Colloques du Collège de France - Collège de France

Didier Fassin

Chaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza

The Tent Has No Door: Palestinian poetry in and out of place

Colloque - Diana Allan : The Tent Has No Door: Palestinian poetry in and out of place

Diana Allan

An anthropologist and filmmaker, Diana Allan is associate professor at McGill University, where she co-directs the Critical Media Lab. Her publications and films explore Palestinian displacement in Lebanon. She is the author of Refugees of the Revolution: Experience of Palestinian Exile (2014), and Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine (2021). Her film Partition (2025) premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is the co-founder of the Nakba Archive and a Canada Research Chair in the Anthropology of Living Archives.

Didier Fassin

Chaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza

Words Under Siege: A Personal Journey with Language as Resistance and Repair

Colloque - Mahmoud Alshaer : Words Under Siege: A Personal Journey with Language as Resistance and Repair

Mahmoud Alshaer

A poet, writer, and cultural curator, Mahmoud Alshaer is based in Gaza. He is the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of 28 Magazine, an independent literary and cultural platform he co-founded in 2014 to amplify emerging Palestinian voices. His work explores the intersections of poetry, political erasure, cultural survival, and collective memory under siege. He has participated in international programs such as the New Alphabet School and the Berlin Biennale. He authored Letters from Gaza (2025) and A Year on the Abyss of Genocide (2025).

Didier Fassin

Chaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza

Our Oracle-Ruin: The Arabic Poetic Tradition in Light of Gaza

Colloque - Huda Fakhreddine : Our Oracle-Ruin: The Arabic Poetic Tradition in Light of Gaza

Huda J. Fakhreddine

A writer and translator, Huda J. Fakhreddine is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (Routledge, 2023). Her writings include a creative non-fiction titled Zaman saghīr taḥt shams thāniya A Brief Time under a Different Sun (2019). She is co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures and section editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam.

Didier Fassin

Chaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza

Standing on the Rubble: on Ruins and the Work of Mourning

Colloque - Isabella Hammad : Standing on the Rubble: on Ruins and the Work of Mourning

Isabella Hammad

A writer, Isabella Hammad is the author most recently of Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (2024) and of the novel Enter Ghost (2023), which received the Aspen Prize, the Clark Prize, and the Encore Award. Her work has been supported by the Lannan Foundation and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. She was the 2024-2025 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

Didier Fassin

Chaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza

Shields and the Genocide in Gaza

Colloque - Neve Gordon : Shields and the Genocide in Gaza

Neve Gordon

After teaching for seventeen years at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, Neve Gordon joined the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, where he is professor of international humanitarian law and human rights. His research focuses on attacks on healthcare and the ethics of violence in Israel-Palestine. He authored Israel's Occupation (2008) and co-authored Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (2020). A Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, he writes regularly for the popular press.

Didier Fassin

Chaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza

Illiberal War: On Trauma, Intent, and Annihilation

Colloque - Nadia Abu-El-Haj : Illiberal War: On Trauma, Intent, and Annihilation

Nadia Abu El-Haj

An anthropologist and Middle East Studies scholar, Nadia Abu El-Haj is Anne Olin Whitney Professor at Barnard College and Columbia University, and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia. Her publications include Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (2001); The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology (2012); and Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America (Verso, 2022). Her current project is a set of essays that grapple with the last two years of genocide and total war in Gaza.

Didier Fassin

Chaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza

The Most Moral Genocide in the World

Colloque - Darryl Li : The Most Moral Genocide in the World

Darryl Li

An anthropologist, legal scholar, and attorney, Darryl Li is associate professor at the University of Chicago as well as a member of the bar in New York and Illinois. He has conducted research on war, migration, empire and racialization in the Middle East, South Asia and the Balkans. He is the author of The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (2020). Prior to his academic career, Li lived and worked in the Gaza Strip for the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, and B'Tselem.

Didier Fassin

Chaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza

Colloque - Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian : Revolutionary Livability Amidst an Embodied Genocide

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

A Palestinian Jerusalemite feminist, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian works on the settler colonial state's brutality and unchilding, securitized and sacralized politics, state crime, global feminist politics and epistemic violence. She is a Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa, the Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London and Professor Emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She authored, among other books, Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study (2010) and Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding (2019), and co-edited Abolitionism, Settler Colonialism and State Crime (2024).

Didier Fassin

Chaire Chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Didier Fassin

Professeur du Collège de France

Colloque : Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza

Introduction: Thinking and Speaking Out on Ruins

Colloque

Journée François Jacob

The Living Clock: Biology in the Flow of Time

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Conclusions

Denis Duboule

Professeur du Collège de France

Jean-Jacques Hublin

Professeur du Collège de France