Reid Hall - Paris
4 Rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
The Memorial For Those Who Did Not Fall In War Colloque
Organisateurs : , , Hadas Zahavi (directrice du comité et principale organisatrice), Sarah Cole, Marianne Hirsch, Bruno Bosteels, Madeleine Dobie, Nina Berman, Joerg M. Schaefer, David C. Johnston, Thomas W. Dodman
Un événement international de trois jours réunissant art, théorie et performance pour confronter le paradoxe des systèmes qui alimentent la guerre.
Organisé par Columbia Global Paris Center et Columbia University Global Center for Peace Innovation, THALIM CNRS et l’Institut pour la Paix.
Program :
Day 1 (11 February 2026)
09:40–10:15 | Gathering
10:15–10:30 | Acknowledgments and Project Vision
Dr. Hadas Zahavi, Director of The Memorial for Those Who Did Not Fall in War (Columbia University)
10:30–12:00 | Opening Lecture and Discussion
Témoigner pour le témoin
Prof. Georges Didi-Huberman (EHESS)
12:00–13:30 | Lunch Break
13:30–15:15 | Opening Panel : War in Disguise
Prof. Nina Berman (Columbia University)
Prof. Françoise Vergès (University of London)
Kapwani Kiwanga
15:15–15:30 | Coffee Break
15:30–16:30 | Literary Conversation : Algeria in France Today
Leïla Sebbar
Yahia Belaskri
16:30–16:45 | Refreshment Break
16:45–17:45 | Artist Talk : Unlearning War Through Images
Hito Steyerl
Prof. Lorie Novak (NYU)
Session Chair : Laura Lema Silva
18:00–19:00 | Exhibition Opening and Artistic Performance :
״What Have I Done to You ?״
Baptist Coelho
19:00–20:00 | Dance Performance
Ablaye Birahim Diop
Day 2 (12 February 2026)
09:30–10:00 | Gathering
10:00–11:30 | Roundtable : War as a System of Spaces
Research Director at the CNRS Sarga Moussa (THALIM, CNRS) : Rendre visibles et audibles les blessés de la guerre dans Un souvenir de Solférino (1862) d’Henry Dunant ; Une rhétorique de l’horreur au service d’un humanisme moderne d’inspiration chrétienne
Prof. Luba Jurgenson (Sorbonne Université) : Paysage de guerre, paysage de paix ? À propos d’une zone minière/concentrationnaire en République tchèque
Prof. Thomas Hippler (University of Caen) : Bombing for Peace ? Aerial Warfare and World-Orders
Session Chair : Dr. Guido Furci (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
11:30–11:45 | Coffee Break
11:45–13:15 | Interactive Session : Peace in Practice
Majd Abdel Hamid : Texture of Memory
Prof. Yann Toma (Sorbonne) : L’Air de la guerre
Dr. Barbara Polla (ULB) : Hospitalité et paix : un effort perpétuel
13:15–14:30 | Lunch Break
14:30-15:15 | Performance
Inutile
Meltem Yildiz
15:15–15:30 | Coffee Break
15:30–17:00 | Roundtable : Peace After the Algorithm
Research Director Alexandre Gefen (THALIM CNRS) : Language and War in the Age of Generative AI
Lesia Khomenko : Working on User-Generated Footage from the Russian-Ukrainian War
Warren Neidich : Peace Machine : The Brain Without Organs
17:00–17:15 | Short Break
17:15-18:15 | Workshop
Julieta Eranda
18:15–19:15 | Refreshment Break
19:15–20:45 | Film Screening : Nikah, followed by Q&A
Mukaddas Mijit, Bastien Ehouzan
Day 3 (13 February 2026)
09:30–10:00 | Gathering
10:00–11:30 | Closing Panel : Whose War Is It, Anyway ?
Prof. Stéphane Gerson (NYU) : Quand la guerre se terre sous l’aventure
Prof. Philippe Mesnard (Université Clermont Auvergne) : De quelle imagination parlons-nous ?
Prof. Catherine Brun (THALIM, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) : « Il paraît que nous sommes en guerre »
Session Chair : Dr. Pauline Hachette (Université Paris 8)
11:30–11:45 | Coffee Break
11:45–12:45 | Artist Conversation
Paola Yacoub : La guerre est monotone
12:45–13:30 | Closing Workshop
Dr. Dalia Abu Sbitan (THALIM CNRS) : Diagnosing War : A Participatory Session in Narrative Diagnostics
Participating Artists :
Hito Steyerl (Germany), Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada/Tanzania), Julieta Aranda (Mexico/Germany), Majd Abdel Hamid (Palestine/Syria), Lesia Khomenko (Ukraine), Louis-Cyprien Rials (Iraq/France), Nina Berman (USA), Lorie Novak (USA), Yann Toma (France), Paola Yacoub (Lebanon/France), Vera Kox (Luxembourg/Germany), Meltem Yildiz (Bakur Kurdistan), Baptist Coelho (India), Warren Neidich (USA), Syd Krochmalny (Argentina), Detext (Spain), Manuela Morgaine (France).
The organizers wish to express their sincere gratitude to NYU Maison Française, Columbia University Society of Senior Scholars, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Cloud Seven, Eric Mouchet Gallery, The Slip, Seize Avril, Galerie Poggi, Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg, Maison du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, Marfa Projects, Ceysson & Bénétière, L’Endroit, Les Films du Bal, as well as to the individuals Lindsey Michelle Schram, Betti-Sue Hertz, Mickaël Faure, Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Eric Mouchet and Corinne Diserens, for their generous support and collaboration.


