Didier Fassin – External lectures

Austria

Vienna
Institute for Human Sciences, Department of Anthropology

On October 13, 2026, a course (4 hours) titled “ Jan Patocka Lectures.”

Chile

Diego Portales University of Santiago
, Department of Sociology

On November 4, 2026, a 2-hour course titled “ Norbert Lechner Lecture.”

Japan

University of Tokyo, Tokyo College*
Department of History

In April 2027, a course (2 hours) titled: What Is Moral Critique?

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

United States

University of Chicago*

In April 2026, a course and a seminar (2 hours) on: Damaged Words, Damaged Lives.

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

Lebanon

American University of Beirut

In December 2025, a lecture and seminar (2 hours) on: The Specters of the War on Gaza.

United Kingdom

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

In December 2025, a lecture and seminar (2 hours) on: Huxley Memorial Lecture.

United States

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

On September 24, 2024, a lecture and seminar (3 hours) on: Exile as a Form of Life.

United Kingdom

French House in Oxford*

• On May 7 and 8, 2025, a lecture and a master class (3 hours) on: Rethinking Inequality
• On May 8, 2025, the Roger Hood Lecture on: Punishing the Innocent. The Politics of Violence in Border Policing

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

Italy

European University Institute, Florence

• On May 28 and 29, 2025, a conference and a master class (3 hours) on: Gaza and the World
• May 30, 2025: A lecture at the University of Florence: “Damaged Lives, Injured Words”

Germany

University of Bonn*

On May 17, 2024, a lecture (1 hour) on: The Political Violence of the Border. How Europe Outsources Migration Control

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

Belgium

Royal Academy, College of Belgium*

In May 2024, two lectures (2 hours) on:

• May 22, 2024: Truth in the Social Sciences (1). Ethnography and Perspectivism
• May 23, 2024: On Truth in the Social Sciences (2). Inquiry and Counter-Inquiry

*As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

United States

Cornell University, NY

On Friday, September 16, 2022, Professor Didier Fassin delivered the Bernd Lambert Memorial Lecture. Title of the lecture: “Portrait of the Anthropologist as an Investigator.”