Colloque « Un siècle de révolutions – Centenaire de la Grande révolte syrienne (1925-2025) / A Century of Revolutions – Centennial of the Great Syrian Revolt (1925-2025) », — MMSH Aix-en-Provence, 8-9 décembre 2025
International Conference: A Century of Revolutions – Centennial of the Great Syrian Revolt (1925-2025)
8-9 December 2025, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences humaines et sociales/Mmsh, salle Georges Duby, 5 rue du Château de l’Horloge, Aix-en-Provence
Organising committee: Vanessa Guéno, Luca Nelson-Gabin, Michael Provence, Mehdi Sakatni
Scientific committee: Fârès Gillon, Vanessa Guéno, Luca Nelson-Gabin, Thomas Pierret, Michael Provence, Mehdi Sakatni
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PROGRAM
MONDAY 8 DECEMBER
9:30-10:00 – Reception and welcome: Mehdi Sakatni (IREMAM) et Luca Nelson-Gabin (IREMAM)
10:00-11:00 – Introduction: Michael Provence (University of California, San Diego, USA)
11:00-12:30 – 1. Global solidarities
Chair: Thomas Pierret (CNRS-IREMAM)
Reem BAILONY, “A Tale of Two Rebellions: The Rif War and The Great Syrian Revolt”, Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia – English
Michael BATTALIA, “Financing the Revolt: Saudi Money, anti-Hashemite Politics, and the Istiqlālī network”, Princeton University, USA – English
Burak SAYIM, “The Great Syrian Revolt and the Communist International”, University of Basel, Switzerland – English
12:30-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-15:30 – 2. Situated histories and expressions
Chair: Mehdi Sakatni (IREMAM)
Seda ALTUG, “Syrian Jazira and the Druze Revolt (1923-1925)”, Institut français d’études anatoliennes, Turkey – English/French
Cyma FARAH, “Baalbek’s Forgotten Rebel: A Memoir of the Great Syrian Revolt Across Colonial Borders”, Oxford, UK – English
Katharina LANGE, “Reverberations of Revolt”, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany – English
15:30-16:00 – Coffee break
16:00-17:30 – 3. Outsiders and rebelling from the outside
Chair: Juliette Honvault (CNRS-IREMAM)
Randi DEGUILHEM, “The Narrative of the Great Syrian Revolt (1925) in the Contemporary French Press”, CNRS, TELEMMe-MMSH, Aix-Marseille University, France – English
Hanna JANATKA, “The internationalization of the Great Syrian Revolt in Europe”, Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies, Germany – English
Kirwin SHAFFER, “Heroic but Misguided: The 1925-27 Great Syrian Revolt in the Eyes of Latin American Anarchist Anti-Imperialists”, Pennsylvania State University, USA – English
7:30-9:00 – Dinner
TUESDAY 9 DECEMBER
9:00-11:00 – 4. Archives and memory
Chair: Vanessa Guéno (CNRS-IREMAM)
Ammar AL SAMAR, “الأرشيف السوري على مفترق طرق” [“The Syrian Archive at a Crossroads”], Archivist, Syria – Arabic
Jack McGINN, “Revolutionary Inheritance: Traces of 1925 in 2011 and Trans-Mediterranean Lineages of Revolt”, London School of Economics, UK – English
Hratch TOKATLIAN, “Selim Tabrizi, un photographe sous le mandat français en Syrie et au Liban, 1890-1974” [“Selim Tabrizi, a Photographer During the French Mandate in Syria and Lebanon, 1890-1974”], Université Saint-Joseph, Liban – French
Stefan WINTER, “Les archives militaires turques comme source pour l’histoire des résistances locales” [Turkish Military Archives as Sources for the History of Local Resistance”], Université du Québec à Montréal / Koç University, Istanbul – French
11:00-11:30 – Coffee break
11:30-13:00 – 5. Political agencies
Chair: Luca Nelson-Gabin (IREMAM)
Aaron BERMAN, “Unexpected Allies: Americans and the Great Syrian Revolt”, Hampshire College in Amherst, USA – English
Victoria ABRAHAMYAN, “The Armenian Refugees and the Great Syrian Revolt, 1925-1927”, University of Geneva, Switzerland – English
Joel VELDKAMP, “The 1926 Elections in Aleppo and the Great Syrian Revolt”, Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland – English
13:00-14:30 – Lunch
14:30-16:00 – 6. (Dis)continuities in a post-ottoman world?
Chair: Stefan Knost (Universität Bamberg)
Muhammed ASLANER, “The Kemalist Movement and Anti-colonial Struggle in Syria after the First World War”, Oxford, UK – English
Fatima AL HAJJI, “Mustafa Al-Haj Hussein”, NGO (Idlib/You are Life and Peace), Syria – English/Arabic
Ayşegül KOCA, “Yūsuf al-ʿAzma (1884–1920): A Biographical Reinterpretation Through the Lens of His Military Peers”, University of Munich, Germany – English
16:00-16:30 – Coffee break
16:30-17:15 – Conclusion and discussion: Simon JACKSON (University of Birmingham)
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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (26 novembre 2025). Colloque « Un siècle de révolutions – Centenaire de la Grande révolte syrienne (1925-2025) / A Century of Revolutions – Centennial of the Great Syrian Revolt (1925-2025) », — MMSH Aix-en-Provence, 8-9 décembre 2025. IISMM. Consulté le 18 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/157m3

