Calls for contributions:
Call for contributions for a collective work entitled Postcolonialism: new approaches
Published on 10 March 2023
When in The Archaeology of Knowledge, Michel Foucault was indignant about the renewal of knowledge and criticism in these terms: "one cannot speak at any time about anything." (Foucault, 1969: 61), he was, without doubt, far from imagining that this thought would echo, years later, within postcolonial studies in Africa.
Consenting, disturbing or deconstructing gender: traces of elsewhere in the contemporary Hispanic world
Published on 15 March 2023
The Hispanística XX 2023 conference proposes to open the reflection on the presence of gender claims in the contemporary Hispanic world. The "Me Too" wave has been the trigger for various movements in the Western world, some of which have found their roots in a collective memory that has long been hidden.
Queer Herbarium. Call for articles for collective work
Published on 15 March 2023
The collective work Queer Herbarium will examine the intersections between the issues queer and botany through various disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. The book will be in the form of a plant atlas and will include illustrations.
Conferences, symposia, events…
DIPLOMA CONFERENCE: FARINAZ FASSA
Published on 8 March 2023
The diploma conference "Making and unmaking gender in education and training" with Farinaz Fassa, professor at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lausanne and member of the Center for Gender Studies, takes place on Tuesday March 7, 2023 from 18:30 p.m. to 20 p.m., remotely.
The figure of the Amazons between sport and mastectomy. With Pascale Joubi and Ariane Ferry (TIGRE Mythe et Illustration Seminar, ENS Paris)
Published on 9 March 2023
Pascale Joubi (Université de Montréal), “Modern Amazons”: sportswomen in the iconographic imagination of the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties This conference will focus on a selection of images (lithographs, drawings, illustrations) taken from the satirical and women's press of the early 20th century and from certain works on those who were called “women of sport”.
Poetic Trans*mission: Seeking Non-Binary Heritage (Printemps de la Poésie 2023, Vevey)
Published on 10 March 2023
March 27, 2023, Bachibouzouk (Rue des Jardins 12), Vevey, 19:00 p.m., free admission at the chapeau (other dates on the Printemps de la Poésie website). Four non-binary artists set off on a poetic mission: to find traces of people they can identify with in the past and to think about their own struggles in order to better write their futures.
Freedom, they sing your name: a recital to discover Persian matrimony (Spring of Poetry 2023)
Published on 10 March 2023
What can poetry and music save? We start with the transmission made by Iranian and Afghan women, in Persian, from the 10th century to the present day. It is a very lively matrimony where poetry and visions of women nourish each other.
Meeting-debate on March 4, 2023 on access to archives on the colonial past
Published on 12 March 2023
The Colonial and Postcolonial History Association, which manages the site histoirecoloniale.net, is organizing a meeting-debate on Saturday, March 4, 2023 — at the CICP, 21 ter, rue Voltaire, 75011 Paris, from 15:15 p.m. to 18:15 p.m. — on access to archives concerning the colonial past.
Conference of the seminar “Investigating and with gender: an interdisciplinary discussion” (2nd edition, 2022-2023) with Marie-Xavière Catto.
Published on 15 March 2023
How do gender studies disrupt the way we understand major legal categories? If the first feminist movements resulted in demanding the application to women of the rights recognized to men, feminist criticism of law has a much more subversive potential, touching on the very categories of the subject (the public/private division, the division of the sexes) or by shaking up the way we understand questions (consent, reproductive rights).
Seminar “Gender and the Prison World” Sessions 1 and 2 March 20, 2023 – Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris-Saclay
Published on 15 March 2023
The first two sessions of the 2023 season of the seminar "Gender and the prison world", supported by the MSH Paris-Saclay, will take place on Monday March 20, 2023 from 10:30 a.m. to 18 p.m. on the theme: Social relations of gender, class, ethnicity in confinement systems.
CANCELLED – Round table: Deviant ecologies
Published on 15 March 2023
Author of Écologies déviantes. Voyages en terre queer (Cambourakis, 2021), Cy Lecerf Maulpoix proposes to cross perspectives. His multiple activities as a journalist, author, activist, or even yoga teacher tended ultimately towards only one thing: taking into account the experiences of queer people as a prism to understand and fight against economic and ecological domination.
Others
Bye Bye Binary: “Inclusive or non-binary typography is a political commitment”
Published on 8 March 2023
Since the appearance of a · in a school textbook in 2017, inclusive writing has become a subject of public debate in France. But for the Bye Bye Binary collective, born at the crossroads of La Cambre and the ERG in Brussels, this question extends well beyond the midpoint: it opens up a vast field of creation and reinvention, both of language and of society.
Is this secularism? Secular mythologies and the Republic of the same | Esprit Review
Published on 8 March 2023
Since the vote on the law of August 24, 2021 strengthening respect for the principles of the Republic, the controversial climate surrounding secularism (a term which is carefully avoided in the legislative title 1) has faded, even if the government remains active on this issue.
Anti-Trump hats, queer workshops… How knitting became feminist
Published on 8 March 2023
Fingers dancing around wooden or metal rods, a ball of yarn unrolling, and a piece of work taking shape through mechanical gestures. Ancestral know-how, good old granny knitting is thriving among young (and not so young) women of the 21st century.e century.
Pushing back the reading age to combat social inequalities?
Published on 10 March 2023
For Louis Maurin, founder and director of the Observatory of Inequalities, to combat social inequalities in schools, reading instruction should be postponed by one year.
Eléonore Baude: teaching egalitarian French, finally
Published on 10 March 2023
In 2008, the Council of Europe called for "the elimination of sexism in language and the promotion of language reflecting the principle of equality between women and men." Can we finally make this call resonate in French classes?
Justice: Great sorrows are (far too) silent, by Denys de Béchillon
Published on 10 March 2023
Everyone is whining. Television is infusing us with pain. I failed to cook the chicken breast because my mother didn't trust me, but I'm not giving up...
What racism does to health: episode 4/4 of the podcast Health differently
Published on 10 March 2023
Researcher Delphine Peiretti Courtis explains how Western medicine was built in parallel with a discourse on racial inequalities, used to justify slavery. In the 19th century, medicine became an objective ally of colonization, boasting of demonstrating the inferiority of African peoples.
Lyon. Return of inclusive writing in the official documents of the City of Lyon: the elected representatives of the 6th pose six amendments
Published on 10 March 2023
It's been a long time since inclusive writing was invited to the district council! The elected representatives of the center and right of the 6the during their council of 1er March approved six amendments relating to various deliberations, where each word written in inclusive writing was included.
Afrofeminism, explained by Kiyémis
Published on 10 March 2023
Focus on a concept that is also a struggle: Afrofeminism. A notion that has the merit of raising awareness of the fact that being a woman is not easy, but being a black woman in France, even in 2023, remains even more complicated. In this show, we talk about intersectionality and discrimination.
Multiculturalism: Thierry Tuot's appointment causes waves at the Council of State
Published on 10 March 2023
STORY – Author of a highly controversial report on “inclusive society” in 2013, Thierry Tuot has taken over as head of the strategic interior section.
Gendered budget, “matrimony”, inclusive communication: how environmentalists are taking over feminism in Bordeaux
Published on 10 March 2023
The green town hall is carrying out numerous actions to "promote the values of gender equality" and has just adopted a charter of 23 commitments in the artistic and cultural domain.
“A trans boy is a boy”: a mother accuses Puteaux town hall of transphobia towards her son
Published on 15 March 2023
A 12-year-old boy was refused access to the boys' dormitories during a stay in the mountains. A scandal for his mother, Sixtine.
We are talking
The Writing Lesson and the Violence of the Letter: From the Genealogy of Deconstruction to the Politically Excluding Instrument of Inclusive Writing
Published on 8 March 2023
In this paper, I aim at providing a non-polemical and analytical etiology to the controversial issue of inclusive writing. To this aim, I return to the old debate on the place of writing between Derrida and Lévi-Strauss, which allows making the link between the genealogy of deconstructionism and the exclusive politics of inclusive writing. Far from common and partisan declarations, the analysis of this episode that has become a finding moment in the history of ideas makes it possible to better understand the current evolution of fundamentalist drifts.
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler: "The EU finances Islamist associations to the tune of tens of millions of euros"
Published on 9 March 2023
MAJOR INTERVIEW – This is an investigation that will be a reference and that our political leaders should read carefully. Le Frérisme et ses réseaux by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler is an impressive work in which the anthropologist at the CNRS deciphers the functioning of the Islamist movement of the Muslim Brotherhood.
“Are you optimistic about the future of Belgian Jews?” Lise Benkemoun asks Yana Grinshpun
Published on 10 March 2023
In “La Matinale” of “Radio Judaïca”, “The Question of the Day” by Lise Benkemoun, Editor-in-Chief, is posed to our friend Yana Grinshpun, Franco-Israeli, professor and lecturer at the Sorbonne as well as a discourse analyst, who had published the paper “Belgium, silence and anti-Semitism”
"The fluidity of digital technology is the gateway to "woke" ideology"
Published on 10 March 2023
FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE – The rewriting of Roald Dahl's works raises many questions about the relationship between digital technology and wokeism, according to Pierre Valentin, author of a note on the woke phenomenon. For him, the digitalization of the world opens up the possibility of modifying works without anyone noticing.
Pierre Vermeren: "France is making efforts, backing down on visas, conceding its historical crimes, but getting nothing"
Published on 10 March 2023
At a press conference held on February 27, ahead of a tour of Africa in early March, Emmanuel Macron stated that his relations with King Mohammed VI were "friendly." According to information from the media outlet Jeune Afrique, the Moroccan authorities did not appreciate the media outing of the French head of state and reportedly retorted: "Relations are neither friendly nor good, no more between the two governments than between the Royal Palace and the Élysée."
Pierre Vermeren's column: how the State destroyed the love of wine
Published on 10 March 2023
From 1860 to 1960, the government managed to double the French alcohol consumption. Through industrialization, military service and wars, the French went from 80 liters per year to more than 150 before the war (36 today).
Pierre Vermeren, historian – The major interviews of Yves Thréard » Memories and future of Africa »
Published on 10 March 2023
Yves Thréard receives the historian Pierre Vermeren, specialist in the Maghreb and Arab-Berber societies.
In this interview, he traces the origins of the French passion for Africa, whose power and attraction persist today. According to him, it was in reaction to the rise of Germany in Europe from the 19th century that France invested a large part of its intellectual, economic and military forces on this continent.
How the Muslim Brotherhood Subverts Europe? G. Kepel and F. Bergeaud-Blackler
Published on 10 March 2023
With Gilles Kepel, professor at Paris Sciences & Lettres
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, author of Frérisme and its networks, the investigation (Odile Jacob)
Pierre-Henri Tavoillot “At university, deconstruction has gone crazy”
Published on 10 March 2023
On the occasion of the publication of the proceedings of the conference "After deconstruction. Reconstructing science and culture" (Odile Jacob), the philosopher, co-organizer of the event, looks back on the origins of the project.
Jérôme Fourquet and Pierre Vermeren: "How far will the great collapse of France go?"
Published on 10 March 2023
MAJOR MAINTENANCE Against a backdrop of rejection of pension reform, mass unemployment and the disintegration of public services, France is slowly sinking and the State is failing to keep the nation afloat, analyze the pollster, political scientist and historian.
Gender dysphoria is an expression of the narcissism that characterizes our society.
Published on 15 March 2023
By denying the biological reality of the binary nature of sex, gender ideology cancels the concept of woman, thereby erasing the claims that are specific to her, and reintroduces sexual stereotypes that were thought to be obsolete.
Armenia: "Let us awaken our consciences to the beginnings of a new ethnic cleansing"
Published on 15 March 2023
Armenia, a country of relatively modest dimensions but strategically important in the heart of the Caucasus, with a thousand-year-old Christian culture but now founded on the constitution of a secular democracy, finds itself today threatened by the ever more aggressive imperialism of new dictatorships, at the forefront of which emerges, a little more than a century after the genocide of which it was already the victim in 1915 (with the massacre of 1 million of its citizens), Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey.
Secularism in schools: regression in the field of struggle
Published on 15 March 2023
On October 16, 2022, Pap Ndiaye declared on Twitter: : "I have no qualms about questions of secularism; upon my arrival, I made the necessary arrangements: strengthening the Values of the Republic teams, intensifying teacher training and consolidating functional protection."It garnered a staggering 393 likes, a sign of indifference to his words that has never been denied to this day.
We're in the news
What Activism Does to Art: Iván Argote vs. Jean Boucher and Gallieni – Amicus Radio
Published on 10 March 2023
In this episode, drawing on analyses by Nathalie Heinich, Anne Lafont and Laure Gillot-Assayag, we will explore some of the cracks we have perceived.
Controversies
Thinking “queerly”
Published on 9 March 2023
There are now biopsychosocial approaches that refuse to separate the biological, psychological and social worlds to study sex and gender in humans. The Berlinale has awarded several "queer" films, including Paul. B. Preciado's documentary, under the presidency of the jury of Kristen Stewart, known for defending the LGBTQ + cause.
Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, Godard… Should we adapt the classics to their times?
Published on 10 March 2023
In a new British edition, several words of Roald Dahl's work have been changed to, according to the editors, modernize the texts. A distortion or a natural adaptation of works of art to the times and to changes in values?
Ordinary propaganda
At school, to be straight or not to be
In the classroom as in the playground, the world is divided in two: girls on one side, boys on the other, both always assumed to be straight.
RÉ-ELLES Festival. A new name to reflect the plurality of feminist struggles and gender issues
Published on 6 March 2023
The RÉ·ELLES festival (formerly Docs au Féminin) is back with a new name, six guests, eight screenings-meetings, off-site sessions, a sound installation and a retrospective to celebrate its 20th anniversary, until March 12 in Rennes.
International Courier UNE – The new voices of decolonization
Published on 8 March 2023
Every week, “Courrier international” explains its editorial choices. In this issue, we have chosen to give voice to voices that renew the narrative of colonialism and slavery. Portrait in the foreign press of this new generation of African intellectuals who are reappropriating their history.
A podcast on the role of school in the construction of “heteronormativity”
Published on 8 March 2023
In a podcast, Camille Regache receives Gabrielle Richard, a gender sociologist. Together, they decipher the processes at work within the School in the construction of a " heteronormativity ».
Episode 2/4: Decolonizing painting
Published on 12 March 2023
A colonial power, France, which also exports orientalist painting, has contrasting judgments regarding the natural capacities of the "natives" it claims to "civilize" to become artists in the Western sense of the concept, and in particular painters.
Françoise Vergès: “Program of absolute disorder, decolonizing the museum”
Published on 13 March 2023
A decolonial and anti-racist feminist, Françoise Vergès has been thinking about museums and the decolonization of the arts for several years, the theme of the collective she co-hosts. She published "Programme de désordre absolu, décoloniser le musée" (La Fabrique).
At the National Assembly, symposium on the fight against racism and discrimination
Published on 13 March 2023
As part of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I am pleased to invite you to the conference that I am organizing on the fight against racism and discrimination which will be held at the National Assembly, Victor Hugo room, Thursday March 23, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 17 p.m.
Publications articles
Information practices of transgender people
February 28, 2023
This article presents the results of an ethnographic survey conducted in the LGBT+ community of the city of Reims and sheds light on the information practices of transgender people, which remain little studied in the field of information sciences.
Feminist thought in places of knowledge – Practices of attention and ordinary struggles
Published on 6 March 2023
In this article, we start from gender as a way of living, teaching, doing research, taking into account openness to what is lived and done, and to knowledge produced, in situations where social relationships are very concretely experienced.
The intersectional question through three examples from contemporary English-speaking cinema. Between invisibility, claims and contradictory discourses
By studying three examples of contemporary Anglo-Saxon cinema released in the late 2010s, this article aims to show different political readings and issues raised by the complexity of the concept of intersectionality in cinema.
“It’s not all about race”? Thinking about intersectionality: race, gender and class in Us…
After the highly acclaimed Get Out (2017) which denounced racism and white negrophilia, the African-American director Jordan Peele seems to suggest in promotion that the racial parameter would be less central in his second film, Us (2019).
Black Panther's intersectionality is a matter for its audiences
The post-production removal of an LGBTQ relationship between Ayo and Okoye, originally present in the comics, sparked a wave of protest under the hashtag #LetAyoHaveAGirlfriend. straightwashing, or the studios' habit of depicting characters originally queers in heterosexual figures, is not new.
Chapters
Feminist geography, appropriating a heuristic field
In a French context of distrust and profound ignorance that needs to be considered and explained, this chapter aims to trace its genealogy, diffusion, circulation as well as the epistemological, theoretical and methodological contributions of feminist geography.
Why is inclusive writing essential to equality policies?
Congress communication
Gender and engineering, an impossible equation to solve? A look at taboos
Published on 8 March 2023
The minority presence of women in engineering training (28.7% on average in 2021) is often compared to their very good academic performance: how can such a paradox be explained?
Employment counselors facing managerial logic: an (in)compatibility illuminated by trajectory and gender
Published on 11 March 2023
“My daughter plays with cars and my son with dolls”: parents and gender in relation to their children’s toys and games
Published on 12 March 2023
This research focuses on the representations and behaviors that parents have of their children's games and toys in order to determine whether gender is a category that they take into account in their purchases.
Various publications
Decolonization in Europe and Africa: How does it work?
The discussion will focus on the goals and steps towards the transformation of colonial structures that persist in previously colonized societies as well as in former colonial powers. What are the points of agreement and divergence in European and African debates, depending on the location and topic?
CARTOGRAPHY AS A TOOL FOR STRUGGLES
Published on 6 March 2023
What is a map and why the map? Because it is the privileged support of the power that contemplates, and contemplates itself, through the spatialization of its political, economic and police domination over forms of life, the map is too often the tool of the conqueror, the strategist, and even worse, the manager.
Decoloniality and Decolonization in the Americas: Pluriversalism and Territory
Published March 9, 2023
From Europe, a quick look at the speeches coming out of current North America could lead one to believe in the gradual establishment of a "transition", particularly if, for once, the focus shifts away from the United States to its northern neighbour: environmental transition, with the adoption (unprecedented in this context) by the Canadian federal government of a law setting drastic targets for reducing GHGs, and with the adoption of a moratorium on the oil industry in Quebec;
ADVANCED CERTIFICATION IN GENDER STUDIES APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2022-23
Second-year Master's students can now apply for the Advanced Certification in Gender Studies. Granted by PRESAGE – Sciences Po's Gender Studies Program, this certification is an interdisciplinary award in the social sciences that attests to a student's acquisition of demonstrable academic expertise within the field of gender studies.
Sexual orientation and religion before the asylum judge: intersectional approach or compartmentalization of grounds for persecution?
February 28, 2023
Salam Festival: the first meetings of Palestinian cinema
At the initiative of the students of Rennes 2, supported by the Bureau Des Etudiants en Arabe de Rennes 2 (student association) and with the help of the Language Center of the University of Rennes 2 and the FSDIE (Solidarity and Development Fund for Student Initiatives), the first meetings of Palestinian cinema will take place from March 20 to 26 at the University of Rennes 2, at the TNB, at the Arvor and at the Le Sévigné cinema in Cesson-Sévigné.
Anti-racism criticism gone mad
Published on 15 March 2023
From the extreme right, where it was once confined, the criticism of anti-racism has gradually gained ground on both the right and the left. Refusing to recognize the reality of institutional racism, these national-republican circles even dare the madness of seeing political anti-racism as racism.
Items
Release : Draft for a feminist encyclopedia of myths
Published on 9 March 2023
We are pleased to announce the publication of the book Draft for a feminist encyclopedia of myths, published by iXe, available in bookstores from March 24, 2023.
Queer Theory and Popular Cultures: From Foucault to Cronenberg
Published on 10 March 2023
Teresa de Lauretis, an important figure in feminist and queer theories, is known in France only through the now out-of-print first edition of this book, which brings together fundamental aspects of her thinking. De Lauretis was the first to use the term "Queer Theory". Her association with Freud, Gramsci, Foucault and Althusser allows de Lauretis to show gender as a representation constructed by social technologies as well as subjective by individuals. Based on her conceptions of gender, the author has had a strong influence on "cultural studies", particularly for cinema.
Philippe Colin, Lissell Quiroz, Decolonial Thoughts. An Introduction to Critical Theories of Latin America
Published on 9 March 2023
Decolonial theory is one of the key discourses of our time. Far from the imprecisions to which it is often subject, this work, the first synthesis in French on its Latin American origin, offers a genealogy and a cartography of a continent of thought little known in Europe.
Meg-John Barker, Jules Scheele, Queer theory, a graphic history
Published on 9 March 2023
What does the “Q” that now most often completes the four letters of the traditional LGBT acronym refer to? “Queer”: is it a gender identity? a sexual orientation? a political movement? an academic theory?
journals
Postcolonial uses of the colonial – 1
Published on 13 March 2023
This issue studies the complex genealogical link between colonial and postcolonial. It questions, with the support of research mainly focused on African worlds, the bygone and yet still active time of colonialism. The articles deal with a past conceived as a repertoire of symbols and signs sorted, selected, manipulated, exhibited and discussed through memorial productions, artistic creations or cultural appropriations.
