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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茅rard Noiriel (Directeur d鈥櫭﹖udes/Professor, EHESS, France) in French with a simultaneous translation into English, available on Zoom.

For this event, the Schaeffer Center joins听the Winter Symposium of the Nordic Summer University Study Circle听Narrative and Violence.听A first session, on March 15鈥17, 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听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.听听

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

La rh茅torique de la haine

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

G茅rard Noiriel est directeur d鈥櫭﹖udes 脿 l鈥橢HESS. Il conduit des recherches sur la socio-histoire de l鈥櫭塼at-nation et de l鈥檌mmigration. Il travaille 茅galement sur les rapports entre sciences sociales et pratiques culturelles, 脿 partir de l鈥檈xemple du spectacle vivant.

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