Photo : Khartoum © Iris Seri-Hersch, 2007
HSMAU33 - Séminaire - Middle Eastern Historiographies
Séminaire d'enseignement du Master Langues et sociétés, parcours Moyen-Orient & Maghreb (MOMA) et projet TAMAM, Département d’études moyen-orientales, Aix-Marseille Université.
Lecturers : Martina Ambu, Norig Neveu, Iris Seri-Hersch
This seminar takes place on Mondays, 4-6 pm, at Mmsh, Aix-en-Provence, Ground Floor, Room 5. All interested master's students, PhD candidates, and scholars are welcome to attend. For more information and access to the weekly readings, please contact iris.seri-hersch[at]univ-amu.fr
October 19
Local Archives, Colonialism, and Knowledge/Power Dialectics (I. Seri-Hersch)
Required reading (*homework*)
Omnia El Shakry, “‘History without Documents’: The Vexed Archives of Decolonization in the Middle East,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 120(3), 2015, p. 920-934.
Additional reading
Mahassin Abdul Jalil, “From the Terraces of Celebrated Narratives to the Cellars of Tarnished History: Obliterating Knowledge in Sudanese and Arab Historiography” in Elena Vezzadini et al., eds. Ordinary Sudan, 1504-2019: From Social History to Politics from Below. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 87-117.
Podcast: “The Politics of 1948 in Israeli Archives, with Shay Hazkani,” Ottoman History Podcast, 18 July 2014.