Schedule of Events
Photo provided by: Samia Henni, Discreet Violence
Please note - All times listed are EST (Eastern Time)
Day 1: Thursday, March 24
5:30pm
Light Dinner and Refreshments
at the Democracy Initiative: Bond House, 514 Brandon Ave, Charlottesville, VA 22903
6-7pm
Opening Discussion: Questioning the Archive of Algerian Independence
Conversation between Emmanuelle Saada (Columbia University), Malika Rahal (CNRS)
Jennifer Sessions (UVA), Maya Boutaghou (UVA)
(Join via Zoom HERE)
7:15pm
Closing Poetry Reading
Baba Badji (Comp. Lit, Rutgers University and Poet) Ghost Letters (Parlor Press, 2021)
Day 2: Friday, March 25
Bond House, Democracy Initiative
7:30am
Breakfast at UVA
Bond House, Democracy Initiative
8-9am
Panel 1: Colonial Trauma and Subjectivity / Trauma colonial et subjectivité
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Moderator: Maya Boutaghou (French, UVA)
Karima Lazali (Psychoanalyst/Psychologist), Trauma colonial (La Découverte 2018/Polity Press 2021) Chap. 1-3
Mildred Mortimer (French, Univ. Colorado), Women Fight, Women Write (UVAP 2018) Chap. 3
Emily Marks, (French, UVA) “Geographies of Healing: Space, Memory and Narrative”
5 min break
9:05- 10:05am
Panel 2: Repairing Silences / Réparer les silences
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Moderator: Janet Horne (French/History, UVA)
Alice Baudy (Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence) “ L’usage des archives dans un dispositif de réparation financière pour les enfants de harkis ”
Baba Badji, (Comp. Lit, Rutgers University and Poet) Ghost Letters (Parlor Press, 2021) and the process of writing from the Archive
Lilia Messaoudi (French, University of Iowa) “Uncommon form of archives: oral history through women voices who unveil the truth about harki history”
5 min break
10:10-11:10am
Panel 3: Les trous de l'histoire
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Moderator: Jennifer Sessions (History/French, UVA)
Andrew Bellisari, (Fulbright University Vietnam) “Algeria’s Forgotten Republic: Reconsidering the Historiography of Algeria’s Transition to Independence”
Lia Brozgal (French, UCLA) Absent the Archive: Cultural Traces of a Massacre In Paris, 17 October 1961 (Liverpool UP, 2020) Chap. 1
Ali Guenoun, “La crise de 1949 dite ‘berbériste’ selon les archives coloniales: manipulation ethnique ou crise politique ?"
5 min break
11:15am-12:15pm
Panel 4: Periodicals and censorship / Périodiques et censure
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Moderator: Emily Burrill (History/Democracy Initiative, UVA)
Sarah Miles (French, UNC Chapel Hill) “Writing a New Algeria: Militant Publishing, Government Censorship and Franco-Algerian Collaboration during and after the Algerian War”
Safa Ouled Haddar (French, Université Lounici Ali Blida 2), “La littérature populaire ‘indigène’ dans la Revue africaine”
David Stenner (History, Christopher Newport University), “A Regional Counterpublic: The Palestinian Press and Nationalism in Interwar Algeria”
12:15-1pm
Lunch
Catered at Bond House, Democracy Initiative
1-2:30pm
"Touchstones of Democracy": Remembering Algerian Independence
Conversation between Samia Henni (Architecture, Cornell University) and Sheila Crane (Architecture, UVA)
Coffee Break at 2:30pm
3-4:20pm
Panel 5: Archives per se
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Moderator: Jennifer Sessions (History/French, UVA)
Isabelle Dion (Directrice des Archives nationales d’outre-mer) et Jean-Charles Bédague (Conservateur en chef du patrimoine, Service interministériel des Archives de France),
“Donner accès aux archives relatives à l’Algérie : quelles méthodes ? quel bilan ? quelles perspectives ?”
Houria Djilali, (Chercheuse au Centre national d’anthropologie sociale et culturelle (CRASC), Oran, Algérie), “Archives familiales : travailler sur la biographie de Zeddour Ibrahim (1923-1954)”
Amar Mohand-Amer (Historien, chercheur au Centre national d’anthropologie sociale et culturelle (CRASC), Oran, Algérie), “L’accès aux archives en Algérie : blocages et ‘schizophrénie’ institutionnels et ‘privatisation’ de la mémoire nationale”
10 min break
4:30-5:30pm
Panel 6: Using the Audio-Visual Archive: Usages de l'archive audio-visuelle 1
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Moderator: Maya Boutaghou (French, UVA)
Anne Donadey, (French, San Diego State University), The Algerian War In Film Fifty Years Later, 2004-2012 (Lexington Books, 2020) Intro
Michelle Weitzel, (International Relations, University of Basel), “Sound Regulation as Nation-Making: Amplifying Frenchness in Colonial Algeria”
Farrah Mahroug, (French, University of Minneapolis) “(A)Mending Fragmented Stories: Summoning the Franco-Algerian Colonial Archives to Reconcile History?”
7pm
Final Dinner for Presenters
The Pink Grouse (499 West Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22903)
8-10am
7am-5pm
Day 3: Saturday, March 25
Breakfast for Presenters, Oakhurst Inn Café (1616 Jefferson Park Ave., Charlottesville, VA 22903)
Scholars depart Charlottesville
1-3pm
Continuing Discussion 1: Friday, April 1
Trauma colonial et subjectivité 2
Naouel Abdessemed (Etudes Moyen-Orientales, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) Au défi des louanges officielles: réécriture des discours et des mythes étatiques
Goucem Nadira Khodja (Français, ENS Bouzaréah, Alger) Les voix et les silences de l'Histoire dans L'Amour, la fantasia de Assia Djebar et Je t'offrirai une gazelle de Malek Haddad.
Hanane Laguer (INALCO) La poésie populaire pour écrire l'histoire
Maha Smati (Université Catholique de Louvain) Le moudjahid, clé de dévoilement de l'Histoire dans La Malédiction de Rachid Mimouni et Les Vigiles de Tahar Djaout
1-3pm
Continuing Discussion 2: Friday, April 8
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Usages de l’archive audio-visuelle 2
Mani Sharpe (Film and French, University of Leeds) Late-Colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press, current delivery date: January 2022)
John Bennett (Film Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison) The Mediation of Algerian Films at the Cannes Film Festival: 1966-1982
Julien Mowang Ngoula (Littérature et civilisations Africaines, Université de Yaoundé) La chanson rap ou lieu d’écriture de la guerre d’indépendance algérienne : le cas du rappeur Médine
Hervé Goerger (French, Princeton University) Les archives de la Guerre d’Algérie en pièces : Des territoires / Et le cœur fume encore
Emmanuel Alcaraz (Historien, Science Po Aix) Interroger les archives des massacres d’Oran de juillet 1962