Intervention : Alexandre Gefen
Un événement international de trois jours (11-13 février) réunissant art, théorie et performance pour confronter le paradoxe des systèmes qui alimentent la guerre.
Programme (en anglais)
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
Prof. 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).
Thematic axes : Politiques des arts et des littératures, Transculturalités littéraires et artistiques
Keywords : Arts & Literatures