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Monica Martinat

Is empathy the solution or the problem?

In recent weeks, we have faced the dismay of many men and women, Jewish citizens who, faced with the savagery of the attack of October 7 by Hamas terrorists, felt a glaring lack of solidarity towards them. The most affected were the people of the left, generally pacifists, who expressed themselves critically towards the current Israeli government. This dismay is that of those who suddenly realize that they remain part of an insurmountable otherness: within their civic and political community, their suffering encounters not a common emotion in the face of horror, but the coldness of a political conflict in which, whatever they say or do, whatever they suffer, they will be less victims than others.

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Monica Martinat November 6, 2023
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Wokism, facts n°20

Colloquium on Life Stories and MobilitiesREMELICE Laboratory / APR-IA MIGRATEXT project / SHS Centre Val de LoireUniversity of Orléans, April 4-5, 2024Both in its practices and in its imaginations, humanity is advancing in a globalized reality of "new mobilities". The networks that

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Collective October 12th 2023
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Wokism, the facts n°19 (September 1-15, 2023)

Calls for papers Decolonizing the World Republic of Letters: Translation, Circulation, and Intellectual Networks across the Global South (Paris) Taking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Pascale Casanova's field-defining The World Republic of Letters ,

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Collective September 22, 2023
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Wokism, the facts n°18 (July-August 2023)

July-August 2023 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures A Queer Middle Ages? A Queer Middle Ages? Organized by: Rory Critten and Leticia Ding — Information Session Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 12:13-15:2013 p.m., Anthropole XNUMX — Activities associated with the Queer Middle Ages Specialization Program

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Collective September 11, 2023