Study day on the work of Albert Memmi and History
On 16 June 2024 the SHJT is organising a day of lectures on History in the work of Albert Memmi.
Here is the detailed programme of the day.
If you wish to attend the discussions, you must register via the following platform.
History in the Work of Albert Memmi
First session
10 am – 12 pm
THE LITERARY WORK AS A STAGING OF HISTORY
Chaired by
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Relations between history and literature
Judith Lyon-Caen
Directrice d’études at the EHESS
Who are you, Mr Memmi?
Catherine Nicault
Professor Emeritus at the University of Reims
History as the source of Albert Memmi’s literary work
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Albert Memmi and Zionism in Tunisia before and after the Second World War
Haïm Sadoun
Professor at the Open University of Israel
Second session
2 pm – 3:30 pm
WRITING IN THE DEBATES OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Chaired by
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La Statue de Sel: the beginnings of a self-generating literary discourse; genesis of a diffracted identity
Yossef Chetrit
Honorary Vice-Rector of the University of Haifa
History through Albert Memmi’s Journal
Jérémy Guedj
Senior lecturer at Université Côte d’Azur
Writing about Tunisia: the debt to Albert Memmi
Michèle Fitoussi
Writer
Third session
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
ALBERT MEMMI, A COMMITTED WRITER
Chaired by
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The end of the French Protectorate in Tunisia and the beginning of Independence in the writing of Albert Memmi
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Albert Memmi’s contribution to the conference of French-speaking Jewish intellectuals: historical and analytical perspectives
Sandrine Szwarc
Lecturer at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Teaching coordinator at the Institut Universitaire d’études juives Elie Wiesel
Zionism and Israel in the work of Albert Memmi
Denis Charbit
Professor at the Open University of Israel
From Portrait du colonisé to Portrait du décolonisé
Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun
Honorary senior lecturer, associate member of GSRL (CNRS-EPHE)
CONCLUSION
5:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Chaired by
Claude Nataf
President of the Society for the History of the Jews of Tunisia
By
Frédéric Abecassis
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
If you wish to attend the discussions, you must register via the following platform.
SHJT speakers
Jérémy Guedj
President
Biography
PhD in history, lecturer (maître de conférences) in contemporary history at the University of Nice and at the IEP, member of the Centre de la Méditerranée moderne et contemporaine (CMMC), editor-in-chief of the Cahiers de la Méditerranée
Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun
Vice-President
Biography
PhD in Social Sciences (Sorbonne), honorary Senior Lecturer (University of Paris XII), vice-president of the Cercle de généalogie Juive (CGJ), CNRS researcher (Groupe société, religions, laïcité, GSRL). Research on the Jews of Algeria and the Jews of North Africa. Has published numerous books and articles in this field. Currently working on the Archives of Constantine (1795-1929).
Claude Nataf
Founding President
Biography
Top of his class at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (1967), postgraduate diploma (DEA) in twentieth-century history from the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, vice-president of the Commission française des archives juives, founding president of the Society for the History of the Jews of Tunisia, departmental delegate of the French national education system
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