12.30 – Registration and coffee 

 1.15 – Opening remarks 

 1.30 – Session 1 -- Chair: Terry Coonan (Florida State University)

• Speaker:  Neil MacMaster (University of East Anglia, UK)

                 “The Torture Controversy (1998-2002): Towards a ‘New History’ of the Algerian War?” 
• Discussant: David Prochaska (University of Illinois at Urbana)

 2.30 – Session 2 -- Chair: Alec Hargreaves (Florida State University)

• Speaker:    Azouz Begag (CNRS/Paris IV)

                  “Les relations franco-algériennes vues de la diaspora algérienne”
• Discussant: Danielle Marx-Scouras (Ohio State University)

 3.30 – Coffee 

 4.00 – Session 3 -- Chair: Zeina Schlenhoff (Florida State University)

•  Speaker:    Benjamin Stora (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris) : 

                   “Algérie : Les retours de la mémoire de la guerre d’indépendance”
•  Discussant: David Schalk (Vassar College)

 5.15 – Close of session

 8.00 – Conference Banquet: Albert’s Provence, 1415 Timberlane Road (reservation required)
 

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 9.00 – Session 4 -- Chair: Mary McCullough (Samford University, Alabama)

• Speaker:    Charles Bonn (Université de Lyon 2)

                  “La littérature algérienne face à la France depuis l’indépendance”
• Discussant: Aida Bamia (University of Florida, Gainesville)

10.00 – Session 5 -- Chair: Patricia Geesey (University of North Florida, Jacksonville)

• Speaker:    James Le Sueur (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

                  “Ghost Walking in Algiers: Why the GIA Kidnapped Sartre and de Beauvoir”
• Discussant:Alek Baylee Toumi (University of Wisconsin)

11.00 – Coffee: Beth Moore Lounge, 1st floor, Longmire

11.30 – Session 6  -- Chair: Bill Cloonan (Florida State University)

• Speaker:    Philip Dine (Loughborough University, UK)

                  “France, Algeria and Sport: From Colonization to Globalization”
• Discussant:Peter Garretson (Florida State University)

12.30 – Close of conference 

12.45 – Buffet lunch: Beth Moore Lounge, 1st floor, Longmire