CEPEL

Eric SAVARESE

Photo by Eric Savarese

ACADEMIC

 Career history

  • Professor of Political Science at the University of Montpellier, 2015.
  • Transfer to Montpellier 1 University in 2014, merger of UM1/UM2 in January 2015.
  • Professor of Political Science, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2011.
  • Lecturer in Political Science, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, 2003.
  • Certified teacher of Economics and Social Sciences, 2002.
  • Contract Research Engineer, University of the Mediterranean, 1998.
  • Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Paris 13, 1995.

Training

  • Passed the first external competitive examination for political science teachers, 2011.
  • Qualification to supervise research in political science, University of Perpignan, supervised by Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, 2004.
  • Certificate of Aptitude for Secondary Education (CAPES) in Economics and Social Sciences, 2002.
  • PhD Political Science, University of Aix-Marseille III, supervised by Bruno Etienne, 1995.
  • Master's degree in Political Studies, University of Aix-Marseille III, 1991.
  • DEA (Specialized Graduate Diploma) in Social Science Research, EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), 1990.
  • Diploma from the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Aix-en-Provence, 1989.

Teaching position at the University of Montpellier, Faculty of Law and Political Science

  • Research seminar Epistemologyand Research Methods in Social Sciences, M2 IDIL Comparative Politics and Public Policy, Comparative Politics major, S1 (20 hours).
  • Head of teachingTU Territories and InequalitiesTU , M2 GSTT (5H).
  • Political Anthropology, M1 Comparative Politics and Public Policy (IDIL) & M1 International Cooperation and Development Operator, S1 (33 hours).
  • Migration, societies, and territories, M1 Economics and Political Science, "Governance of societies and territories in transition" track, S2 (22 hours).
  • Epistemology of Social Sciences, Double Major 3 with a concentration in Economics and Political Science, S2 (22 hours).
  • Political Theory, L2 Political Science, Dual Degree 2 Economics Political Science, S2 (22 hours).
  • General Culture 1. Major Political and Social Issues, L2 Political Science, Dual Degree 2 Economics Political Science, S1 (33 hours).

Academic responsibilities

  • Expert panel for HCERES, Research Evaluation Department, 2022–2025.
  • Member of the editorial board of Insaniyat, an Algerian journal of anthropology and human sciences supported by CRASC (Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology), Oran.
  • Member of the Scientific Council of UMIFRE (Joint Units of French Institutes Abroad), Ministry of Higher Education and Research, CNRS, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2022–present).
  • Member of the Human Resources Committee for Law and Political Science (Social Sciences Division), University of Montpellier (since 2023)
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal French Historical Studies, Duke University Press (2022–2025).
  • Member of the board of the French Political Science Association (AFSP), representative of CEPEL UMR 5112, since 2020.
  • Member of the National Council of Universities (CNU), section 04, from 2011 to 2015 and from 2020 to 2023.
  • Elected member of the Faculty Council of Law and Political Science, University of Montpellier, since 2019.
  • Chair of the Political Science Department, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Montpellier (2017-2024).
  • External member of the Scientific Committee of the IEP Toulouse (2015-2020).
  • External expert for the Scientific Council of Aix-Marseille University (AMU), 2015-2018.
  • Director of the Department of Political Science, University of Nice, 2012-2014.
  • Member of the DESPEG doctoral school, University of Nice, 2012-2014.
  • Chair of the Permanent Human Resources Committee (CPRH), Section 04, University of Nice, 2012-2014.
  • Elected member of the council of the Faculty of Law and Economics (SJE), University of Perpignan, 2007-2011.

Teaching responsibilities

  • Member of the founding team of the Master's degree in Economics – Political Science Governance of Companies and Territories in Transition, University of Montpellier, Faculty of Law and Political Science – Faculty of Economics, opening in September 2024.
  • Head of teaching for the University Diploma in Religions and Democratic Societies, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Montpellier (since 2023).
  • Chair of the Equivalency Committee for the dual degree in Economics and Political Science (since 2024, member since 2022).
  • Member of the Parcoursup commission for the dual bachelor's degree in economics and political science (since 2022)
  • Founding member and co-head of teaching for the dual degree program in Economics and Political Science ( with Thomas Cortade), University of Montpellier, Faculty of Law and Political Science – Faculty of Economics, opening in September 2021.
  • Member of the Political Science Degree Equivalency Committee (2015–2024).
  • Member of the Parcoursup commission for the bachelor's degree in political science (2019–2024).
  • Head of teaching for the Master's 1 in Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Montpellier (2015–2020).
  • Co-director of the Master's program in Public Administration and Organization (MAOP), University of Nice, 2012–2014.
  • L1 Law Advisor, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, 2010–2011
  • Head of teaching for the University Diploma in Social Practice Studies(DUEPS), University of Perpignan Via Domitia, 2008–2011.
  • Head of the Legal Careers Department, Perpignan University Institute of Technology, 2003–2009.

Theses defended

  • Rokhaya Diagne, The law on gender parity from 2010 to 2022: study of women's political participation in representative institutions in Senegal, Franco-Senegalese joint thesis, University of Montpellier, CEPEL and Gaston Berger University of Saint Louis, LASPAD (Prof. Penda Ba), University of Montpellier, CEPEL, April 14, 2024.
  • Roman Vareilles, Fragmented Anti-Racism: Postcolonial Mobilizations Against Racism in France, University of Montpellier, CEPEL, May 3, 2023.
  • Amaury Giraud, Thinking about conservatism on the left: origins, past, present, and paradigmatic continuities of a unique political philosophy, University of Montpellier, CEPEL, December 14, 2021 (co-directed with Alexandre Viala).
  • Arthur Groz, The Institutionalization of New Protest Parties in Southern Europe Through the Lens of Activist Careers: A Comparative Study of Syriza, Podemos, and La France Insoumise, University of Montpellier, CEPEL, June 10, 2020.
  • Laura Giraud, The Blue Suburbs? An Analysis of Right-Wing Voting in Working-Class Neighborhoods. The Case of the Moulins Neighborhood in Nice, University of Nice Côte d’Azur, ERMES, November 30, 2018.
  • Daniela Trucco, Young Muslim children of immigrants and citizenship. An analysis of social representations in Italy in light of the French case (Giovani musulmani figli di immigrati e cittadinanza. Un’analisi delle rappresentazioni sociali in Italia alla luce del caso francese) Franco-Italian joint thesis, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and University of Genoa (Dir. Andréa Pirni, DISPO), September 23, 2015, Universita delle Studi Di Genova.
  • Amadou Keita, Political Opposition in Senegal, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, December 2014.
  • Abdelouhab Saidani, Towards a reform of United Nations peacekeeping operations, Franco-Senegalese joint supervision, University of Perpignan Via Domitia and Cheik Anta Diop University, Dakar (Dir. Babacar Gueye), July 2010.

Theses in preparation

  • Rita Katoola, Policies for the integration of refugees in France: analysis of barriers to access to higher education and identification of best practices to facilitate their integration, University of Montpellier; CEPEL. Status: salaried student. First enrollment in 2024.
  • Goerens (A.), Energy policies in a postcolonial context. The case of Guadeloupe and Barbados, Thesis co-supervised with Laura Michel, University of Montpellier, CEPEL. Status: doctoral contract holder, teaching assistant. First enrollment: 2022.
  • Evrad Mafama, African diasporas and political participation: the case of cyber activism among Gabonese expatriates, University of Montpellier, CEPEL. First enrollment: 2022.
  • Walid Boukaa, The Peace Corps as an instrument of soft power in US foreign policy during the Cold War, University of Montpellier, CEPEL. Status: salaried student. First enrollment: 2022.
  • Brieuc Pérénec, Les transformations du système politique togolais(The Transformation of the Togolese Political System), University of Montpellier, CEPEL. Status: student employed at the Togolese Embassy. First enrollment: 2022.

Project coordination, research contracts

  • Member of ANR FOCALE, 2024–2028
  • Head of the "Universalist Republic and Ethnic Statistics" (RUSE) program, exploratory projects, University of Montpellier i-site MUSE (Montpellier University Site of Excellence), July 2024–December 2025.
  • Co-director of the "Migrations and Plural Memories"(MIME) program, with Geneviève ZoIa, MSH Sud, 2021-2022.
  • Head of the "Renegotiating Citizenship " (RECIT) program, 2019.
  • Co-director of the program "Citizenship in Settlements," an inter-UMR program (CEPEL and Dynamiques du Droit), 2015.

Organization of scientific events

  • Co-director (with Geneviève Zoïa) of the MIME Seminar (Migrations and Plural Memories), MSH Sud, 2022-2023.
  • Study day: Renegotiating citizenship. Immigration and political mobilization for equality, UM/CEPEL, May 16, 2019.
  • ST 33 Citizenship scales, (with Sylvie Strudel), 14th National Congress of the AFSP, Montpellier, July 10-12, 2017.
  • Study day Citizenship in post-imperial nations. Defining a European research project, UM/CEPEL, December 8-9, 2017.
  • Study Days Citizenship in Settlements, CEPEL (UMR 5112) & Dynamics of Law (UMR 5815), University of Montpellier, December 7-8, 2015 (with Éric de Mari).
  • Bilingual study day Citizenship reflected in territories. French and Italian perspectives/ La cittadinanza allo specchio dei territori. Incrocio di sguardi francesi e italiani, University of Nice/ERMES, Nice, June 10, 2014.
  • Symposium on Iconography and Political Science, University of Nice/ERMES, Nice, May 22–23, 2014 (with Christine Pina).
  • Study day : Showing Algeria to the public. Ending the Algerian memory wars, University of Perpignan Via Domitia Center for Studies and Research on Transformations in Public Action (CERTAP), Narbonne, April 19, 2007.

PUBLICATIONS

Management of collective works

  • (with Eric de Mari), La fabrique coloniale du citoyen. Algeria, New Caledonia, Paris, Karthala, 2019.
  • (with Christophe Roux), Political Science, Brussels, Bruylant, coll. "Paradigms," 2017.
  • (with Christine Pina), Politics through images. Political iconography and social sciences, Paris, L’harmattan, “Logiques politiques” collection, 2017.
  • Algeria Unemotional: Beyond the Tumult of Memories, Paris, Syllepses, 2008, 214 p.

Books

  • 10 questions about immigration in France. The reality of immigration policies, Brussels, De Boeck, 2023, 136 p.
  • The Postcolonial Encounter, Bellecombe-en-Bauges, Éditions du Croquant, "Kritikos" collection, 2014, 140 p.
  • Reading Social Sciences, Paris, Ellipses, 2008, 213 p.
  • Algeria, the War of Memories, Paris, Non-Lieu, 2007, 175 p.
  • Social Science Methods, Paris, Ellipses, 2006, 186 p.
  • The Invention of the Pieds-Noirs, Paris, Séguier, "Les colonnes d'Hercule" collection, 2002, 283 p.
  • Colonial History and Immigration: An Invention of the Foreigner, Paris, Séguier, "Les colonnes d'Hercule" collection, 2000, 267p.
  • The colonial order and its legitimization in metropolitan France. Forgetting the Other, Paris, L’Harmattan, “Logiques politiques” collection, 1998, 300 p.

Coordination of files/journal issues

  • "(Re)negotiating citizenship. Islam, immigration, mobilizations for equality," Cultures & Conflits, no. 127-128, 2022.
  • "Territories of Citizenship in France and Italy," Pôle Sud, 43, 2015/2.
  • "Pieds-Noirs, Harkis, Repatriates," Pôle Sud, 24, 2006.
  • "Franco-Algerian interactions," Némésis, 5, 2004.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • (with Geneviève Zoïa) "Migration, memory, museification. From museum to MIME," Pôle Sud, special issue "The territory in all its forms – 40 from CEPEL," no. 60, 2024/1, pp. 103–115.
  • "(Re)negotiating citizenship. Islam, immigration, mobilizations for equality. Introduction," Cultures & Conflits, no. 127-128, 2022, pp. 7–17.
  • "Policies of Memory and Models of Citizenship: Lessons from the French Case (Late Nineteenth and Early Twenty-First Centuries)," French Historical Studies, Vol. 43, 2020/1, pp. 1–23.
  • "The electoral process revisited in a colonial context. Voting in Oran in the early 20th century," Pôle Sud, 44, 2016/1, pp. 97–109.
  • "Territories of Citizenship in France and Italy," Pôle Sud, 43, 2015/2, pp. 7–11.
  • "Returning to the question of memory laws. New policies on memory," Cahiers d'Histoire Immédiate, 40, 2011, pp. 131–144.
  • "An understanding look at historical trauma. On the Front National vote among the pieds-noirs," Pôle Sud, 34, 2011 (1), pp. 91–104.
  • "Bitter homeland. A note on the return of the pieds-noirs to Algeria," Critique internationale, 47, 2010, pp. 77–90.
  • "Political Mobilization and Victimhood among Pied-Noir Activists," Raisons politiques, 30, 2008, pp. 41–58.
  • "After the Algerian War: Reconstructing Identity Among the Pieds Noirs," International Social Science Journal, 189, 2006, pp. 457–466.
  • "Pieds-Noirs, Harkis, Repatriates: The Politicization of Issues. Presentation," Pôle Sud, 24, 2006, pp. 3–14.
  • "Wars of memory surrounding the Algerian question. On certain militant demands," Diasporas, 6, 2005, pp. 134–143.
  • "Towards a political sociology of Algerian memories," Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord 2003, vol. XLI, Paris, CNRS, 2005, pp. 127–138.
  • "When history capitulates to memories. On Jeannine Verdès-Leroux's Les Français d'Algérie," Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord 2002, vol. XL, Paris, CNRS, 2004, pp. 221–237.
  • "The Enemy Without a Body: The Fellaga in Political Posters During the Algerian War," in Boetsch (G.), Samandi (Z.), Villain-Gandossi (C.), eds., Individuals, Families, and Society in the Mediterranean, Tunis, Cahiers du CERES, Sociological Series No. 23, 2003, pp. 135–149.
  • "Issues and Uses of Pied-Noir Memory," Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord, 2000-2001, vol. XXXIX, Paris, CNRS, 2003, pp. 85–104.
  • "Investigating Pieds-Noirs activists in the war of memory," Cahiers Politiques "Methods and tools of the social sciences. Innovation and renewal," 2002, pp. 49–59.
  • "Reinventing the Other. The bodies of North Africans in French cinema from 1962 to the present day," Hermes, 30, 2001, pp. 177–185.
  • "Anthropological photographs and race politics. On the uses of photography in Madagascar (1896-1905)" (with G. Boetsch), Journal des Anthropologues, no. 80-81, 2000, pp. 247–258.
  • "The African Woman's Body: Erotization and Inversion" (with G. Boetsch), Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, 153, XXXIX-1, 1999, pp. 123–144.
  • "Official history as a discourse of legitimization. The case of colonial history," Politix, 43, 1998, pp. 93–112.

Sections/Columns in peer-reviewed journals

  • "Here we drown Algerians! A look back at the elimination of 'French Muslims from Algeria' in metropolitan France during the Algerian War," Revue Française de Science Politique, (section "Critical Readings"), 62, 5-6, 2012, pp. 979-981.
  • Review of the exhibition "Ils ont quitté l'Algérie" (They Left Algeria), XXe Siècle. Revue d'histoire (History Journal), ( section "Images, letters, and sounds"), 109, January-March 2011, pp. 232-234.
  • Interview with Willy Di Meglio (conducted with Emmanuel Négrier), Pôle Sud, 24, 2006, pp. 89–96.
  • Coordination of the section "Images – Multimedia," Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord, 2000–2001, vol. XXXIX, Paris, CNRS, 2003, pp. 613–624 (Presentation pp. 613–614).
  • Coordination of the section "Images – Multimedia," Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord 1999, vol. XXXVIII, Paris, CNRS, 2002, pp. 487–494 (Presentation pp. 487–489).
  • Coordination of the section "Images – Multimedia," Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord-1998, vol. XXXVII, Paris, CNRS, 2000, pp. 457–468 (Presentation pp. 457–459).

Articles in non-peer-reviewed journals

  • "Montpellier's place in the history of the pieds-noirs," Historical Bulletin of the City of Montpellier, 43, 2022, pp. 102–109.
  • "Cinema, mirror of the postcolonial question. Reflections on North Africans in French cinema," in CinémAction, 2016, no. 158 (Cinema, Law, and Politics Special Issue), pp. 179–185.
  • "Franco-Algerian Interactions Presentation," Némésis, 5, 2004, pp. 11–17.
  • "Pieds-Noirs and Arabs: Autopsy of a Derailed Encounter," Némésis, 5, 2004, pp. 151–171.
  • "Colonial Domination, Physical Violence, and Symbolic Violence," Mediterranean Journal of Political Studies, No. 3, 1996, pp. 121–138.

Book chapters

  • " The Republican Model of Citizenship through the Lens of "Memory Laws." A Look Back at France's Trajectory," in Dubuy (M), Renou (G.), eds., The Citizen's New Clothes. Contemporary Transformations of Citizenship: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Paris, Pedone, 2025, pp. 123-133.
  • "Return of the invention of pioneering tradition among the pieds-noirs," in Ouriachi (M.J.), Pietri (V.), eds., Ancestrality and Indigeneity: Multidisciplinary Research on the Memory of Origins, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2025, pp. 363-381.
  • "The paradoxical citizenship of French citizens in Algeria. Formal citizenship, colonial classifications, and identity choices in the former colony," in Doat (M.), Rios Rodriguez (J.), eds., Identity in Law, Paris, Mare & Martin, 2022, pp. 129–143.
  • "Les rapatriés d'Algérie" (Repatriates from Algeria), in Péllegrinetti (J.P.), ed., Pour une histoire politique de la France méditerranéenne(Towards a Political History of Mediterranean France), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2021, pp. 551–555.
  • “Anti-Semitism as a factor in electoral mobilization,” in Savarese (E.), de Mari (E.), eds., La fabrique coloniale du citoyen. Algérie, Nouvelle Calédonie, Paris, Karthala, 2019, pp. 169–184.
  • "Introduction. Citizenship in Settler Colonies," in Savarese (E.), de Mari (E.), eds., La fabrique coloniale du citoyen. Algérie, Nouvelle Calédonie, Paris, Karthala, 2019, pp. 5–14.
  • (with C. Roux) "Introduction," in Roux (C.), Savarese (E.), eds., Political Science, Brussels, Bruylant Larcier, 2017, pp. 9–14.
  • "The Status of Theory in Social Sciences," in Roux (C.), Savarese (E.), eds., Political Science, Brussels, Bruylant Larcier, 2017, pp. 345–359.
  • (with C. Pina) "Introduction. Towards an iconographic analysis of politics. Interdisciplinary perspectives, issues, and outlooks," in Pina (C.), Savarese (E.), eds., Politics through images. Political iconography and social sciences, Paris, L'Harmattan, coll. Logiques politiques), 2017, pp. 15–49.
  • (with C. Pina), "Iconographic documents as interview aids. A look back at two research experiences," in Pina (C.), Savarese (E.), Politics through images. Political iconography and social sciences, Paris, L'Harmattan, coll. Logiques politiques), 2017, pp. 207–232.
  • "The colonial question as seen through school textbooks," in Boutan (P.), Benmansour Benkelfat (S.), Lessons from the colonial era in school textbooks, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2017, pp. 13–26.
  • "The pieds noirs and French political life (1962–2015)," in Borutta (M.), Jansen (J.), Eds, Vertriebene and pieds noirs in postwar Germany and France. Comparative perspectives, Palgrave Mac Millan, 2016, pp. 173–189.
  • "The postcolonial encounter in France," in Rothermund (D.), Eds,Memories of the Postimperial Nations. The Aftermath of Decolonization, 1954–2013, New Delhi, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 76–96.
    German edition: "Die poskoloniale Konfrontation in Frankreich," in Rothermund (D.), Hrsg, Erinnerungskulturen post-imperialer Nationen, Baden Baden, Nomos, 2015, pp. 121–143 (Translated from English by Dietmar Rothermund).
  • "Memory Policies in France,"in Legal and Political Variations: Keys to Understanding the Contemporary World (texts compiled by Yves Strickler), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2013, pp. 235–243.
  • "On the governance of memories in France," in Rios Rodriguez (J.), Oanta (G.A.), Public law put to the test of governance. Franco-Spanish conference El Derecho Pùblico ante la gobernanza Jornada franco espanola, Perpignan, PUP, 2012, pp. 53–60.
  • "Discrimination in colonial and postcolonial contexts. 'Naturalization' as an analyzer of discrimination in changing contexts," in Mouchtouris (A.), ed., Discrimination. Social Construction, Perpignan, PUP, 2010, pp. 161–178.
  • "The challenges of education for collective memory. The case of teaching colonial history," in Lange – Eyre (V.), ed., Memory and Human Rights: Challenges and Prospects for the Peoples of Africa and the Americas, Lausanne, Editions d'en bas, 2009, pp. 220–235.
  • "On the war of memories: the virtues of scientific mediation?" in Savarese (E.), ed., L’Algérie dépassionnée, Paris, Syllepses, 2008, pp. 7–21.
  • “From narratives to history. Thinking about the colonial relationship,” in Savarese (E.), ed., L’Algérie dépassionnée, Paris, Syllepses, 2008, pp. 55–66.
  • “Ending the Algerian memory wars in France,” in Savarese (E.), ed., L’Algérie dépassionnée, Paris, Syllepses, 2008, pp. 175–199.
  • "Risk and politics: risk analysis in political science," in Février (J.M.), ed., The legal understanding of risk, Perpignan, PUP CERTAP, 2006, pp. 65–62.
  • "Les Pieds-Noirs, from exile to tradition," in Chaulet-Achour (C.), Belaskri (Y.), The Trial of a Decade. 1992–2002. Algérie, Arts et culture, Paris, Éditions Paris Méditerranée, 2004, pp. 159–171.
  • "Should Europe be defined?" in Villain Gandossi (ed.), Europe in search of its identity, Paris, Éditions du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 2002, pp. 503–515.
  • "Showing femininity, representing otherness. The bodies of indigenous women in the French colonial imagination from the Illustration period (1900–1940)," in Boetsch (G.), Chevé (D.), Eds., Le corps dans tous ses états. Regards anthropologiques, Paris, CNRS, 2000, pp. 39–52.
  • "Nationality (law of)," in Haudegand (N.), Lefébure (P.), Dictionary of Political Issues, Paris, Éditions de l'Atelier, 2000, pp. 156–160.
  • "Noir novels for white kids. Literary constructions and ideological uses of radical otherness," in Henry (J.R.), Martini (L.), Eds. Literature and Colonial Times, Aix en Provence, Édisud, 1999, pp. 209–223.
  • "Algeria as imagined. Algeria in the French imagination from conquest to independence," in Carnets, 2, Deux mille ans d'Algérie,DS. Séguier, 1998, pp. 115–132.
  • "Black women in images. Erotic object or domestic subject," in Blanchard (P.), Blanchoin (S.), Bancel (N.), Boëtsch (G.), Gerbeau (H.), eds., L’Autre et nous. Scenes and Types, Paris, Syros-Achac, 1995, pp. 79–84.

Book reviews

  • Siddi Moussa (N.), Histoire algérienne de la France. Une centralité refoulée, de 1962 à nos jours (Algerian History of France : A Repressed Centrality, from 1962 to the Present), Paris, PUF, 2022, 240 p., in Revue Française de Science Politique, 2024/2, 73, pp. 322-323.
  • Sacriste (F.), Les camps de regroupement en Algérie. Une histoire des déplacements forcés (1954–1962) [The regroupment camps in Algeria: A history of forced displacement (1954–1962)], Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2022, in Pôle Sud, pp. 122–125.
  • Siméant (J.), ed., Guide to Global Research in Social Sciences, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2015, in Revue Française de science politique, 66, 3-4, 2016, pp. 657–658.
  • Scioldo Zürcher (Y.), Becoming Metropolitan. Integration policy and the journey of Algerian returnees to metropolitan France (1954–2005), Paris, Editions de l’EHESS, 2010, in Passato e presente. Rivista di storia contemporanea, 94, 2015, pp. 178–180 (translation by Andrea Brazzoduro).
  • Michel (J.), Sociology of the Self: An Essay in Applied Hermeneutics, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012, in Revue Française de Science Politique, 63, 6, 2013, pp. 1239–1240.
  •  Labat (S.), France Reinvented: The New Franco-Algerian Dual Nationals. A Trans-Memorial Identity, Paris, Publisud, 2010, in Revue Française de Science Politique, 61, 6, 2011, pp. 1200–1201.
  • Bucaille (L.), Le pardon et la rancoeur. Algérie/France, Afrique du Sud : peut-on enterrer la guerre ?, Paris, Payot, 2010, in Pôle Sud, 35, 2011/2, pp. 173–175.
  • Michel (Y.), Governing Memories: Memory Policies in France, Paris, PUF, 2010, in Pôle Sud, 33, 2010, pp. 135–137.
  • Scioldo Zürcher (Y.), Devenir métropolitain. Politique d’intégration et parcours de rapatriés d’Algérie en métropole (1954–2005) [Becoming metropolitan. Integration policy and the journey of Algerian returnees to metropolitan France (1954–2005)], Paris, Éditions de l’EHESS, 2010, in XXe Siècle. Revue d’histoire, 107, 2010/3, pp. 210–211.
  • Comtat (E.), Les pieds noirs et la politique quarante ans après le retour(The pieds noirs and politics forty years after their return), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po (coll. "Fait Politique"), 2009, in XXe Siècle. Revue d’histoire, 107, 2010/3, pp. 211–212.
  • Costantini (D.), Mission civilisatrice. Le rôle de l’histoire coloniale dans la construction de l’identité politique française (Civilizing mission: The role of colonial history in the construction of French political identity), Paris, La Découverte, 2008, in Pôle Sud, 29, 2008, pp. 143–145.
  • Abecassis (F.), Meynier (G.), Eds., Pour une histoire franco-algérienne. En finir avec les pressions officielles et les lobbies de mémoire, Paris, La Découverte, 2008, in Pôle Sud, 29, 2008, pp. 136–138.
  • Charbit (T.), Les harkis, Paris, La Découverte (coll. "Repères"), 2006, in Pôle Sud, 25, 2006, pp. 182–184.
  • Stora (B.), La guerre invisible. Algérie, années 90(The Invisible War: Algeria, the 1990s), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po (La bibliothèque du citoyen collection), 2001, in Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord, 2000-2001, vol. XXXIX, Paris, CNRS, 2003, pp. 621–624.
  • Fontaine (J.), Gresser (P.), Tunisia: Crossroads of Civilizations, Paris, ACR Editions, 2000, in North Africa Yearbook, 2000-2001, Volume XXXIX, Paris, CNRS, 2003, pp. 617–618.
  • "Algerian Memories on Glossy Paper: On Several Collections of Images of Algeria," Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord, 2000-2001, vol. XXXIX, Paris, CNRS, 2003, pp. 618–620.
  • Temime (E.), France, terre d’immigration, Paris, Gallimard, 1999, in Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord 1999, vol. XXXVIII, Paris, CNRS, 2002, pp. 492–494.
  • Jordi (J.-J.), Planche (J.-L.), Eds., Algiers 1860-1939. The Ambiguous Model of Colonial Triumph, Paris, Autrement, 1999, in North Africa Yearbook 1999, vol. XXXVIII, Paris, CNRS, 2002, p. 491.
  • Sayad (A.), La double absence. Des illusions de l’émigré aux souffrances de l’immigré (The Double Absence: From the Illusions of the Emigrant to the Suffering of the Immigrant), Paris, Seuil, 1999,in Politix, 49, 2000, pp. 163–169.
  • Stora (B.), Imaginaires de guerre. Algérie Viêt-Nam en France et aux Etats-Unis (Imaginary Wars: Algeria and Vietnam in France and the United States),Paris, La Découverte, 1997, in Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord (North Africa Yearbook), vol. XXXVII, 1998, Paris, CNRS, 2000, pp. 465–467.
  • Benali (A.), Colonial Cinema in the Maghreb: The Illusion of Imagination, Paris, Editions du Cerf, 1998, in Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord, vol. XXXVII, 1998, Paris, CNRS, 2000, pp. 459–462.
  • Anderson (B.), The National Imagination: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Paris, La Découverte, 1996, in Politix, 36, 1996, pp. 198–202.

Contributions published online or on multimedia platforms

  • "What is a repatriate? On the pieds-noirs repatriated from Algeria, from 1962 to the present day," in Amalric (J.P.), ed., Culture et modes de sociabilité méridionaux, Collection Actes des Congrès des Sociétés Historiques et Scientifiques, CD-ROM, 2007.

COMMUNICATIONS

Chairing the session/discussion of work

2026

  • Discussing (with Anne Goerens) Blanchard (E.), Des colonisés ingouvernables. Adresses d’Algériens aux autorités françaises (Akbou, Paris, 1919-1940), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2024, CEPEL Seminar, Montpellier, February 6, 2026.

2024

  • • Discussing (with Roman Vareilles) Ledoux (S.), Morin (P.M.), Macron's Algeria. The dead ends of a policy of remembrance, Paris, PUF, 2023, CEPEL Seminar, Montpellier, 11/29/2024

2023

  • Co-director (with Geneviève Zoïa) of the Migration, Memory, and Museification Workshop, International Conference "The Territory in All Its Forms," 40th anniversary of CEPEL, Montpellier, December 14–15, 2023.
  • Discussing (with Anne Goerens) Frédéric Thomas, Ed., "Anticolonialism(s). Perspectives from the South," Alternatives Sud, vol. 30, 2023/3, Montpellier, CEPEL Seminar, November 24, 2023.
  • Discussing (with Roman Vareilles) Philippe Aldrin, presentation of the book Aldrin (P.), Fournier (P.), Geisser (V.), Mirman (Y.), eds., L’enquête en danger. Towards a new surveillance regime in the social sciences, Paris, Armand Colin, 2022, Montpellier, CEPEL Seminar, April 7, 2023.

2019

  • Discussing Margot Dazey, ("Experts in the Republican Model? Citizenship, Secularism, and Integration in the Discourse and Practices of Muslim Association Leaders") and Sami Hadj Belgacem, ("The Contested Universality of Neighborhood Candidates. A look back at the electoral engagement of community leaders and educators in municipal elections"), Study Day Renegotiating citizenship. Immigration and political mobilization for equality, UM/CEPEL, Montpellier, May 16, 2019.

2017

  • Discussing Coman (R.), Morin (J.F.), Eds., Political science in motion, Brussels, Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2016 – CEPEL seminar, May 12, 2012.

2015

  • Discussing Benoit Trépied ("Small settlers and big companies. Clientelistic mediations of European voting in New Caledonia") and Eric Soriano ("After indigenous status. Dissolving the colonial relationship in access to suffrage in New Caledonia"), Round Table 4, The uses of electoral citizenship in New Caledonia, Study Days on Citizenship in Settlements, University of Montpellier, December 7 and 8, 2015, Org. Eric de Mari (UMR Dynamiques du Droit), Eric Savarese (UMR CEPEL).
  • Discussing Emmanuelle Comtat ("Studies on postcolonial memories and colonial pasts: a subject of French political science") and Maté Zombori ("Between transnational embeddedness and relative isolation: the moderate rise of memory studies in Hungary"), ST 31, Studies on memory as a subfield of Francophone political science?, org. Pascal Bonnard, Laure Neumayer, Philippe Perchoc, Congress of Francophone Political Science Associations (CoSPoF), Lausanne, February 5-7, 2015.

2013

  • Discussing Andrea Pirni (University of Genoa), Le nuove generazioni e la rielaborazione silenziosa del politico, ERMES Seminar, Nice, November 27, 2013.
  • Discussing Session 2, "Populism through the lens of institutions," symposium Populism in Practice, organized by Nicolas Bué, Maya Colombon, and Hervé Do Alto, ERMES, University of Nice, June 13-14, 2013.
  • Chairing/discussion of the session The uses of historical trauma in political science, based on the work of Emmanuelle Comtat (Les pieds Noirs et la politique, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2010) and Yasmina Touiabia (thesis La démocratisation à l’épreuve du traumatisme historique. Algeria, 1988-2011), ERMES Seminar, Nice, February 20, 2013.
  • Chair/Discussion Béatrice Hibou, Anatomie politique de la domination (Paris, La Découverte, 2011), ERMES Seminar, Nice, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, January 23, 2013.

2012

  • Discussing the session Figurative Expressions of Algerian Memories (Presentations by Erika Nimis, UQAM, Marion Froger, UQAM, Djemaa Maazouzi, UQAM, and Vincent Marie, USVQ), International Conference Algerian Memories in Transmission. Histories, Narratives, and Postcolonial Performances (Org. Giulia Fabiano, UMR TELEME, MMSH), Aix en Provence, November 14-16, 2012.
  • Discussing the work of Stéphanie Guyon and Benoît Trepied, Session "Local political power in French overseas territories (French Guiana, New Caledonia)," Political Studies Seminar, ERMES Laboratory, Nice, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, April 13, 2012.

Conclusion of symposiums/study days

2015

  • (with Eric De Mari), Conclusion of the Study Days "Citizenship in Settlement Colonies," organized by Eric De Mari (UMR 5815) and Eric Savarese (UMR 5112), University of Montpellier, December 7 and 8, 2015.

2013

  • "Memory in the Skin," Conclusion of the symposium Cinema, Mirror of Law and Politics, Org. Philippe Segur and Jacobo Rios, UPVD, CERTAP, April 12, 2013.

Scientific communications

2025

  • "Governing through demographics. Colonial Algeria, 19th–20th centuries," Symposium Algeria from 1830 to 1962 through social history, local communities, and elites. In tribute to Omar Carlier, organized by CRASC/CEMA, Oran, April 7–8, 2025.

2024

  • "Objectification of colonial statistics, staging of law, or representation of struggles? The populations of colonial Algeria through images," SG 11, Images of politics, politics of images (Editors: Philippe Aldrin, Julien O'Miel), 17th AFSP Congress, Grenoble, July 4, 2024.
  • "MIME or the genesis of a research project on Algerian memories in France," CRASC/CEPEL International Seminar, Oran, January 24, 2024.
  • "Reflections on the French in Algeria," Study Day : Colonization and Settlement: A Historical Approach, organized by Isabelle Merle, CREDO (UMR 7308, AMU – CNRS – EHESS), Marseille, January 17, 2024.

2023

  • "The Effects of Postcolonial Encounters on French Political Life" Study Day: Political Science and the Algerian War, organized by Sarah Gensburger and Paul Max Morin, Sciences Po/CNRS, Paris, December 15, 2023.
  • Presentation (with Geneviève Zoïa) of the Workshop on Migration, Memories, and Museification, International Conference "The Territory in All Its Forms," 40 Years of CEPEL, Montpellier, December 14, 2023.
  • (collaboration with Christine Pina) "Politics through images. Political iconography and social sciences,"3rd AFSP Conference, Research Group on Images of Politics, Politics of Images, Paris, June 26, 2023.
  • "Citizenship in Colonial Algeria," Study Day "Citizenship and Foreignness," Aix-Marseille University, June 15, 2023.

2022

  • (with Geneviève Zoïa), "Presentation of the MIME project (Migrations and Plural Memories)," MSH Sud Study Day, April 21, 2022.

2020

  • "French citizenship through the lens of memory policies," symposium Les habits neufs de la citoyenneté(The New Clothes of Citizenship), organized by M. DUPUY, G. RENOU, IRENEE, University of Lorraine, October 1 and 2, 2020.
  • "A political scientist's experience of citizenship in a colonial context," Study Day on Comparative Law in Countries with a French Colonial Heritage, organized by D. BAISSET, CRESEM, UPVD, September 18, 2020.

2019

  • "The invention of pioneering tradition among the pieds-noirs," MemOry Workshop, MSHS, Nice, Université Côte d’Azur, December 12-13, 2019.
  • "Introduction. The Harkis: From Historical Issues to Political Issues," Study Day of the Hérault Department, Montpellier, November 20, 2019.
  • "Formal citizenship, colonial classifications, and identity choices among French citizens in Algeria," Identity in Law Symposium , UPVD, November 8, 2019.
  • "Overcoming ethnic and racial barriers. Support provided by associations to Muslim applicants for naturalization by decree," Congress of the French Political Science Association, ST 25,The racialization of public policies from below: the governed faced with ethno-racial categorizations, coordination Doris Buu-Sao, Clémence Léobal, Bordeaux, July 2-4, 2019.
  • "Obstacles to the ethnography of sovereign functions. A look back at an aborted then reconfigured investigation," Symposium on Obstacles to Ethnography. How to be an ethnographer today?, Lausanne Ethnography Workshops, University of Lausanne, May 27-28, 2019.
  • "Renegotiating Citizenship: Introduction," Study Day on Renegotiating Citizenship: Immigration and Political Mobilization for Equality, UM/CEPEL, Montpellier, May 16, 2019.
  • "Algerian Memoirs and the Reshaping of French Political Life," La semaine des Afriques, Bordeaux, Institut des Afriques, March 28, 2019.

2017

  • "The Proper Use of Amnesia: On Franco-Algerian History," Study Day on Migration, Citizenship, and International Relations, Paris, CERI, December 8, 2017.
  • "Returning to the model of historical trauma. On the Front National vote among the pieds noirs," Trauma of Memories & Memories of Trauma. Around the Algerian War, Colloquium of the Franco-Algerian Society of Psychiatry, Paris, October 11, 2017.
  • (with Sylvie Strudel), "Les échelles de citoyenneté. Présentation" (Scales of Citizenship: Introduction), ST 33 Les échelles de citoyenneté(Scales of Citizenship), Congress of the French Political Science Association, Montpellier, July 10-12, 2017.
  • "Post-conflict and Resilience," Symposium on Transitional Justice: A Conflict Resolution Method for the Future?, organized by Justices Without Borders, Montpellier, June 16, 2017.
  • "Memory policies and tensions in the republican model of citizenship in France," ST Transformations of the State, Transformations of Citizenship (ed. Bernard Fournier, Daniel Oross), Congress of the Belgian Political Science Association (AFSB), Mons, April 3-4, 2017.

2015

  • "Anti-Semitism as a factor in electoral mobilization," Study Days on Citizenship in Settlements, University of Montpellier, December 7 and 8, 2015, Org. Eric de Mari (UMR Dynamiques du Droit), Éric Savarese (UMR CEPEL).
  • "Citizenship in Settlements. Presentation," Study Days on Citizenship in Settlements, University of Montpellier, December 7 and 8, 2015, Organized by Eric de Mari (UMR Dynamiques du Droit) and Éric Savarese (UMR CEPEL)
  • "Electoral mobilization in a colonial context. The example of the municipality of Oran, Algeria, under the Third Republic," 13th Congress of the French Political Science Association, Aix-en-Provence, June 22-24, 2015 ST 4: Investigating the polling station. Epistemological reflections and pooling of field experiences, Coordination David Gouard and Julien Audemard, University of Montpellier, CEPEL.

2014

  • "Citizenship in colonial territory. How French citizens in Algeria became voters," bilingual French/Italian study day Citizenship reflected in territories. French/Italian perspectives, organized by Éric Savarese, ERMES, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, June 10, 2014.
  • "Citizenship reflected in territories/La cittadinanza allo specchio dei territori," bilingual French/Italian study day on citizenship reflected in territories. French/Italian perspectives, organized by Éric Savarese, ERMES, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, June 10, 2014.
  • (with Christine Pina), "Iconographic documents as interview support," Iconography and Political Science Symposium, organized by Christine Pina and Éric Savarese, ERMES, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, May 23, 2014.
  • (with Christine Pina), Introduction to the symposium Iconography and Political Science, organized by Christine Pina and Éric Savarese, ERMES, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, May 22, 2014.
  • "Postcolonial encounters and tensions surrounding the republican model of citizenship," Study Day : Postcolonial Approaches: What Uses, What Tools? (Organized by Laetitia Bucaille, Michel Cahen, and Agnès Villechaise), Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux, April 7 and 8, 2014.
  • Presentation of the book La rencontre postcoloniale (The Postcolonial Encounter), Mulhouse, University of Haute Alsace (UHA), lecture series organized by Jean-François Havard, February 13, 2014.

2013

  • "The postcolonial encounter in France," Conference Memories of Post Imperial Nations, organized by Dietmar Rothermund, University of Heidelberg, Germany, May 27-28, 2013.
  • "Teaching Memories of the Algerian War," Symposium on Memories, Historical Interpretation: Paying Tribute, Commemorating, Trinôme Académique de Montpellier, Montpellier, March 20, 2013.

 2012

  • "Algerian independence and French society (1962-2012)," Lecture for the start of the academic year at the DESPEG doctoral school, University of Nice, December 13, 2012.
  • "The postcolonial question in France through the lens of 1962,"International Symposium1962, One World (CRASC, IHTP, CNRS), Oran (Algeria), October 14-16, 2012.
  • "Algerian Memories and Political Behavior: The Case of the Pieds-Noirs," Research Seminar on the Trials of Collective Memory, EHESS, Paris, March 27, 2012 (led by Johann Michel and Gérôme Truc).
  • "The Front National vote among the pieds noirs," International Symposium The Nation and its "Rapatriates": Pieds Noirs and "Vertriebene" in a Comparative Perspective, Org. Manuel Borutta (Ruhr University Bochum), Jan C. Jansen (University of Konstanz), coll. German Historical Institute, Center for 20th Century Social History (University of Paris 1), Paris, March 7-9, 2012.

2011

  • "The Governance of Memory in France," First Franco-Spanish Public Law Conference on"Public Law Put to the Test of Governance," University of Perpignan Via Domitia, September 30, 2011.
  • "Understanding the electoral expression of anti-Semitism in colonial Algeria," 11th Congress of the French Political Science Association, Strasbourg, August 31 to September 2, 2011, ST 34: Electoral geography and sociology: duel or duo? Current and future scientific competition/collaboration (Ed. Jean Rivière, Joël Gombin).

 2010

  • "Stakes of memory about the Algerian War," in Social Sciences Facing the Uses of Historical Memories, LEA ETAPES Seminar, CEPEL, org. François Buton, Montpellier, November 26, 2010
  • Presentation of the article "Amère Patrie. Une note sur le retour des pieds noirs en Algérie" (Critique internationale, 47, April-June 2010, pp. 77-90), Paris, CERI, July 2, 2010 (organized by Antonela Capelle Pogacean).

 2009

  • "The colonial question as portrayed in school textbooks," Symposium on Human and Cultural Exchanges in the Mediterranean in School Textbooks, Montpellier, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, November 12-14, 2009.
  • "The Fellaga and the Arab, or the Unthought of the Colonial Relationship during the Algerian War," Study Day on Policies of Bad Faith and Contempt Toward the Colonized. Around Ann Laura Stoler's Concept of Disregard, TERRA – CHERPA Sciences Po Aix, June 24, 2009.
  • "From images to memory conflicts. A look back at a survey of interviews with Pied-Noir activists," Study Day: What to do with interviews? Some uses in the social and historical sciences, GRHISPO (AFSP) – CURAPP, org. F. Buton, R. Payre, Amiens, June 18, 2009.

 2008

  • "Discrimination in Colonial and (Post) Colonial Contexts," Study Day on the Social Construction of Discrimination, Equal Opportunities Commission, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, November 19, 2008.
  • "From exile literature to memory controversies: the ambivalence of the representation of 'Arabs' by the pieds-noirs," Cultural Otherness Research Seminar . Others in colonial and postcolonial contexts, Montpellier, Maison des sciences de l'Homme, June 5, 2008.
  • "The Question of the Pieds-Noirs: From Historical Issues to Memory Processes," Research Seminar on Cultural Otherness: Others in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts, Montpellier, Maison des sciences de l’Homme, June 5, 2008 .
  • "The politics of memory. The management of Algerian memories through the case of Perpignan," Seminar of the Research Group on Colonial Algeria and the Algerian War of Independence, organized by Sylvie Thenault, Center for Social History, Paris, January 23, 2008.

 2007

  • with Emmanuelle Comtat, "Les pieds-noirs and the Front National vote. Perspectives on the historical trauma model," IXth Congress of the French Political Science Association, TR2 How can we conceive and understand the temporalities of voting? Towards a longitudinal approach to electoral decision-making, Session 1, Ed. Pascal Perrineau, Bruno Cautrès, September 5, 2007.
  • "Historical Trauma and Comprehensive Analysis of Front National Voting Among Pieds-Noirs," Doctoral Seminar on Comprehensive Sociology and History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, May 30, 2007.
  • "Showing Algeria to the public. Presentation," Study Day Showing Algeria to the public. Ending the Algerian memory wars, organized by Eric Savarese, CERTAP, UPVD, Narbonne, April 19, 2007.
  • "From stories to history. Thinking about the colonial relationship," Study Day Showing Algeria to the public. Putting an end to the Algerian wars of memory, organized by Eric Savarese, CERTAP, UPVD, Narbonne, April 19, 2007.

 2006

  • "The challenges of teaching for collective memory. The case of colonial history," international symposium on Memory and Human Rights, organized by the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), Geneva, November 23-24, 2006.
  • "Memories of colonization in France. Pieds-Noirs, Harkis, Algerians: Dynamics of forgetting and remembering," International Seminar Historical Memories from Here and Elsewhere: Cross Perspectives, organized by the Centers for European Studies at Sciences Po, EHESS, and Laval University (Quebec) – joint presentation with Michelle Baussant. Paris, session of October 20, 2006.
  • "Algeria: Wars of Memory and the Invention of the Pieds-Noirs," International Symposium From One Shore to the Other: Writing History, Decolonizing Memories, organized by Festival TransMéditerranée, Marseille, October 6–7, 2006.
  • "The mobilization of Pied-Noir activists as a process of politicization of the Algerian War. The official definition of victimhood through the law of February 23, 2005," Symposium on Victim Mobilization, CRPS (Paris I)/ISP (Paris X), organized by Lilian Mathieu and Sandrine Lefranc, Nanterre and Paris, June 15-16, 2006.

 2005

  • "Memory as an identity strategy. The development of a Pied-Noir cause," 8th Congress of the French Political Science Association, workshop on Mobilization of Responsible Victims, led by Lilian Mathieu and Sandrine Lefranc, September 14-16, 2005.
  • "Political Issues and Uses of Pied-Noir Memory," Seminar on Political Issues and Uses of Memory, Paris, Interdisciplinary Research Center, March 15, 2005.

 2004

  • "Risk and Politics," Symposium on the Legal Understanding of Risk, organized by Jean Marc Février – Center for Studies and Research on Transformations in Public Action, Narbonne, November 19 and 20, 2004.
  • Presentation of the book L’invention des Pieds – Noirs(The Invention of the Pieds-Noirs), CEPEL seminar, University of Montpellier 1, October 21, 2004.

 2003

  • "From memories of wars to wars of memories. About Pieds Noirs community activists,"1st Congressof the Franco-Algerian Society of Psychiatry, Paris, Georges Pompidou Hospital, October 3 and 4, 2003.
  • "Maghrebians, school textbooks, and colonial history: genealogy of a disappearance," Cultural exchanges in Mediterranean countries as reflected in French education, Mémoires de la Méditerranée, Paris, February 23, 2003.

 2002

  • "School and Colonial Power," School(s), Power(s), Citizenship, Dialogues Politiques Journal, Carpentras, April 29, 2002.

 2001

  • "From native to immigrant," Mediterranean: a place of encounters, a hotbed of tensions, or a melting pot of civilizations?, Memoirs of the Mediterranean, Strasbourg, December 1, 2001.
  • "Postcolonial cinema: reinventing the Other," The 20th Century According to Historians. The Colonial Mind, Themed evenings at the Bibliothèque Nationale de FranceFrançois Mitterrand, Paris, May 2, 2001.
  • "What is a returnee?" 126th National Congress of Historical and Scientific Societies, Lands and People of the South, Toulouse, April 9-14, 2001.

 2000

  • "Colonial Memories and the Reconstruction of Political Imaginaries: The Case of the Pieds-Noirs," Study Day on Colonial Powers: State Formation and Subjectivation in the Colonial World, (Dir. CERI), Paris, June 19, 2000.
  • "In Search of a Definition of Europe," Europe, 125th Congress of Historical and Scientific Societies, Lille, April 10-15, 2000.
  • "Clothing policy and subjectivation on the margins. The case of black African women in the colonies," Study Day on Material Culture and Political Subjectivation (Dir. CERI MAP), Paris, January 10-11, 2000.

1999

  • "Between local and global knowledge: the colonial construction of the Maghreb family," Round Table Family and society around the Mediterranean basin: between stereotypes and the construction of anthropological knowledge, Tunis (Dir. CERES, UMR 6578, UMR TELEME), November 27-30, 1999.
  • "The Maghreb enemy in French cinema since 1962. Self-designation and legitimization process," 6th AFSP Congress, Rennes, Round Table No. 6, Figures of the Internal Enemy (Ed. Y. Viltard), September 28-October 1, 1999.
  • "Fiction to the rescue of reality. Colonial history and North African immigration in French cinema from 1962 to the present day," Study Day on the Invention and Legacy of Colonial Governmentality, (Dir. CERI), Paris, February 15, 1999.

 1998

  • "The bodies of North Africans in French cinema from 1962 to the present day," Round table discussion Stereotypes in North-South relations: Images of the physical appearance of the Other and mental characteristics, (Ed. G. Boetsch, C. Villain Gandossi), Marseille, September 24-27, 1998.

 1997

  • "Africa through the eyes of children," Colloquium on Colonial Literature: Metamorphoses of a View of the Mediterranean and Africa ( edited by J.R. Henry and L. Martini) , Aix-en-Provence, April 7-8, 1997.

 1996

  • "The bodies of African women as a political arena," workshop on the uses of iconography in political science (ed. P. Favre), 5th AFSP Congress, Aix-en-Provence, April 23-26, 1996.

 1995

  • "Black women in images. Erotic objects or domestic subjects," Scènes et typessymposium (ed. Achac), Marseille, February 9-11, 1995

 Research reports/Working papers

  • "Overcoming ethnoracial boundaries. Support provided by associations to Muslim applicants for naturalization by decree," AFSP Congress, July 2-4, 2019, Bordeaux, ST25 –The racialization of public policies from the bottom up: citizens faced with ethno-racial categorizations (Coord. Doris Buu-Dao, Clémence Léobal).
  • "The electoral process revisited in a colonial context. Voting in Oran in the early 20th century," AFSP Congress, June 22-24, 2015, Aix-en-Provence, ST4 (Coord. Julien Audemard, David Gouard).
  • "Colonial mobilization or identity voting? A research note on the electoral expression of anti-Semitism in the department of Oran (19th-20th centuries)," 11th Congress of the French Political Science Association, Strasbourg, August 31 to September 2, 2011, ST 34: Electoral geography and sociology: duel or duo? Current and future scientific competition/collaboration (Coord. Jean Rivière, Joël Gombin).
  • (with Emmanuelle Comtat), "Les pieds-noirs and the Front National vote. Perspectives on the model of historical trauma," presented at the 9th Congress of the French Political Science Association, TR2 How to conceive and understand the temporalities of voting? Towards a longitudinal approach to electoral decision-making, Session 1, (Coord. Pascal Perrineau, Bruno Cautrès), September 5, 2007.
  • "Research report on the project to create a public documentation and exhibition site on Algeria in Perpignan: putting an end to the Algerian memory wars?" Summary of the debates and work of the study day Showing Algeria to the public. Putting an end to the Algerian memory wars, org. Éric Savarese, UPVD, CERTAP, April 19, 2007 (Published in L’Algérie dépassionnée, Syllepses, 2008).
  • "The Maghreb enemy in French cinema since 1962. Self-designation and legitimization process," presented at the 6th Congress of the French Political Science Association, October 1999, Round Table No. VI, Figures of the Internal Enemy (Coord. Yves Viltard), multigraphed.