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The Memorial For Those Who Did Not Fall In War

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Updated on 30/01/2026

Organisation : Sarga Moussa, Alexandre Gefen , Hadas Zahavi (directrice du comité et principale organisatrice), Sarah Cole, Marianne Hirsch, Bruno Bosteels, Madeleine Dobie, Nina Berman, Joerg M. Schaefer, David C. Johnston, Thomas W. Dodman

Un événement international de trois jours réunissant art, théorie et performance pour confronter le paradoxe des systèmes qui alimentent la guerre.

Organisé par Columbia Global Paris Center et Columbia University Global Center for Peace Innovation, THALIM CNRS et l’Institut pour la Paix.

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Program :

Day 1 (11 February 2026)

09:40–10:15 | Gathering

10:15–10:30 | Acknowledgments and Project Vision

Dr. Hadas Zahavi, Director of The Memorial for Those Who Did Not Fall in War (Columbia University)

10:30–12:00 | Opening Lecture and Discussion

Témoigner pour le témoin

Prof. Georges Didi-Huberman (EHESS)

12:00–13:30 | Lunch Break

13:30–15:15 | Opening Panel : War in Disguise

Prof. Nina Berman (Columbia University)

Prof. Françoise Vergès (University of London)

Kapwani Kiwanga

15:15–15:30 | Coffee Break

15:30–16:30 | Literary Conversation : Algeria in France Today

Leïla Sebbar

Yahia Belaskri

16:30–16:45 | Refreshment Break

16:45–17:45 | Artist Talk : Unlearning War Through Images

Hito Steyerl

Prof. Lorie Novak (NYU)

Session Chair : Laura Lema Silva

18:00–19:00 | Exhibition Opening and Artistic Performance :

״What Have I Done to You ?״

Baptist Coelho

19:00–20:00 | Dance Performance

Ablaye Birahim Diop

Day 2 (12 February 2026)

09:30–10:00 | Gathering

10:00–11:30 | Roundtable : War as a System of Spaces

Research Director at the CNRS Sarga Moussa (THALIM, CNRS) : Rendre visibles et audibles les blessés de la guerre dans Un souvenir de Solférino (1862) d’Henry Dunant ; Une rhétorique de l’horreur au service d’un humanisme moderne d’inspiration chrétienne

Prof. Luba Jurgenson (Sorbonne Université) : Paysage de guerre, paysage de paix ? À propos d’une zone minière/concentrationnaire en République tchèque

Prof. Thomas Hippler (University of Caen) : Bombing for Peace ? Aerial Warfare and World-Orders

 

Session Chair : Dr. Guido Furci (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

11:30–11:45 | Coffee Break

11:45–13:15 | Interactive Session : Peace in Practice

Majd Abdel Hamid : Texture of Memory

Prof. Yann Toma (Sorbonne) : L’Air de la guerre

Dr. Barbara Polla (ULB) : Hospitalité et paix : un effort perpétuel

13:15–14:30 | Lunch Break

14:30-15:15 | Performance

Inutile

Meltem Yildiz

15:15–15:30 | Coffee Break

15:30–17:00 | Roundtable : Peace After the Algorithm

Research Director Alexandre Gefen (THALIM CNRS) : Language and War in the Age of Generative AI

Lesia Khomenko : Working on User-Generated Footage from the Russian-Ukrainian War

Warren Neidich : Peace Machine : The Brain Without Organs

 

17:00–17:15 | Short Break

17:15-18:15 | Workshop

Julieta Eranda

18:15–19:15 | Refreshment Break

19:15–20:45 | Film Screening : Nikah, followed by Q&A

Mukaddas Mijit, Bastien Ehouzan

Day 3 (13 February 2026)

09:30–10:00 | Gathering

10:00–11:30 | Closing Panel : Whose War Is It, Anyway ?

Prof. Stéphane Gerson (NYU) : Quand la guerre se terre sous l’aventure

Prof. Philippe Mesnard (Université Clermont Auvergne) : De quelle imagination parlons-nous ?

Prof. Catherine Brun (THALIM, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) : « Il paraît que nous sommes en guerre »

 

Session Chair : Dr. Pauline Hachette (Université Paris 8)

11:30–11:45 | Coffee Break

11:45–12:45 | Artist Conversation

Paola Yacoub : La guerre est monotone

12:45–13:30 | Closing Workshop

Dr. Dalia Abu Sbitan (THALIM CNRS) : Diagnosing War : A Participatory Session in Narrative Diagnostics

Participating Artists :

Hito Steyerl (Germany), Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada/Tanzania), Julieta Aranda (Mexico/Germany), Majd Abdel Hamid (Palestine/Syria), Lesia Khomenko (Ukraine), Louis-Cyprien Rials (Iraq/France), Nina Berman (USA), Lorie Novak (USA), Yann Toma (France), Paola Yacoub (Lebanon/France), Vera Kox (Luxembourg/Germany), Meltem Yildiz (Bakur Kurdistan), Baptist Coelho (India), Warren Neidich (USA), Syd Krochmalny (Argentina), Detext (Spain), Manuela Morgaine (France).

The organizers wish to express their sincere gratitude to NYU Maison Française, Columbia University Society of Senior Scholars, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Cloud Seven, Eric Mouchet Gallery, The Slip, Seize Avril, Galerie Poggi, Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg, Maison du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, Marfa Projects, Ceysson & Bénétière, L’Endroit, Les Films du Bal, as well as to the individuals Lindsey Michelle Schram, Betti-Sue Hertz, Mickaël Faure, Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Eric Mouchet and Corinne Diserens, for their generous support and collaboration.

Thematic axes : Politiques des arts et des littératures, Transculturalités littéraires et artistiques

Research programmes : AHRC 2021-2023 (Royaume Uni) : « Stages of violence. Rwanda, Kenya, Northern Ireland »

Keywords : Arts & Literatures