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George and Irina Schaeffer Center

PART II: Narrating Violence: Making Race, Making Difference

This is a virtual event | Registration is required
Monday, March 29, 2021 - 00:00 to Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 00:00

The keynote will be given by G矇rard Noiriel (Directeur d矇tudes/Professor, EHESS, France) in French with a simultaneous translation into English, available on Zoom.

For this event, the Schaeffer Center joins泭the Winter Symposium of the Nordic Summer University Study Circle泭Narrative and Violence.泭A first session, on March 1517, 2021, will take place at the University of Turku.

This symposium will explore questions arising from narratives of violence produced against racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual and political泭groups. While multiple theoretical perspectives will be included in both locations, the day at the American University of Paris will have a broader international focus and the day at Turku will facilitate a more Nordic/Baltic focus.泭泭

Keynote Lecture, March 29, 15:15 to 16:15 (CET)

La rh矇torique de la haine

Cette intervention sera centr矇e sur la dimension essentielle des discours de haine qu'on appelle la rh矇torique ; c'est--dire l'art de convaincre. Ce type d'矇tude suppose qu'on prenne en compte la fois les producteurs de ces discours, mais aussi les publics auxquels ils sont destin矇s. Pour simplifier la d矇monstration, la conf矇rence se limitera au cas fran癟ais. Jai montr矇, dans mon dernier livre Le Venin dans la plume (La D矇couverte, 2019), qu'on ne pouvait pas comprendre l'矇mergence brutale de l'antis矇mitisme (comme courant politique) partir des ann矇es 1880 si on oubliait de rappeler que cette 矇poque est aussi celle o羅 s'impose la communication de masse, suite aux lois r矇publicaines sur l'矇cole et la libert矇 de la presse. Je donnerai quelques exemples des proc矇d矇s rh矇toriques utilis矇s par le journaliste-pol矇miste Edouard Drumont (qui a jou矇 un r繫le fondateur dans la naissance de l'antis矇mitisme moderne en France) pour diffuser dans le grand public la haine des Juifs. Je montrerai ensuite comment des proc矇d矇s du m礙me type sont aujourd'hui employ矇s pour alimenter la haine l'矇gard des musulmans, mais adapt矇s la nouvelle r矇volution communicationnelle que nous vivons avec les r矇seaux sociaux et les cha簾nes d'information en continu.

The Rhetoric of Hate

This keynote will focus one of the essential dimensions of hate speech, what we call rhetoric, or, the art of convincing. This kind of analysis requires that we take into account not only the producers of this discourse but also the intended public. In order to simplify the matter, this keynote will concentrate on the French case. In my last book, Le Venin dans la plume (Venom in the Quill Pen La D矇couverte, 2019), I argued that we cannot understand the abrupt emergence of antisemitism (as a political current) in the 1880s if we forget that mass communication established itself during this period following the French laws on schools and freedom of the press. I will give a few examples of the rhetorical process used by the polemist and journalist Edouard Drumont (who played a major role in the birth of modern antisemitism in France) in order to spread in the general public hate against Jews. I will later explain how similar methods are nowadays used to nourish hate against Muslims, and how these methods are being adapted to the new revolution in communications that we are living with in social media networks and cable news channels.

G矇rard Noiriel

G矇rard Noiriel est directeur d矇tudes lEHESS. Il conduit des recherches sur la socio-histoire de ltat-nation et de limmigration. Il travaille 矇galement sur les rapports entre sciences sociales et pratiques culturelles, partir de lexemple du spectacle vivant.

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