The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

cordially invites you to a lecture and panel discussion

Pénélope Larzillière

Visiting Scholar, Issam Fares Institute

"Security and Development: International Norms and Radicalization of Aid"

Tuesday 20 December 2011 | 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Van Dyck Conference Room, AUB

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Pénélope Larzillière is a sociologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD-Paris). She is also advisor to the Fondation – Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH-Paris). Larzillière works on ideology, norms and political commitment with a focus on the Middle East, and recently security norms in development policies. Her recent publications include Faut-il désoccidentaliser l’humanitaire? (edited with P. Micheletti, Humanitaire, 2010), Protest and Liberal Authoritarianism (Mouvements, 2011), “Analyser les attentats-suicides: rationalité, genre

et contextualisation” (Les Champs de Mars, 2011), and “Sociology of Political Commitment in the Middle East” (in Husseini, J and Signoles A., eds, Les Palestiniens entre nation et diaspora, Karthala, 2011).