The 5th edition of the Franco-German Mediterranean Forum will take place from November 23 to 25, 2022. A space for Euro-Mediterranean dialogue, this major annual event takes place in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille and is organized by Sciences Po Aix, IMéRA and the Franco-German Center of Provence, with the participation of the École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence Félix Ciccolini (ESAAIX).
"At a time when a project as courageous as it is demanding is being initiated and which attempts to question the Franco-Algerian past, it is more necessary than ever to arm ourselves with a shared epistemological frame of reference and to draw inspiration from the courage and insight of the peacemakers of the Franco-German reconciliation. This exercise in resolving tensions, between memory and history, gives our meeting its full justification, at a time when the crisis in Ukraine is also reviving the demon of war and raising the question of the limits of otherness.
It is in this spirit that we will prolong this work of introspection, by stopping at a subject which gave its title to the superb work of F. Pouillon and J. C. Vatin: After Orientalism: the East created by the East. There is there an invitation to the reflection on the conditions of production of the borders between the other and oneself. Beyond Orientalism as a current generating a scholarly thought often described and decried, it is a question of setting the terms of a serene debate in order to overcome what Edward Said points out as a limit of this knowledge as dense as useful: "the persistent belief of Orientalism in the existence of a radical ontological difference between the natures of the East and the West. It is then a question of putting in brackets the stereotypes appropriated by those who have not ceased to denounce them while claiming a specificity that goes beyond the singularity of the historical trajectories of societies.
This fifth edition of the Franco-German Mediterranean Forum offers us a wander through the meanders of imaginary worlds that the sedimentation of prejudices and misunderstandings has ended up pitting against each other. It is, once again, by choosing a joyful but uncompromising decentering, that the FFAM refuses the deleterious fatalities and opens the door to a serene debate on the great contemporary questions.
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Round Table
Inheritances and deconstructions of Orientalism
Animated by Mélanie MASSON, journalist, Radio France, France Bleu Provence.
With :
- Dalila DALLÉAS BOUZAR, visual artist, performer.
- Christine PELTRE, art historian.
- Katrin STRÖBEL, visual artist.
- Amir YOUSSEF, visual artist.
20h30 Cultural evening and cocktail
Performance by Dalila DALLÉAS BOUZAR.
Opening of the exhibition of Amir YOUSSEF.
