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ABSTRACTS Jo McCormack (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) Recent Renewed Efforts to Remember the Algerian War in France A major site where ‘memory battles’ take place in contemporary France is the French collective memory of the Algerian war of Independence (1954-1962). This hugely traumatic event in the French retreat from Empire – in Algeria’s case after 130 years of French presence, the establishment of a veritable colonie de peuplement and the French recourse to extreme methods of warfare such as torture – has been notoriously difficult to remember both individually and collectively in France, despite significant recent developments such as naming the war and the Année de l’Algérie: El Dzahair. To what extent can previously marginalized memories be said to have entered into mainstream conceptions of the past? In particular, this paper focuses on the Maghrebian group in France and its relationship to/within the French collective memory of the Algerian war. This paper draws on original research conducted this year – and to be continued into 2004 since this paper should be read as a work in progress – on French youth of Algerian origin. Can one speak in France of any challenge to dominant narratives of the Algerian war? If so, how are these challenges expressed? Or, alternatively, do these memories continue to be occluded?

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