Workshop “Field practices and epistemological issues, Palestine and Jordan” — Amman, 1st July 2026

The workshop aims to combine reflections on the ongoing development of Palestinian studies with the recent revival of work on Jordan, in order to examine Jordan’s role as a privileged observation point for Palestine, a question that has been relatively unexplored until now. Through three main axes — archives and primary sources preserved in Jordan that enable the study of Palestine, the cross-border circulation of people and knowledge, and intersecting cultural scenes through the notions of identity and authenticity, this workshop aims to lay the groundwork for a transnational and multidisciplinary reflection on Jordan’s place in the production of knowledge on Palestine.

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Wednesday, July 1 | 9 AM – 6PM

At Ifpo in Jordan, Munif Seminar Room
Jabal Amman, 3, Ibrahim A. Zahri Street, Amman 11183 Jordan

9:00 – Welcome – Agnès Favier (Head of contemporary studies, Ifpo), Mariangela Gasparotto (Lecturer in contemporary studies, Ifpo)

9:20 – Words from the organizers – Thomas Michel (Université Paris Cité, Ifpo), Raphaël Banc-Lévêque (Université Gustave Eiffel, Ifpo)

9:45 – Keynote : Contested Communities, Unsettled States: Right Sizing & Right Peopling Jordan & the Presumptions of Anglophone Political Science – Tariq Tell (American University of Beirut)

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10:15 – 10:30 : Pause

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10:30 – 12:30 – Panel 1 : Archives, corpus and knowledge production: studying Palestine from Jordanian collections

Discussant: Candice Raymond (CNRS)

• Literate Culture in the Hebron Region, Late Nineteenth Century–1948. A Study Based on the Private Archives of Zaydan Kafafi, Amman – Norig Neveu (AMU-IREMAM)
• Archival Detours: Producing Knowledge on Jerusalem from Jordanian Archives – Daoud Ghoul (Newcaslte University)
• Staging Religious Legitimacy through Custodianship: The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Jerusalem since 1967 – Dima Abu Alkheir (University of Hamburg ; German Institute for Global and Area Studies)

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12:30 – 14:30 : Lunch

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14:30 – 16:00 – Panel 2 : Circulations and Borders

Discussant: Tariq Tell (American University of Beirut)

• From Border Crossing to Belonging: Documents, Circulation, and the Making of Citizenship and Sovereignty in Transjordan, Jordan, and Palestine (1917–1967) – Marion Lauréat-Macé (University Lyon 3)
• The Ontology of the Border: Existence Between Two Banks as a Mode of Being – Suzan Emad Mohammad Al-Dababsa (University of Jordan)

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16:00 – 16:30 : Pause

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16:30 – 18:00 – Panel 3 : Cultures, Identities and Authenticity

Discussant: Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti (Ifpo)

• Creating from exile: viewing Palestine from Amman – women’s artistic practices and the creation of a counter-archive (online) – Salomé Mazure (Sciences Po Aix)
• Reframing Palestine from Jordan: Cinematic Space, Production, and the Politics of Memory – Taycir Nasraoui (École supérieure de l’audiovisuel et du cinéma de Gammarth)

This workshop will be preceded by a presentation (in French) of the journal n°157 of the REMMM, “ Le fait national au Moyen-Orient : la Jordanie comme cas d’étude” (Nationhood in the Middle East: Jordan as a Case Study) on 30 June 2026, 18:30 (to be confirmed) at the French Institute of Amman by, Norig Neveu (AMU-IREMAM)

 

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