Speakers

Hassan Al Akra, doctor of the EPHE, is associate professor at the Lebanese University in Beirut and head of the department of archaeology at the university’s Tripoli campus which he himself founded, as a specialist on Near Eastern medieval numismatics. He is the director of the Lebanese National Library.

Véronique Aulagnon is the director and cultural cooperation advisor at the Lebanese French institute.

Emma Aubin-Boltanski is an anthropologist and director of research at CNRS. From 2005 to 2016 she worked on Marian apparitions and feminine mysticism in Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, topics which became the focus of her co-directed film with Rania Stephan and of her publication Le corps de la Passion. Expériences religieuses et politiques d'une mystique au Liban (EHESS, 2018): http://www.ifporient.org/emma-aubin-boltanski/

Fabrice Barth is a lecturer at Éspé, école supérieure du professorat – University of Aix-Marseille.

Cécile Boëx is associate professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Her research explores the relationship between animated images (fiction, amateur, documentary) and Middle Eastern politics, particularly within the Syrian context.

Monika Borgman co-directed Tadmore alongside Lokman Slim and co-founded UMAM Documentation & Research: https://www.umam-dr.org

Sophie Bouffier is director of the Mediterranean House of Human Sciences (USR3125 AMU-CNRS) and professor of Western Greek history at the University of Aix-Marseille.

Florence Descamps, associate professor at HDR, animates at the EPHE a seminar dedicated to aural histories. She also runs Sonorités, the publication of the French Association for audiovisual, sound and aural archives (AFAS - https://journals.openedition.org/afas) of which she is president. [https://www.ephe.fr/annuaire/florence-descamps]

Loubna Dimachki is associate professor at the Centre for Language Science and Communication at the Lebanese University. She specializes in the domain of interaction analytics, working on comparisons between French and Arabic, multimodality and intercultural misunderstandings.

Kamel Doraï, geographer, Head of research at CNRS, and director of the department of Contemporary Studies since September 2017. http://www.ifporient.org/kamel-dorai

Jean-Philippe Dumas is a former student of l’école des Chartes, doctor of history, chief conservationist of heritage, and research unit manager at the specialist collections of the French ministry archives in Europe. He published with Julie d’Andurain and Françoise Aujogue: Henri Gouraud, photographies d'Afrique et d'Orient (Editions Pierre de Taillac, 2017).

Carla Eddé, historian, specialist in contemporary Lebanon, is vice-rector of international relations at USJ - Université Saint-Joseph, and a member of the Beirut Museum’s science committee.

Elie Elias, historian and politist, teaches at the university Saint-Esprit of Kaslik (USEK).

Gloria el-Hajj is a doctoral student in linguistics under the supervision of Véronique Traverso and Loubna Dimachki, treating the topic "Spoken French in Lebanon: An interactive and sociolinguistic study".

Mohammad Haj Hassan is of the chief members of the project “Syrian Aural History Archives” at the heart of the Dawlaty programme https://dawlaty.org

Zara Fournier is a doctoral student in geography at the University of Tours, and a senior member of the Arab and Mediterranean World group (EMAM), UMR CITERES 7324. Her thesis investigates the construction of sites of memory in South Lebanon during times of conflict (1978- today): http://www.ifporient.org/zara-fournier/

Sophie Gebeil is associate professor in modern history at the University of Aix-Marseille (ESPé - UM 7303 TELEMMe), associate researcher at INA (“Struggles on screen, memories of social movements on French WebTV since the end of the 1990s”).

Véronique Ginouvès is head of sound archives at the Mediterranean House of Human Sciences in Aix-en-Provence and copyeditor of the review Sonorités. Her professional activities can be followed on the academic blog: https://phonotheque.hypotheses.org

Françoise Hours is a library curator, head scientist at the Bibliothèques d’Orient [https://heritage.bnf.fr/bibliothequesorient] and head of services at BnF’s Littératures du Monde.

Christine Jüngen studies the ways in which academic relationships to the past are created in the Middle East. She is head of research at CNRS’s Laboratory of ethnology and comparative sociology: http://lesc-cnrs.fr/en/cb-profile/userprofile/196

Kamal Kassar founded in 2009 the Foundation for Arab Music Archiving & Research (AMAR) in Beirut, a space dedicated to the preservation and diffusion of Arab music: http://www.amar-foundation.org

Houda Kassatly, ethnologist, photographer, head of cultural programmes at Arcenciel and associate researcher at CEMAM (USJ), works on issues surrounding mobility, migration routes and the integration of refugees in Lebanon, as well as architectural, cultural, artistic and religious heritage in the Near-East (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria).

Abdul-Hameed Al-Kayyali, Core Researcher, ERC 'Open Jerusalem' project, University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Associated Researcher, Department of Medieval and Modern Arabic Studies (DEAMM), Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo)- Amman. http://www.ifporient.org/abdul-hameed-al-kayyali/

Liliane Kfoury, historian and researcher at the interdisciplinary research Unit – UIR memory of CEMAM (USJ), works on notions of identity, material and symbolic heritage and flexible public spaces; memories of the war and intergenerational relationships; mobility, movement, migration routes and refugee integration.

Pauline Koetschet,philosopher, is a senior researcher at CNRS and specializes in ancient Greek and medieval Arabic texts at the Paul Albert Février Centre (MMSH, Aix-en-Provence): http://www.cpaf.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article279 

Stéphanie Latte, historian and politist, is a senior researcher at CNRS and a member of Ceri: http://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr/cerispire-user/20439/18800

Mireille Maurice has been responsible for regional delegation at Ina Méditerranée since 2006. She led the project “Med-Mem, Mémoires audiovisuelles de la Méditerranée”, a website that brings together more than 4000 audiovisual and television archives from 12 Mediterranean countries.

Ziad Mikati, lecturer at the Lebanese University, presented his theses in 2010 on the topic of data mining, in which he puts forward an analytical framework to be used on formal representations of the Arabic language used in high security contexts.

Michel Mouton is an archeologist, senior researcher at CNRS and director of l'Institut français du Proche-Orient : http://www.ifporient.org/michel-mouton

Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti, researcher on contemporary Arabic literature and theatre, is head of Ifpo’s Jerusalem- Palestine branch: http://www.ifporient.org/najla-nakhle-cerruti

Falestine Naili, historian, is head of Ifpo’s Jordan branch: http://www.ifporient.org/falestin-naili

Levon Nordiguian is an archeologist specializing in roman and medieval periods. He is also the director of the Museum of Lebanese prehistory (FLSH-USJ) as well as the editor in chief, alongside Carla Eddé, of the publication Tempora, Annales d'Histoire et d'Archéologie (FLSH-USJ ). He is head of the photolibrary archives of USJ’s Oriental Library.

Catherine Pinon is an Arabic associate professor and a doctor of Arabic linguistics. Associate researcher at Ifpo, she specializes in contemporary Arabic syntax and in the didactics of Arabic as a foreign language.

Stéphane Pouyllau is a research engineer at CNRS. Since 1999, he has become a specialist in the domain of digital humanities, working in data processing and on the digitalization of human and social science research data.

Lockman Slim is the founder of the publishing House Dar al Jadeed and co-director of UMAM Documentation & Research : https://www.umam-dr.org

Rania Stephan, artist and director, studied film at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) and at Paris 8 University (France). She co-directed, alongside Emma Aubin-Boltansky, Catherine ou le corps de la Passion (2012).

Véronique Traverso is a senior researcher at CNRS, specializing in interactive linguistics. She has ample experience working with corpora recorded in social settings. She was part of the conception of the database "Interactive Spoken Language Corpus" in Lyon.

Sana Yazigi founded in May 2013 “The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution”, a website that displays and archives in three languages all cultural and artistic productions born out of the revolution, in Syria as well as in the diaspora: https://creativememory.org/fr/archives