Chaire sécable de l’IISMM-EHESS | Professeur invité : Omar Al-Ghazzi (London School of Economics)

 

Omar AL-GHAZZI

Docteur en philosophie, Omar al-Ghazzi est depuis 2017 professeur associé au département médias et communications de la London School of Economic and Political Science (LES). Ses travaux ont notamment porté sur la couverture médiatique du conflit syrien au Proche-Orient et dans les pays anglo-saxons. Ses articles sur les journalistes citoyens (2014), sur la figure de l’enfant comme « témoin archétypal » (2019) et les « témoignages de chair » (2021) ont été particulièrement remarqués.

Omar Al-Ghazzi participe au Programme Professeurs invités de l’EHESS sur proposition d’Emma Aubin-Boltanski (CNRS, Césor).

 

Conférences

Covering or covering up? Visual excess and historic erasure in Gaza war

This talk investigates the mediation of the war on Gaza, drawing mostly on social media content and mainstream Western news coverage. It asks: With the outpouring of visual content documenting atrocity in Palestine and Israel, how is the history of structural violence represented? My talk reflects on the idea of excess in visuality, violence and emotion; and contrasts it with the notion of erasure when it comes to context and history. The analysis of history in different modalities of the war’s mediation, I show, is crucial to reveal the structural basis of atrocity and the role many Western news media play in sustaining it by way of concealing it.

Dans le cadre du séminaire “Productions et circulations des biens culturels dans la région MENA”

• Jeudi 21 novembre 2024 de 16h à 18h – Salle 3.023, Bâtiment de recherche Sud, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers

 

The post-conflict status that never arrives: Arrested futurity as Lebanese meta narrative

This talk is focused on Lebanon and its meta historic narrative of war and peace, destruction, and construction. I examine the ways Lebanese ruling elites rehash visions of prosperous futurity that emphasise that Lebanon is a “post-conflict” country. They extend the breadth of the future in media representations and productions as they shape the conditions for an unviable future because of their corruption and authoritarianism. I call this logic of governance (or lack thereof) as “arrested futurity”. Empirically, I draw on interviews with Lebanese artists and intellectuals, as well as on bank advertisements, TV promotional clips, televised fortune telling programs, and news editorials.    

Dans le cadre du séminaire “Vivant et écologies dans les crises et les guerres – sociétés arabes et mondes musulmans contemporains”

• Mercredi 4 décembre 2024 de 12h30 à 14h30 – Salle 2.14, Humathèque, Campus Condorcert, Aubervilliers

 

Workshop on language, media and memory in the Syrian context                                                   

This workshop with PhD researchers reflects on language and translation, in their linguistic, political and cultural dimensions, and their role in the mediation of the Syrian conflict. I begin the workshop by reflecting on my work in relation to these considerations and then by listening to PhD researchers about their experiences and concerns. The workshop will be held in Arabic, English and French – depending on the preferences of participants.

Dans le cadre du workshop LAFITA “The social and political life of words in revolution and war (Syria-Soudan)”

• Mardi 10 décembre 2024 de 16h à 18h – Salle 3.001, Bâtiment nord, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers

 

The post-conflict status that never arrives: Arrested futurity as Lebanese meta narrative 

This chapter is focused on Lebanon and its meta historic narrative of war and peace, destruction, and construction. Here I make the case that Lebanese ruling elites rehash visions of prosperous futurity that emphasise that Lebanon is a “post-conflict” country. They extend the breadth of the future in media representations and productions as they shape the conditions for an unviable future because of their corruption and authoritarianism. I call this logic of governance “arrested futurity”. Empirically, I draw on interviews with Lebanese artists and intellectuals, who are left to pick up the pieces and fill in the blanks of a troubled collective memory, as well as on bank advertisements, TV promotional clips, and news editorials.   

Dans le cadre du séminaire “Anthropologie comparative des sociétés et cultures musulmanes”

• Mardi 17 décembre 2024 de 16h à 19h – Collège de France, 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine 75005 Paris

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