Israel-Palestine seminar Iremam / Mesopolhis 2023
Session 4: Alicia Magnolfi (Max Weber Centre) / Yann Scioldo Zurcher (EHESS)

Organised by doctoral students at IREMAM (UMR 7310) and MESOPOLHIS (UMR 7064), this public seminar aims to provide a monthly meeting place for researchers, post-doctoral students, doctoral students and masters students in the humanities and social sciences whose research focuses on Israeli-Palestinian spaces. The aim of these regular meetings is to provide a forum where post-doctoral and doctoral students can present their current research and receive feedback from researchers and teacher-researchers working in the region. 
Following on from the ANR programme Mobilities, Borders and Conflicts in Israeli-Palestinian Spaces (2007-2011) and the Palestinian Spatialities and Temporalities research seminar (2017-2020), this monthly meeting is part of a drive to decompartmentalise the fields of Israeli and Palestinian studies, which are strongly structured by the history of the conflict and the mobilisation of the humanities and social sciences in the construction of major national narratives. This interdisciplinary seminar will provide an opportunity to share our tools and to problematise our respective approaches and concepts from both an epistemological and a methodological perspective. It will also provide an opportunity to reflect on the processes that have contributed to the compartmentalised structure of knowledge production in this part of the world up to the present day. The six 2-hour sessions, scheduled to take place between February and June 2023, will be divided into three parts. The first part will be devoted to a 20-minute summary presentation of the written work of one of the doctoral students. This will be followed by a 30-minute argumentative commentary by a post-doctoral student, researcher or teacher-researcher, based on the text provided in advance. Finally, the debate will be opened up to the room for collective discussion, particularly with the other doctoral students. The format will be hybrid (face-to-face/visioconference) and a podcast will be produced for each seminar.

Thursday 4 May 2023

Alicia Magnolfi (Max Weber Centre) / Yann Scioldo Zurcher (EHESS), 2pm - 4pm, room A219, MMSH, Aix en Provence            

Alicia Magnolfi, a doctoral student at the Max Weber Centre, will present the progress of her work in a talk entitled "Towards a Promised Land? Emigration and commitment to Israel by young French Jews from North Africa". Based on the observation of the trajectories of young French Jews of North African origin settled in Israel, her research offers a sociological analysis of these singular migrants. Sylvaine Bulle, a sociologist specialising in issues of commitment (Professor of Sociology, ENSA), and Yann Scioldo-Zurcher, a historian of contemporary migration (CR CNRS, EHESS), will discuss this paper from a multi-disciplinary perspective.                                                   
Zoom link : https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/89471979438?pwd=Q3VkZ0N5eXNtZTFXdFlaL2FrVmsrUT09
Meeting ID: 894 7197 9438