Algeria: Pasts, Presents and Futures

Algeria: Pasts, Presents and Futures

10.50am: Welcome

11am–12pm: Panel 1 – Cinema, memory and trous de mémoire

Dr Aoife Connolly (TU Dublin): ‘Le retour: returning to images of the Algerian war’.

Dr Barry Nevin (TU Dublin): ‘Du non-visible et du non-représentable’: crises of classical narration in Muriel ou le temps d’un retour (Resnais, 1963)’.

12pm–12.15pm: Break

12.15pm–1.15pm: Keynote 1

Dr Patrick Crowley (UCC): ‘Algerian allegories. Aesthetics, anticolonialism and the future of past revolutions’.

1.15pm–2.15pm: Lunch

2.15pm–3.15pm: Panel 2 – Political and literary legacies

Dr Mairéad Ní Bhriain (Mary Immaculate College): ‘Il faut tuer de Gaulle: “Petit-Clamart” and the fight for l’Algérie française’.

Dr Clíona Hensey (University of Limerick): ‘Généalogie d’un territoire: mapping and unearthing Algerian landscapes in Zahia Rahmani’s curatorial and literary œuvre’.

3.15pm–3.30pm: Break

3.30pm–4.45pm: Keynote 2, followed by roundtable discussion

Prof. Philip Dine (University of Galway): ‘Reading and writing “Algeria”: history, remembrance, renewal’.

Attendance is free, but please register with Aoife Connolly (aoife.connolly@tudublin.ie) or Barry Nevin (barry.nevin@tudublin.ie) in advance.