Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)
Algerian and Arab Revolutions: An International and Comparative Perspective
15/16/17 March 2012
Part of the Year of Algeria, Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)
About the conference
Fifty years on from Algerian Independence and one year on from the Arab Spring, this conference will place Algerians and their histories within an international and comparative perspective. Breaking out of a narrow Algerian-French relationship, the conference will consider Algerian history within the widest possible framework, examining Arab, African and Third World Revolutionary contents. It will reflect upon the multiple networks of transnational connections and ideas that have moulded Algeria and Algerians. It will analyse the complex ways in which Algerians have imagined themselves and their histories. Significantly, it will move beyond the eight years of the war of independence, to consider Algerian history as a whole. The conference will analyse the links that straddle the long pre-colonial past, the colonial period, the war and the post-independence period
Programme
Thursday 15 March 2012 Guildhall
- 13.00 - 14.00: Registration
- 14.00 - 16.30: Communism
- Professor Allison Drew, University of York
- Sadek Hadjeres, an eye witness perspective
- 16.30 - 17.00: Tea, coffee and cakes
- 17.00 - 18.30: Gendered Approaches
- Dr Ryme Seferdjeli, University of Ottowa
- Dr Natalya Vince, University of Portsmouth
Friday 16 March 2012 Guildhall
- 09.00 - 11.00: Repressive Colonial Systems
- Dr Sylvie Thénault, CNRS, Paris
- Professor Paul Jackson, University of Birmingham
- Dr Belkacem Belmekki, University of Oran
- 11.00 - 11.30: Tea and Coffee
- 11.30 - 12.15: Frantz Fanon and Algeria
- Dr Leo Zeilig, University of London
- 12.15 - 13.45: Lunch
- 13.45 - 15.15: Winning Hearts and Minds: The Impact of Counter-Insurgency
- Dr Jim House, University of Leeds
- Dr Martin Shipway, Birkbeck College
- 15.15 - 15.45: Tea and Coffee
- 15.45 - 17.15: Contested Legacies
- Professor David Anderson, University of Oxford
- 17.15 - 18.15: Official Reception
- 18.15 - 20.00: Algeria and the Arab Spring: roundtable
- Jean-Pierre Séréni, Le Monde Diplomatique
- Hamza Hamouchene, Algerian Solidarity Campaign
- Professor Miloud Barkaoui, Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University, Algeria
- Sami Bensassi, University of Portsmouth
- 21.00: Conference Dinner
- (for conference presenters: meet 8.45 in the lobby of the Ibis hotel)
Saturday 17 March Park Building
- 09.00 - 10.30: The Impact of World War Two
- Professor Martin Thomas, University of Exeter
- Dr Yasmin Khan, University of London
- 10.30 - 11.00: Tea and Coffee
- 11.00 - 12.00: Education and the Transmission of History in Post-Independence Societies
- Dr Lydia Aït Saadi, University of Paris 8
- Professor Tony Chafer, University of Portsmouth (discussant)
- 12.00 - 13.00: Lunch
- 13.00 - 14.15: Nationalism
- Professor Martin Evans, University of Portsmouth
- Dr Alex Keese, Humboldt University of Berlin
- 14.15 - 14.30: Comfort break
- 14.30 - 15.30: Visual Representations
- Dr Patrick Crowley, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellow, University College Cork
- Walid Benkhaled, University of Portsmouth (discussant)
- 15.30 - 16.00: Tea and Coffee
- 16.00 - 17.00: Violence
- Dr Malika Rahal, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent/ CNRS, Paris
- Professor David Andress, University of Portsmouth (discussant)
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More details
For further details contact Donna Ferrand, Centre for European and International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth.