Friday, 10th February 2023
4.30 pm New Academicians’ appointment and official opening of the Dies Academicus
5.00 pm
Session I – Autobiographies (Chair: Eileen Julien and Mena B. Lafkioui)
Tassadit Yacine (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales – Paris), Féminité, modes de résistances et subjectivité dans le monde kabyle (XIX-XXème siècle), en Algérie
Emanuele Marcello Ciampini (Università Ca’ Foscari – Venice), On the Egyptian (pharaonic) autobiographies as a literary genre
Emanuela Trevisan Semi (Università Ca’ Foscari – Venice), Letters as autobiography among the Beta Israel, the case of Taamrat Emmanuel and Tadesse Yacov, uncle and nephew in the resistance against Italian occupation. (online)
Saturday, 11th February 2023
9.30 am
Session II – Biographies (Chairs Mena B. Lafkioui)
Nafisa Valieva (Collège de France – Paris), Reading of the ‘Life of Lālibalā’ (Gadla Lālibalā) as a biography and a portrait of Ethiopian society
Annunziata Di Rienzo (Sapienza Università – Rome), “Perfect in all virtue”. Life and Encomium of John Colobos: monastic life and cultural crossroads at Sketis
Mohamed Meouak (Universidad de Cádiz), Résultats préliminaires d’une enquête sur les Wafayāt d’Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-Wanšarīsī (mort en 1508): un recueil de notices nécrologiques/biographiques contenant des matériaux anthroponymiques et toponymiques berbères
Mena B. Lafkioui (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales – Centre national de recherche scientifique – Paris), Abdelkrim. A never-ending biographical narrative of a unique Amazigh leader
2.45 pm
Session III – Film biography (Chairs Eileen Julien)
Introductiory remarks by Samba Gadjigo (Mt. Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA, author of Ousmane Sembène: A Revolutionary Artist), and
Eileen Julien (Indiana University, USA) La noire de… (Black Girl) [1966], Screening
Sembène [2016], Screening
followed by: Q & A session
5.50 pm
Conclusion and greetings
Lectures of the two days will be in English, French and Italian
Free admission