Programme of the 2024 Young Researchers' Day
The 2024 Young Researchers' Day will take place on 17 March 2024 at the Mairie du 9e arrondissement de Paris, 6, rue Drouot, 75009 Paris, in the Salle Rossini.
Here is the programme.
10 am – 12 pm
PRESENTATION OF RECENT WORK
ON THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF TUNISIA
Chaired by Jérémy GUEDJ
Vice-President of the Society for the History of the Jews of Tunisia (SHJT)
Jews of Tunisia in Paris under the German occupation
Léonard Pécout-Bourel
Université de Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne
The forgotten origins of the Bessis family of Tunisia
Thierry Samama
Cercle de Généalogie juive
Khamous Zana: Judeo-Arabic poems written in Tunisia during and after the Second World War
David Ichoua Moatty
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Italian Jews of Tunisia between 1881 and 1918
Gabriele Montalbano
University of Siena
2 pm – 5:30 pm
JEWS AND SPORT IN TUNISIA
Session co-organised with the Commission française des archives juives (CFAJ)
2 pm – 3:10 pm
SPORTING PRACTICES IN A COLONIAL SETTING: SOCIABILITY AND IDENTITIES
Chaired by: Valérie ASSAN
President of the Commission française des archives juives
Sport among the Jews of Tunisia under the French Protectorate (1881-1956)
Claude Nataf
President of the Society for the History of the Jews of Tunisia
A comparative approach to sport in the Jewish and Muslim communities of Tunisia: sociability and competition
3:20 pm – 3:30 pm
SPORT IN TUNISIA THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK OF VICTOR SEBAG
Presented by Gérard Sebag
3:30 pm – 4:15 pm
ROUND TABLE
TESTIMONIES OF FORMER ATHLETES
Chaired by: Etienne PENARD
Senior Lecturer at the Institut de formation en éducation physique et sportive d’Angers
With the participation of:
Gérard Boublil – Gilbert Cohen – Guy Haggiag – Max Sitruk
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
SPORT: A VEHICLE FOR INTEGRATION?
Chaired by: Catherine NICAULT
Professor emerita at the University of Reims
Sport in the schools of the Alliance israélite universelle as seen through the library’s archival holdings
Jean-Claude Kuperminc
Director of the library and archives of the Alliance israélite universelle.
Jewish athletes of Tunisia in the First World War
Marie-Anne Guez
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Jean Borotra’s tour of North Africa (May 1941) and the Jewish athletes of Tunisia under Vichy
Doriane Gomet
IFEPSA-UCO and Université Rennes 2
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
Thierry Samama
Board member
Biography
Engineer, École Centrale Paris; MBA, INSEAD. Former member of the board of directors of the Cercle de Généalogie Juive. Creator of the BECANE civil registry database. Co-author of the book « Les protégés israélites du consulat de France à Tunis ».
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.
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
Gérard Sebag
Board member
Biography
Gérard Sebag, journalist specialising in international politics and the Near and Middle East. Former editor-in-chief at Antenne 2 and former deputy director of Canal France International.
Étienne Pénard
Board member
Biography
Senior lecturer (maître de conférences) at IFEPSA-UCO, teaching at Bachelor's and Master's levels, academic coordinator of L2 PEPS-PE
Jean-Claude Kuperminc
Member
Biography
Director of the library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle
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