COUNTER-MEMORIES: HISTORY IN MINOR MODE

TALK WITH CHAHLA CHAFIQ AND CHOWRA MAKAREMI.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2019 - 20h

BASED ON ARTISTIC, LITERARY AND SOCIOLOGICAL WORKS THAT EXPLORE THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION, THIS EVENING QUESTIONS THE PLACE OF WITNESS AND THE FORMS OF REMEMBRANCE IN THE WRITING OF HISTORY - AT THE ARTICULATION OF THE PERSONAL AND POLITICAL, THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COLLECTIVE, THE FAMILY AND THE SOCIAL.

The aim is to explore the potential of counter-memories to write a story that is not the one of the winners.

With

Chahla Chafiq is a writer and sociologist. In 2011, her essay Islam politique, sexe et genre, à la lumière de l’expérience iranienne (PUF) received the Le Monde de la recherche universitaire award. Her latest book Le rendez-vous iranien avec Simone de Beauvoir has just been published (Éditions Ixé, 2019).

Chowra Makaremi is an anthropologist and researcher at the CNRS, associated with the Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux - IRIS. Her work focuses on the anthropology of the State, the legal and ordinary forms of violence and the experience of the subjects, particularly in situations of exile. She published Le cahier d’Aziz (Éditions Gallimard) en 2011 ) in 2011 and has just finished her first film Hitch, une histoire iranienne, 2019

Reading by Laure-Lucile Simon, actress.