New digital archives in the Near East: sound, image, film and the Web

Field data sharing challenges in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria

Days preceded by an educational workshop on the 28th May along with documentary film screenings

Open to the public upon registration: nanpo@sciencesconf.org

29th May 2019, the National Library of Lebanon

8.30am Reception of participants

9am Short Welcome Speech:

• Hassan Al Akra, the National Library of Lebanon

• Véronique Aulagnon, French Institute of Lebanon (Institut Français du Liban)

• Michel Mouton, French Institute of the Near East (Institut Français du Proche Orient-Ifpo)
  

•  Sophie Bouffier, Mediterranean Home of Humanities Science (Maison Méditerranée des sciences de l'homme)

9.30am Introductory lecture: Carla Eddé, historian, international relations vice-rector at Saint-Joseph's University – Archives, memorial, history ( working title/provisional title)

10am - 1st Round Table: Digital data share in the Middle East: who are the stakeholders? Which mass media are involved? What issues are we facing?

Moderators: Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti (Ifpo) and Lokman Slim (UMAM documentation & research)

Françoise Hours ( head of the World's Literature Department , National Library of France, scientific director of the Eastern Library)

Jean-Philippe Dumas ( Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs)

Elie Elias ( Holy Spirit University of Kaslik )

Kamal Kassar ( Amar Foundation) 

Levon Nordigian (Sound Archive of Saint Joseph University)- subject to reservation

Mireille Maurice ( Nationa Audiovisual Institute of Marseille)

12pm – Open Jerusalem Project: towards a crossover of the archives and a collaborations of researchers, Abdul-Hameed Al-Kayyali (Ifpo, Ammam)

12.30pm-2pm-  lunchtime

2pm - 2:30pm : Data sharing from the research: the TGR Huma-Num experience in a European context, Stéphane Pouyllau ( TGIR HUman-Num technical director ), Adeline Joffres ( TgIR Huma-Num responsible for international cooperation)

3pm: 2nd Round Table: Archives activists

Moderator: Emma Aubin-Botanski (CNRS, Ifpo)

Sana Yazigi (Creative Memory), Archiving the creative memory from the Syrian Revolution produced in Syria and in diaspora: https://creativememory.org

Cécile Boex (EHESS,Césor), Archiving the vernacular videos from the Syrian war: ethical and political issues

Zara Fournier (PhD in Geogrpahy at University of Tours, CITERES 7324, associated with Ifpo), Desires from elsewhere and from the past : Memorial activists and the Web in southern Lebanon

Mohammad Haj Hassan (Dawlati), Archiving oral history of the Syrian conflict: http://dawlaty.org

7pm - Screening at Le Montaigne Cinema (Department of Lettres, Damascus Street) introduction by Monika Borgmann: Tadmor , film directed by Monika Borgmann and Lockman Slim in 2017

30th May 2019, Beit Beirut Museum & Urban Cultural Center

9am Reception, coffee

9.30am - Introductory Lecture: Pauline Koetschet (MMSH Centre of Paul Albert-Février, UMR 7297), Libraries, collections and archives. Materiality of the research.

10am – 3rd Round Table: Living and interactive speech.

Moderator: Ziad Mikati (Lebanese University)

Loubna Dimachki and Rim Ayoub(Lebanese University) , Corpus of the interaction at the Centre for Language and Communication Sciences

Catherine Pinon (Ifpo), Corpus of the spoken Arabic transcription in interaction : ARAPI'S agreement

Gloria el-Hajj (Lyon 2 University), Contemporary French corpus spoken in Lebanon: inception, fieldwork and scientific thinking

Bassam Baraké (Lebanese University) , White Spoken Arabic in Lebanon: Analysis of television documents

Joseph Dichy  (Lyon 2 University) Corpus on Twitter in Arabizi and translation

Véronique Traverso, (Ifpo), Sensitive corpus,ethical and legal aspects 

12pm-12.30pm – Lecture: Christine Jungen (CNRS, LESC), Archives and their formats: short stories about translation

Lunch Time

2pm - 4th Round Table: Between memorial and history, stakes of oral history

Moderators: Liliane Kfoury (Saint Joseph University) and Florence Descamps (École Pratique des Hautes Études – Paris Sciences and Humanities – EPHE PSL)

Florence Descamps (EPHE PSL), History of the memory, history of memories. Heuristic vertues of the concept "memoriality regime"

Karima Dièche (CR CNRS,UMR TELEMMe), Memories of the war and independence. What slogans of the Algerian protests declare.

Sophie Gebeil (MCF – AMU,UMR,TELEMMe), Historicising online memory mediation devices: among web records and oral survey

Houda Kassalty (ethnologist, photographer, Saint-Joseph University) , Studio photographers in the 50s: memorial of a profession and posthumous tribute

Liliane Kfoury (historian, SJU), The contribution of orality to the contemporary Lebanese history

Falestin Naïli (Ifpo – Ammam), Oral history in Jordan: potential and obstacle

Conclusion, synthesis and outlook

Kamel Doraï, Head of the Ifpo Contemporary studies department (CNRS, Ifpo)

7pm – Screening at the Montaigne Cinema (Departement of Lettres, Damas Street), introduction by Emma Aubin-Boltanski and Rania Stephan: Catherine: the passion of body , film made by Emma Aubin-Boltanski in 2012

28th May : educational workshop on good practices for use and sharing of digital records

This workshop, that will be conducted by Fabrice Barth ( project manager on digital learning, Espé- Aix-en-Provence), has been organised thanks to the collaboration of the educational cooperation service from the French Embassy in Lebanon. It is addressed to secondary teachers in Lebanon of the AEFE network (French teaching network in Lebanon). The aim is to encourage good practices on the teaching environment or on publishing or achieved works by using digital records in French about the Lebanese territory (oral field records, records from the Broadcasting National Institute, films).

Screenings and listenings of archives

· Sound archives from the research ( MMSH Sound Archive)

· Archives from the Broadcasting National Institute ( Institut national de l'audiovisuel)– Ina Méditerranée

· Musical Archives, AMAR collection

· Digitized films from Baalbeck Studio, UMAM Documentary & Research collection -The Contemporary

7pm – Screening at Montaigne Cinema (Department of Lettres, Damas' Street), Inner Mapping, film made by Stéphanie Latte-Abdallah and Emma Ahmad in 2017