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HS French Nationalism Students Attend an Interdisciplinary Conference at the Maison Francaise

HS French Nationalism students, along with their teacher Mr. Marc Bendali and co-chaperone, Ms. Fatima Mhinat, attended a one-day interdisciplinary conference at the Maison Francaise at Columbia University on Friday October 7. The topic of the conference was: Categories in Trouble: The Politics of Identity in North Africa, 19th-20th Centuries.
The various panels focused mainly on how, over the past two centuries, North Africa has been transformed by momentous economic and political change as well as mass migrations, Panel Participants included: Madeleine Dobie, Columbia University; Sarah Ghabrial, Columbia University; Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University; Míhamed Oualdi, Princeton University; Emmanuelle Saada, Columbia University; Joshua Schreier, Vassar College; Jennifer Sessions, University of Iowa; Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University; Judith Surkis, Rutgers University; Sylvie Thénault, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; and Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University.
 
This was an enriching experience for the students, who had the opportunity to get a vivid account of events that helped form a backdrop for the literary works they have and will be reading during the course of the school year in the French Nationalism course.

Story and photos provided by Lori Langer de Ramirez
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