Sorbonne Event: Jadaliyya and Orient XX1 Editors' Panel on Knowledge Production (Paris, 4 July 2019)

Sorbonne Event: Jadaliyya and Orient XX1 Editors' Panel on Knowledge Production (Paris, 4 July 2019)

Sorbonne Event: Jadaliyya and Orient XX1 Editors' Panel on Knowledge Production (Paris, 4 July 2019)

By : Jadaliyya Reports

[Find extended information on Jadaliyya and Orient XX1 Editors' Panel on Knowledge Production here as well as information on the 3e congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans here]

Bienvenue

au 3e congrès des études

sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans !

Jeudi 4 juillet 2019, 16h30 – 18h30
Adresse du Congrès
Centre Panthéon
12, place du Panthéon 75005 Paris


Ateliers- Troisième session (voir le détails dans le programme des ateliers)
Table-ronde 4 - Circulating online critical knowledge about the Middle East (Jadaliyya / Orient XXI) - Amphithéâtre 3
Organisée et modérée par Eric VERDEIL (Sciences Po Paris).

During the last ten years, online news websites, e-zines, and other internet outlets have gained  strong visibility and played a significant role in diffusing critical knowledge on the Middle East and North Africa. Critical here refers to approaches informed by social sciences and fieldwork that challenge the mainstream media and governmental storytelling, by offering a multiplicity of angles and discourses, featuring neglected groups such as the youth, women, the poor, and migrants. The rise of these new actors lies at the crossroads of several transformations. The democratization of Internet, the relative lowering of technological hurdles (for instance related to the use of several languages), and the rise of social networks have coincided with and facilitated the rise of revolts in the region.

Participants

Éric Verdeil, chair, Professor at CERI-Sciences Po, co-rédacteur de « Jadaliyya Cities Page »
Bassam Haddad, Professor, George Mason University, Washington, Director of the Arab Studies Institute and Jadaliyya founder and coeditor
Davis Muriam Haleh, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Jadaliyya Maghreb page coeditor
Alain Gresh, journalist, Orient XXI founder
Thomas Serres, Adjunct Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, Jadaliyya Maghreb page coeditor
Cihan Tekay, CUNY, New York, Jadaliyya Turkish Page coeditor

Presentations
 

Triangulating Theory and Practice Among the US, France, and the Maghreb: What  Constitutes ‘Critical’ Knowledge'?
Muriam Haleh Davis

Thinking About Algerian Politics Beyond Catastrophism
Thomas Serres

The Experience of Orient XXI
Alain Gresh 

Myopic Knowledge, Unaligned Priorities, and Simplistic Binaries: How Local, Regional, and International Contradictions Converged in Writings on the Syrian Uprising
Bassam Haddad 

Critical Public Scholarship in Times of Uncertainty: Editing Jadaliyya’s Turkey Page from 2013 to the Present
Cihan Tekay



 

Plan du centre Panthéon

Adresse du Congrès
Centre Panthéon
12, place du Panthéon 75005 Paris

Accueil des participants et pauses café : Galerie Soufflot, Centre Panthéon - RDC Salon des laboratoires et des revues : Galerie Soufflot, Centre Panthéon - RDC
Salles

02 : 1er étage escalier M, aile Soufflot
• 06 : 2ème étage escalier M, aile Soufflot
• 209, 211, 214, 216 : 2ème étage escalier A, aile Cujas
• 11, 15, 16, 17 : sous-sol escaliers A ou D
• 419A, 420 : 4ème étage aile Cujas
• 54 : entresol aile Cujas
• 58 : rez-de-chaussée escalier A, aile Cujas
• Amphithéâtre 1 : rez-de-chaussée aile Cujas
• Amphithéâtre Richelieu : 17, rue de la Sorbonne 75005 Paris
Buffet et déjeuners : Appartement Décanal - 3ème étage Aile Soufflot (escalier K) Concert : Cour d’honneur du centre Panthéon ou Amphithéâtre Richelieu

Projection de Documentaires
Cinéma Grand Action
5 Rue des Écoles 75005 Paris

Wifi
Sorbonne :
réseau wifi (SSID) login : GISMOMM
Clé (mot de passe) : SRB201907

Panthéon : réseau wifi «universite-paris1» login : gismomm
mot de passe : SRB201907

Programme

Mercredi 3 juillet 2019
Centre Panthéon

8h30 - 9h30 Accueil des participants - Galerie Soufflot (RDC) 

9h30 - 10h00 Accueil café - Galerie Soufflot (RDC)

10h00 - 12h00 Ateliers - Première session (voir le détail dans le programme des ateliers) Table-ronde 1 - Fonds inédits ou méconnus des bibliothèques et archives françaises - Amphithéâtre 3

12h00 - 13h00 Pause déjeuner (sandwiches et salades) - Appartement Décanal 3ème étage Aile Soufflot

13h00 - 15h00 Ateliers - Deuxième session (voir le détail dans le programme des ateliers) Table-ronde 2 - Faire des recherches au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient - Amphithéâtre 3 

15h00 - 15h30 Pause café - Galerie Soufflot

De 12h00 à 15h30, Salon des laboratoires, des éditeurs et des revues Posters et exposition d’ouvrages, Galerie Soufflot

16h00 - 16h45 Allocutions

  • Georges Haddad, président de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne François-Joseph Ruggiu, directeur de l’INSHS-CNRS
  • François Georgeon, président de la SEMOMM
  • Élise Voguet, directrice de l’Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (IISMM)
  • Éric Vallet, directeur du GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans

 

16h45 - 17h30 Conférence inaugurale: Relire l’histoire tunisienne aujourd’hui


17h30 - 19h00 
Remise des Prix de thèse 2019 et du Prix Michel Seurat

  • Le prix Relations internationales/Sciences politiques soutenu par le Centre d’analyse, de prévision et de stratégie (CAPS) du ministère des Affaires Étrangères
  • Le prix Rémy Leveau sur l’islam en France et en Europe soutenu par le Bureau central des cultes (BCC), du ministère de l’Intérieur
  • Le prix de la thèse francophone sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans • Le prix langues et littératures du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient en partenariat avec l’Association française des arabisants (AFDA)
  • Le prix Michel Seurat du GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, soutenu par l’INSHS, l’IISMM et Orient XXI


19h30 - 20h30
Cocktail inaugural du Congrès - Hall Saint-Jacques

 

Jeudi 4 juillet 2019
Centre Panthéon

8h30 – 9h30 Accueil des participants - Galerie Soufflot (RDC)

9h00 – 11h00 Ateliers - Première session (voir le détails dans le programme des ateliers)

11h00 - 11h30 Pause café - Galerie Soufflot (RDC)

De 11h à 19h, Salon des laboratoires, des revues et des éditeurs Posters et exposition d’ouvrages - Galerie Soufflot

11h30 – 13h30 Ateliers - Deuxième session (voir le détail dans le programme des ateliers) Table-ronde 3 - Nouveaux projets de recherche ANR, ANR-DFG et ERC - Amphithéâtre 3

13h30 – 14h30 Pause déjeuner (sandwiches et salades) - Appartement Décanal 3ème étage Aile Soufflot

14h30 – 16h00 Assemblée générale de la Société des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les Mondes musulmans (SEMOMM) - Amphi 3Élection du nouveau bureau de la SEMOMM

16h00 – 16h30 Pause café - Galerie Soufflot

16h30 – 18h30 Ateliers- Troisième session (voir le détails dans le programme des ateliers) Table-ronde 4 - Circulating online critical knowledge about the Middle East (Jadaliyya / Orient XXI) - Amphithéâtre 3

19h00 – 20h30 Concert en plein air - Cour d’honneur

 

Concert
TRANS-GALACTIC ARABIC MUSIC ORCHESTRA

Le Trans-Galactic Arabic Music Orchestra puise sa musique dans l’immense réservoir de répertoires du monde arabe, du Sahara aux côtes de la Méditerranée, de la Corne de l’Afrique aux confins de la Mésopotamie. Dans la musique du groupe se côtoient le chaâbi algérien, le mouachah alépin, les chants populaires de la vallée de l’Euphrate et du delta du Nil, les hymnes confrériques des Hmadcha du Maroc, le Mardoum du Kordofan soudanais, le sawt de la péninsule Arabique et bien d’autres répertoires que le groupe réarrange dans un esprit festif et fédérateur, avec un son très inspiré des années 1970.

Composition du groupe

Qaïs Saadi – direction, chant, oud, percussions Zineb El Aoufi – chant, percussions
Olena Powichrowski
– saxophone alto
Léo Margue
– saxophone ténor
Soheil Tabrizi - Zadeh – trompette
Kévin Henao – basse
André Lamezec – guitare
Hosni Benhassaine – derbouka, cajon, chœurs
Oussama Chraïbi – congas, bendir, percussions diverses, chœurs

« Ce grand ensemble artistique, dirigé avec brio par le oudiste Qaïs Saadi, fédère, avec justesse de ton et liberté d’improvisation des musiciens issus pour certains du classique et pour d’autres des musiques actuelles, avec une coloration jazzy notamment. Leur répertoire basé sur de grands standards de la chanson orientale et maghrébine est revisité avec un bonheur et une joie contagieuses, donc à consommer sans modération. »

Rabah Mezouane, programmateur musical à l’IMA et critique musical.


Vendredi 5 juillet 2019
Centre Panthéon

8h30 – 9h30 Accueil des participants - Galerie Soufflot

9h00 – 11h00 Ateliers - Première session (voir le détails dans le programme des ateliers)

11h00 – 11h30 Pause café - Hall Saint-Jacques

11h30 – 13h30 Ateliers - Deuxième session (voir le détails dans le programme des ateliers) 

13h30 – 15h00 Buffet - Appartement Décanal 3ème étage Aile Soufflot (esc K) 

15h00 – 17h00 Ateliers - Troisième session (voir le détails dans le programme des ateliers) 

17h00 – 17h30 Pause café - Hall Saint-Jacques

De 10h à 19h, Documentaires - projections-débats au Cinéma Grand Action

  • Hommage à Jocelyne Saab
  • Cartes, la fabrique du monde
  • Voices of Kasserine

 

19h00 - 20h30 Pot de clôture du congrès - Cinéma Grand Action - Grand bar

 

[Click here to download the programme.]

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Past is Present: Settler Colonialism Matters!

On 5-6 March 2011, the Palestine Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London will hold its seventh annual conference, "Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine." This year`s conference aims to understand Zionism as a settler colonial project which has, for more than a century, subjected Palestine and Palestinians to a structural and violent form of destruction, dispossession, land appropriation and erasure in the pursuit of a new Jewish Israeli society. By organizing this conference, we hope to reclaim and revive the settler colonial paradigm and to outline its potential to inform and guide political strategy and mobilization.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often described as unique and exceptional with little resemblance to other historical or ongoing colonial conflicts. Yet, for Zionism, like other settler colonial projects such as the British colonization of Ireland or European settlement of North America, South Africa or Australia, the imperative is to control the land and its resources -- and to displace the original inhabitants. Indeed, as conference keynote speaker Patrick Wolfe, one of the foremost scholars on settler colonialism and professor at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, argues, "the logic of this project, a sustained institutional tendency to eliminate the Indigenous population, informs a range of historical practices that might otherwise appear distinct--invasion is a structure not an event."[i]

Therefore, the classification of the Zionist movement as a settler colonial project, and the Israeli state as its manifestation, is not merely intended as a statement on the historical origins of Israel, nor as a rhetorical or polemical device. Rather, the aim is to highlight Zionism`s structural continuities and the ideology which informs Israeli policies and practices in Palestine and toward Palestinians everywhere. Thus, the Nakba -- whether viewed as a spontaneous, violent episode in war, or the implementation of a preconceived master plan -- should be understood as both the precondition for the creation of Israel and the logical outcome of Zionist settlement in Palestine.

Moreover, it is this same logic that sustains the continuation of the Nakba today. As remarked by Benny Morris, “had he [David Ben Gurion] carried out full expulsion--rather than partial--he would have stabilised the State of Israel for generations.”[ii] Yet, plagued by an “instability”--defined by the very existence of the Palestinian nation--Israel continues its daily state practices in its quest to fulfill Zionism’s logic to maximize the amount of land under its control with the minimum number of Palestinians on it. These practices take a painful array of manifestations: aerial and maritime bombardment, massacre and invasion, house demolitions, land theft, identity card confiscation, racist laws and loyalty tests, the wall, the siege on Gaza, cultural appropriation, and the dependence on willing (or unwilling) native collaboration and security arrangements, all with the continued support and backing of imperial power. 

Despite these enduring practices however, the settler colonial paradigm has largely fallen into disuse. As a paradigm, it once served as a primary ideological and political framework for all Palestinian political factions and trends, and informed the intellectual work of committed academics and revolutionary scholars, both Palestinians and Jews.

The conference thus asks where and why the settler colonial paradigm was lost, both in scholarship on Palestine and in politics; how do current analyses and theoretical trends that have arisen in its place address present and historical realities? While acknowledging the creativity of these new interpretations, we must nonetheless ask: when exactly did Palestinian natives find themselves in a "post-colonial" condition? When did the ongoing struggle over land become a "post-conflict" situation? When did Israel become a "post-Zionist" society? And when did the fortification of Palestinian ghettos and reservations become "state-building"?

In outlining settler colonialism as a central paradigm from which to understand Palestine, this conference re-invigorates it as a tool by which to analyze the present situation. In doing so, it contests solutions which accommodate Zionism, and more significantly, builds settler colonialism as a political analysis that can embolden and inform a strategy of active, mutual, and principled Palestinian alignment with the Arab struggle for self-determination, and indigenous struggles in the US, Latin America, Oceania, and elsewhere.

Such an alignment would expand the tools available to Palestinians and their solidarity movement, and reconnect the struggle to its own history of anti-colonial internationalism. At its core, this internationalism asserts that the Palestinian struggle against Zionist settler colonialism can only be won when it is embedded within, and empowered by, the broader Arab movement for emancipation and the indigenous, anti-racist and anti-colonial movement--from Arizona to Auckland.

SOAS Palestine Society invites everyone to join us at what promises to be a significant intervention in Palestine activism and scholarship.

For over 30 years, SOAS Palestine Society has heightened awareness and understanding of the Palestinian people, their rights, culture, and struggle for self-determination, amongst students, faculty, staff, and the broader public. SOAS Palestine society aims to continuously push the frontiers of discourse in an effort to make provocative arguments and to stimulate debate and organizing for justice in Palestine through relevant conferences, and events ranging from the intellectual and political impact of Edward Said`s life and work (2004), international law and the Palestine question (2005), the economy of Palestine and its occupation (2006), the one state (2007), 60 Years of Nakba, 60 Years of Resistance (2009), and most recently, the Left in Palestine (2010).

For more information on the SOAS Palestine Society 7th annual conference, Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine: www.soaspalsoc.org

SOAS Palestine Society Organizing Collective is a group of committed students that has undertaken to organize annual academic conferences on Palestine since 2003.

 


[i] Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event, Cassell, London, p. 163

[ii] Interview with Benny Morris, Survival of the Fittest, Haaretz, 9. January 2004, http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=5412