Norms, margins and thresholds: ethnographing the in-between in contexts of exile, confinement and segregation

Proposed by Sarah Hermann, PhD student in socio-anthropology (CeRMI, UMR8041, INALCO), Hassina Khusrawy, PhD student in architecture and landscape (UMR Passages, ICM, UBM, ENSAP de Bordeaux) and Mathilde Weibel, PhD student in sociology (EHESS, IRIS, ICM). This study day is supported by CeRMI, IRIS and Inalco.
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Normes, marges et seuils © IRIS, Cermi, Inalco‎

This study day will shed light on the forms of life and social practices that emerge in spaces of the in-between, questioning the notion of the threshold as a place of exclusion, recomposition and resistance.

Program

  • 9:30am - Public welcome
  • 10 am - Opening and introduction to the day by Sarah Hermann, Hassina Khusrawy and Mathilde Weibel
  • 10:15am - Threshold and resistance Frosa Pejoska-Bouchereau, University Professor, HDR, Deputy Director of PLIDAM
  • 10:45am - Enclosing the contaminated or restive body to protect the social body in Central Asia: trajectoire historique Catherine Poujol, maîtresse de conférences (Inalco, CREE)
  • 11:15am - Women "from the village" in the heart of the capital: between the margins of social space and the center of the city (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) Richelli Afonso, doctoral student in geography (EHESS, CERCEC, Migrinter)
  • 11:45am - Discussion and questions from the audience 
    Moderation: Blandine Destremeau, CNRS research director (EHESS, IRIS, ICM)
  • 12:15am - Lunch break
  • 2:15pm - Spaces of waiting for Afghan women in Peshawar, Pakistan Mathilde Weibel, PhD student in sociology (EHESS, IRIS, ICM)
  • 2:45pm - "I would have liked to have been born a tree": animalisations et résistances sur les parcours migratoires afghans vers l'Europe Théo Lefort, PhD student in anthropology (IHEID, Geneva)
  • 3:15pm - Entre coercition et résistance : étude des interactions sociales en milieu carcéral afghan Sarah Hermann, PhD student in socio-anthropology (Inalco, CeRMI - UMR 8041)
  • 3:45pm - Discussions et questions du public 
    Moderation: Hassina Khusrawy, PhD student in architecture and landscape (UMR Passages, ICM, UBM, ENSAP de Bordeaux)
  • 4:15pm - Break
  • 4:45pm - Collective listening to the sound documentary 7 femmes, 4 murs et un toit, une maison afghane : Kabul, 2022 - running time 59 minutes 
    Directed by Gilles Mardirossian and Mathilde Weibel, a France Culture production L'Expérience
  • 5:45pm - Audience discussion and questions
  • 6pm - End of meeting