Didier Fassin - External lectures

Statutory lectures in France and abroad

2025-2026

United States

University of Chicago

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

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

Lebanon

American University of Beirut

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

2024-2025

United States

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

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

United Kingdom

Oxford French House

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

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

Italy

European University Institute, Florence

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

2023-2024

Germany

University of Bonn

On May 17, 2024, a lecture (1h) on: The political violence of the border. How Europe outsources migration control

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

Belgium

Royal Academy, College of Belgium

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

  • On May 22, 2024: De la vérité en sciences sociales (1). Ethnography and perspectivism
  • On May 23, 2024: De la vérité en sciences sociales (2). Inquiry and counter-inquiry

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France.

2022-2023

United States

Cornell University, NY

On Friday, September 16, 2022, Prof. Didier Fassin gave the Bernd Lambert Memorial Lecture. Title of lecture: Portrait of the Anthropologist as an Investigator.