Algeria, France: How Memory Works?
Historical imagination as a category of practice
MONDAY 28 MAY | TUESDAY 29 MAY
Convenor: Andrea Brazzoduro (St Antony's, Oxford)
Monday, 28 May
European Studies Centre, St Antony's College
70 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HR
1.15pm – 1.30pm
REGISTRATION
1.30pm – 1.40pm
OPENING REMARKS
1.40pm - 3.10pm
MULTIDIRECTIONAL MEMORIES 1
Chair: Natalya Vince (IHTP, Paris & Portsmouth)
Claire Eldridge (Leeds): Gendering Pied-Noir memories of the War of Independence
Emmanuel Blanchard (Versailles): On colonial legacies: An Algerian obsession in police practices and immigration policies (c. 1960–2010)
Daniel A. Gordon (Edge Hill): Sans Frontière and dissident memories of Algeria, 1979–1986
3.10pm – 3.30pm
coffee
3.30pm – 5.00pm
SITES/VECTORS OF MEMORY
Chair: James McDougall (Trinity, Oxford)
Emmanuel Alcaraz (IRMC, Tunis): Uses of Frantz Fanon in Algeria from 1962 to nowadays
Dónal Hassett (Bristol): In search of hidden memories: Algerians and the First World War
Tamara Turner (Max Planck, Berlin): The Algerian Bilāliyya ritual, dīwān, as an affective 'site' of memory
5.00pm – 5.15pm
Coffee
5.15pm – 6.30pm
KEYNOTE LECTURE – The colonial fracture in France from Papon to Macron
Robert Gildea (Worcester, Oxford)
Chair: Hartmut Mayer (Director Europaeum and St Antony's, Oxford)
Discussant: Ruth Harris (All Souls, Oxford)
6.30pm
Drinks reception
Garden of the Euopean Studies Centre
8.00pm
Dinner for invited speakers
Old Common Room, Balliol College
Tuesday, 29 May
Maison Française d'Oxford
2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
9.00am – 9.15am
coffee
9.15am – 10.45am
THE VISUAL ECONOMY OF ALGERIA AND FRANCE
Chair: Paul Betts (St Antony's, Oxford)
Joseph McGonagle (Manchester): France as palimpsest: Mapping Algeria in Leïla Sebbar's Mes Algéries en France (2004) , Journal de mes Algéries en France (2005) and Voyage en Algéries autour de ma chambre (2008)
Tramor Quemeneur (Paris): Comics and post-memories of the Algerian War: The case of the 'pieds noirs'
Fanny Gillet-Ouhenia (Genève): On realism of the archives: Contemporary Algerian artists confronting history
10.45am – 11.00am
coffee
11.00am – 12.30pm
MULTIDIRECTIONAL MEMORIES 2
Chair: Michael Willis (St Antony's, Oxford)
Karim Ouaras (CEMA, Oran): The battle of walls. Algiers, 1961–1962
Abderrahmane Moussaoui (LADEC, Lyon): The ever-present War of Liberation (in French)
Andrea Brazzoduro (St Antony's, Oxford): 'Révolution’ in the Aurès. Memories, belongings and imagined
communities of three Algerian generations, 1954–2018
12.30pm – 1.30pm
SPECIAL SESSION – Generation independence: The sovereignty of the skies (1967) & The long history of a short-lived statue (1970)
Natalya Vince (IHTP, Paris & Portsmouth)
Chair: Andrea Brazzoduro (St Antony's, Oxford)
1.30pm
LUNCH AND CLOSE
THIS IS A FREE EVENT OPEN TO ALL
To secure your place, please email: european.studies@sant.ox.ac.uk