The programme of the next Young Researchers' Day on Sunday 16 April 2023
Young Researchers' Day
Mairie du 9 ème arrondissement 6 rue Drouot 75009 Paris
Presentation of theses and ongoing research on the history of the Jews of Tunisia
Welcome of participants from 9:30 am
First session
10 am – 12 pm
IN THE FIELDS OF THE ARTS AND LITERATURE
Chaired by
Joëlle ALLOUCHE-BENAYOUN
Honorary Senior Lecturer, associate member of the GSRL (CNRS-EPHE)
The living memory of Habiba Messika (1930-2022)
Faten Bouchrara
University of Manouba (Tunisia)
Michel Valensi’s novel « L’Empreinte »: a Sephardic story of exile
Meriem Ben Mansour
Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences of Tunis
Some aspects of the life of Albert Samama Chikly and his photographic work
Tarak Mahdaoui
University of Manouba (Tunisia)
Filming Carthage
Jean-Denis Bonan
Filmmaker
Second session
2 pm – 4 pm
POLITICAL QUESTIONS IN THE COURSE OF EVENTS
Chaired by
Mireille HADAS-LEBEL
Professor emeritus at the University of Paris-Sorbonne
The freedom of the protected. The Moroccan and Tunisian monarchies under the French protectorate
Antoine Perrier
Sciences Po Paris
The activities of the Jewish elite in Tunisia in the Tunisian economy and its influence on French imperial policy, 1830-1881
Nimrod Koren
Open University of Israel
A research project: the withdrawal of French nationality in Tunisia by the Vichy government
Léonard Pecout-Bourel
University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Communist women in Tunisia
Élise Abassade
University of Paris VIII Vincennes Saint-Denis
Third session
4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
ON INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE DESTINIES
Chaired by
Valérie ASSAN
Researcher, GSRL-CNRS EPHE
The Jews of the military territories of southern Tunisia
Mohamed El Houch
University of Manouba (Tunisia)
Albert Cattan: French, Jewish and socialist in early twentieth-century Tunisia
Keren Halamit
Open University of Israel
The Jews of Tunisia in the French Army during the two World Wars
Marie-Anne Guez
University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
The departure of Tunisian Jewish children for France in the 1960s and 1970s
Lisa Akrich-Boujenah
Tel Aviv University
SHJT speakers
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).
Valérie Assan
Board member
Biography
Valérie Assan, PhD in history from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, agrégée in classics and member of the GSRL, is a specialist in the history of the Jews in France and the Maghreb in the modern era.
