LITERATURE, DEMOCRACY AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
An International Colloquium
18, 19, & 20 MARCH 2018
ST JOHN’S COLLEGE and MAISON FRANÇAISE D’OXFORD
OXFORD
Colloque International
LITTÉRATURE, DÉMOCRATIE ET JUSTICE TRANSITIONNELLE
Open to the public
- Contact : mohamed-salah.omri@orinst.ox.ac.uk
- Conveners : A. Delage (Aix Marseille), M.S. Omri (St John’s College), P. Roussin (CNRS Paris)
The colloquium is part of the activities of “GDRI Literature and Democracy (19th-21st centuries) : Theoretical, Historical and Comparative Approaches”, an international research network. This colloquium brings together participants from over a dozen countries who adress specific situations of transitional justice across the globe including Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Columbia, Tunisia, South Africa, Rwanda, Taiwan, Algeria and former Yugoslavia. The event seeks to open dialogue between scholars working on authoritarian systems and democratic transitions in the fields of literary studies, history, philosophy and law. It also features the Syrian writer Zakaria Tamer.
Programme & Schedule
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Sunday 18 March 2018
St John’s College – New Seminar Room
18:00 – 18:30 Arrival and registration
Opening Session
Chair: Philippe Roussin
18:30 – 19:30
Lin Chi-Ming (National Taipei University), Alternative Account, Mourning Family and Transformation into Life: Tree Contemporary Artworks Related to the Event of 28 February 1947 in Taiwan
19:30 Dinner, St John’s College
Monday 19 March 2018
St John’s College – New Seminar Room
9:00 – 9: 15 Registration
9:15 – 9:30 Public opening: Delage, Roussin, Omri
Session 1: Sub-Saharan Africa
Chair: Mohamed-Salah Omri
9:30 – 10:00
Carrol Clarkson (University of Amsterdam), Literacy and Democracy: Transitional Justice in South Africa
10:00 – 10:30
Brendon Nicholls (University of Leeds), Literature and Transitional Justice after
the Rwandan Genocide: Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana
10:30 – 10:50 Discussion
10:50 – 11:00 Coffee break
Session 2: The Arab World
Chair: Robin Ostle
11:00 – 11:30
Mohsen ElKhouni (Université de Tunis El Manar), Tolérance et justice dans le monde arabe, hier et aujourd’hui
11:30 – 12:00
Sonia Zlitni-Fitouri (Université de Tunis), De l’écriture en souffrance à la
pensée de la liberté ou comment marcher sur l’oubli
12:00 – 12:30
Anissa Daoudi (University of Birmingham), Unheard Voices of the Algerian
Civil War (1990s): the Role of Testimonies in Transitional Justice
12:30 – 13:00 Discussion
13:00 – 14:00 Sandwich lunch – all are welcome
Session 3: Tunisia
Chair: Manuel Lof
14:00 – 14:30
Mohamed-Salah Omri (University of Oxford), Dissident Writing, Law and Transitional Justice in Tunisia
14:30 – 15:00
Salah Degani (Université de Carthage), La recomposition du passé, élément fondamental de la justice transitionnelle dans l’œuvre de Gilbert Naccache
15:00 – 15:20 Discussion
15:20 – 15:30 Coffee break
Session 4: Latin America
Chair: Jesús Izquierdo
15:30 – 16:00
Annick Louis (Université de Reims), Justice transitionnelle et justice civile dans Antígonas: Linaje de Hembras (2001) de Jorge Huertas
16:00 – 16:30
Daniel Mosquera (Union College), The Irreverence of Bones: Reclaiming Trashed Lives in the afermath of Violence in Adios Ayacucho (1984) and Insensatez (2004)
16:30 – 17:00
Annelen Micus (University of Oxford), Victims’ Narratives in the Colombian Peace Process
17:00 – 17:30 Discussion
17:30 – 18:15 Break and drinks reception – all are welcome
18:15 – 19:15
Zakaria Tamer (Syrian writer) interviewed by Robin Ostle and Ali Souleman
Tuesday 20 March 2018
Maison Française d’Oxford
Session 5: Europe
Chair: Carrol Clarkson
9:00 – 9:30
Philippe Roussin (CNRS-EHESS, Paris), Procès, fiction, document : la reconstruction de la littérature en Europe après 1945
9:30 – 10:00
Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University), Voices of Suffering: The Incorporation of Victim Testimony in Judgements of the ICTY
10:00 –10:20 Discussion
10:20 – 10:30 Coffee break
Session 6: Iberia
Chair: Daniel Mosquera
10:30 – 11:00
Agnès Delage (Université d’Aix Marseille), La justice fait-elle périr la démocratie? Justice transitionnelle, justice restaurative et justice littéraire sur la scène de la littérature contemporaine espagnole
11:00 – 11:30
Jesús Izquierdo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Une démocratie sans justice
transitionnelle: refoulement, silence et oubli dans le pacte de dénégation de l’Espagne de la transition
11:30 – 12:00
Manuel Lof (Universidade do Porto), Transitional Justice and Uses of the Past in Post-authoritarian Portugal
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion
12:30 – 13:30 Roundtable and closing debate
13:30 – 14:30 Sandwich lunch – all are welcome
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Honorine Tellier (8 mars 2018). Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice | Oxford | 18-20 march 2018. Literature & Democracy (19th-21st centuries). Consulté le 20 mai 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/qykm