CERMOM doctoral day

CERMOM is pleased to invite you to the CERMOM Doctoral Day on June 12, 2026.
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Program

 

9am: Welcome and coffee

9:15am: Opening remarks by Sidal Sonmez (CERMOM/INALCO)

Panel #1 (9:30-10:30am)

The twists and turns of the archive: methodological challenges in the analysis of medieval Arabic texts

Discussant: Enki Baptiste (history, islamology, CERMOM/INALCO)

9:30-9:50am: Nathan Ingrao (history, CERMOM/INALCO) When the source leads us astray: the Banū Mazyads and their chronologies

9:50-10:10am: James Vanzo(philosophy, CERMOM/INALCO) Ibycus arabicus: Transmission of a Greek narrative between adab and falsafa

10:10-10:30am: discussion time

 

Panel no. 2 (10:45-11:45am)

From texts to interviews: prosopography and multisited fieldwork

Discussant: Alihan Mestci (sociology, CNRS LinCS/Université de Strasbourg)

10:45-11:05:Jeanne Léna (political science, CERMOM/INALCO, CERI/SciencesPo Paris) Following the conflict? Following the cause of Turkey's political prisoners

11:05-11:25:Gözde Nur Donat (history, CERMOM/INALCO) Writing a collective biography of Ottoman socialism: contributions and difficulties of the prosopographical method

11:25-11:45am: discussion time

11:45-1pm: lunch break

 

Panel 3 (1pm-2pm)

The construction site and the classroom: A political history of knowledge in contemporary Turkey

Discussant: Chantal Verdeil (history, CERMOM/INALCO)

1:00-1:20 pm:Mathieu Chambon(history, ENS de Paris) Archeology from the end of the empire to the beginning of the Republic: towards the institutionalization of a knowledge?

13:20-13:40 :Camille de Félice (history, CERMOM/INALCO) Reflecting on the place of imam-preacher schools in Turkey: a look back at the accidental history of these establishments

 

Panel 4 (14h15-15h15)

Ideological conflicts, representations and violence in the 1970s

Discussant: Victor Delaporte (history, ISP/Paris-Nanterre)

14:15-14:35:Alperen Şenol (history, CERMOM/INALCO) Martyrization of ultranationalist activists in the 1970s: Cas de la ville d'Uşak

14h35-14h55: Lino Van Acker (history, SciencesPo Paris) La soldate et la mère. Women in Baathist military mobilization (1963-1979)

3:15-3:45: coffee break

 

Panel 5 (3:45-4:45pm)

What gender does to struggle: trajectories of women in prison contexts

Discussant: Fanny Layani (history, ISP/Paris-Nanterre)

15h45-16h05: Althéa Karadag(history, CERMOM/INALCO) Art and women in struggle: Turkey's contemporary art scene from the 1960s to the present

4:05-4:25pm:Asja Zaino(history, CERMOM/INALCO) Transforming the prison into a laboratory of critical pedagogy: liberating knowledge and resistance among Palestinian women prisoners

16:25-16:45: exchange time

Organizing committee :

Sidal Sonmez View e-mail

James Vanzo View e-mailr