Leyla Dakhli

Keynote Speaker

« ’Ishna », nous avons vécu. Ce que la révolte fait à la vie (mondes arabes, après les indépendances)

Leyla Dakhli is a full-time historian in the French Center for National Research (CNRS), presently settled in the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. Her work deals with the study of Arab intellectuals and social history of the South Mediterranean region, with a particular focus on the history of women and the question of exiled intellectuals and activists. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-founded program DREAM (Drafting and Enacting the revolution in the Arab Mediterranean).

She is a member of the editorial committee of the International Review of Social History (Amsterdam) and Le Mouvement social (Paris), and of the Scientific Committee of the MuCem (Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseilles).

"A travers des exemples de femmes et d’hommes qui se sont soulevé·e·s contre l’injustice, pour la liberté et la dignité dans les mondes arabes contemporains, je chercherai à comprendre comment ces écotones que sont les révoltes ont pu produire du « plus de vie » pour celles et ceux qui les ont incarnées et qui ont été traversées par elles."

"Through examples of women and men who have risen up against injustice, for freedom and dignity in the contemporary Arab world, I will seek to understand how these ecotones of revolt have been able to produce 'more life' for those who have embodied them and who have been crossed by them."

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Robin Cohen

Keynote Speaker

Refugia

Robin Cohen is Emeritus Professor and Former Director of the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford. He is Senior Research Fellow at Kellogg College.

He has held full professorships at the Universities of the West Indies and Warwick and taught also at the Universities of Ibadan, Birmingham, Stanford, Toronto and Berkeley. He served as Dean of Humanities at the University of Cape Town (2001/3) and directed the nationally designated UK Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at Warwick (1985/9).

His books include Labour and Politics in Nigeria (1974, rev. 1982), Endgame in South Africa? (1986), The New Helots: Migrants in the International Division of Labour (1987, 1993, 2003), Contested Domains: Debates in International Labour Studies (1991), Frontiers of Identity: The British and the Others (1994), Global Diasporas: An Introduction (1997, rev. 2008, 2012), Global Sociology (co-author, 2000, rev. 2007, 2013), Migration and its Enemies (2006) and Encountering Difference: Diasporic Traces, Creolizing Spaces (co-author 2016)., Refugia (co-author 2020) He has edited or co-edited 21 further volumes, particularly on the sociology and politics of developing areas, ethnicity, international migration, transnationalism and globalisation. His major works have been translated into Danish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish.

Dénètem Touam Bona

Keynote Speaker

Habiter l'envers

Dénètem Touam Bona is an afropean thinker and artist who turns "marronnage" into a philosophical subject, a utopian experience serving as a basis to reflect on the contemporary world.

He is the author of four philosophical and literary essays: Fugitif, où cours-tu ? (éd. Presses Universitaires de France, 2016), Cosmopoéticas do réfugio (éd. Cultura e barbarie, 2020, Brasil), Sagesse des lianes (éd. Post-Editions, 2021), Fugitive, where are you running ? (includes unpublished texts, éd. Polity, forthcoming Nov. 2022). Dénètem also collaborates on creative projects, mainly as a dramaturge in the dance and theater fields, and has recently curated a collective and afrodiasporic exhibition at the Centre International d'Art et du Paysage de Vassivière, entitled "The wisdom of lianas" (2021-2022), in which he aims to put in place with others artists a "cosmopoetic of refuge". He is currently working on the collaborative work (performances, virtual reality, sculptures, etc.) "Spectrographies: tales from the starry island" which will be inaugurated in November 2022, on the island of Vassivière.

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