History & Memory Conference (1) .pdf

History & Memory : Conference Program
Day 1: Thursday, April 5, 2018
8.00 a.m. - 9.00 a.m.

Registration

Opening Session (Amphi)
9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.

-Welcome address by the Director of ISLAIB, Dr. Faouzi Mhamdi
-Welcome address by the Head of the Department of Languages at ISLAIB, Dr. Lamia Mrad.
-Opening by conference co-conveners: Dr. Bootheina Majoul (ISLAIB, Tunisia) and Dr. Lamia Benyoussef (BSC, USA).

9.30 a.m. - 10.15 a.m.

Plenary 1 (Amphi): Pr. Sheri Spaine Long, “Beyond Memory: Can the Engaged Pedagogies Save Us?”
Discussant: Dr. Lamia Benyoussef

10.15- 10.40

Honorary Guest (Amphi): Pr. Abdeljalil Temimi
Discussants: Pr. Mohamed Salah Omri

Panel 1 (Salle Visio): Special Spanish Panel Session

(Parallel Session)

Chair: Pr. Sheri Spaine Long

Ines Shabou: "La Polémica en El Libro Nasir Ad-dīn cala-l Qawm Al Kafirīn Del Morisco Ahmed Al-Hağari (Bejarano) "

10:40 a.m. – 11:40 p.m.

Imen Tabai: "La Brujería en La Sociedad Morisca Valenciana Medieval: Análisis de un Talisman Como Ejemplo."
Emna Omrane: "La Percepción de Al-Andalus en la Cultura Española Contemporána."
Senda Ghedamsi: “Casos de Moriscas Procesadas por il Tribunal de Inquisicion de Granada.”
Wala Saidi: “¿Es el lenguaje de la Mensajería Instantánea una Amenaza para la Lengua? Reflexiones Generales.”
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Panel 2 (Amphi): History, Herstory, and State Hegemony: Towards a New Aesthetics of Writing the Nation
10.40 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

(Parallel Session) Chair: Pr. Robin Ostle

Hanene Baroumi: “Tears of the Ogress: “Re-Memory” and/in the ‘Fourth Language’ of Arab Women’s Texts.”

10:50-11:05

Olfa Belgacem: “Oral Narrative as History and Remembrance: ‘Al-Dhikr’ and Folk Songs in the Kasserine Region as a Case Study.”

11:05-11:20

Lamia Benyoussef: “Autopsy of a Childhood Trauma: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting Tunisia’s Black Thursday (26
January 1978).”

11.20 a.m. - 11.35 a.m.

11.35 a.m. -12:15 p.m.

Coffee Break

Plenary 2 (Amphi): Pr. Mohamed Salah Omri, “Representations of History in Times of Revolution.”
Discussant: Dr. Bootheina Majoul

Panel 3 (Amphi): Memory and History in Arabic Literature and Philosophy
12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Chair: Pr. Mohamed Salah Omri

Abdelkader Ben Rhit: “The Writer’s Distant Love: Memory and the Pleasures of Reconstructing History and Recollecting Home in
Exile in Al-Tayeb Saleh’s Seasons of Migration to the North, The Wedding of Zeine and The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid.”

12:30-12:45

Robin Ostle: “Alexandria: Literature & Memory in the Work of Edwar Al-Kharrat.”

12:45-13:00

Bootheina Majoul: “On Metahistory: Exegesis of (In) Coherence in the Works of Al Ghazali and Ibn Rushd.”

Lunch: 13:00 p.m. 14:30 p.m.

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Panel 4 (Amphi): Theorizing Memory, History, and Trauma in American Narratives (Parallel Session)
14 :30 p.m. – 14 :45 p.m.

Chair: Dr. Anissa Dhaoudi

Eya Kharmachi: “Recollecting Memories from ‘Red leaves”’: A Spatial Reading of a Short Story by William Faulkner.”

14:45-15:00

Sarra Romdhane: “From the Holocaust to the Havurah: Transforming the Collective Trauma in Paul Cowan’s An Orphan in History.”

15:00-15:15

Roua Khlifi: “Hypertext as Memory Nodes: Re-writing the History of the Post-Human in Shelley Jackson’s Hyperfiction Patchwork
Girl.”

15:15-15:30

Sana Ben Ali Taga: “Collective Oblivion and the Metaphorics of (meta) History: The Three-Ring Circus in Robert Coover’s The
Public Burning”

Panel 5 (Salle Visio): History, Memory, and Memorialization
14 :30 p.m. – 14 :45 p.m.

(Parallel  Session)

Chair: Dr. Bootheina Majoul

Sana Oueslati: “Yugoslavia in Emir Kusturica’s ‘Underground’: A History or a Tale?”

14:45-15:00

Asma Ben Ali-Saadi : “La Littérature de Témoignage : Le Feu d’Henri Barbusse et l’histoire collective. ”

15:00-15:15

Céline Richard : ‘‘La Pluie Jaune de l’Oubli’’ (Julio Llamazares). Le Recours au Surréalisme Littéraire et à l’Onirisme Poétique dans
l’Écriture Mémorielle

15:15– 15:30

“Abraj Vaga” Break

15:30 p.m. – 16:00 p.m.
Plenary 3: Dr. Lucas Johnson, “Rhetoric and Pedagogy in The Deep South” and Dr. Jessica Pincham, “Implementing,
Managing, and Engaging in Successful Service Learning,” Birmingham-Southern College
Discussants: Dr. Bootheina Majoul & Dr. Lamia Benyoussef

End of Day 1: Departure to Hotel in Tabarka

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Day 2: Friday, April 6, 2018
9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.

Plenary 4 (Amphi): Pr. Cathy Caruth, “Burning History: Trauma, Erasure and Witness in a World of Terror.”
Discussant: Pr. Abdennabi Ben Beya

Panel 5 (Amphi): Acts of Witnessing: Memory and Memoirs in Diasporic Literatures
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 p.m.

Chair: Pr. Mounir Triki

Faten Houioui: “Cultural Amnesia: Memory and History in Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement.”

9:45-10:00

Tayssir Abo Odah: ”Mahmoud Darwish, Memory, and Writing History.”

10:00-10:15

Hatem Ben Jemia: “Re-writing and Re-Righting National Historical Narratives in Contemporary Postcolonial Diasporic Memoirs.”

10: 15 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.

Plenary 5 (Amphi): Pr. Chokri Smaoui, “The Psycholinguistics of Memory”
Discussant: Dr. Sondes Hamdi

11.00– 11: 15

Coffee Break

Panel 6 (Amphi): Genocide and Contested Memories
11:15 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.

Chair: Pr. Cathy Caruth

Ferdaws Hamdi: “The U.S.-Iran Historical ‘Narratives’: Memory, Hegemony, and Resistance”

11:30-11:45

Tarak Dridi: ”Rhetorical Devices of the Palestinian’s and Israeli’s Official Memory: Palestinian and Israeli History School Textbooks as
a Case Study”

11:45-12:00

Yosra Amraoui: “When the Jew becomes a Muslim: Special considerations on the Collective Memory & Historiography of the
Holocaust”

12:00-12:15

Rim Ktari: “Stanley Kubrick's, Oliver Stone's and Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War Movies: We Shall Never Forget!”

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12: 15 p.m. -13:00 p.m.

Plenary 6 (Amphi): Pr. Mounir Triki, “Revisiting Palestinian Historiography: The Politics of Memory Manipulation.”
Discussant: Dr. Yosra Amraoui

Lunch: 13:00 p.m. 14:30 p.m.

14:30 p.m. – 15: 15 p.m.

Plenary 7 (Amphi): Pr. Noureddine Fekir, “Poetry as the Counter-Discourse of Memory.”
Discussant: Dr. Tayssir Abo Odah

Panel 7 (Amphi): History, Memory, and Trauma in British and Irish Literature
(Parallel Session)
15:15 p.m. -15: 30p.m.

Chair: Dr. Lamia Benyoussef

Marwa Manai: “Crave: Lacuna Within a Lacuna.”

15:30-15:45

Mohamed Karim Dhouib: “Chaucer’s House of Fame and the Fabulation of History.”

15:45-16:00

Imen Chmengui: “Words and Witness: Towards a Heuristic Unveiling of Winnie Verloc's Betrayal Trauma in Joseph Conrad's The
Secret Agent”

Panel 8 (Salle visio): History & Memory: Ethics & Aesthetics

Chair: Pr. Noureddine Fekir
(Parallel Session)

15:15 p.m. -15: 30p.m.

Sondes Hamdi: “History of Metaphor: From a Peripheral to a Central Status.”

15:30-15:45

Habiba Maddouri: “Does Reconstruction Pay? Rethinking History and Past Historical Epistemology.”

15:45-16:00

Mohamed Ben Mustapha : “Mnémé, Anamnésis, Phantasia, Phantasmata : Topos de la Phénoménologie de la Mémoire chez Ricœur.”

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16:00 p.m. – 16:30 p.m.

Plenary 8 (Amphi): Dr. Douja Mamelouk, “Yearning for the Dictator; A Romance of Autocracy”
Discussant: Pr. Noureddine Fekir

16:30-16:45

“Abraj Vaga” Break

Panel 9 (Amphi): Theorizing Memory, History, and Trauma in African American Women’s Literature

Chair: Dr. Douja Mamelouk

16:45-17:00

Ikram Ben Arfi: “Voicing Memory, Re-Writing History: Hurston, Walker, and Morrison.”

17:00-17:15

Mongia Besbes: “Forgetting History in Second Skin.”

17:15-17:30

Nassima Brahimi: “Beyond the Word of Law: the Power of Collective Memory in Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.”

17:30-17:45

Leila Hejaiej: ”Deep Down in Pain and Past: Blues Poetics in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.”

End of Day 2. Departure to Tabarka

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Day 3: Saturday, April 7, 2018
Panel 11 (Amphi): Special Arabic Session
9:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Honorary Guest and Chair: Pr. Mongia Arfa

Imed Mahnane: Metaphor, Memory and History".‫"ﺍاﻹﺳﺘﻌﺎﺭرﺓة ﻭوﺍاﻟ ّﺬﺍاﻛﺮﺓة ﻭوﺍاﻟﺘّﺎﺭرﻳﯾﺦ‬

9:45-10:00
Mohamed Laabidi:
 Against Oblivion, Against Trauma: Ricœur’s Perspective Symptomatic Analysis of the Beauty & the Beast, a movie By the Tunisian
Director Kawthar Ben Haniya
10:00-10:15

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Chokri Chérif: "‫ ﺃأﺯزﻣﺔ ﺇإﻧﺴﺎﻥن ﺃأﻭو ﺃأﺯزﻣﺔ ﻟﺴﺎﻥن؟‬:‫"ﺍاﻟﺬﺍاﻛﺮﺓة ﺍاﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﯿّﺔ ﺫذﺍاﻛﺮﺓة ﺍاﻷ ّﻣﺔ‬
The Arabic Language as a Memory of a Nation: Crisis of Man or Crisis of Language

10:15 – 11:00
11:00-11:15

WORKSHOP: Pr. Sheri Spaine Long: Publishing Your Work in Scholarly Journals
The ISLAIB-Béja Consultative Committee
Announces the Winner of Mohamed Nejib al-Yousfi’s Scholarship for Civic Engagement and Leadership

11: 15 a.m. - 11:25

11:25 – 11:55

Closing Note of History & Memory Conference by ISLAIB Director, Dr. Faouzi Mhamdi

Cloture & Cake

12:00-12:30

Plenary Session 9 (Kasba Tour): Pr. Zouheir Ben Youssef

13:00

City Tour and Lunch in the Andalusian Village of Testour
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