Imagining Contemporary Algerias: Communities, Nation-State, the Maghreb and the Mediterranean

Imagining Contemporary Algerias:

Communities, Nation-State, the Maghreb and the Mediterranean

 

International Workshop, University College Cork, Ireland

September 7-8 2012

 

Keynote speakers: Salim Bachi (writer) and Jane Hiddleston (Exeter College, Oxford)

 

Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences Project

‘Algeria: Nation and Transnationalism’

http://www.facebook.com/pcrowleyAlgerianAllegories

Room G 27a, O’Rahilly Building, UCC

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

FRIDAY

 

9.00 Opening Address: ‘Imagining Contemporary Algerias’

Patrick Crowley, IRCHSS Senior Research Fellow and Megan MacDonald, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellow; (Department of French, UCC)

 

9. 30-11.00   Panel: Nostalgia Memory Madness

Elisabetta Bevilacqua (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) ‘Pieds noirs et Juifs d’Algérie: écritures nostalgiques de l’exil’

Kahina Bouanane (CRASC Université d’Oran, Algeria) ‘Folie, Nostalgie, no home land : des invariants structurants de la littérature maghrébine d’expression française’

Aoife Connolly (IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, NUI, Galway) ‘Reimagining Colonial Algeria: Madness, Nostalgia and Homesickness Through the Eyes of Young Pied-NoirNarrators’

 

11. 00 Coffee

 

11.30-1.00    Panel: Nostalgia II

Florence Lhote (Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB, Belgium) ‘La Notion de « distance » dans la représentation fictionnelle algérienne contemporaine’

Lila Adrar (Laboratoire ICAR, CNRS/Université Lyon 2, France) ‘Entre Paris et Constantine : la reconstruction d’une mémoire dans l’oeuvre « Mémoires de la Chair » d’Ahlam Mosteghanemi’

 

Registration/Lunch

 

2.00 – 3.30   Panel: Mediterranean

Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (Yale University, USA) ‘Journeys of the Self and Others: Allegorical Undoings in Malika Mokeddem’s N’zid’

Anna Cavness (Soka University of America, USA) ‘The Raft of Memory: Habib Tengour’s Poetics of Al Djazair’

Abdelkader Cheref (The University of Connecticut, USA) ‘"The fight against fascism is also a fight for humanism": History and ‘Mediterranean Humanism’ in the works of Gabriel Audisio, Albert Camus, Boualem Sansal and Amin Zaoui’

 

Coffee

 

4.00 – 5.00   Panel: Cinema

Joseph McGonagle (The University of Manchester, UK) ‘On the road in contemporary Algeria in Tariq Teguia’s Rome rather than you(2006) and Inland (2008)’

Walid Benkahled (School of Creative Arts, Film and Media, University of Portsmouth, UK) ‘Algerian’ Cinema Between Commercial and Political Pressures: The Double Distortion’

 

5.00 – 6.00          Keynote Speaker
 

Jane Hiddleston (Exeter College, Oxford University, UK)

‘Algerian Literary Encounters: Reading and Writing in Two Novels by Tahar Djaout’

 

Followed by a vin d’honneur

 

SATURDAY

 

9.30 – 11.00          Panel: Youth and Popular Culture

 

Britta Elena Hecking (Institute for Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany) ‘Youth in Algiers - on the move in the city of (im)possibilities’

Fanny Gillet-Ouhenia (Centre d’histoire sociale de l’Islam méditerranéen, EHESS, France) ‘La création contemporaine algérienne (2002-2012): mémoire, résistance et redéfinition du local face à la mondialisation’

 

Coffee

 

11. 30 – 13.00        Panel: Political Identity

 

Mélica Ouennoughi (Université Paris VIII, France) ‘Anthropologie du système coutumier algérien en 1871. Quels chemins coutumiers migratoires ont émergé depuis ces 25 et 30 dernières années (1988-2011)?’

Marisa Fois (Université de Cagliari, Italy) ‘Nation et identité. L’Algérie algérienne dans le discours berbère’

Corbin Treacy (University of Minnesota, USA) ‘Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Algeria: Kamel Daoud and the NewEngagement’

 

Lunch

 

2.00 – 3.00   Keynote Speaker: Salim Bachi (writer, Algeria-France)

 

 

3.00 – 4.30   Panel: Literature and Identities

Lynda Chouiten (National University of Ireland, Galway) ‘Nomadism and the Postcolonial Condition in Malika Mokaddem’s Les Hommes qui marchent’ (1990)

Sura Qadiri (Cambridge University, UK) ‘Restructuring Algerian Political Identity in Boualem Sansal’s Le Village de l’allemand ‘

Chantal Michel (Université Lyon 2, France) ‘Identité et fiction dans l'oeuvre de Zahia Rahmani’

 

Coffee

 

4. 30 Guest Speaker

Hadrien Laroche (Writer, France) ‘Derrida. De la décision’

 

Round Table

Chairs: Patrick Crowley, IRCHSS Senior Research Fellow; Megan MacDonald, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellow (Department of French, University College Cork)