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Jointly organized by the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), the History Department of the Université Saint-Joseph (USJ) and the Institute of Palestinian Studies (IPS)
One hundred years have passed since the outbreak of the First World War.
On the occasion of this commemoration, the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB),the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), the History Department of the Université Saint-Joseph (USJ) and the Institute of Palestinian Studies (IPS) are organising an international conference to be held in Beirut on November 3 and 4, 2014.
The conference aims to question and to rethink the place of this conflict in the history of the Middle East.
Aiming at encouraging new approaches to a well-established field of historical enquiry, the debates of the conference are organised around three interconnected axes:
- From the perspective of social history and historical anthropology, we want to explore how people experienced the war, how they lived through it and what it meant for their daily lives.
- From the point of view of a long-term history of science and knowledge production, we consider the impact of the war and of its trans-regional and global dimensions on orders of knowledge and the institutional and informal systems producing it. Of special interest are the emerging nationalist movements, their interactions with the self-reforming Ottoman and later the colonial or Mandatory educational systems, and their long-term effects on shifting notions of science and education in the region.
- Finally, we want to examine, from the point of view of the sociology of memory, how this ‘Great War’ is remembered in literature, arts, commemorations and celebrations. The aim is to reflect the dynamics of how, when, where and by whom this war has become the object of commemoration, be it private or official, particularly when taking into account the more recent periods of violence in the region.
(Translation between english and french is available.)
La Grande Guerre au Proche-Orient : Savoirs, vécus, mémoires
The First World War in the Middle East: Knowledge, experience, memory
3 novembre 2014
Université Saint-Joseph, Auditorium François Bassil, Campus Innovation et sport (CIS)
Séance d’ouverture
13:45-14:00 : accueil des participants
14:00-14:15 : allocutions de bienvenue
- S.E. Patrice Paoli, Ambassadeur de France au Liban
- S.E. Christian Clages, Ambassadeur d’Allemagne au Liban
- R.P. Salim Daccache, Recteur de l’Université Saint-Joseph
- Eberhard Kienle, Directeur de l’Institut français du Proche-Orient
- Stefan Leder, Directeur de l’Orient-Institut Beirut
Savoirs
14:15-15:45
- Philippe Bourmaud, Université Lumière Lyon 2 De l'exception à la norme : empreinte de la Grande guerre au Moyen-Orient et santé internationale (1914 – milieu des années 1920)
- Carla Eddé, Université Saint-Joseph Entre savoir encyclopédique et enjeux politiques : les études sur la province de Beyrouth et le Mont-Liban publiées pendant la guerre
- Henry Laurens, Collège de France Les orientalistes et la Grande Guerre
15:45-16:00 Pause-café
Vécus 1
16:00-18:00
- Selim Deringil, Lebanese American University The “Eyyam I Atrak” as seen by the “Atrak”: the Last Days of the Ottomans in Lebanon as seen in Memoir Literature
- Youssef Mouawad, Chercheur indépendant La Fête des Martyrs : histoire d’une discorde nationale
- Christian Taoutel, Université Saint-Joseph Les jésuites et la Grande Guerre
18:00-18:30 Pause-café
A Revolution of Rising Expectations? The First World War as a Global War
Conférence inaugurale/Keynote lecture
18:30-20:00
Jörn Leonhard, professeur, co-director of the School of History at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced
Studies et auteur de Die Büchse der Pandora. Geschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs, C.H. Beck, München, 2014.
4 novembre 2014
Université Saint-Joseph, Campus des sciences humaines, Salle Joseph Zaarour
Vécus 2
9:30-12:15
Président de séance : Henry Laurens, Collège de France
- Lévon Nordiguian, Université Saint-Joseph Les stigmates de la Grande Guerre sur le paysage rural du Mont Liban
- Falestine Naili, IFPO La guerre entre les lignes : la municipalité ottomane de Jérusalem face aux effets de la Première Guerre mondiale
- Ayhan Aktar, Bilgi University Istanbul A Propaganda Tour Organized by Djemal Pasha: The Arab Literati’s Visit to the Gallipoli Front, 18 – 25 October 1915
11:00-11 :15 Pause-café
11:15-12:15
- Tariq Tell, American University of Beirut Food, Funds and Famine: the Course of the Arab Revolt in Southeast Syria (Trans-Jordan) during WWI
- Hayat Touhadi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne Les militaires formant le contingent français du Hedjaz : origines et conditions de vie (1916-1920)
Mémoires
12:15-16:00
Présidente de séance : Ulrike Freitag, directrice du Zentrum Moderner Orient
- Elizabeth Thompson, Virginia University Memory and the Politics of Mass Death after the Great War: The Narrative of Ohannès Pasha, the last Governor of the Mutasarrifiyya of Mount Lebanon
- Malek Sharif, American University of Beirut A Young Ottoman-Arab Officer on the Front Lines; Experiences and Memories
13:15-14:00 Pause déjeuner
14:00-16:00
- Norig Neveu, IFPO ‘Awda Abu Tayya, figure héroïque de la Première Guerre mondiale. Mémoires concurrentielles de la guerre à Ma‘ân dans le sud de la Jordanie
- Alyn Hine, OIB, Beirut An Unlikely Lebanese Soldier in the US Army: Mikhail Naimy’s First World War
- Maher Charif, Institut d’études palestiniennes La Grande Guerre à travers le journal de Khalil el-Sakakini (en arabe)
16:00-16:30 Pause-café
Penser la guerre, 100 ans après 14-18
Conférence-débat au Salon francophone du livre de Beyrouth
19:00-20:00
Mots d'accueil, S.E. Christian Clages, Ambassadeur d'Allemagne, S.E Patrice Paoli, Ambassadeur de France, et Mme Christine Babikian-Assaf, Doyenne de la Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de l’USJ
19:10-20:00
Conférence-débat avec la participation de Henry Laurens, Ulrike Freitag et Carla Eddé (modération : Eberhard Kienle)
20:00-21:00
Cocktail au stand de l’Ifpo
