Inaugural lecture by Professor Didier Fassin for the Canada Research Chair on the Security Governance of Bodies, Mobility, and Borders

Didier Fassin, Collègue de France, Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques
Institut d’études avancées de Princeton, James D. Wolfensohn Professor

The Canada Research Chair in the Security Governance of Bodies, Mobility, and Borders was officially launched in February 2024. To mark its creation and its award to Professor Anne-Marie D’Aoust, Professor Didier Fassin, professor at the Collège de France and Princeton University, gave the inaugural lecture on February 15, 2024: “The Condition of Exile: An Ethnography.”

Professor Fassin recently published Leçons de ténèbres: ce que la violence dit du monde (Lessons of Darkness: What Violence Says About the World) with La Découverte (2025). He is the author of twenty books translated into seven languages. He has edited twenty-seven collective volumes. He writes occasionally for The New York Times, The London Review of Books, The Guardian, Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Monde, and Libération.

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