On this page, you can find news on publications and participation to conferences by our Deradicalizing the City members.
Conferences
PUBLICATIONS
December 2024
During her stay at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Charles Hirschkind, Lamia Mellal co-organised a seminar entitled : “The War on Terror and the domestication of Muslim Lives in Europe and the United States: Documenting, Translating, and Voicing Individual and Collective Experiences”.
November 2024
For the 5ᵉ meeting of the RIED (Rencontres internationales du Réseau International Education et Diversité) in Marseille, Lamia Mellal will contribute to a panel entitled 'Penser l'école à partir de la race: la dimension structurelle du racisme dans les systèmes scolaires francophones'. She will present (online) an episode of the podcast produced with high school pupils from two secondary schools in the northern neighborhoods of Marseille as part of her participatory research. She will present an analysis of an episode entitled "Frontières" in which the pupils describe and identify the various " barriers " they experience in their high schools (racial, generational, hierarchical, physical or symbolic). Her presentation is entitled: "Les frontières raciales de l'école: l'espace scolaire raconté par les élèves". The aim will be to show the link between the securitization of schools infrastructures in the post-2015 context and the accentuation of racialization processes at school, in order to show the central place of the school institution in the production/reproduction of the 'Muslim problem' (Hajjat, Mohamed, 2016).
June, 2024
As part of the TransMed plenary sessions in Marseille, Lamia Mellal presented her work in a panel entitled: "Meeting with researchers on the issues of integration and inequality at school". By listening to an episode of a podcast produced with high school students in Marseille, she introduced her research on the school experience of young high school students in the northern districts of Marseille in the post-2015 security context, marked by increased surveillance of Muslim communities.
June, 2024
Lamia Mellal was invited to present her paper entitled: "Trajectories and Teaching Experiences in Max Rayne Yad be Yad Bilingual School (Jerusalem) at the EHESS seminar : "Palestine et Palestinien·nes : expériences et pratiques contemporaines" on June 14th.
June, 2024
Hamza Esmili published in Anthropology of the Middle East a review of Charlotte al-Khalili’s book, Waiting for the Revolution to End (UCL Press, 2023).
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/ame/19/1/ame190109.xml
June, 2024,
Lamia Mellal will participate to a conference organized by IREMAM at INSPE in Aix-en-Provence. Her paper is entitled: “Students under surveillance: the effects of post-2015 security policies on the everyday school life of high school students in Marseille's northern neighborhoods”. She will present the podcasts and shorts films made with students as part of her participatory research in Marseille.
May 2024
Hamza Esmili presented a paper to the 3rd IISRA Annual Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia, entitled “A tale of two brothers. About Sa’d Bouh’s Rissala to Ma’ al-Aynaïn”.
May, 2024
Hamza Esmili was part of the EUARE conference in Palermo (Italy). He presented a paper entitled “Persecution and messianic ambivalences in colonial Sahara”.
May, 2024
Hamza Esmili published a chapter in the collective book Repenser l’agir collectif (Soraya El Kahloaui and Hammad Sqalli eds.), entitled “La tradition des immigrés et de leurs enfants”.
May, 2024
Hamza Esmil published a chapter in the collective book Race politics and Colonial Legacies: France, Africa and the Middle East (52th POMEPS Studies). His chapter is entitled “Who is still Liberal?”.
https://pomeps.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/POMEPS_Studies_52_Final.pdf
March, 2024
In the framework of a conference in Marburg (Germany) organized by the EASA working group Anthropology of Peace, Conflict and Security, Lore Janssens and Alex Govers facilitated a method lab titled “Mapping trajectories of studying up. A method lab to explore methodological and ethical challenges and potential interdisciplinarity opportunities”. This workshop aimed to open a space of mutual learning and exchange to reflect upon two main questions: what does it mean to study up? What types of openings does interdisciplinarity allow for?
March, 2024
Hamza Esmili published in Ethnologie française an article entitled “L’alliance sacrée. Le réinvestissement de la tradition islamique parmi les immigrés et leurs enfants en cité”
https://www.cairn.info/revue-ethnologie-francaise-2024-1-page-55.htm
February, 2024
Hamza Esmili published in Archives de sciences sociales des religions an article entitled “Retour sur la tradition discursive. Talal Asad et le symbolisme religieux”
https://doi.org/10.4000/assr.73083
January, 2024
In January 2024 took place the third conference of Catalan Anthropology. Alex Govers participated in the panel State in Action organized by the working group on State and Public Action by the Catalan Institute of Anthropology (ICA). In this panel, Alex presented his fieldwork in Hospitalet de Llobregat with local community mediators in the Area of Security and Social Cohesion.
November, 2023
On November 23rd & 24th Alex Govers took part to the colloquium “Current issues in European studies: actors, practices and representations” organized by SAGE (Societies, Actors, Government in Europe) at Sciences Po Strasbourg. The colloquium was an opportunity to reflect on the different approaches of conducting a political sociology of EUrope. In this framework Alex Govers presented his research on the experiences of local preventive actors engaged in European networks of practice and knowledge.
November, 2023
Nadia Fadil and Hamza Esmili organized a panel at the American Anthropological Association entitled : “The Formation of persecuted subjects”.
November, 2023
Lamia Mellal took part in the Workshop "Anti-racism in Education" organised by F. Zehra Colak (Utrecht University), Leila Mouhib (Université libre de Bruxelles/University of Mons) and Elif Keskiner (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) at the Free University of Amsterdam from 7 to 8 November 2023.
October, 2023
By taking part in the workshop entitled "The construction of Islam as a public issue and its effects on the experience of minority school staff" on October 26 and 27 in Paris, Lamia Mellal was able to further develop her reflection on the work she conducts with racialized school staff in parallel with her work with students".
October, 2023
Hamza Esmili published a chapter entitled “Fragments of Utopia. Political and religious emigrations from France to Syria” in the book edited by Simone Pfeifer, Christoph Günther and Robert Dörre, “Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media” '(Edinburgh University Press, 2023). It can be downloaded here.
October, 2023
On October 13th, Lamia Mellal was invited by Nilüfer Göle to take part in a round table entitled "Disruptive body, normative gaze, Islam and nation" on 13th October at Columbia Global Centers. The aim of the discussion was to collectively reflect on the controversy around the "abaya" worn by some high school girls in France, which will be banned in September 2023. Lamia Mellal was able to present her research with students in France and share an episode of the podcast she co-produced with four high school students who relate their own experiences.
October, 2023
Lamia Mellal will part of the Fall School on “Migrations et relations inter-ethniques en Europe et en Afrique“ from October 19th to 21st.
May, 2023
With Johan Giry, Hamza Esmili published in Raisons Politiques an article entitled “Le problème et la question. L’équation politique moderne ressaisie par la réaffiliation religieuse parmi les immigrés et leurs enfants”. DOI : 10.3917/rai.23.0119.
May, 2023
Lamia Mellal is a participant at the Acfas annual meeting. She will be presenting on May 11th a paper entitled “Impact des politiques publiques post-2015 sur les vécus scolaires des élèves musulmans : étude de cas dans les quartiers nord de Marseille”. For more information, see here.
April, 2023
In the frame of the project, Lamia Mellal (PhD researcher in anthropology) and Farah Kassem (research unit: Intermedia) co-conducted an audiovisual workshop with the students of the Denis Diderot high school in Marseille. The workshop took place from the 6th till the 13th of April 2023. It resulted in the making of 4 short films in collaboration with the students.
March, 2023
Hamza Esmili published an article in the Journal des anthropologues.
Reference : « Éprouver la révélation divine à la lumière de la cité. Les frères de l’Effort et l’anthropologue blédard », Journal des anthropologues, Issue “L’Europe par ses Autres” (eds. Emir Mahieddin, Rim Affaya and Fernanda Moraes), 2023/1-2, n° 170-171, pp. 107-122.
January-May 2023
Hamza Esmili is part of the organizing team of the seminaire “Sociologie des savoirs islamiques en France”. Full program and registration can be found here.
December 1st, 2022
Nadia Fadil and Lore Janssens published two reports on the impact of counterradicalization on professional secrecy and on the experiences of everyday surveillance among Belgian Muslims. You can find them in Dutch and French via this link.
August 25th, 2022
During the RC21 Conference on “Ordinary cities in Exceptional Times” in Athens, Alex Govers Pijoan presented anongoing research collaboration with Lore Janssens on the urban ramifications of counter-terrorism and radicalization prevention policies in the Brussels Region.
June 26th, 2022
Lamia Mellal has participated in a workshop with the director Léa Drouet in Brussels. The aim was to share methodological reflections on how research and artistic creation questions the issue of youth and discrimination. Read more here.
May 9th, 2022
In a dialogue with Johan Younes van Praet, Hamza Esmili delivered the concluding remarks for the conference Porte-parolat musulman held at Université de Lille.
May 27th 2022
With Montassir Sakhi, Hamza Esmili will be presenting their shared work on the notion of djihad within the Syrian revolution at Université Paris Nanterre. Their talk will be entitled : “D'un djihad l'autre. Cararctérisations concurrentes de la lutte au sein de la révolution syrienne”.
April 8th, 2022
Lamia Mellal participated to seminar of the ANR CHOICE (Challenging the hegemonic order: the Israeli case examined) organized by Karine Lamarche on April 9th in Nantes. She presented her work on processes of racialization at a bilingual school “of peace” in Israël/Palestine.
April 3-9, 2022
From the 3rd of April 2022 until the 9th, Farah kassem was invited as a guest speaker and trainer in the frame of KinoLab in Baku, Azerbaijan. She gave a masterclass on storytelling and later a workshop following the participants in the making of their teasers for their upcoming documentary films. KinoLab supports filmmakers from Azerbaijan to develop their projects from the early stage. The workshop accompanies them through the first steps of their films - the subject, narrative, and visual language development, necessary in order to develop their stories and push their projects further.
October 7th, 2022
Deradicalizing the City hosted its Advisory Board, that is composed of academics, artists and civil society figures. Read more here.
September 30th, 2O22
Hamza Esmili published in Ethnic and Racial Studies a review of Nadia Kiwan’s Book Secularism, Islam and public intellectuals in contemporary France (Manchester University Press, 2019). The review can be found here.
June 2nd, 2022
On the 2nd of June 2022, Lore Janssens will deliver a presentation at the Surveillance Studies Network Conference in Rotterdam. Based on meetings and interviews with security, prevention and social services, she will explore the development of the Belgian security state and its racial-religious contours.
April 29, 2022
Lamia Mellal participated to the seminaire “Education” organized by IREMAM (Institut de Recherches et d'Études sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans) in Aix-en-Provence on March 25th as a discussante of Julien Garric’s work on ethnicisation at schools in Marseille. On April 29th, she will present at the same seminar the beginning of her work about the impact of deradicalizing policies at school in Marseille.
April 1st, 2022
Hamza Esmili was invited to give a lecture at Université de Tours on his work on religious reaffiliation amongst postcolonial immigration in France and the variety of subsequent governmental policies.
17th and 18th of March, 2022
Nadia Fadil and Lore Janssens participated to the international conference “Au-dela du séparatisme et de la radicalization” organized by the université de Strasbourg. They presented a paper on the role of feelings and affect in the management of cases by frontline workers who deal with radicalization.
December 14th, 2021
Lore Janssens gave a seminar on how to communicate research finding to policy makers and practitioners. In this seminar, she gave some practical tips and reflected extensively upon the challenges and opportunities when simultaneously researching and addressing the audience of policy makers and practitioners. This seminar took place in the framework of a seminar series Lore Janssens is co-organizing with Elsemieke Van Osch and Hannelore Hooft called Ethnography, engaging with the field and the public.