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.

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.

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.

A Ptolemaic-Roman Temple Foundation at Tell Timai

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-225
Author(s):  
James E. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
New York University ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
University Of Hawai'i ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

The mission of the University of Hawai’i at Tell Timai in 2009 began excavating the remains of a limestone temple foundation platform in the north-west area of the site. The foundations had been partially recorded in survey work conducted in 1930 by Alexander Langsdorff and Siegfried Schott, and again in the 1960s by New York University, however no known investigations of the structure were conducted. In 2017 as part of an Egypt Exploration Society Fieldwork and Research Grant, excavations were renewed to finalise the understanding of the temple’s construction techniques, and the date of the temple. The foundations were of a casemate design with internal fills of alternating silt and limestone chips. The ceramic evidence from within the construction fills dates its construction from the end of the Ptolemaic to the early Roman Period, and the temple’s superstructure was most likely taken down and the blocks reused in the late Roman Period (fourth to fifth century ce).

New Working Group on “Cultural Protocols” Convenes at New York University, 19 August 2011

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhavi Sunder
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
New York University ◽  
Access And Benefit Sharing ◽  
Study Protocols ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University

Protocols in international law seem to be proliferating. Examples of official protocols at international law abound, from the 1967 Stockholm Protocol Regarding Developing Countries (amending the Berne Convention on copyright), to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change, to the recent Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing in 2010. But what exactly is a “protocol” compared to other international legal instruments, such as declarations and treaties? And why does there seem to be a flurry of new protocols today, in domains as vast as intellectual property and indigenous people's rights? On 19 August a new “working group” convened at the New York University School of Law to begin to study protocols, especially with an eye toward their use as a tool to protect indigenous cultural property—hence, the term “cultural protocols.” The working group is the brainchild of Dr. Jane Anderson of the University of Massachusetts and Professor Barton Beebe of the New York University School of Law.

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