring about change: the crisis, decentralization and cohabitation.

Current Issues in the Social Sciences: A survey of the Spring 1989 French Studies Colloquia at New York University

1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (x) ◽  
pp. 273-286
Author(s):  
David Pauley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
New York ◽  
The State ◽  
New York University ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
French Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social

In Spring 1989 as in the past, the French Studies Colloquia at New York University brought a group of noted scholars and academics before an American audience to discuss the state of ongoing research in various specialized fields relating to France.

Right Wing Revivals in France : A Series of Talks at the New York University Institute of French Studies

1984 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-224
Author(s):  
Dorothy Young
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
New York University ◽  
French Studies ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

As the debate about the future of the French Left intensifies, and the Right parties and coalitions win ever more local elections in France, the Institute of French Studies and the Maison Fran^aise at New York University have presented several colloquia on the subject of the Extreme Right in France in this century. Among the specialists convoked were Zcev Sternhell, author of Ni Droite Ni Gauche and Professor of History at University of Jerusalem; Robert Paxton, author of Vichy France and Professor of History at Columbia University.

Patricia H. Labalme, ed., Beyond their sex New York and London : New York University Press, 1980. xx-188 pp. $ 21.90

Moreana ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (Number 74) (2) ◽  
pp. 105-106
Author(s):  
Patricia Delendick ◽  
Germain Marc’hadour
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York University
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