CEPEL

Eric SAVARESE

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ACADEMIC

 Career History

  • Professor of Political Science at the University of Montpellier, 2015.
  • Transferred to the University of Montpellier 1 in 2014; UM1 and UM2 merged 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 Studies, 2002.
  • Contract Research Engineer, University of the Mediterranean, 1998.
  • Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Paris 13, 1995.

Training

  • Passed the first open competitive examination for the political science teaching certification, 2011.
  • Qualification to Supervise Research in Political Science, University of Perpignan, Advisor: Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, 2004.
  • CAPES in Economics and Social Sciences, 2002.
  • PhD Political Science, Aix-Marseille III University, supervised by Bruno Etienne, 1995.
  • Master of Political Science, University of Aix-Marseille III, 1991.
  • Master of Arts in Social Science Research, EHESS, 1990.
  • Graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) in Aix-en-Provence, 1989.

Faculty at the University of Montpellier, Department of Law and Political Science

  • Research Seminar: Epistemology and Research Methods in the Social Sciences –Epistemology and Research Methods in the Social Sciences, M2 IDIL Comparative Politics and Public Policy, Specialization in Comparative Politics, First Semester (20 hours).
  • Academic Director ofTU "Territories and Inequalities"TU , M2 GSTT (5 credits).
  • Political Anthropology, Master’s 1 in Comparative Politics and Public Policy (IDIL) & Master’s 1 in International Cooperation and Development, Bachelor’s 1 (33 credits).
  • Migration, Society, and Territories; Master’s 1 (M1) in Economics and Political Science, track: “Governance of Societies and Territories in Transition”; Master’s 2 (M2) (22 credits).
  • Epistemology of the Social Sciences, Dual Bachelor’s Degree (3rd year), Economics and Political Science track, 2nd semester (22 hours).
  • Political Theory, Sophomore Year (Political Science), Dual Degree (Economics and Political Science), Master’s Level (22 hours).
  • General Education 1. Major Political and Social Issues, Sophomore Year (Political Science), Double Major in Economics and Political Science, Freshman Year (33 hours).

Academic Responsibilities

  • Expert Panel for HCERES, Research Evaluation Department, 2022–2025.
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal *Insaniyat: Algerian Journal of Anthropology and the Humanities*, supported by the 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–).
  • Member of the Human Resources, Law, and Political Science Committee (Social Sciences Division), University of Montpellier (since 2023)
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal *French Historical Studies*, Duke University Press (2022–2025).
  • Board member of the French Political Science Association (AFSP) and 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 for Law and Political Science, University of Montpellier, since 2019.
  • Chair of the Political Science Division, School 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.
  • Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Nice, 2012–2014.
  • Member of the DESPEG doctoral program, University of Nice, 2012–2014.
  • Chair of the Standing Committee on Human Resources (CPRH), Section 04, University of Nice, 2012–2014.
  • Elected member of the Faculty Council of the School of Law and Economics (SJE), University of Perpignan, 2007–2011.

Educational Responsibilities

  • Member of the founding team for the Master’s program in Economics and Political Science : Governance of Societies and Territories in Transition, University of Montpellier, Faculty of Law and Political Science – Faculty of Economics, launching in September 2024.
  • Academic Director of the University Certificate Program in Religions and Democratic Societies, Department of Law and Political Science, University of Montpellier (since 2023).
  • Chair of the Equivalency Committee for the dual degree program in “Economics and Political Science” (since 2024; committee member since 2022).
  • Member of the Parcoursup committee for the dual-degree program in “Economics and Political Science” (since 2022)
  • Founding member and co-director of academic programs 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, launching in September 2021.
  • Member of the Equivalency Committee for the Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science (2015–2024).
  • Member of the Parcoursup committee for the Bachelor’s degree in Political Science (2019–2024).
  • Academic Director of the Master’s in Political Science program, Department of Law and Political Science, University of Montpellier (2015–2020).
  • Co-Director of Academic Programs for the Master’s in Public Administration and Public Organizations (MAOP), University of Nice, 2012–2014.
  • Faculty Advisor for the First-Year Law Program, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, 2010–2011
  • Academic Director of the University Diploma in Social Work(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 Gender Parity Law from 2010 to 2022: A Study of Women’s Political Participation in Representative Institutions in Senegal, Joint French-Senegalese 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, “Reflecting on Conservatism on the Left: Origins, History, Current Relevance, and Paradigmatic Continuities of a Unique Political Philosophy,” University of Montpellier, CEPEL, December 14, 2021 (co-chaired with Alexandre Viala).
  • Arthur Groz, “The Institutionalization of New Protest Parties in Southern Europe: A Comparative Study of Syriza, Podemos, and La France Insoumise Through the Lens of Activist Careers,” 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 Muslims: 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 Supervised Thesis, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and University of Genoa (Supervisor: Andréa Pirni, DISPO), September 23, 2015, University of Genoa.
  • Amadou Keita, Political Opposition in Senegal, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, December 2014.
  • Abdelouhab Saidani, *Toward a Reform of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations*, a joint French-Senegalese thesis, University of Perpignan Via Domitia and Cheik Anta Diop University, Dakar (Advisor: Babacar Gueye), July 2010.

Theses in progress

  • Rita Katoola, Policies for the Integration of Refugees in France: An Analysis of Barriers to Accessing Higher Education and Identification of Best Practices to Facilitate Their Integration, University of Montpellier; CEPEL. Status: Student employee. First enrollment: 2024.
  • Goerens (A.), Energy Policies in a Postcolonial Context: The Cases of Guadeloupe and Barbados, Dissertation co-supervised by Laura Michel, University of Montpellier, CEPEL. Status: Doctoral fellow, teaching assistant. First enrollment: 2022.
  • Evrad Mafama, African Diasporas and Political Participation: The Case of Cyber Activism Among Gabonese Abroad, University of Montpellier, CEPEL. First enrollment: 2022.
  • Walid Boukaa, “The Peace Corps as an Instrument of Soft Power in U.S. Foreign Policy During the Cold War,” University of Montpellier, CEPEL. Status: student employee. First enrollment: 2022.
  • Brieuc Pérénec, *The Transformation of the Togolese Political System*, University of Montpellier, CEPEL. Status: student employee at the Togolese Embassy. First enrollment: 2022.

Project coordination, research contracts

  • Member of the ANR FOCALE, 2024–2028
  • Program Director for “Universalist Republic and Ethnic Statistics” (RUSE), exploratory projects at the University of Montpellier’s MUSE (Montpellier University Site of Excellence) campus, July 2024 – December 2025.
  • Co-director of the “Migration and Plural Memories”(MIME) program, with Geneviève ZoIa, MSH Sud, 2021–2022.
  • Program Director of the “Renegotiating Citizenship ” (RECIT) program, 2019.
  • Co-director of the “Citizenship in Settlements” program, an inter-UMR initiative (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.
  • Symposium: “Renegotiating Citizenship: Immigration and Political Mobilization for Equality,” UM/CEPEL, May 16, 2019.
  • ST 33 : The Scales of Citizenship ( with Sylvie Strudel), 14th National Congress of the AFSP, Montpellier, July 10–12, 2017.
  • Workshop: “Citizenship in Post-Imperial Nations: Defining a European Research Project,” UM/CEPEL, December 8–9, 2017.
  • Conference on Citizenship in Settler Colonies, CEPEL (UMR 5112) & Dynamiques du Droit (UMR 5815), University of Montpellier, December 7–8, 2015 (with Éric de Mari).
  • Bilingual Symposium: 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.
  • Conference on Iconography and Political Science, University of Nice/ERMES, Nice, May 22–23, 2014 (with Christine Pina).
  • Symposium: “Presenting Algeria to the Public: Putting an End to Algeria’s Memory Wars,” University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Center for Studies and Research on the Transformation of Public Action (CERTAP), Narbonne, April 19, 2007.

PUBLICATIONS

Editing of anthologies

  • (with Eric de Mari), The Colonial Construction of Citizenship: Algeria, New Caledonia, Paris, Karthala, 2019.
  • (with Christophe Roux), Political Science, Brussels, Bruylant, “Paradigms” series, 2017.
  • (with Christine Pina), Politics Through Images: Political Iconography and the Social Sciences, Paris, L’Harmattan, “Logiques politiques” series, 2017.
  • Algeria Unemotional: Beyond the Turmoil of Memories, Paris, Syllepses, 2008, 214 pp.

Books

  • 10 Questions About Immigration in France: The Reality of Immigration Policies, Brussels: De Boeck, 2023, 136 pp.
  • The Postcolonial Encounter, Bellecombe-en-Bauges, Éditions du Croquant, “Kritikos” series, 2014, 140 pp.
  • Reading the Social Sciences, Paris, Ellipses, 2008, 213 pp.
  • Algeria: The War of Memories, Paris, Non-Lieu, 2007, 175 pp.
  • Methods in the Social Sciences, Paris, Ellipses, 2006, 186 pp.
  • The Invention of the Pieds-Noirs, Paris: Séguier, “Les colonnes d’Hercule” series, 2002, 283 pp.
  • Colonial History and Immigration: A Foreign Invention, Paris: Séguier, “Les colonnes d’Hercule” series, 2000, 267 pp.
  • The Colonial Order and Its Legitimization in Metropolitan France. Forgetting the Other, Paris: L’Harmattan, “Logiques politiques” series, 1998, 300 pp.

Coordination of journal issues

  • “(Re)negotiating Citizenship: Islam, Immigration, and Movements for Equality,” Cultures & Conflits, no. 127–128, 2022.
  • “Territories of Citizenship in France and Italy,” Pôle Sud, 43, 2015/2.
  • “Pieds-Noirs, Harkis, Rapatries,” Pôle Sud, 24, 2006.
  • “Franco-Algerian Interactions,” Némésis, 5, 2004.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • (with Geneviève Zoïa) “Migration, Memory, and Museification: From the Museum to MIME,” Pôle Sud, special issue “The Territory in All Its Forms – 40th Anniversary of CEPEL,” no. 60, 2024/1, pp. 103–115.
  • “(Re)negotiating Citizenship: Islam, Immigration, and Movements for Equality. Introduction,” Cultures & Conflits, no. 127–128, 2022, pp. 7–17.
  • “Politics of Memory and Models of Citizenship: Lessons from the French Case (Late Nineteenth to Early Twenty-First Century),” French Historical Studies, Vol. 43, 2020/1, pp. 1–23.
  • “The Act of Voting Revisited in a Colonial Context: Voting in Oran in the First Half of the 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.
  • “A Look Back at the Issue of Memory Laws: New Policies on Memory,” *Cahiers d’Histoire Immédiate*, 40, 2011, pp. 131–144.
  • “An Understanding Perspective on Historical Trauma: On the Front National Vote Among the Pied-Noirs,” Pôle Sud, 34, 2011 (1), pp. 91–104.
  • “Bitter Homeland: A Note on the Return of the Pied-Noirs to Algeria,” Critique internationale, 47, 2010, pp. 77–90.
  • “Political Mobilization and Victimhood Among Pied-Noir Community 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 – Blacks, Harkis, Repatriates: The Politicization of the Issues. Introduction,” Pôle Sud, 24, 2006, pp. 3–14.
  • “Wars of Memory Surrounding the Algerian Question: On Certain Activist Demands,” Diasporas, 6, 2005, pp. 134–143.
  • “Toward a Political Sociology of Algerian Memories,” Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord 2003, Vol. XLI, Paris, CNRS, 2005, pp. 127–138.
  • “When History Yields to Memory: 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 Bodiless Enemy: The Fellaga in Political Posters During the Algerian War,” in Boetsch (G.), Samandi (Z.), and Villain-Gandossi (C.), eds., *Individual, Family, and Society in the Mediterranean*, Tunis, *Cahiers du CERES*, Sociology Series No. 23, 2003, pp. 135–149.
  • “Issues and Uses of a Pied-Noir Memory,” Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord, 2000–2001, vol. XXXIX, Paris: CNRS, 2003, pp. 85–104.
  • “Surveying Pieds-Noirs Activists in the War of Memory,” Cahiers Politiques: “Methods and Tools in 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,” *Hermes*, 30, 2001, pp. 177–185.
  • “Anthropological Photography 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 Legitimation: The Case of Colonial History,” Politix, 43, 1998, pp. 93–112.

Articles/Columns in peer-reviewed journals

  • “Here, Algerians Are Being Drowned! 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 “They Left Algeria,” *XXe Siècle. Revue d’histoire* ( section “Images, Letters, and Sounds”), 109, January–March 2011, pp. 232–234.
  • Interview with Willy Di Meglio (conducted by Emmanuel Négrier), Pôle Sud, 24, 2006, pp. 89–96.
  • Editor of the “Images – Multimedia” section, Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord, 2000–2001, vol. XXXIX, Paris, CNRS, 2003, pp. 613–624 (Introduction, pp. 613–614).
  • Editor of the “Images – Multimedia” section, *Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord* 1999, vol. XXXVIII, Paris, CNRS, 2002, pp. 487–494 (Introduction, pp. 487–489).
  • Editor of the “Images – Multimedia” section, Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord – 1998, vol. XXXVII, Paris, CNRS, 2000, pp. 457–468 (Introduction, pp. 457–459).

Articles in non-peer-reviewed journals

  • “Montpellier’s Place in the History of the Pied-Noirs,” Historical Bulletin of the City of Montpellier, 43, 2022, pp. 102–109.
  • “Cinema as a Mirror of the Postcolonial Question: Reflections on North Africans in French Cinema,” in CinémAction, 2016, no. 158 (Special Issue: Cinema, Law, and Politics), pp. 179–185.
  • “Franco-Algerian Interactions: An Introduction,” Némésis, 5, 2004, pp. 11–17.
  • “Feet – Blacks and Arabs: An Autopsy of a Disembodied Encounter,” *Némésis*, 5, 2004, pp. 151–171.
  • “Colonial Domination, Physical Violence, and Symbolic Violence,” Revue Méditerranéenne d’Etudes Politiques, No. 3, 1996, pp. 121–138.

Book chapters

  • “The Republican Model of Citizenship Through the Lens of ‘Memory Laws’. A look back at the French trajectory,” in Dubuy (M), Renou (G.), eds., The Citizen’s New Clothes: Contemporary Transformations of Citizenship: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Paris, Pedone, 2025, pp. 123–133.
  • “A Look Back at the Pioneering Invention of Tradition Among the Pied-Noirs,” in Ouriachi (M.J.) and Pietri (V.), eds., Ancestry and Indigeneity: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Memory of Origins, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2025, pp. 363–381.
  • “The Paradoxical Citizenship of French Algerians: 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.
  • “The Returnees from Algeria,” in Péllegrinetti (J.P.), ed., Toward 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.) and de Mari (E.), eds., The Colonial Construction of Citizenship: Algeria, New Caledonia, Paris: Karthala, 2019, pp. 169–184.
  • “Introduction. Citizenship in Settler Colonies,” in Savarese (E.) and de Mari (E.), eds., The Colonial Construction of Citizenship: Algeria, New Caledonia, Paris: Karthala, 2019, pp. 5–14.
  • (with C. Roux) “Introduction,” in Roux (C.) and Savarese (E.), eds., Political Science, Brussels: Bruylant Larcier, 2017, pp. 9–14.
  • “The Status of Theory in the Social Sciences,” in Roux (C.) and Savarese (E.), eds., Political Science, Brussels: Bruylant Larcier, 2017, pp. 345–359.
  • (with C. Pina) “Introduction: Toward an Iconographic Analysis of Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Challenges, and Prospects,” in C. Pina and E. Savarese (eds.), Politics Through Images: Political Iconography and the Social Sciences, Paris: L’Harmattan, Logiques politiques series, 2017, pp. 15–49.
  • (with C. Pina), “Iconographic Documents as Interview Aids: A Review of Two Research Experiments,” in Pina (C.), Savarese (E.), Politics Through Images: Political Iconography and the Social Sciences, Paris, L’Harmattan, Logiques politiques series, 2017, pp. 207–232.
  • “The Colonial Question as Portrayed in 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.) and Jansen (J.), eds., Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France: Comparative Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 173–189.
  • “The Postcolonial Encounter in France,” in Rothermund (D.), ed.,*Memories of the Post-Imperial 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.), ed., 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 (edited by Yves Strickler), Paris: L’Harmattan, 2013, pp. 235–243.
  • “On the Governance of Memory in France,” in Rios Rodriguez (J.), Oanta (G.A.), Public Law and the Challenge of Governance. Franco-Spanish Conference: El Derecho Público ante la Gobernanza, Perpignan, PUP, 2012, pp. 53–60.
  • “Discrimination in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts: ‘Naturalization’ as a Framework for Analyzing 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 Perspectives 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: Reflecting on the Colonial Relationship,” in Savarese (E.), ed., *L’Algérie dépassionnée*, Paris: Syllepses, 2008, pp. 55–66.
  • “Putting an End to 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.
  • “The Pieds-Noirs: From Exile to Tradition,” in Chaulet-Achour (C.), Belaskri (Y.), The Trial of a Decade: 1992–2002. Algeria, Arts and Culture, Paris, Éditions Paris Méditerranée, 2004, pp. 159–171.
  • “Should We Define Europe?”, in Villain Gandossi (ed.), Europe in Search of Its Identity, Paris, Éditions du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 2002, pp. 503–515.
  • “Depicting 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., The Body in All Its Forms: Anthropological Perspectives, 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.
  • “Crime Novels for Little Whites: Literary Constructions and Ideological Uses of Radical Otherness,” in Henry (J.R.) and Martini (L.), eds. , *Literature and the Colonial Era*, Aix-en-Provence: Édisud, 1999, pp. 209–223.
  • “Algeria as Imagined: Algeria in the French Imagination from Conquest to Independence,” in Carnets, 2, Two Thousand Years of Algeria,DS. Séguier, 1998, pp. 115–132.
  • “The Black Woman in Images: Erotic Object or Domestic Subject,” in Blanchard (P.), Blanchoin (S.), Bancel (N.), Boëtsch (G.), Gerbeau (H.), eds., The Other and Us. Scenes and Types, Paris, Syros-Achac, 1995, pp. 79–84.

Book Reviews

  • Siddi Moussa (N.), *Algerian History of France: A Repressed Centrality, from 1962 to the Present*, Paris, PUF, 2022, 240 pp., in *Revue Française de Science Politique*, 2024/2, 73, pp. 322–323.
  • Sacriste (F.), *The Internment 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 Social Science Research, 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 Paths of Returnees from Algeria to Metropolitan France (1954–2005), Paris, Editions de l’EHESS, 2010, in Passato e presente. Rivista di storia contemporanea, 94, 2015, pp. 178–180 (translated 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.), *La France réinventée: The New Franco-Algerian Dual Nationals. A Transmemorial Identity*, Paris: Publisud, 2010, in *Revue Française de Science Politique*, 61, 6, 2011, pp. 1200–1201.
  • Bucaille (L.), *Forgiveness and Resentment: Algeria/France, South Africa—Can We Put the War Behind Us?*, 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.), Becoming Metropolitan: Integration Policy and the Journeys of Returnees from Algeria 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.), *The Pied-Noirs and Politics Forty Years After Their Return*, Paris: Presses de Sciences Po (Fait Politique series), 2009, in *XXe Siècle. Revue d’histoire*, 107, 2010/3, pp. 211–212.
  • Costantini (D.), *Mission civilisatrice: 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., *Toward a Franco-Algerian History: Putting an End to Official Pressure and Memory Lobbies*, Paris: La Découverte, 2008, in *Pôle Sud*, 29, 2008, pp. 136–138.
  • Charbit (T.), *Les harkis*, Paris: La Découverte (Repères series), 2006, in *Pôle Sud*, 25, 2006, pp. 182–184.
  • Stora (B.), *The Invisible War: Algeria in the 1990s*, Paris: Presses de Sciences Po (La bibliothèque du citoyen series), 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 *Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord*, 2000–2001, vol. 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, Land of 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 *Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord* 1999, vol. XXXVIII, Paris: CNRS, 2002, p. 491.
  • Sayad (A.), *The Double Absence: From the Illusions of the Exile to the Suffering of the Immigrant*, Paris: Seuil, 1999,in *Politix*, 49, 2000, pp. 163–169.
  • Stora (B.), *Imaginary Wars: Algeria and Vietnam in France and the United States*,Paris: La Découverte, 1997, in *Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord*, vol. XXXVII, 1998, Paris: CNRS, 2000, pp. 465–467.
  • Benali (A.), *Colonial Cinema in the Maghreb: The Illusion of the Imaginary*, 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 Rise 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 Pied-Noirs Repatriated from Algeria, from 1962 to the Present,” in Amalric (J.P.), ed., Culture and Forms of Social Interaction in the South, Collection of Proceedings from the Congresses of Historical and Scientific Societies, CD-ROM, 2007.

COMMUNICATIONS

Session Chair/Discussion of Papers

2026

  • Discussing (with Anne Goerens) Blanchard (E.), *The Ungovernable Colonized: Messages from Algerians to the French Authorities (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 Politics of Memory*, Paris, PUF, 2023, CEPEL Seminar, Montpellier, November 29, 2024

2023

  • Co-organizer (with Geneviève Zoïa) of the workshop “Migration, Memory, and Museification” at the international conference “Territory in All Its Forms,” marking the 40th anniversary of CEPEL, Montpellier, December 14–15, 2023.
  • Discussing (with Anne Goerens) Frédéric Thomas (ed.), “Anticolonialism(s): Perspectives from the Global South,” Alternatives Sud, vol. 30, 2023/3, Montpellier, CEPEL Seminar, November 24, 2023.
  • Discussing (with Roman Vareilles) Philippe Aldrin’s book, *L’enquête en danger. Toward a New Regime of Surveillance in the Social Sciences, Paris, Armand Colin, 2022, Montpellier, CEPEL Seminar, April 7, 2023.

2019

  • Discussing Margot Dazey (“Experts on the Republican Model? Citizenship, Secularism, and Integration in the Discourse and Practices of Muslim Community 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 Mobilizations for Equality, UM/CEPEL, Montpellier, May 16, 2019.

2017

  • A discussion of 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: Clientelist Mediations of the European Vote in New Caledonia”) and Eric Soriano (“After the Indigenous Status: Dissolving the Colonial Relationship in Access to Suffrage in New Caledonia”), Roundtable 4, The Uses of Electoral Citizenship in New Caledonia, Conference on Citizenship in Settler Colonies, University of Montpellier, December 7 and 8, 2015, Organized by Eric de Mari (UMR Dynamiques du Droit) and Eric Savarese (UMR CEPEL).
  • Discussing Emmanuelle Comtat (“Studies on Postcolonial Memory and Colonial Pasts: A Subject in French Political Science”) and Maté Zombori (“Between Transnational Embeddedness and Relative Isolation: The Moderate Rise of Memory Studies in Hungary”), ST 31, Memory Studies as a Subfield of Francophone Political Science?, ed. Pascal Bonnard, Laure Neumayer, Philippe Perchoc, Congress of Francophone Political Science Associations (CoSPoF), Lausanne, February 5–7, 2015.

2013

  • A discussion of Andrea Pirni (University of Genoa), *The New Generations and the Silent Reinterpretation of Politics*, ERMES Seminar, Nice, November 27, 2013.
  • Discussing Session 2, “Populism Through the Lens of Institutions,” at the conference *Populism in Practice*, organized by Nicolas Bué, Maya Colombon, and Hervé Do Alto, ERMES, University of Nice, June 13–14, 2013.
  • Chair/Discussion of the session “The Uses of Historical Trauma in Political Science,” based on the works of Emmanuelle Comtat (Les pieds Noirs et la politique, Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2010) and Yasmina Touiabia (dissertation *La démocratisation à l’épreuve du traumatisme historique. Algeria, 1988–2011), ERMES Seminar, Nice, February 20, 2013.
  • Chair/Discussion: Béatrice Hibou, *Political Anatomy of 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.” Postcolonial Histories, Narratives, and Performances (Organized by 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 the French Overseas Territories (French Guiana, New Caledonia),” Seminar on Political Studies, ERMES Laboratory, Nice, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, April 13, 2012.

Summary of conferences/seminars

2015

  • (with Eric De Mari), Conclusion of the Symposium “Citizenship in Settler Colonies,” organized by Eric De Mari (UMR 5815) and Eric Savarese (UMR 5112), University of Montpellier, December 7–8, 2015.

2013

  • “Memory in the Skin,” Conclusion of the symposium “Cinema: A Mirror of Law and Politics,” organized by 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 Perspectives, and the Elites. In Honor of Omar Carlier, organized by CRASC/CEMA, Oran, April 7–8, 2025.

2024

  • “Objectification of colonial statistics, staging of the law, or representation of struggles? The populations of colonial Algeria through images,” SG 11, Images of Politics, Politics of Images (Eds. Philippe Aldrin, Julien O’Miel), 17th Congress of the AFSP, Grenoble, July 4, 2024.
  • “MIME: The Origins of a Research Project on Algerian Memories in France,” CRASC/CEPEL International Seminar, Oran, January 24, 2024.
  • “Reflections on the French in Algeria,” Symposium on “Settlement Colonization: A Historical Approach,” organized by Isabelle Merle, CREDO (UMR 7308, AMU – CNRS – EHESS), Marseille, January 17, 2024.

2023

  • “The Impact of the Postcolonial Encounter on French Political Life” Symposium on 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 “Migrations, Memories, and Museification,” International Symposium “Territory in All Its Forms,” 40th Anniversary of CEPEL, Montpellier, December 14, 2023.
  • (in collaboration with Christine Pina) “Politics Through Images: Political Iconography and the Social Sciences,”3rd AFSP Conference, Research Group on Images of Politics and Politics of Images, Paris, June 26, 2023.
  • “Citizenship in Colonial Algeria,” Symposium on“Citizenship and Foreignness,” Aix-Marseille University, June 15, 2023.

2022

  • (with Geneviève Zoïa), “Presentation of the MIME Project (Migrations and Plural Memories),” MSH Sud Seminar, April 21, 2022.

2020

  • “French Citizenship Through the Lens of Memory Policies,” conference *The New Clothes of Citizenship*, organized by M. DUPUY and G. RENOU, IRENEE, University of Lorraine, October 1–2, 2020.
  • “A Political Scientist’s Perspective on Citizenship in a Colonial Context,” Seminar on Comparative Law in Countries with a French Colonial Heritage, organized by D. BAISSET, CRESEM, UPVD, September 18, 2020.

2019

  • “The Pioneering Invention of Tradition Among the Pied-Noirs,” MemOry Workshop, MSHS, Nice, Université Côte d’Azur, December 12–13, 2019.
  • “Introduction. The Harkis: From Historical to Political Issues,” Seminar of the Hérault Department, Montpellier, November 20, 2019.
  • “Formal Citizenship, Colonial Classifications, and Identity Choices Among the French in Algeria,” Symposium on Identity in Law, UPVD, November 8, 2019.
  • “Overcoming Ethno-Racial Boundaries. “Support Provided by Associations to Muslim Applicants for Naturalization by Decree,” Congress of the French Political Science Association, Session 25,“The Racialization of Public Policy from the Bottom Up: Citizens Facing Ethno-Racial Categorizations,” coordinated by Doris Buu-Sao and Clémence Léobal, Bordeaux, July 2–4, 2019.
  • “The Obstacles to Ethnography of Sovereign Functions: A Look Back at an Aborted and Then Reconfigured Study,” Symposium on “The Obstacles to Ethnography: How to Be an Ethnographer Today?”, Lausanne Ethnography Workshops, University of Lausanne, May 27–28, 2019.
  • “Renegotiating Citizenship: Introduction,” Symposium on “Renegotiating Citizenship: Immigration and Political Mobilization for Equality,” UM/CEPEL, Montpellier, May 16, 2019.
  • “Algerian Memories 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,” Seminar on Migration, Citizenship, and International Relations, Paris, CERI, December 8, 2017.
  • “A Look Back at the Model of Historical Trauma: On the Front National Vote Among the Pied-Noirs,” Trauma in Memory & Memory of Trauma: On the Algerian War, Symposium of the Franco-Algerian Society of Psychiatry, Paris, October 11, 2017.
  • (with Sylvie Strudel), “The Scales of Citizenship: An Introduction,” ST 33 The Scales of Citizenship, Conference of the French Political Science Association, Montpellier, July 10–12, 2017.
  • “Post-Conflict Recovery and Resilience,” Symposium : “Transitional Justice: A Model for Conflict Resolution in the Future?”, organized by Justices sans frontières, Montpellier, June 16, 2017.
  • “Politics of Memory and Strains on the Republican Model of Citizenship in France,” ST Transformations of the State, Transformations of Citizenship (eds. Bernard Fournier, Daniel Oross), Conference of the Belgian Political Science Association (AFSB), Mons, April 3–4, 2017.

2015

  • “Anti-Semitism as a Factor in Electoral Mobilization,” Conference on Citizenship in Settler Colonies, University of Montpellier, December 7–8, 2015, organized by Eric de Mari (UMR Dynamiques du Droit) and Éric Savarese (UMR CEPEL).
  • “Citizenship in Settlement Colonies: An Introduction,” Conference on Citizenship in Settlement Colonies, University of Montpellier, December 7–8, 2015, organized by Eric de Mari (UMR Dynamiques du Droit) and Éric Savarese (UMR CEPEL)
  • “Electoral Mobilization in a Colonial Context: The Case 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, Session 4: Investigating the Polling Station. Epistemological reflections and sharing of field experiences, Coordinated by David Gouard and Julien Audemard, University of Montpellier, CEPEL.

2014

  • “Citizenship in Colonial Territories: How the French in Algeria Became Voters,” Bilingual French-Italian Symposium “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 Symposium : 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 a Basis for Discussion,” conference on Iconography and Political Science, organized by Christine Pina and Éric Savarese, ERMES, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, May 23, 2014.
  • (with Christine Pina), Introduction to the conference “Iconography and Political Science,” organized by Christine Pina and Éric Savarese, ERMES, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, May 22, 2014.
  • “Postcolonial Encounters and the Challenges to the Republican Model of Citizenship,” Symposium : Postcolonial Approaches: What Uses, What Tools? (Organized by Laetitia Bucaille, Michel Cahen, and Agnès Villechaise), Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux, April 7–8, 2014.
  • Presentation of the book *La rencontre postcoloniale*, 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 the Memories of the Algerian War,” Symposium on Memories and Historical Interpretation: Paying Tribute and Commemorating, Montpellier Academic Consortium, Montpellier, March 20, 2013.

 2012

  • “Algerian Independence and French Society (1962–2012),” Lecture marking 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 Symposium“1962, A World” (CRASC, IHTP, CNRS), Oran (Algeria), October 14–16, 2012.
  • “Algerian Memories and Political Behavior: The Case of the Pied-Noirs,” Research Seminar “The Trials of Collective Memory,” EHESS, Paris, March 27, 2012 (organized by Johann Michel and Gérôme Truc).
  • “The Front National Vote Among the Pieds-Noirs,” International Symposium *The Nation and its ‘Repatriates’: Pieds-Noirs and ‘Vertriebene’ in a Comparative Perspective*, Organized by Manuel Borutta (Ruhr University Bochum), Jan C. Jansen (University of Konstanz), in collaboration with the German Historical Institute and the 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 Conference on Public Law onthe theme “Public Law in the Face of Governance,” University of Perpignan Via Domitia, September 30, 2011.
  • “Understanding the Electoral Expression of Antisemitism in Colonial Algeria,” 11th Congress of the French Political Science Association, Strasbourg, August 31–September 2, 2011, ST 34: Electoral Geography and Sociology: Rivalry or Collaboration? Current Status and Future of Scientific Competition/Collaboration (Eds. Jean Rivière, Joël Gombin).

 2010

  • “Stakes of Memory Regarding the Algerian War,” in Social Sciences Confronting the Uses of Historical Memories, LEA ETAPES Seminar, CEPEL, organized by François Buton, Montpellier, November 26, 2010
  • Presentation of the article “Amère Patrie: A Note on the Return of the Pied-Noirs to Algeria” (Critique internationale, 47, April–June 2010, pp. 77–90), Paris, CERI, July 2, 2010 (organized by Antonela Capelle Pogacean).

 2009

  • “The Colonial Question as Reflected 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 Aspect of the Colonial Relationship During the Algerian War,” Seminar on “Politics 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 Conflicts of Memory: A Review of an Interview Study with Pied-Noir Community Activists,” Symposium: “What to Do with Interviews? Some Uses in the Social and Historical Sciences,” GRHISPO (AFSP) – CURAPP, organized by F. Buton and R. Payre, Amiens, June 18, 2009.

 2008

  • “Discrimination in Colonial and (Post)colonial Contexts,” Seminar on the Social Construction of Discrimination, Equal Opportunity Commission, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, November 19, 2008.
  • “From Exile Literature to Controversies Over Memory: The Ambivalence of the Representation of ‘the Arab’ by the Pied-Noirs,” Research Seminar on Cultural Otherness: The Other in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts, Montpellier, Maison des sciences de l’Homme, June 5, 2008.
  • “The Issue of the Pied-Noirs: From Historical Challenges to Processes of Memory,” Research Seminar on Cultural Otherness: The Other in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts, Montpellier, Maison des sciences de l’Homme, June 5, 2008.
  • “The Politics of Memory: The Management of Algerian Memories as Seen 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, “The Pied-Noirs and the National Front Vote: Perspectives on the Model of Historical Trauma,” 9th Congress of the French Political Science Association, TR2 : How Can We Conceive and Understand the Temporal Dimensions of Voting? Toward a Longitudinal Approach to Electoral Decision-Making, Session 1, Chairs: Pascal Perrineau and Bruno Cautrès, September 5, 2007.
  • “Historical Trauma and a Comprehensive Analysis of the Front National Vote Among Pied-Noirs,” Doctoral Seminar on the theme “Comprehensive Sociology and History,” Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, May 30, 2007.
  • “Presenting Algeria to the Public: An Introduction,” Symposium : “Presenting Algeria to the Public: Putting an End to the Algerian Memory Wars,” organized by Eric Savarese, CERTAP, and UPVD, Narbonne, April 19, 2007.
  • “From Narratives to History: Reflecting on the Colonial Relationship,” Symposium: “Presenting Algeria to the Public: Putting an End to the Algerian Memory Wars, ” organized by Eric Savarese, CERTAP, and UPVD, Narbonne, April 19, 2007.

 2006

  • “The Role of Education in Shaping 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 Remembrance,” International Seminar “Historical Memories from Here and Elsewhere: Comparative Perspectives,” organized by the Centers for European Studies at Sciences Po, EHESS, and Laval University (Quebec) – co-presented 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 the TransMéditerranée Festival, Marseille, October 6–7, 2006.
  • “The mobilization of Pied-Noir activists as a process of politicization of the Algerian War. The official definition of the victim under the law of February 23, 2005 , ” Symposium on Victim Mobilizations, CRPS (Paris I)/ISP (Paris X), Organizers Lilian Mathieu and Sandrine Lefranc, Nanterre and Paris, June 15–16, 2006.

 2005

  • “Memory as a Strategy of Identity: The Development of a Pied-Noir Cause,” 8th Congress of the French Political Science Association, workshop on “Mobilizations of Victims,” led by Lilian Mathieu and Sandrine Lefranc, September 14–16, 2005.
  • “Issues and Political Uses of Pied-Noir Memory,” Seminar on Issues and Political Uses of Memory, Paris, Interdisciplinary Research Center, March 15, 2005.

 2004

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

 2003

  • “From War Memories to the Wars of Memory: On the ‘Pieds Noirs’ Activists,”1st Congressof the Franco-Algerian Society of Psychiatry, Paris, Georges Pompidou Hospital, October 3–4, 2003.
  • “The Maghreb, School Textbooks, and Colonial History: The Genealogy of an Erasure,” Cultural Exchanges in the Mediterranean Region 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 Indigenous People to Immigrants,” The Mediterranean: A Place of Encounters, a Hotbed of Tension, or a Civilizational Melting Pot?, Mémoires de la Méditerranée, Strasbourg, December 1, 2001.
  • “Postcolonial Cinema: Reinventing the Other,” The 20th Century According to Historians: The Colonial Mindset, Thematic Evenings at theFrançois Mitterrand National Library of France, Paris, May 2, 2001.
  • “What Is a Repatriate?”, 126th National Congress of Historical and Scientific Societies, “Terres et hommes du sud, ” Toulouse, April 9–14, 2001.

 2000

  • “Colonial Memories and the Reconstruction of Political Imaginaries: On the Pieds-Noirs,” Symposium on “Colonial Powers: State Formation and Subjectivation in the Colonial World” ( Organized by 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 Politics and Subjectivation on the Margins: The Case of Black African Women in the Colonies,” Seminar on Material Culture and Political Subjectivation (Organized by CERI MAP), Paris, January 10–11, 2000.

1999

  • “Between Local and Global Knowledge: The Colonial Construction of the Maghreb Family,” Roundtable on Family and Society in the Mediterranean Basin: Between Stereotypes and the Construction of Anthropological Knowledge, Tunis (Organized by CERES, UMR 6578, UMR TELEME), November 27–30, 1999.
  • “The Maghreb Enemy in French Cinema Since 1962: Self-Designation and Processes of Legitimation,” 6th AFSP Congress, Rennes, Roundtable 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,” Symposium on “The Invention and Legacy of Colonial Governmentality” ( Organized by CERI) , Paris, February 15, 1999.

 1998

  • “The Bodies of North Africans in French Cinema from 1962 to the Present,” Roundtable Discussion : Stereotypes in North-South Relations: Images of the Other’s Physical Appearance and Mental Characterizations ( Ed. G. Boetsch, C. Villain Gandossi), Marseille, September 24–27, 1998.

 1997

  • “Africa Through Children’s Eyes,” Symposium on Colonial Literatures: Metamorphoses of a Perspective on the Mediterranean and Africa ( Ed. J.R. Henry and L. Martini) , Aix-en-Provence, April 7–8, 1997.

 1996

  • “The Bodies of African Women as a Site of Politics,” workshop on “The Uses of Iconography in Political Science ” (ed. P. Favre), 5th Congress of the AFSP, Aix-en-Provence, April 23–26, 1996.

 1995

  • “The Black Woman in the Media: Erotic Object or Domestic Subject,” Scènes et typesConference (Ed. Achac), Marseille, February 9–11, 1995

 Research reports/Working papers

  • “Overcoming Ethno-Racial Boundaries. “Support Provided by Associations to Muslim Applicants for Naturalization by Decree,” AFSP Conference, July 2–4, 2019, Bordeaux, ST25 –The Racialization of Public Policy from Below: Citizens Facing Ethno-Racial Categorizations (Coord. Doris Buu-Dao, Clémence Léobal).
  • “The Act of Voting Revisited in a Colonial Context: Voting in Oran in the First Half of the 20th Century,” AFSP Conference, June 22–24, 2015, Aix-en-Provence, Session 4 (Coordinators: Julien Audemard, David Gouard).
  • “Colonialist Mobilization or Identity-Based Voting? A Research Note on the Electoral Expression of Antisemitism in the Department of Oran (19th–20th Centuries),” 11th Congress of the French Political Science Association, Strasbourg, August 31–September 2, 2011, ST 34: Electoral Geography and Sociology: Duel or Duo? Current Status and Future of Scientific Competition/Collaboration (Coord. Jean Rivière, Joël Gombin).
  • (with Emmanuelle Comtat), “The Pied-Noirs and the National Front 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? Toward 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?”, a summary of the discussions and proceedings from the symposium “Presenting Algeria to the Public.” Putting an End to the Algerian Memory Wars, organized by 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 Processes of Legitimation,” presented at the 6th Congress of the French Political Science Association, October 1999, Roundtable No. VI, “Figures of the Internal Enemy ” (Coord. Yves Viltard), distributed as a mimeograph.