Sophie Bessis looks back at the contrasting landscape of women in the Maghreb, between daily struggles and multiple resistances, while analyzing the redeployment of patriarchy in both discourse and practice. It looks at transgression as a space for creation and emancipation, but also as a form of endangerment, focusing on the renewed forms of the Maghreb feminist movement and its challenges. The meeting also opens the debate on the place and contributions of gender studies in Maghrebian contexts.

A discussion nourished by critical thinking, driven by feminist commitment and anchored in rigorous, committed reflection.

Sophie Bessis is a Franco-Tunisian historian and journalist with an agrégation in history. Born into a Jewish family steeped in Communist culture, she has developed a critical approach to major contemporary geopolitical issues.

Sophie Bessis is a French-Tunisian historian and journalist.

A former editor-in-chief of the magazine Jeune Afrique, she has also been involved in the activist field, notably as former Deputy Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).

Author of some fifteen books, her work questions global power relations through the study of political economy, North-South relations, the status of women and the historical dynamics between the West and societies in the South.

In her most recent essay, she deconstructs the concept of "Judeo-Christian civilization", denouncing the political and ideological uses to which it is put.

This meeting is moderated by Hatem Bourial, journalist, writer and cultural mediator, and presented by Amira Zili.

The aim is to examine the reconfigurations of the objects, methods and temporalities of contemporary historical research. Particular attention is paid to memory drifts, ideological uses of history and the need for a critical framing of knowledge. Scientific vigilance and source verification are addressed as conditions for the legitimacy of historical discourse.

This meeting also analyzes the challenges of transmitting a distanced and informed reading of the past. History will be thought of as a critical tool in the face of contemporary simplifications and instrumentalizations.

Kmar Bendana is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at the University of La Manouba (Tunisia). She is also an associate researcher at the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC, Tunis) and a member of the editorial board of the journal IBLA.

Her work and teaching focus on the history of Tunisian political culture in the contemporary era. The history of the conditions of production of knowledge, of the university, of institutions, of magazines, of cinema is part of her working directions. Translation, co-lingualism and historiography in connection with the evolution of the human and social sciences devoted to Tunisia form objects of ongoing reflection for her.

Since 2011, Kmar Bendana has maintained a blog where it is possible to consult the list of her publications.

This meeting is moderated by Hatem Bourial, journalist, radio host, writer and cultural mediator and proposed by Amira Zili.

Through a series of articles, interviews and critical analyses, he offers a transdisciplinary reading of Algerian cinema at the crossroads of history, politics and cultural studies. From the battle of images waged by the FLN during the war of independence to the current challenges facing the film industry, from the emergence of women›s cinema confronting Islamic fundamentalism to American influences on filmmakers like Rachid Bouchareb, this work explores the multiple facets of a cinematography that has continuously questioned History and interrogated the present.

Enhanced with analyses of emblematic films, reflections on the decolonization of the image, and testimonies about Pan-African festivals, this book addresses researchers, students in cinema and cultural studies, as well as all enthusiasts of Maghrebi and African cinema.

Less with dogmatic certainties than with differently formulated questions—some of the issues, promises, and numerous doubts of which will be explored in the interview.

Co-director with Sandra Laugier and Yann Moulier Boutang of the journal Multitudes, Yves Citton has the opportunity to study and teach literature and media at Paris 8 University and is a member of the Institut universitaire de France.

He has published La Machine à Faire Gagner les Droites (AOC éditions, 2025), Politics of Curiosity. Alternatives to the Attention Economy (co-written with Enrico Campo, Routledge, 2024), Altermodernités des Lumières (Seuil, 2022), Faire avec. Conflits, coalitions, contagions (Les Liens qui Libèrent, 2021), Collapsonaut Generations. Navigating in Times of Collapse (co-authored with Jacopo Rasmi, 2020), Political Countercurrents (2018), Mediaarchy (2017), Pour une écologie de l’attention (2014), Zazirocratie (2011).

His articles are freely available at www.yvescitton.net

Born amid the academic, educational, and cultural changes of the 1970s, it gradually gained recognition in the French academic landscape, at the crossroads of the humanities, social sciences, and biological sciences.

From the outset, there have been numerous epistemological debates about the objects, concepts, and methods that characterize these "sports sciences."

The journal Staps, created in 1980 under the aegis of AFRAPS, has accompanied this history by providing a privileged observatory of the questions and transformations in the field. It bears witness to both the structuring of a scientific community and its dialogues with society: education, health, gender, Olympism, professionalization, knowledge assessment, etc.

A former university president, sports historian, and major player in university research and policy, Thierry Terret retraces the major stages of this intellectual and institutional adventure. Drawing on his work and experience, he looks back at the trajectory of the field, the tensions between disciplines, relations with the sports movement, and the contemporary challenges of a field now faced with global issues (ecological, ethical, and political).