LACNAD Days 2026

The LACNAD team, whose mission is to study the languages and cultures of North Africa in their original locations and in the diasporas, is organizing two days devoted to the presentation of its current research, available in face-to-face and distance learning formats.
Vue panoramique
Marrakech, 2013. © D. Merolla‎

These days aim to highlight the interaction between researchers - full members, emeritus members, associates and PhD students - in order to raise awareness of our scientific themes and develop a national and international dialogue on the languages and cultures of our fields. The days will be organized around the themes indicated below.

Program

Panel abstracts are available on this page.

First day - Wednesday, June 10 - Auditorium

9:15am: Welcome

9:30am-9:45am: Words of welcome and presentation of La Lettre du LACNAD

Panel 1: Dialectology and morphosyntax

9:45-10:15: Dynamics of linguistic integration of Arabisms in Judeo-Spanish texts from Ksar el Kebir (1948-1951), Amal Abdelati (PhD student, LACNAD-INALCO)

10:15-10:45: Origin and contexts of use of the pronoun yāna in first-layer Maghrebian Arabic,Alessia D'Accardio-Berlinguer (AMU, associate LACNAD-INALCO)

10h45 -11h15: Having fun during Ramadan: peasant life, family disputes and linguistic stereotypes, Jacopo Falchetta (U. Bergamo, associate LACNAD-INALCO)

11:15-11:45: Pause

11:45-12:15: Proposing a global numbering system for Kabyle (and for Berber?), Kamal Nait Zerad (PU, LACNAD-INALCO)

12:15-12:45: Practical aspects of teaching Tamazight in a plurilingual context in Algeria: sociolinguistic and didactic issues with an Arabic-speaking audience, Koussaila Alik (PhD student, LACNAD-INALCO)

12:45-14:30: Free lunch break

Panel 2: Creative spaces, evolving practices: porous boundaries and interdisciplinarity (1)

14h30-15h00: New research directions in Berber (Amazigh) literary studies, Daniela Merolla (PU, LACNAD-INALCO)

15h00-15h30: Ahwach au féminin dans l'Anti-Atlas, transformations d'une expression artistique dans une société en transformation,Mohamed Ouchtaine (Docteur EHESS, associé LACNAD-INALCO)

15h30-16h00:De quelques formes d'hétérolinguisme dans la littérature et les arts amazighs (kabyles) contemporains, Amar Ameziane (Docteur INALCO, associé LACNAD-INALCO)

16h00-16h30 : Lamentations in Arabic and Berber. Anthropology of the funeral rite, Farida Aït Ferroukh (MCF-HDR, LACNAD-INALCO) & Amel Dernane (Masterante, INALCO)

16:30-16:45: Pause

16:45-19:15: Showing of new documentary film
"RESSACS - une histoire touarègue" and meeting with director Intagrist el Ansari

 

Second day - Thursday June 11 - salle de Sacy

9:30am : Welcome

Panel 3: Creative spaces, evolving practices: porous boundaries and interdisciplinarity (2)

9:45am - 10:15am: Plurilingualism and translation: two aspects of medieval European literature that have endured in Hebrew poetry into contemporary times,Sarah Hassan (PhD student, LACNAD-INALCO)

10:15am -10:45am: The Universal Quest in the Kabyle Folk tales and the Fantasy works of Tolkien and Rowling, Nassima Terki (Université M'hamed Bougara, Boumerdès)

10h45 -11h15: At the origins of the Algerian novel? L'histoire du génie de l'Aïdour, Yelles Mourad (PU émérite, LACNAD-INALCO)

11:15am - 11:30am: Pause

Panel 4: New practices and new investigations (media, Internet)

11:30am-12:00pm: "Tradition" between folklorization and re-rooting. Agentivités et économies morales des femmes dans les villages de Kabylie, Margherita Rasulo (Doctorante LACNAD-INALCO en cotutelle avec l'Université de Naples L'Orientale ; ATER U. Toulouse Jean Jaurès)

12:00-12:30: Cyber-activism and Political Discourse in Amazigh Online Journalism: Multilingual Practices in Le Matin d'Algérie and Tangalt, Hamza Amarouche (PhD student, LACNAD-INALCO)

12:30-13:00: La darija à l'école marocaine : analyse de la violence discursive et de la résistance sociale dans l'espace numérique, Lahcen Sikour (Doctorant, LACNAD-INALCO)

13h00-14h45 : Pause déjeuner libre

Panel 5 :New research on Libya

14h45-15h15 : Libya on the move: new avenues of research and scientific cooperation, Anna Maria Di Tolla (PU L'Orientale, associate LACNAD)

15h15-15h45 :Libya 2011: war and revitalization of the Amazigh language, Masin Ferkal (Docteur, LACNAD-INALCO)

15h45-16h15: Le plurilinguisme des acteurs sociaux amazighs libyens,Samyra Labaïed (Doctorante, LACNAD-INALCO)

16h15-16h30 : Pause

16h30-17h00 :Libyan Arabic and the "medial" category of demonstratives in Arabic, Christophe Pereira (PU, LACNAD-INALCO), Hawa Ras Ali (Doctor, LACNAD-INALCO) & Ángeles Vicente (PU, University of Zaragoza, LACNAD associate).

17h00-17h30 :A propos de l'édition et de la publication posthume du manuscrit inachevé de Philippe Marçais, Parlers Arabes du Fezzân, Dominique Caubet (PU émérite d'arabe maghrébin, LACNAD-INALCO)

17h30-18h :Tripolitan arts in 1925: an overview by Prosper Ricard (1874-1952),Habiba Aoudia (PhD, associate LACNAD-INALCO)

18h: Cocktail

 

Third day - Friday June 12 - salle de Sacy

<9:30am: Welcome

Panel 6:Norms in North Africa and the Diaspora: standardization, canonization, patrimonialization

9:45-10:15am: The performance of the oral poet: the case of the afṣiḥ Kabyle, Abdelhak Lahlou (Docteur EHESS, associé LACNAD-INALCO)

10h15-10h45: Practices, representations and norms of kinship in contemporary Kabylia. Permanences et recompositions Mohand Anaris (MCF, LACNAD-INALCO)

10h45-11h00 : Pause

Panel 7: Dialectology and morphosyntax

11h00-11h30: Typology of focusing processes through some Amaziɣ (Berber) speakers in a comparative perspective, Ourida Manseri (PhD student, LACNAD-INALCO)

11:30-12:00: Les auxiliaires verbaux en berbère : variation et grammaticalisation, Ourida Ait Mimoune (doctorante, LACNAD-INALCO)

12h00-12h30:Universe of belief and degree assessment in tachelhit, Ahmed Aghray (PhD, associate LACNAD-INALCO)

12:30-13:00: Final discussion, chaired by Daniela Merolla

 

Lunch break suggestions:

CROUS Restaurant & Cafétéria des Saints-Pères, Address: 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris

CROUS Cafétéria de Sciences Po (Saint-Guillaume), Address: 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75006 Paris