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From decolonization to the Arab Spring
April 27, 20177:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In French and Spanish with simultaneous translation.
Casa de Velázquez and Casa Árabe are organizing this round table
discussion, the objective of which is to understand the causes,
role-players and developments in the “Arab Spring.”
It will include interventions by Michel Cahen, head researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Pierre Vermeren, department chair of Contemporary History at the Université Paris I, and Bernabé López García, professor emeritus and department chair of Contemporary Islamic History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Six years after the occurrence of what has been called the “Arab Spring,” this process continues to pose questions. In order to understand its causes, role-players and developments, this round table discussion is bringing together specialists on the Maghreb region during the colonial era and post-colonial problematics. Through a historical analysis based on the processes of decolonization, three experts will attempt to clarify not just the event, but also the phenomenon. The conference is taking place as part of the colloquium “Maintaining Public Order in the Spanish and French Empires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Role-players, policies, instruments.”
Six years after the occurrence of what has been called the “Arab Spring,” this process continues to pose questions. In order to understand its causes, role-players and developments, this round table discussion is bringing together specialists on the Maghreb region during the colonial era and post-colonial problematics. Through a historical analysis based on the processes of decolonization, three experts will attempt to clarify not just the event, but also the phenomenon. The conference is taking place as part of the colloquium “Maintaining Public Order in the Spanish and French Empires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Role-players, policies, instruments.”
War of Morocco: Giving out weapons to the partisans in Taza, October 1925, Agence Meurisse, source BnF
Michel Cahen. The former assistant director (2003-2012) of the “Les
Afriques dans le monde” research center (Sciences Po Bordeaux), Cahen is
the head researcher at France’s Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS). At present, he is an associate researcher at the
Casa de Velázquez, École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques. He
lives in Lisbon and works at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais. He is a
specialist in the political history of contemporary Africa and the
former Portuguese colonial possessions.
Pierre Vermeren. Department chair of Contemporary History at the Université Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, Vermeren is a specialist in post-colonial Morocco and, more globally, on the colonial Muslim world. Syria and Lebanon form part of his lines of research, particularly in his work La France en terre d’Islam. Empire colonial et religions (XIXe – XXe siècles) [France in the Land of Islam: Colonial empire and religions (19th-20th centuries)]. In 2016, he published Histoire du Moyen-Orient de l’empire ottoman à nos jours. Au-delà de la question d’Orient (History of the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire to Our Day: Beyond the question of the East). Vermeren is a member of the Institut des mondes africains and the Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman, in Paris.
Bernabé López García. A professor emeritus and department chair of Contemporary History of Islam at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, López García is a specialist on contemporary Morocco, as well as North African migration in Spain. He is also an analyst of electoral processes in the Maghreb region. He is the director of the International Mediterranean Studies Workshop and collaborates with the newspaper El País.
Pierre Vermeren. Department chair of Contemporary History at the Université Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, Vermeren is a specialist in post-colonial Morocco and, more globally, on the colonial Muslim world. Syria and Lebanon form part of his lines of research, particularly in his work La France en terre d’Islam. Empire colonial et religions (XIXe – XXe siècles) [France in the Land of Islam: Colonial empire and religions (19th-20th centuries)]. In 2016, he published Histoire du Moyen-Orient de l’empire ottoman à nos jours. Au-delà de la question d’Orient (History of the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire to Our Day: Beyond the question of the East). Vermeren is a member of the Institut des mondes africains and the Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman, in Paris.
Bernabé López García. A professor emeritus and department chair of Contemporary History of Islam at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, López García is a specialist on contemporary Morocco, as well as North African migration in Spain. He is also an analyst of electoral processes in the Maghreb region. He is the director of the International Mediterranean Studies Workshop and collaborates with the newspaper El País.